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News Articles: Law

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, center, during a news conference on Aug. 14.

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  • Law

Prosecutors expect to call over 150 witnesses in Georgia election interference case

Prosecutors in Fulton County, Ga., say they expect that a trial in their election interference case would last four months, not including jury selection.

September 06, 2023
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  • Washington Desk
Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill, seen here as prosecutor Creighton Waters makes closing arguments in the Alex Murdaugh trial, is accused of improperly influencing jurors in the high-profile murder case.

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  • Law

Alex Murdaugh wants a new trial, accusing the clerk of court of jury tampering

Defense lawyers for convicted South Carolina lawyer Murdaugh say Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill violated her oath of office as well as their client's constitutional right to an impartial jury.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell

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  • Politics

Battleground: Ballot Box | 19 defendants, two courthouses and a flurry of filings

On this special episode, we walk through some of the latest motions filed in Georgia's election interference racketeering case.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler and
  • Chase McGee
Former YouTube star Ruby Franke, pictured here in a video for her mental health counseling service ConneXions, was charged with six felony counts of child abuse.

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  • National

YouTube vlogger Ruby Franke formally charged with 6 felony counts of child abuse

Ruby Franke, the YouTube mommy blogger behind the channel 8 Passengers, was arrested last week after her 12-year-old son climbed out a window and ran to a neighbor's house asking for food and water.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Willis McGahee, No. 26 of the Cleveland Browns, is tended to on the field in the fourth quarter of a game against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., on Dec. 8, 2013,

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  • Sports

Former NFL players speak out against the league's handling of disability benefits

While the lawsuit lists 10 players, attorneys representing the former players say the lawsuit represents thousands who have filed for benefits before them.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Ajani Daniel
Suspended Texas AG Ken Paxton (center) sits with his legal team at the start of his impeachment trial in the Texas Statehouse. Paxton pleaded not guilty on all counts.

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  • National

Paxton impeachment trial begins in the Texas Senate

The suspended Texas AG pleaded not guilty to all charges, which include bribery, corruption, and abuse of office. Here's what happened on the first day of his trial in the TX Senate.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Julián Aguilar
Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio rallies in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 17, 2019.

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  • Law

Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years for Jan. 6 riot role

Tarrio was one of six Proud Boys leaders to be charged for conspiring to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. Of them, he has received the longest prison sentence to date.

September 05, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Odette Yousef
Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour (right) speaks alongside Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall after oral arguments in an Alabama congressional redistricting case outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2022.

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  • Elections

Alabama's congressional map is struck down again for diluting Black voters' power

Alabama is once again appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower court order that struck down the state's congressional map for likely violating the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters' power.

September 05, 2023
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
Then-President Donald Trump talks to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, right, as they walk from the Oval Office at the White House on Sept. 12, 2020.

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  • Law

All defendants in Georgia racketeering case, including Trump, have pleaded not guilty

The 19 defendants in the case have waived their right to appear at arraignments that had been scheduled for Wednesday. Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows filed his plea on Tuesday.

September 05, 2023
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  • Washington Desk
State Sen. Kelli Stargel looks through redistricting maps during a Senate Committee on Reapportionment hearing on Jan. 13, 2022, in Tallahassee, Fla. A Florida redistricting plan pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution, a state judge ruled Saturday.

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  • Law

DeSantis Florida redistricting map is unconstitutional and must be redrawn, judge says

The decision was the latest to strike down new congressional maps in Southern states over concerns that they diluted the voting power of Black residents.

September 02, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta is seen on Tuesday.

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  • Law

In the Trump Georgia case, conflicting legal strategies complicate the path to trial

In the Georgia election interference case, conflicting legal strategies of 19 co-defendants and the crowded calendar for Donald Trump's other court cases complicate the path to trial.

September 02, 2023
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By:
  • Sam Gringlas
A law requiring age verification for people visiting porn sites in Texas was struck down by a judge who says it does little protect minors from viewing sexually explicit material.

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  • Law

A Texas law requiring age verification on porn sites is unconstitutional, judge rules

A federal judge said the latest state law to require age verification on adult websites doesn't serve its purported purpose: protecting minors from viewing sexually explicit content.

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Emma Bowman
Rioters, including Dominic Pezzola, center with police shield, are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

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  • Law

A Proud Boy pleaded for leniency from a judge, then yelled 'Trump won' on his way out

Dominic Pezzola was sentenced to 10 years. Ethan Nordean was sentenced to 18 years. Judge Timothy Kelly called the events of Jan. 6 "a national disgrace."

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Ruby Franke, pictured here on her Instagram account, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated child abuse.

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  • National

Who is Ruby Franke? What to know about the mommy vlogger accused of child abuse

For years, the Utah YouTube star sparked criticism for her parenting tactics. She was arrested this week after her malnourished son escaped out a window and ran to a nearby home, police said.

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, left, talks to Chief Justice John Roberts during the formal group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 7, 2022.

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  • Law

Now-released forms reveal more trips gifted to Justice Clarence Thomas by Harlan Crow

In a statement accompanying Thursday's disclosure, a lawyer for Thomas said there had been "no willful ethics transgressions" and called prior reporting errors "strictly inadvertent."

September 01, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
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