A line outside federal court in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. Donald Trump's lawyers will spar with federal prosecutors Tuesday in a high-stakes court battle to determine if he is immune from charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election because he was president at th...
Judges have also fear that election-year rhetoric championing Jan. 6 defendants could spark a new wave of threats against judges, court staff and witnesses. Speaking to CNN last week, in a rare media interview by a sitting federal judge, District Judge Reggie Walton said threats ag...
MAJOR QUESTIONS DOCTRINE JUJITSU: USING THE DOCTRINE TO REIN IN DISTRICT COURT JUDGES The judiciary needs to be independent of outside influence, particularly from political and economic powers. But judicial independence does not mean that judges and court officials should have free rein to behave ...
Due to court-packing and the deepening ideologisation of legal life, key institutions of the judiciary, such as the Constitutional Tribunal, the National Judiciary Council, as well as the Supreme Court have been taken over by people close to the government in terms of their affiliations and ...
DC Circuit Probes 'Exclusivity' of Southeast Energy Agreement US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit panel came during\nargument Wednesday in a challenge to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) decisions that\nallowed an agreement, known as the Southeast Energy Exchange ......
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, two of the three judges on the panel repeatedly questioned the attorney for Core about the company's failure to clearly state in its opening brief how the company was injured by the FCC's action and about its failure to state what ...
In Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association (HPBA), v. EPA , pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District...Log in to access this content. Username * Password * Remember me Not a subscriber? Sign up for 30 days free access to exclusive environmental policy reporting.Inside EPA ...
During one sentencing hearing Thursday for a nonviolent Capitol rioter, US District Judge Christopher Cooper suggested that the way federal judges in DC have handled the January 6 cases might have been why Election Day “passed peacefully.” “I think the fact, perhaps, that, you know, this pa...
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which has exclusive jurisdiction over FCC licensing - with "no court taking jurisdiction" over the "billions of dollars" of auction-related transactions the FCC is engaging in.doi:10.1002/dc.10269Ted Gotsch...
That language simply doesn’t hold true, said Judge Beryl Howell, who was the chief of the DC District Court at the time of the riot. “No ‘process of national reconciliation’ can begin when poor losers, whose preferred candidate loses an election, are glorified for disrupting a constitut...