The Montgomery County Clerk of Courts annual amnesty event is approaching, according to a Clerk of Courts spokesperson. From Friday, Feb. 16 to Friday, March 1, Clerk of Courts Mike Foley will offer to waive half of your fines and costs when you pay the other half. > 3 arrested during narcotic searches in Logan […]
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Trump thought the courts were safe bet against election denial charges. Now? Not so much.
Former President Donald Trump never hesitates to take contradictory positions if it helps his cause. He brags about appointing Supreme Court justices who overturned the right to abortion. But he won’t say, while running again for president, what the federal or state governments should do now on that issue. He complains that America’s southern border […]
Two South Dakotans to be named as judicial nominees to federal district courts by Biden
President Joe Biden is set to announce four more individuals as judicial nominees to federal district courts — two of whom are candidates from South Dakota — according to a Wednesday morning press release from the White House. The Wednesday morning announcement adds Eric Schulte and Judge Camela C. Theeler as nominees for the United […]
Facelift at Pontiac-area park includes new pickleball courts, new playground equipment
Renfrew Park in Dwight will be getting a facelift with the help of a healthy grant. The Illinois Department of Natural resources and Gov. JB Pritzker announced recently that a number of communities in Illinois will be receiving grant money totaling $54.9 million. Included in the list of recipients is the Village of Dwight. The […]
Cyber attack shuts down parts of Pennsylvania Courts’ website
(WHTM) – A denial of service cyber attack on Sunday has caused the Pennsylvania Courts’ website to be unavailable. “Out court information technology and executive team is working closely with law enforcement including the CISA, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the F.B.I to investigate the incident,” said Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Debra Todd. […]
Biden courts Nevada voters after narrow 2020 win
By Jarrett Renshaw LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will take his pitch for reelection to Nevada voters on Sunday as part of a two-day stop in the battleground state ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary. The president is expected to host at least two campaign events in the arid Western state, which has […]
Can Trump be on the ballot? It’s the Supreme Court’s biggest election test since Bush v. Gore
WASHINGTON (AP) — A case with the potential to disrupt Donald Trump’s drive to return to the White House is putting the Supreme Court uncomfortably at the center of the 2024 presidential campaign. In arguments Thursday, the justices will, for the first time, wrestle with a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from […]
Can Trump be on the ballot? It’s the Supreme Court’s biggest election test since Bush v. Gore
WASHINGTON (AP) — A case with the potential to disrupt Donald Trump’s drive to return to the White House is putting the Supreme Court uncomfortably at the center of the 2024 presidential campaign. In arguments Thursday, the justices will, for the first time, wrestle with a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War […]
Hearing officer agrees Trump engaged in insurrection, but tells state elections board it’s up to courts to decide former president’s place on ballot
A state elections hearing officer agreed with objectors that former President Donald Trump “engaged in insurrection” at the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, but said he believed it is up to the courts and not the State Board of Elections to decide whether to remove him from the March 19 Illinois […]
Kenya Courts Quash Housing Tax, Haiti Deployment in Blow to Ruto
(Bloomberg) — Kenyan courts ruled against the government in two key cases Friday, the latest in a string of setbacks for President William Ruto. Most Read from Bloomberg A three-judge bench in the Court of Appeal ruled to suspend a mandatory 1.5% tax introduced in July until an ongoing appeal against the validity of the […]
Russian courts jail a Putin critic and a woman convicted of a blast that killed a pro-war blogger
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian court on Thursday sentenced a woman to 27 years for a cafe blast that killed a prominent pro-war blogger after he was given a bust of himself that later exploded. Darya Trepova, 26, was convicted by the court in St. Petersburg of carrying out a terrorist attack, illegal trafficking […]
Local reps’ bill would prevent courts from hearing challenges to abortion laws under Issue 1
Jan. 21—With a newly introduced “Issue 1 Implementation Act,” two local state representatives hope to prevent state courts from hearing challenges to Ohio abortion laws after Ohioans voted last November to enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution. At just over a page long, House Bill 371 would give the Ohio legislature “exclusive authority” over […]