By Adolfo Pesquera | March 4, 2024
"It is certainly not unusual for Attorney General Paxton to bully public educators to promote his personal agenda," education law attorney Dennis J. Eichelbaum said.
By Cedra Mayfield | March 4, 2024
Candidate qualifying runs through March 8 for judicial incumbents and challengers interested in running for election in the May 21, 2024, nonpartisan primary.
By ALM Staff | March 4, 2024
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By Jimmy Hoover | March 4, 2024
"[T]he Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 [of the Fourteenth Amendment] against federal officeholders and candidates," the high court stated in its unsigned "per curiam" opinion.
By Kate Brumback and Alanna Durkin Richer | The Associated Press | March 1, 2024
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and other defendants say the DA paid the special prosecutor large sums for his work and then improperly benefited when he paid for vacations for the two of them.
By Colleen Murphy | March 1, 2024
Cook County Circuit Court Judge Tracie R. Porter found the a decision by the four-member Electoral Board on Jan. 30 was "clearly erroneous" in denying the petitioner's objection and in finding that Trump's candidate nomination papers, including his statement of candidacy, was valid.
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press | March 1, 2024
A relationship between the DA and a special prosecutor was first exposed in a motion filed by an attorney for a co-defendant in a sweeping case against former President Donald Trump that sought to have the indictment dismissed and to bar the DA and special prosecutor and their offices from continuing to prosecute the case.
By Brian Lee | February 28, 2024
Bill sponsors say the measure is aimed at preventing forum-shopping and to designate those courts as experts in redistricting matters.
By Roger Bennet Adler | February 27, 2024
Beyond dealing a major rebuke to New York City Council leadership, the Appellate Division, Second Department's recent ruling that a local law giving noncitizens the right to vote protects the rights of other minorities who played by the rules and would have had their votes diluted by the votes of noncitizens, a Law Journal columnist writes.
By Kate Brumback and Alanna Durkin Richer | The Associated Press | February 27, 2024
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade's former law partner and onetime divorce attorney, Terrence Bradley, cited attorney-client privilege in refusing to answer most questions during an extraordinary two-day evidentiary hearing earlier this month that thrust the prosecutors' private lives into the spotlight. But Judge Scott McAfee said some of Bradley's communications with Wade were not subject to privilege, according to multiple attorneys.
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