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The Supreme Courtappeared deeply at odds on Monday over a small city’s ban on homeless people sleeping in public places, with emotional statements from the bench over society’s competing civic responsibilities. It comes asjurisdictions across the nation – but especially in the West – struggle with a record double-digit surge in the homeless population. The current appeal comes from officials …

Attorneys for two brothers who were sentenced to die in a quadruple killing known as the “Wichita massacre” will argue Monday for a formal resentencing hearing, the latest in a long series of appeals. How the sentencing was handled has long been a point of contention because the two brothers — Jonathan and Reginald Carr — had a joint hearing …

Homeless encampments could balloon nationwide or be cleared more aggressively in some states depending on how the Supreme Court rules on a case being argued Monday. “I think people understand that we all need a safe place to live,” Ed Johnson, director of litigation at the Oregon Law Center, told Fox News Digital. “The worst way to work toward that …

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear a challenge to the Biden administration’s regulation on so-called “ghost guns” next term. The rule in question was issued in 2022 by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to regulate “buy build shoot” kits that are available online or in stores that allow any individual to assemble a …

Former President Trump warned of the consequences of losing his presidential immunity argument, saying that if he loses that protection, so will “crooked” President Joe Biden. The former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee argued that presidential immunity is essential to the proper functioning of the presidency in a Friday post to his Truth Social account. “Without presidential immunity, it …

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that ranchers can sue the state of Texas over highway construction they allege flooded their lands. “This is the pinnacle of a long, hard-fought battle, and we can’t stress enough what a blessing this is,” rancher Richie DeVillier said in a statement after the ruling. But in an unusual twist, Texas Attorney General Ken …

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a decorated veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in a protracted fight with the government over 12 months of G.I. Bill educational benefits. The court ruled 7-2 that the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly calculated the educational benefits for James Rudisill, a retired Army captain who lives in northern Virginia. Rudisill, …

Legal experts said the Biden administration was “on the ropes” in Tuesday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court in a case questioning whether a Jan. 6 rioter can be charged with a federal “obstruction” crime, which carries implications for former President Trump. On Tuesday, Jeffrey Green, lawyer for Joseph Fischer – who is one of more than 300 people charged …

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority expressed concern Tuesday over the federal government’s use of an obstruction law to prosecute a Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendant, which could have major implications for President Trump’s separate election interference case. Joseph Fischer, a onetime police patrolman, is one ofabout 350 people charged by the Justice Department with “obstruction of an official proceeding” in …

It is the “sleeper” case that could upend the most closely watched criminal prosecution in the nation. And how the U.S. Supreme Court decides the fate of an obscure Capitol riot defendant will have immediate legal and political implications for the former and perhaps future president. The justices on Tuesday will hold oral arguments in the appeal of Joseph Fischer, …