People have been left outraged after a judge admitted to taking Brett Kavanaugh's attempted assassin's identity as a trans woman into account during the sentencing.   Sophie – formally Nicholas – Roske was sentenced to eight years in prison for attempting to murder the Supreme Court Justice.

A federal judge will weigh Friday whether to grant a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops into Oregon – the latest step in one of several challenges to Trump’s effort to crack down on Democratic-led cities he claims are stricken by crime and disorder.

The push to detain new adults is yet another battle over one of the most sensitive issues in President Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda — how to treat children who cross the border unaccompanied by adults.

Alan Dershowitz hit out at the 55-year-old who revealed in court ahead of sentencing on Friday that he was already making public speaking plans in another state.

A federal judge says he believes the immigrant defendant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the administration wrongly sent to El Salvador, may have been targeted with a criminal charge by the Justice Department this year out of vindictiveness.

An organization representing the plaintiffs called the judge's ruling "monumental," though the Trump administration vowed to appeal.

U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw said there's "some evidence" the prosecution was brought in response to Abrego's successful challenge of his deportation.

The judge cited statements administration officials as evidence the indictment may have been pursued in retaliation for a lawsuit he brought in Maryland challenging his wrongful deportation.

Breaking news in Fulton County where Judge Scott McAfee set a 14-day deadline for prosecutors to salvage the Trump election case, while D.A. Fani Willis agreed to testify before a Georgia Senate panel.