
As GOP lines up behind mid-cycle redistricting, voting rights advocates caution against ‘hasty’ maps
A small, but growing, number of Hoosier Republicans have voiced their support for a mid-cycle redistricting effort.
A small, but growing, number of Hoosier Republicans have voiced their support for a mid-cycle redistricting effort.
President Donald Trump said Monday night that he’s firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, an unprecedented move that would constitute a sharp escalation in his battle to exert greater control over what has long been considered an institution independent from day-to-day politics.
The federal government over the weekend asked a judge in Miami to put on hold her ruling ordering the winding down of an immigration detention center built by the state of Florida in the Everglades wilderness and nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” pending an appeal of her decision.
President Donald Trump says the Senate’s century-old tradition of allowing home state senators to sign off on some federal judge and U.S. attorney nominees is “old and outdated.” Republican senators disagree.
The panel overseeing Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s professional misconduct case denied his effort to force the state’s disciplinary commission to turn over internal records and instead set the matter for a December hearing.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag, an activity that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled is legitimate political expression protected by the U.S. Constitution.
U.S. District Judge Damon Leichty sentenced Zai’Vohn Perry, 25, to 101 months in prison and three years of supervised release after he pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
More than 180 current and former employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency published a letter Monday warning that debilitating cuts to the agency charged with handling federal disaster response risks a catastrophe like the one seen after Hurricane Katrina.
The Indiana Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases during the first week of September, including one involving a dispute over a $2.8 million workman’s compensation reimbursement request filed with the Indiana Compensation Rating Bureau.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia surrendered to U.S. immigration authorities in Baltimore Monday and faces possible efforts by the Trump administration to deport him immediately.
Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms, an escalation of his military deployment that makes good on a directive issued late last week by his defense secretary.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision and denied a Fort Wayne man’s appeal after he was convicted of threatening a federal officer.
U.S. District Judge Richard Young sentenced Casey Lee Smith, 48, to 17-and-a-half years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release for his crimes.
State corrections officials are backing away from earlier plans to close the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City once a new $1.2 billion facility opens in 2027, saying they now intend to keep the aging lockup operating for “some time” after the new prison site begins housing inmates.
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to cut nearly $800 million in National Institutes of Health grants for the study of diseases in minority, gay and transgender communities while legal battles over the funding play out in the lower courts.
The Trump administration is planning to vet all 55 million foreigners who currently hold visas for travel to the United States, a significant expansion of ongoing efforts to clamp down on alleged abuses in the legal immigration system.
Court papers in a voting technology company’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News point to Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro as leaders in spreading false stories about election fraud in the weeks after Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump in 2020.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of an immigration detention center built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” that advocates said violated environmental laws.
Anthony Stout, 57, was convicted by a Marion Superior Court jury of five counts of promotion of human sexual trafficking, five counts of intimidation, two counts of failure of a bail agent to collect full premium, and one count of attempted promotion of human sexual trafficking.
Some attorneys think there could be a pivot towards more traditional antitrust enforcement practices on M&A deals and a little more breathing room for negotiations with regulatory agencies.