Legal

Washington professor who parodied university 'land acknowledgment' wins $600K settlement

University of Washington Professor Stuart Reges SEATTLE, Sept. 3, 2026 — The University of Washington paid $600,000 after punishing Professor Stuart Reges for parodying a university-approved “land ack...

2026-09-03

Cincinnati Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Crime

2026-09-03

Will the court consider due process rights for detained migrants?

The Constitution’s due process clause famously limits the government’s power to detain people. Next month the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in a case about the clause’s relevance to lon...

2026-09-03

Moms for Liberty Asks Court to Block New Jersey School District’s Gender Secrecy Policy

New lawsuit says Chathams school district is doubling down on its gender secrecy policy “in open defiance of the law of the land.” Moms for Liberty is suing a New Jersey school district over its gende...

2026-09-03

Washington professor who parodied university ‘land acknowledgment’ wins $600K settlement

Home Newsdesk Contents by FIRE September 3, 2026 Payment comes after federal appeals court held university violated Prof. Stuart Reges’s academic freedom rights Settlement includes guarantee of no fur...

2026-09-03

Morning Docket: 09.03.26

* Wachtell report for the NBA ends up sinking the Clippers, who will lose $30 million and lose 5 first-round picks. Wachtell,according to The Athletic reporter Mike Vorkunov, charged $50 million for t...

2026-09-03

Homeland Security Task Force Yields 30 Year Prison Sentence for Colombian Drug Trafficking Organization Leader

Tampa, FL – Celso Navarro Diaz (65, Colombia) has been sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to traffic more than five ki...

2026-09-03

Judge blocks Trump's second birthright citizenship order

Chief Justice William Rehnquist died on this day in 2005. He served on the court for more than 33 years, the first 14 of which he spent as an associate justice. Two Republican groups asked the court o...

2026-09-03

UC Berkeley Offers Faculty $4,500 to Attend ‘Racial Equity in Teaching’ Training

“a set of observable racial equity teaching criteria” Just more left wing garbage dressed up as academics. The College Fix reports: UC Berkeley offers faculty $4,500 for ‘racial equity in teaching’ tr...

2026-09-03

Judge Deals 30-Year Federal Sentence to Texas Felon who Trafficked Fentanyl in State Prison

Verndale Ray Seals was sentenced to 360 months in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl while in prison

2026-09-03

SCOTUS Majority Rules White House Ballroom Is A Go

Sarah and David open with a thank you to the Supreme Court for handing them a meaty summer episode – a 5-4 interim docket ruling allowing White House ballroom construction to continue, in an opinion t...

2026-09-03

Justice Department Seeks Relief for Maryland Military Families from Illegal Fees

The Justice Department has issued aletterurging the Maryland Department of Transportation to stop efforts to collect nonresident vehicle permit fees from servicemembers and their spouses that violate ...

2026-09-03

Hampton Man Indicted for Failing to Register as a Sex Offender

2026-09-03

Grand jury indicts former community school superintendent, business partner in $8 million fraud scheme

CINCINNATI – A federal grand jury has indicted the former superintendent and operator of a local community school and a business partner with wire fraud and other crimes related to an $8 million fraud...

2026-09-03

Chichester Man Indicted for Operating a $25 Million Hawala

2026-09-03

U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas surpasses 100 prosecutors, marking historic staffing milestone

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas today announced that it has surpassed 100 Assistant U.S. Attorneys, the largest onboarding of federal prosecutors in the office’s...

2026-09-03

Richmond man sentenced to 10 years in prison for distributing child sexual abuse material

Randon Alexander Sprinkle, 31, of Richmond, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for distribution of child sexual abuse material.

2026-09-03

Westlake Man Arrested on Federal Indictment Charging Him with Threatening President Trump’s Life and Cyberstalking His Lawyer

A resident of the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles and one-time podcaster was arrested today on a three-count federal grand jury indictment charging him with threatening to kill President Donald T...

2026-09-03

Florence County Men Plead Guilty to Stealing Firearms from Florence Armory

FLORENCE, S.C.— Benjamin Lee Mercer, Sr., 54, of Florence, has pleaded guilty to stealing firearms from a dealer and illegally possessing firearms.

2026-09-03

Iowa Men Sentenced to Federal Prison for Drug and Gun Charges

DAVENPORT, Iowa – Three Iowa men were sentenced to federal prison for methamphetamine and firearms-related offenses.

2026-09-03