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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Democrat-controlled House Ways & Means Committee, which is supposed to write tax legislation, can see former President Trump’s private tax returns.

A full panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overturned an earlier appellate judgment Monday granting a writ of mandamus to Michael Flynn forcing the district court to allow the Department of Justice’s effort to drop the case.

Sidney Powell, the attorney for former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Tuesday that Judge Emmet G. Sullivan lost his “neutrality” and should be dismissed from the case.

The Kafkaesque trial of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn continues, as the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed to hear Judge Emmet Sullivan’s appeal from a decision by a three-judge panel ending the case.

The U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit prevented the Michael Flynn case from becoming a new investigation of the Trump administration on Wednesday when it granted a writ of mandamus requiring a lower court to dismiss charges against him.

The D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 Wednesday that the Justice Department’s request to drop its case against Michael Flynn be accepted.

Retired Judge John Gleeson told a federal appeals court on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s tweets in support of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn are part of the reason charges against Flynn should not be dropped.

President Donald Trump is asserting executive privilege against Democrats’ subpoenas issued to three former White House aides. He should prevail in all three cases, though they may need to go all the way to the Supreme Court. Partisan Democrats are

Another federal judge appointed by Barack Obama has ruled that House Democrats can subpoena President Donald Trump’s personal and business finance records, with Wednesday’s decision from New York following on the heels of a similar Monday ruling from a court in Washington, D.C.

Senators confirmed Neomi Rao on Wednesday to the seat on the D.C. Circuit appeals court formerly held by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, installing an ardent advocate of cutting government red tape to a court where the size and scope of the federal government dominates the docket.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Tuesday to block lower court orders that had prevented President Donald Trump’s policy on transgender military troops from taking effect. The matter is now expected to go back before the justices for final judgment in the next year.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) appeared Wednesday on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” to discuss filling the D.C. Circuit vacancy left by now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Grassley told host Hugh Hewitt that there is a chance that Kavanaugh’s replacement

WASHINGTON, DC – Democratic opposition to Judge Brett Kavanaugh took a hit Thursday when liberal feminist Lisa Blatt, who is a Supreme Court star, called upon her fellow Democrats to vote for Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the nation’s highest court.

Lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of parts of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are likely going to the Supreme Court late this year, as the left-leaning majority of a D.C.-based federal appeals court sided with the powerful agency.

The Trump-Sessions U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filed an emergency application at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to block a lower court’s extraordinary order requiring the Trump administration to facilitate immediate abortions for two more illegal alien teenagers.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) threw down the gauntlet to Senate Democrats on Thursday, telling the Federalist Society that Democrats would either agree to reasonable conditions for confirming President Donald Trump’s nominees or “face the Senate equivalent of martial law.”

Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday sent President Donald Trump’s nomination of Greg Katsas for a prestigious federal appeals court to the full Senate floor for a confirmation vote.

U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco filed a petition at the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, asking the justices to erase the lower-court decision holding that an illegal alien caught crossing the border has the right in America to an abortion facilitated by the government and taxpayers.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) has reinstated a federal trial court’s order authorizing an illegal alien to receive a taxpayer-funded abortion, setting up a potential emergency intervention by the Supreme Court.

President Donald Trump is threatening to cancel $7 billion in reimbursements to insurers. Even if the president decides to keep the subsidies, they may disappear anyway — because of an ongoing court challenge.

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, last week claimed the power to override President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency when the agency reconsiders an Obama-era regulation. While the specifics sound bureaucratic and are laced with legalese, this decision creates a new precedent that likely only the Supreme Court can reverse.

WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court has ordered lawsuits by Judicial Watch and Cause of Action seeking to force the federal government to recover Hillary Clinton’s missing emails to move forward, reversing a lower court’s dismissal.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled a key part of Barack Obama’s Dodd-Frank law unconstitutional, calling it a “grave threat to individual liberty.” This tees up yet another case for an evenly divided Supreme Court, the balance of which will be decided by whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton is elected in November.

On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a 2-1 decision upholding the 2015 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to impose “Net Neutrality” on Internet service providers, treating the Internet like a public utility.