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Former president Barack Obama claimed in a private phone call last week that the “rule of law is at risk” following the Justice Department’s decision to drop the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Yahoo News reported on Friday. “The news over the last 24 hours I think has been somewhat downplayed — about …

Georgia’s attorney general has requested that the Justice Department probe how local authorities handled the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was reportedly out for a jog when he was shot dead by two white men who were not arrested for two months. Attorney General Chris Carr made the formal request to federal …

The Supreme Court’s ruling in the “Bridgegate” case could help Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli fight their admissions-gate college testing scandal case, experts told The Post. Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Alvin Bragg said the high court’s unanimous Thursday decision “certainly helps” a defense claim that admission to a competitive college can’t be considered “property” …

A father and son were arrested Thursday and charged with aggravated assault and murder in the killing of a young black man, Ahmaud Arbery, more than two months after he was shot and killed in Georgia. Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, were taken into custody and booked in the Glynn County …

A federal judge on Thursday announced he will allow gun stores to reopen in Massachusetts, after Governor Charlie Baker ordered gun stores to close during the coronavirus pandemic. “There’s no justification here” to close gun stores, said Judge Douglas Woodlock of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts. “I don’t have anything like a substantial fit …

The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the fraud convictions of two New Jersey officials for their roles in the “Bridgegate” scandal, the intentional grid locking of traffic on the George Washington Bridge in 2013 by former Governor Chris Christie’s administration. In their unanimous decision, the justices conceded that the actions of former Christie aides Bridget …

The Republican-led state legislature filed suit against Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday over her extension of Michigan’s state of emergency, saying she overstepped her authority. Whitmer extended the state of emergency to last through May 28, a move the Republican leaders in the House and Senate say would require legislative approval. “She has chosen …

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against the New York Board of Elections’ decision to cancel the state’s Democratic primary election and ordered the state to hold the election next month as planned. The preliminary injunction from Manhattan Federal Court Judge Analisa Torres requires New York to reinstate Democratic candidates on the ballot who were “duly …

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been hospitalized with an infection, the Court announced Tuesday evening. The 87-year-old justice developed an infection caused by a gallstone and received nonsurgical treatment on Tuesday. The infection was discovered during outpatient tests at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. “The justice is resting comfortably and plans to …

House Judiciary Republicans are demanding that FBI Director Christopher Wray answer for the Bureau’s “targeting” of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn by making top officials and documents connected to the probe available to lawmakers. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) and Representative Mike Johnson (R., La.) asked Wray to hand …