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90’s and 2000’s R&B superstar and producer R. Kelly was sentenced to another 20 years from a federal judge in Illinois for child sex crimes. R. Kelly is already serving another 30 year sentence from a New York federal judge. R. Kelly to serve 1 additional year in prison for Chicago sex crimes convictions – […]

Yesterday, President Biden announced eight judicial nominees, including Nusrat Choudhury who would be the first Muslim woman to serve as a federal judge. Currently, Choudhury is the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. She has been tapped to be a U.S. judge in the Eastern District of New York. ACLU of […]

U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley in Knoxville has limited the ability, for now, for the nonprofit US lab, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to place employees on unpaid leave who have previously receive exemptions for the vaccine requirement. The federal judge issued the temporary restraining order Friday which prevents placing employees on indefinite unpaid leave or […]

The R. Kelly Trial has been delayed again. A federal judge pushed the trial back because of concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. Kelly’s trial in Chicago on child pornography and other charges is now set for September 13th, 2021. The Grammy Award-winner has pleaded not guilty to federal charges in Chicago accusing him of filming himself […]

A U.S. government order banning TikTok from app stores was temporarily stopped by a federal judge. The Trump administration put the ban in place to take affect Sunday, but Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued the ruling Sunday night, granting TikTok’s motion for a preliminary injunction. The […]