Laffitte, convicted last November by a federal jury in Charleston, is hoping the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals will grant him a longer extension as it considers an appeal of his conviction.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., filed a formal brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down a lower court ruling that paused a pipeline approved under the recent debt ceiling bill.
The Supreme Court asked the Biden administration this week to weigh in on whether it should take a case over a North Carolina charter school s dress code requiring its girl students to wear dresses or skirts.
An attorney whose legal and policy work focuses on nondiscrimination and civil rights says it s crazy that a federal court has decided a prison policy requiring inmates to be housed based on their biological sex violates federal law.