Democratic Associate Justice Anita Earls, of North Carolina, has sued an ethics panel, the Judicial Standards Commission, to block an investigation into her public comments.
The nation's top environmental official said he fully supports his agency's decision to block a proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska's salmon-rich Bristol Bay, even as the state of Alaska has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn that action.
Kansas authorities must destroy all electronic copies they made of a small newspaper's files when police raided its office this month, a judge ordered Tuesday, nearly two weeks after computers and cellphones seized in the search were returned.
Virginia lawmakers will reconvene in Richmond next week to consider a compromise General Assembly negotiators recently reached on the long-delayed state budget.
Former President Donald Trump may not appear at his arraignment in Fulton County, Georgia, next month and will let his lawyer plead not guilty on his behalf.
The Georgia state senator pushing to defund the Fulton County district attorney's office following the indictment of former President Donald Trump is warning his colleague that if they don't act, "our constituencies are going to be fighting it in the streets."