(Anchorage, AK) – On Friday the State of Alaska filed a motion (489KB PDF) for summary judgment asking the U.S. District Court in Alaska to reject claims brought by the federal government that would strip Alaska of its right to manage fisheries on the Kuskokwim River. The Biden Administration’s Department of Justice filed suit against the State […]
Former U.S. president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to allegations that he illegally tried to upend his 2020 election loss in the southern state of Georgia. He also waived his scheduled arraignment in the case that had been set for next week. That means Trump, one of 19 defendants in the racketeering and election […]
Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said the filing “won’t deter us from fully investigating the massive, secret, right-wing billionaire influence in which this court is enmired.” Right-wing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas revealed Thursday that he took three flights on the private jet of conservative billionaire Harlan Crow last year, a disclosure that came more than four months after ProPublica […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – On Wednesday, Judge Amy Welch sentenced 31-year-old Kelly Sweetsir of Fairbanks to 45 years imprisonment for murdering his estranged girlfriend in August of 2019. Judge Welch also imposed an additional fifteen years of suspended time that Mr. Sweetsir could potentially serve should he ever be released and violate the terms of his probation. […]