The ruling led to an unusual flurry of filings late on Christmas Eve when it appeared the state Department of Corrections intended to delay the trio’s release through the weekend.

The U.S. Supreme Court's Tuesday decision against Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Illinois had the "unintended consequence" of potentially pushing the president to deploy active-duty military units instead, legal scholar John Yoo, who previously clerked for conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, said Wednesday.

The rulings in separate cases from two courts mean two Republican incumbents will run unopposed in the primary.

A Supreme Court ruling that scraps Donald Trump’s tariffs — and refunds the import fees collected — would create a major “administrative problem,” the president’s top economic adviser said Sunday.

The justices ruled that when a municipal ordinance and a state statute prohibit identical conduct, the municipal penalties for such conduct “may not exceed the corresponding state penalties