Tag Archives: Federal

NBA Youngboy’s attorneys are requesting that he be released from jail as he awaits trial for federal weapon charges. Lawyers representing YoungBoy are asking for a pre-trial release on the grounds that they were blindsided by the “inexplicable tactical decision by the government” to arrest him in March rather than …

The United States has executed it’s 10th federal inmate of 2020, with two of them being within two days of one another. The federal government sentenced Alfred Bourgeois to die back in 2004 for heinously sexually assaulting and murdering his 2-year-old daughter in Texas. Despite maintaining his innocence, the 56-year-old …

Chicago rapper G Herbo, 25, faces federal charges stemming from Massachusetts for his part in an elaborate fraud scheme. According to the Chicago Tribune, federal prosecutors accused the drill rapper, his music promoter, and other members of his entourage of aggressively using stolen identities to charge over a million dollars’ …

A judge has just blocked the scheduled executions of four federal death row inmates, effectively thwarting the Trump administration’s efforts to resume imposing the death penalty in a federal system that saw its last execution more than a decade and a half ago. According to Politico, the order was issued …

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus Hakeem Jeffries have announced the reintroduction of the groundbreaking and expansive Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act. According to HuffPo, the legislation “would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, where it is classified among drugs such as heroin …