On Monday afternoon, Judge Neil Gorsuch sits alone at the witness table despite the attacks and delivers his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, setting the initial tone for the week’s worth of probing.
A second judge has agreed to a second US extradition for drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, giving the government less than a month to confirm the decision.
A New Orleans court has ruled to upheld the decision that Muslim inmates in Texas prison should be allowed to wear a knit skullcap and grow a beard, as the religion requires them to. A judge wrote an appeal that the ban on beard and religious headwear violates a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a previous case in Arkansas.
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell won the sympathy of judges in his bribery trial. The judges was questioning the scope of federal laws that prosecutors used to convict McDonnell in corruption case.
