Arizona Jury Deliberates Border Agent's Manslaughter Case Lonnie Swartz fired across the border, killing an unarmed Mexican teenager. Swartz was acquitted of second degree murder. After the jury couldn't agree on manslaughter charges, the case was retried. Ana Alderstein
Legal Challenges To Matthew Whitaker's Appointment As Acting A.G. Continue To Mount NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Washington Post reporter Rosalind Helderman about Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker's past, including his involvement with a fraudulent patent marketing company.
Federal Court Blocks Trump Administration's Asylum Ban A U.S. district court ruled that President Trump's proclamation banning anyone seeking asylum from entering the U.S. without crossing a port of entry violates existing law. Emily Sullivan
3 Senate Democrats Sue To Block Matthew Whitaker From Serving As Acting A.G. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., one of three senators who are suing to block Matthew Whitaker from serving as acting U.S. attorney general.
Federal Judge Orders White House To Restore Press Credentials To CNN's Jim Acosta In a narrow ruling, Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, said the White House did not provide CNN's Jim Acosta with the due process required to legally revoke his press pass. Nina Totenberg
Judge rules in favor of CNN, temporarily restores correspondent's credential In the first legal battle between Trump and the news media, a federal judge sided with CNN and ordered the White House to immediately restore Jim Acosta's press pass. Domenico Montanaro
Court filing suggests prosecutors may be preparing charges against Julian Assange The document, part of an unrelated case, notes it's important "to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged." The Justice Department says the WikiLeaks founder's name was used in error. Colin Dwyer
Unrelated Case Suggests U.S. Prepared Charges Against WikiLeaks' Assange There's possible legal trouble for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. A court filing indicates U.S. prosecutors prepared charges against Assange, who's holed up at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Carrie Johnson
What the new Seattle police contract does and doesn't do for oversight Seattle's police oversight officials say they're ready to work with the new police contract. But they hope to work around its shortcomings, too. Amy Radil
How A Lawyer In The CNN Case Saved Me From Being Shut Down On My Beat NPR's Nina Totenberg was frozen out at the Justice Department in the early 1980s. Ted Olson, among those defending Jim Acosta over his revoked press pass, got Totenberg back in the loop. Nina Totenberg