Today, the majority on a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this decision affirming the defendant’s conviction for violating federal drug laws and remanding for certain additional proceedings. Circuit Judge Paul J. Watford issued a dissenting opinion, concluding that the district court’s specific anti-jury nullification charge violated the defendant’s right to a fair trial.

And Lissandra Villa and Paul McLeod of BuzzFeed News report that “Senate Democrats Have Referred A Secret Letter About Brett Kavanaugh To The FBI; Rumors about the letters’ contents have flooded Capitol Hill over the last week, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein has declined to share its contents.”

The AO also issued an announcement requesting public comment by November 13, 2018 on proposed changes to the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges and the Judicial Conduct and Disability Rules.

And in April 2014, Ed Pilkington of The Guardian (UK) had an article headlined “Mohammad Hassan Khalid given five years in jail for his part in jihadist plot; Khalid, the youngest person at 15 to be prosecuted for terrorism in the US, found guilty of involvement in conspiracy by ‘Jihad Jane’ to kill Swedish artist.”

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued this decision holding that Khalid is a U.S. citizen.