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The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with social media giants in a case brought by families of victims in a terrorist attack in Turkey. A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Google and Twitter in a pair of cases that had alleged social media liability in terror attacks overseas. Justice Clarence Thomas in an opinion for the Twitter case said that families of victims of a 2017 ISIS attack on the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, did not adequately show that the online platforms had "aided and abetted" the terrorists in violation of federal law. "Plaintiffs have failed to allege that defendants intentionally provided any substantial aid to the Reina attack or otherwise consciously participating in the Reina attack -- much less that defendants so pervasively and systemically assisted ISIS as to render them liable for every ISIS attack," Thomas wrote. The Reina nightclub by the Bosphorus after mass shooting on New Year's Eve, Jan. 1, 2017 in Istanbul, T...

Former President Donald Trump is expected to file a motion to move his Georgia indictment to federal court, which experts said could have some advantages. Former President Donald Trump may soon seek to have his Georgia election interference case removed to federal court. Attorneys for Trump notified Georgia state court in Fulton County on Thursday that they may file a removal motion, according to a new court filing. Trump would be following in he footsteps of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and five other defendants charged in the sprawling racketeering case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. MORE: Mark Meadows, all remaining defendants plead not guilty in Georgia election case The potential advantages for Trump in doing so, attorneys and law professors said, would be the possibility of a more sympathetic jury pool and the potential delays such a move could cause. The law allows federal officers facing state charges to have the prosecution moved to...

The court has rolled back the use of race in college admissions. The Supreme Court on Thursday set new limits on affirmative action programs in cases involving whether public and private colleges and universities can continue to use race as one factor among many in student admissions. The court held, in a 6-3 opinion for the conservative majority written by Chief Justice John Roberts, that Harvard and the University of North Carolina's admissions programs violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. MORE: Supreme Court sets new limits on affirmative action programs in landmark ruling While 40 years of legal precedent supports consideration of race in college admissions, a conservative advocacy group had asked the justices anew to reverse course and issue a blanket ban on the practice. Fordham University, a Jesuit institution in the Bronx, N.Y., has defended affirmative action in college admissions as a moral imperative and critical tool for building a diverse ...