Jason Meisner has covered the federal courts beat since 2013, writing about political corruption, terrorism and gang racketeering. In 2018, he was part of the Tribune's award-winning team covering the historic murder trial of Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke.
A Chicago federal appeals court on Thursday vacated a lower court's injunction placing use-of-force restrictions on immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz, calling it "constitutionally suspect" and questioning the manner...
With Marimar Martinez standing directly behind her, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that she was not "familiar with the details"...
A reputed high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel has been indicted on federal charges in Chicago alleging he ran security and helped the sons of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman-Loera...
The arrests of two people in the infamous overnight raid of an apartment building in South Shore were among more than 30 Operation Midway Blitz cases where immigration agents violated...
Federal prosecutors said Thursday they plan to narrow conspiracy allegations and review "newly unearthed" evidence in the politically charged “Broadview Six” case accusing a group of Democrats and other protesters...
Tommy Schaefer pleads not guilty to conspiracy charges in the bludgeoning death of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, the mother of his then-girlfriend, Heather Mack.
After spending more than a decade in prison overseas, the former boyfriend of Heather Mack is set to appear in a Chicago courtroom on Thursday on conspiracy charges stemming from...
The lead prosecutor in the politically charged 'Broadview Six' case accusing a group of Democrats and other protesters of conspiring to impede immigration agents at the Broadview ICE facility is...
A federal jury has found that disgraced former Chicago police Detective Reynaldo Guevara coerced a confession and manipulated evidence in a 1989 murder case, awarding $750,000 to a former Latin...