Grand jurors who voted to indict former President Trump in Georgia on Monday are facing threats after their names were listed publicly within the indictment as required under Georgia law, reports The Hill. A review of social media platforms and far-right forums found users posting numerous racial slurs and the jurors’ addresses. On Tuesday, a Texas woman was arrested after threatening to kill a Democratic member of Congress and U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, the judge overseeing a criminal case against Trump. Chutkan warned Trump’s lawyers that his defense should be mounted in the courtroom and “not on the internet.”

The Georgia Supreme Court last week removed a state appeals court judge from office after an investigation found that he broke campaign finance rules and took advantage of an elderly client, reports Reuters. The court upheld a hearing panel's findings that Christian Coomer, a former state legislator, had acted in bad faith for his own financial benefit. Coomer has been suspended from office with pay since January 2021, after Georgia's Judicial Qualifications Commission filed disciplinary charges against him.

The Biden administration on Monday issued new guidance to colleges and universities on how to legally encourage racial diversity on their campuses, reports Reuters. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that colleges can no longer consider race as a factor in college admissions. The guidance, released jointly by the departments of Justice and Education, noted that universities may still consider how race has affected an applicant's life such as in an applicant’s essay, as well as consider factors such as geography, financial resources and family background.

The Metro Nashville Council on Tuesday approved settlements for property owners who sued the city over an ordinance requiring them to construct a sidewalk or pay a fine, reports the Tennessean. The ordinance was struck down by a federal appeals court in May. The council ruled that to be eligible for a settlement, costs to comply with the ordinance must have been incurred on or after May 10, 2022, one year prior to the ruling. More information and claim forms can be found at the Metro website.

Two Davidson County clerks allegedly have hired relatives for taxpayer-funded jobs without considering other applicants, WSMV4 reports. The news station says Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk Howard Gentry gave his daughter a part-time job handling social media and outreach to those needing expungements without advertising the job or collecting applications. When asked about the decision, Gentry said, “The position was there. We didn’t ask for new money. It was an open position.” The station also reports that three relatives of Davidson County Clerk Brenda Wynn received paid internships in her office. Both Gentry and Wynn say they are not violating nepotism rules because they do not directly supervise their relatives. Watch their responses in interviews with the station.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Ludington of the Eastern District of Michigan on Monday dismissed a lawsuit from two conservative groups seeking to halt the Biden administration’s latest plan to cancel student loan debt. Ludington said the groups did not have standing to bring a complaint, and even if they did, their alleged injuries were not sufficient, The Hill reports. The administration announced a plan to provide $39 billion in student debt relief for 804,000 borrowers in July after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a larger effort to forgive $400 billion in loans.

For the fourth time in 2023, a Memphis-area family has retained the legal services of civil rights attorney Ben Crump, a lawyer who routinely represents families of victims who have died in interactions with law enforcement, the Commercial Appeal reports. The family of Courtney Ross, a 19-year-old who died in Memphis police custody on Friday, has retained Crump as an investigation into the teen's death begins. Crump also represents the surviving family members of Tyre Nichols, Jarveon Hudspeth and Gershun Freeman. All three men died in the custody of or during interactions with local law enforcement agencies or the county's corrections department.

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) announced today that is awarding $19.8 million to 14 legal services organizations to support the delivery of legal services to low-income people impacted by hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, floods and severe storms that occurred in 2022. Among the recipients is West Tennessee Legal Services (WTLS), which will use $849,009 to provide legal services to those impacted by severe winter weather in 2022, including two storms that were FEMA-declared disasters. WTLS also may use the funds to hire additional staff to educate affected populations on disaster-related issues and strengthen disaster-response networks.The money was made available by Congress in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023.

The abortion pill mifepristone will remain available to patients but with restrictions, a three judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today. By a vote of 3-0, the panel blocked changes made by the Food and Drug Administration in 2016 to make the drug more accessible, but noted that its decision is subject to a prior U.S. Supreme Court order, which “stayed the district court’s order pending resolution of this appeal.” In addition, it ruled 2-1 to overturn a lower court ruling that suspended overall approval of the drug. Read more from Reuters or read the ruling.

A judicial reform advocacy group filed a misconduct complaint on Tuesday against a Texas federal judge for requiring three attorneys for Southwest Airlines to attend "religious liberty training," reports Reuters. Fix the Court accused U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr of violating the judicial code of conduct by assigning Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group not involved in the case, to carry out attorney sanctions related to a religious bias case brought by a flight attendant against the airline.