A U.S. judge said Texas resident Robert "Azzmador" Ray has been in "total disregard" of court orders in a lawsuit against him and other far-right extremists and groups associated with the Aug. 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Republicans pressed a distorted case Wednesday that President Donald Trump took over a moribund economy from Barack Obama and supercharged it.

The plaintiffs anticipate the case will go to trial sometime next year.

The state sentence is mainly symbolic given his previous sentence on the federal charges.

James Alex Fields Jr. of Maumee, Ohio, was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in March to federal hate crime charges.

The self-avowed white supremacist who plowed his car into counterdemonstrators opposing a white nationalist rally in Virginia two years ago, killing one person and injuring dozens, has asked a judge for mercy and a sentence shorter than life in prison.

Corporate records show James Stern of Moreno Valley, California, is now president of the National Socialist Movement. He replaces previous longtime leader Jeff Schoep.

James Fields, 21, was found guilty of first-degree murder and nine other crimes last week.

James Alex Fields Jr., was accused of driving his car into a crowd on purpose at a the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville in August 2017.

James Alex Fields Jr., a 21-year-old Ohio man known in high school for being fascinated with Nazism and idolizing Adolf Hitler, heads to trial Monday in Charlottesville Circuit Court.