The US Supreme Court on Friday allowed the federal government resume checking voters’ citizenship against Social Security records, reviving a system a lower court ruled violated privacy laws. The decision comes less than six weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm congressional elections. The unsigned opinion paused a June 22 order by the US District Court [...]

Amnesty International called Thursday for the abolition of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in a report alleging widespread human rights violations in federal immigration enforcement operations. In its 168-page report, Amnesty investigated ICE activity in Chicago, Minneapolis-St.Paul, New Orleans and Washington DC, concluding that in each city officers have relied on racial profiling; arbitrarily [...]

The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to continue expedited deportations of immigrants to third countries, seeking emergency relief from a lower court ruling requiring the government to provide individuals with a meaningful opportunity to raise fears of persecution or torture before removal. Third-country removals involve deporting immigrants to [...]

Thirty-eight civil society organizations won leave Wednesday from the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to file a brief telling the court that sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC) are disrupting the work of groups the government has never designated and discouraging victims of crimes against humanity from turning to the Court. The brief [...]

In response to a request by various news outlets to restore their access to the White House, US President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday countered that “access to the White House is a privilege—not a right.” First, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said that the journalists’ argument that they have been subject to viewpoint-based discrimination [...]

A jury in Burlington, Vermont, on Monday found Jason Eaton guilty of three counts of attempted second-degree murder stemming from the 2023 shooting of three Palestinian students attending college in the Northeast. The jury deliberated for only a few hours before rendering the guilty verdict, rejecting Eaton’s insanity defense. Eaton was convicted of attempted second-degree [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Monday ruled that Missouri must hold its November elections using the new congressional districting map enacted in 2025. The current dispute began after the Missouri legislature passed House Bill 1 last September. The bill altered Missouri’s Fifth congressional district, which has been held by Democrats [...]

A trial over car manufacturer Tesla’s alleged racially discriminatory employment practices begins Monday in Alameda County, California, according to Reuters. The trial is scheduled to run until October 30 before state Superior Court Judge Peter Borkon and is one of multiple similar suits against Tesla. The case will proceed as a bench trial, meaning the [...]

Three news outlets banned from the White House have sued the Trump administration Monday, claiming their exclusion from the White House violates their rights to free speech and due process President Donald Trump announced Friday that CNN, MS NOW and Politico would be banned from the White House. He accused the outlets of “reporting fake news,” [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday has vacated a US Department of Education (DOE) internal policy directive to cancel grants that supported educator training and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) programs. Under the directive, “Eliminating Discrimination and Fraud in Department Grant Awards,” the DOE canceled 104 of 109 grants in the Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) and [...]