The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday that immigrants who enter the US illegally have no right to a bond hearing to challenge their detention. The hearings consider habeas corpus petitions that force the government to produce a prisoner and justify continued confinement. The petitions also give the prisoner the chance [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday while a federal judge in California had not yet ruled on its request to stop the state from counting mail ballots from more than 20,000 registered voters. The DOJ claims these voters are likely noncitizens; California [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday vacated a preliminary injunction aimed at blocking Mississippi’s law barring diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) measures in education, and ordered US District Judge Henry Wingate removed from the case. Writing for a unanimous three-judge panel in Jackson Federation of Teachers v. Fitch, Circuit Judge [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday sued Alaska election officials in the US District Court for the District of Alaska, asking the court to block certification of November’s US Senate election results if incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses and voter confusion involving a similarly named candidate may have affected the outcome. The [...]

The US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed New Hampshire to limit the use of student ID cards to serve as a valid form of ID to receive a ballot. New Hampshire’s HB 323, which went into effect in June, requires a government-issued ID to be presented to receive a ballot. In an unsigned order, the [...]

Meta Platforms, Inc. on Wednesday was ordered to pay $25 billion in civil penalties after a New Mexico court found that Facebook repeatedly misled consumers about its data privacy practices, third-party access to personal information, and efforts to address misinformation and hate speech. The ruling follows a September jury verdict finding nearly 44 million violations [...]

Ohio State University disputed findings issued Wednesday by the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, which concluded that Ohio State’s College of Medicine discriminates on the basis of race in admissions, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision restricting the use of race [...]

In a succinct unsigned opinion, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s request to stay an injunction that would bar implementation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy denying gender-affirming care to transgender inmates in federal prisons. Justices Thomas and Alito would have granted the administration’s call for a stay. This [...]

After a three-day visit to the country, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Tuesday urged Bangladesh to end child marriage and close the gaps in national law that still allow it. In a statement released on October 20, Russell called for immediate investment in Bangladesh’s children. Her first priority was ending child marriage and keeping [...]

Non-profit organization Liberty Justice Center, on behalf of US food importer Gellert Global Group, initiated a lawsuit on Tuesday against US President Donald Trump’s administration’s latest tariffs on imports from Canada. The lawsuit argues the duties represent another attempt to use a Depression-era trade statute, Section 338, to exceed his power as president and claim [...]