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The Supreme Court issued Thursday a one-line docket entry removing two consolidated Medicaid cases from its March argument calendar. The two cases, Azar v. Gresham and Arkansas v. Gresham, had to do with a Trump administration policy that allowed states to impose work requirements for Medicaid recipients as long as the states sought the approval of [...]

El gobernador de Puerto Rico, Pedro Pierluisi, dijo el domingo que Estados Unidos está “moralmente obligado” a tomar medidas después del reciente referéndum del territorio a favor de lograr la condición de Estado estadounidense. A pesar de que los puertorriqueños han votado repetidamente sobre el tema de la estadidad en los últimos años, la votación [...]

Puerto Rican Governor Pedro Pierluisi said Sunday that the US is “morally obligated” to take action following the territory’s recent referendum in favor of achieving US statehood. Although Puerto Ricans have voted repeatedly on the issue of statehood in recent years, the November vote finally garnered majority approval with high enough voter turnout. Congress has [...]

Judging by much of the debate over the Senate filibuster rule, you’d think it was some honorable tradition worth keeping — “an elegant weapon of a more civilized age,” as Obi-Wan Kenobi described the lightsaber to Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars. Not so. The filibuster is a dangerous relic with a deeply destructive [...]

US President Joe Biden signed two health care-focused executive orders Thursday seeking to reopen the enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), strengthen Medicaid and protect reproductive health care access. The first executive order directors the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to open a special enrollment period for the ACA and Medicaid [...]

The US Supreme Court announced Friday that they have agreed to weigh in on the legality of the Trump administration’s approval of Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas and New Hampshire. The justices consolidated the cases of Azar v. Gresham and Arkansas v. Gresham for one hour of oral argument. Residents of Kentucky and Arkansas had [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday upheld preliminary injunctions blocking implementation of a 2019 rule changing the criteria the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can use in making a public charge inadmissibility determination. The rule changed the definition of “likely to become a ‘public charge'” to include anyone likely to participate [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Monday that Texas and Louisiana are allowed to exclude Planned Parenthood from Medicaid programs. The decision overturned a lower court ruling that prevented states from banning Medicaid coverage for Planned Parenthood patients. The case to disqualify Planned Parenthood was first brought in 2015 when [...]

Judge Gary Feinerman of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Monday struck down an immigration rule enacted by the Trump administration, holding it violating the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). \Feinerman granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and vacated the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) final rule. The rule addressed section [...]

The US Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear South Carolina’s appeal to restrict public funding for Planned Parenthood. The case stems from a 2018 executive order from South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, in which he declared that abortion clinics should be excluded from serving as a family planning service and that the South Carolina Department [...]