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The Kennedy Center fully removed President Donald Trump’s name from its building on Saturday. Kennedy Center director Matt Floca told a judge in court documents Saturday that the name had been officially reverted. Crews finished the work in the early hours of Saturday, leaving tarps over scaffolding on the building. This development follows the May [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday issued a formal legal opinion declaring the approach of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforcement of “disparate impact” liability to be unlawful. The theory of disparate impact liability originated in the 1971 Supreme Court decision in Griggs v. Duke Power Co., in which it was [...]

Plaintiffs on Monday filed an appeal of the decision not to block President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) directed at placing restrictions on voting by mail. The appeal is the latest development in the fight by advocacy organizations to stop the Trump administration from reshaping the mail-in ballot guidelines ahead of the November midterm elections. [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a Notice of Appeal with the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Monday in a case seeking personal information regarding Massachusetts voters. Following the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s refusal to turn over the information, the administration filed a lawsuit. In the complaint, the administration argued that [...]

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed Senate Bill 121 (SB 121) into law on Friday, approving a new congressional map that dismantles a majority-Black district. The new map eliminates Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district, reverting the state largely to the configuration it used for the 2022 elections: five safe Republican seats and a single Democratic-leaning seat [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada refused on Thursday to hear an appeal by the six Wolastoqey communities of New Brunswick seeking to assert Aboriginal title over private lands. The issue before the court was whether First Nations can assert Aboriginal title when private parties hold a fee simple interest in land. The top court’s refusal [...]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa filed ​a claim in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday, challenging a panel report alleging he violated the constitution during his “Farmgate” scandal. In 2020, thieves broke into President Ramaphosa’s farm and stole over half a million dollars from inside one of his couches. In 2022, one of his private [...]

In a ruling released Thursday, US District Judge Carl Nichols denied requests to block President Trump’s executive order placing restrictions on the guidelines for voting by mail. The decision, delivered by the Trump-appointed Judge Nichols, states that the plaintiffs, seeking preliminary injunctive relief, may renew their claims in the future only if they can demonstrate [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit refused to grant an injunction on Tuesday to the GOP’s newly enacted gerrymandered congressional map. The ruling comes after pro-voting groups argued there was “staggering” evidence that the map violates the state ban on partisan gerrymandering. In his opinion denying the request for a preliminary injunction, Circuit [...]

A three-judge panel of a federal court in Birmingham on Tuesday barred Alabama from using its Republican-drawn congressional map in this year’s elections, ruling that the map intentionally discriminated against Black voters—a conclusion the panel reached even after a recent US Supreme Court decision that made such claims significantly harder to win. The court ordered [...]