Former deputy national security advisor Charles Kupperman filed a lawsuit on Friday asking the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to rule on whether he must comply with a congressional subpoena ordering him to testify in the ongoing congressional impeachment inquiry. Kupperman was subpoenaed because he was reportedly listening to the phone [...]

US District Court Judge Rossie Alston held Monday that a Virginia law requiring marriage applicants to identify their race was unconstitutional. The order comes as a response to a lawsuit filed by three couples challenging the requirement. The couples were denied marriage licenses after declining to provide their race as required by a state statute. [...]

Democrats in the US House of Representatives released a resolution Tuesday detailing rules they intend to follow during the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. The resolution provides that House committees can continue their existing investigations into whether there is sufficient evidence to employ the Constitutional powers of impeachment. More specifically, the resolution outlines time [...]

The Federal District Court for the Middle District of Alabama granted a preliminary injunction on Tuesday blocking the enforcement of the Alabama Human Life Protection Act. Alabama Governor Kay Ivy signed the act in May, banning nearly all abortions in the state except for pregnancies that threaten the mother’s life. Planned Parenthood and other organizations [...]

The North Carolina Superior Court of Wake County granted a preliminary injunction on Monday barring the use of a new electoral map in the 2020 primary and general elections for illegal partisan gerrymandering. The plaintiffs, led by the National Redistricting Foundation (NRF), sought to block the state’s remedial electoral map from being used in the [...]

General Motors, Toyota, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, among other carmakers, announced Monday that they were supporting US President Donald Trump’s bid to block California from setting its own strict emission standards. The automakers have backed the Trump administration’s proposal to prohibit individual emission standards by state, saying “The certainty of one national program, with reasonable, [...]

A jury on Friday recommended awarding Keith Wildhaber, a sergeant for the St. Louis County police department, nearly $20 million in damages in an employment discrimination case after finding that the department discriminated against him because of his sexual orientation. Wildhaber filed the lawsuit in 2017 alleging that he had been passed up for promotions [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a notice of appeal Monday against a federal judge’s order to release grand jury material from the Mueller report to congress. A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order Friday that required the DOJ to release the grand jury material to [...]

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) made separate allegations Friday that Turkey has been illegally deporting refugees back into Syria since January. These allegations stem from investigations performed by each organization in which they conducted interviews with refugees possessing evidence that Turkey has violated international non-refoulement laws. Amnesty found 20 definitive cases where refugees [...]

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the terrorist organization known as ISIS, died on Saturday during a US raid in northwest Syria, according to a Sunday morning statement by US President Donald Trump. According to Trump’s statement, the ISIS leader died after he fled into a dead-end tunnel and detonated a suicide vest, killing himself [...]