Republican lawmakers argued before the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Wednesday that being compelled to provide certain sensitive documents in a gerrymandering case in Ohio violated the First Amendment. The lawmakers made several arguments in their appeal. First, the lawmakers claimed that “all of the orders issued by the three-judge district court [...]

Defense attorney for US President Donald Trump, Alan Dershowitz, argued during Wednesday’s impeachment trial proceedings that the president’s actions toward reelection were actually done in the interest of the public and should not constitute an impeachable offense. Dershowitz stated that it was logical for a public official to harmonize what is in their own political [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 Tuesday that adjunct professors at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, are outside of the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and the university could therefore not be ordered to bargain with a labor union. Adjunct professors at Duquesne attempted to [...]

The European Parliament voted Wednesday to approve the UK’s Brexit deal. This means that Brexit is officially set to take place on January 31, 2020. The vote passed with 621 votes in favor, 49 against and 13 abstentions. Despite this majority, President David Salossi said, “It deeply saddens me to think that we have come [...]

Convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof filed an appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Tuesday asking for his death sentence to be vacated. His attorneys point to the lower court’s error in allowing him to stand trial and be his own defense counsel. They present various reasons as to why [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed two civil lawsuits Tuesday against five companies and three individuals it alleged had facilitated the transmission of hundreds of millions of fraudulent robocalls to consumers in the US. The DOJ alleges that the companies continued carrying the calls after being warned that they were fraudulent, resulting in financial [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard oral arguments Tuesday in Intl Refugee Assistance v. Donald Trump, which is centered largely on the travel bans. The plaintiffs in this case argue that, despite the Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. Hawaii, their case is not barred. They argue that the court simply [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Monday upheld a preliminary injunction preventing the enforcement of an Arkansas campaign-finance law, which the appellee claimed violated her First Amendment rights. Peggy Jones filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and contended that Ark. Code § 7-6-203(e) [...]

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan titled “Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People” on Tuesday. The plan notes the long history of conflict between the two states, claiming that it has “grown old the arguments have become [...]

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the state of New York filed suit Monday against disgraced pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli and Vyera Pharmaceuticals for stifling competition to protect the monopolistic pricing of the drug Daraprim (pyrimethamine). Daraprim is used to treat toxoplasmosis, and despite Vyera Pharmaceuticals being the only Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved [...]