A federal appeals court has ended the extension for voter registration in Arizona. The original voter registration cutoff date for the presidential election was October 5, 2020. However, due to COVID-19, plaintiffs’ registration efforts were halted because of state-mandated shutdowns. Despite the halt in government, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs did not extend the voter [...]

The US Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony Thursday from outside witnesses on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett. The final day started with a battle between parties. Senate Republicans pushed to have Barrett’s vote for nomination next week, on October 22 at 1 PM while the Democrats argued this violated committee rules. [...]

UN Special Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana is urging the international community to lift sanctions on North Korea to lessen the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns, according to a report published Thursday. There have been no officially confirmed cases of COVID-19 in North Korea. The borders went on complete lockdown at the beginning of the year. Because [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Texas federal courts potentially have the authority to change the election policy allowing poll workers to forgo wearing facial coverings. A Texas voting rights group originally brought the lawsuit against Governor Greg Abbott in July. The group argued that Texas’ [...]

A World Trade Organization (WTO) arbitrator has awarded the EU the right to impose tariffs on USD $4 billion of American goods annually, in retaliation against illegal subsidies given to the US plane manufacturer Boeing. The Tuesday decision marks the consummation of a 16-year-long legal battle before the WTO. It follows a parallel case that the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that the Trump administration must face allegations brought by a Texas-based butterfly sanctuary on the US-Mexico border, asserting environmental and constitutional challenges in connection with the federal government’s plans to construct a wall to prevent illegal border crossings. The North American Butterfly Association [...]

The Nigerian government on Thursday announced a ban on police brutality protests in the country’s capital of Abuja. The #EndSARS protests have taken social media by storm and led the youth of Nigeria to the streets in protest. The protest began after the death of a young man at the hands of the Special Anti [...]

A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a 2015 Tennessee law that required women seeking an abortion to wait for at least 48 hours before undergoing the procedure. This law, Tenn. Code § 39-15-202, effectively required women to make two trips to the clinic: the first one for in-person counseling with the doctor, and the second one—taking place at least 48 [...]

Washington’s attorney general said Tuesday that Twitter has been ordered to pay the state of Washington $100,000 for violating the state’s campaign finance laws. The state’s complaint alleged that Twitter failed to “maintain and make available for public inspection documents and books of account specifying statutorily required information concerning political advertising sponsored through Twitter’s online [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Melania Trump’s former advisor, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Tuesday for violating a nondisclosure agreement in her new tell-all book. In 2017, after Donald Trump had been elected president, Wolkoff volunteered to serve as an advisor to Melania Trump. Upon assuming this position, Wolkoff was required to sign a Gratuitous [...]