US citizen and Army veteran George Retes on Wednesday spoke out after being arrested during an immigration raid at his workplace on a California cannabis farm, stating that he was detained for three days without explanation. Retes shared in a video press conference organized by the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union that he works [...]

The US Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear cases over state policies concerning the public school-funded sports teams that transgender students may join. The plaintiffs, two transgender women students named Lindsay Hecox and Becky Pepper-Jackson (BPJ), sued Idaho and West Virginia officials, respectively, on the basis of Title IX and Equal Protection Clause violations. They sought [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA testing. The majority opinion was written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Ruben Gutierrez was convicted of capital murder in 1998. Since 2010, he has been unsuccessfully requesting DNA testing [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on the California Attorney General Rob Bonta Thursday to put an end to and investigate police violence against journalists covering the recent Los Angeles protests against President Donald Trump’s mass deportation raids. RSF requested Bonta halt the police violence by filing “a civil lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order against [...]

The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday against imposing a higher burden of proof for reverse discrimination lawsuits under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Court reversed on a case involving a heterosexual woman who claimed that she was denied promotion and demoted because of her sexual orientation. A lower court [...]

The US Supreme Court split evenly Thursday over a challenge to the attempted establishment of the country’s first religious charter school, leaving in place a ruling from the Oklahoma Supreme Court that found the proposed Catholic charter school unconstitutional. The US Supreme Court’s opinion did not explain its ruling. Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself [...]

The Trump administration on Friday abruptly revoked its cancellation of more than 1,200 student visas held by international students, announcing a dramatic shift by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a court hearing in Washington. The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System is a web-based database tracking international students’ compliance with their visa status. ICE [...]

The Alabama House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday requiring K-12 public schools to display the Ten Commandments in common school areas and classrooms routinely used to teach US history. The bill states that displaying the Ten Commandments “with an appropriate context statement” is essential to educating students in “Civics, Government, History, Philosophy, Religion, [...]

The US Department of Education (DOE) announced Friday its plan to terminate the Maine Department of Education’s (MDOE) federal K-12 education funding for its noncompliance with US President Trump’s executive orders attacking “gender ideology” and gender-affirming educational practices. The DOE concluded that MDOE has endorsed or allowed school policies allowing males to compete in female [...]

The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced on Thursday that a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging prisoner Ishmael Petty with first-degree murder and murder by a federal prisoner, both of which are punishable by death. The office discussed Petty’s criminal history in a press release, stating: “Petty has been [...]