The Trump administration on Friday announced a Title IX Special Investigations Team (SIT) to fight “gender ideology” in school programs and activities. Title IX is a federal law from the Education Amendments of 1972 that prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal funds. The Title IX SIT is designed to [...]

US District Judge Robert Pitman on Wednesday held Wednesday that the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional” while denying a temporary injunction request to install air conditioning in the prisons. According to the court, “Texas has more than 130,000 people serving time in prisons, more than any state in the US. Only about a [...]

The US District Court for the District of Idaho on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction to block the enforcement of Idaho’s near-total ban against Idaho ER doctors from performing emergency abortions. St. Luke’s Health System sued Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador on January 14,  in anticipation of the Trump administration dropping the Biden administration’s case [...]

US President Donald Trump’s administration filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit initiated by Biden’s administration against Idaho’s near-total abortion ban on Wednesday. Idaho passed the Defense of Life Act (DLA) in 2020 and it was set to take effect on August 25, 2022. The bill bans abortion except in the case of the death [...]

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds on Friday signed into law a bill that removes gender identity as a protected class under Iowa civil rights law. Reynolds stated that the state’s “Civil Rights Code blurred the biological lines between the sexes” in an unacceptable manner, and that the new law will strengthen the state’s efforts to protect [...]

Acting Solicitor General of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Sarah Harris sent a letter to President Pro Tempore of the Senate Charles Grassley on Thursday sharing the DOJ’s determination that removal restrictions for administrative law judges (ALJs) are unconstitutional and that the DOJ no longer intends to defend them in court. The DOJ justified [...]

A Texas state judge entered a default judgment and permanent injunction against New York doctor Margaret Carpenter on Thursday, finding her liable for unlawfully providing abortion-inducing drugs to a Texas woman. Judge Bryan Gantt’s default judgment resulted from Carpenter’s failure to respond to the Texas civil suit against her. Judge Bryan Gantt granted Texas’s requested relief [...]

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s lawyer Faisal Chaudry was arrested on Friday after using derogatory language toward an official at the jail where Khan has been held for the last 553 days, according to local media. Chaudry and three other lawyers visited Adiala Jail as per a court order to attend the Anti-Terrorist Court [...]

A Louisiana grand jury on Friday indicted a New York doctor for enabling the termination of a minor’s pregnancy by prescribing an abortion bill. The grand jury also indicted the minor’s mother, though the mother’s name has not been released to protect the minor’s identity. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill supported the indictment, stating: “It [...]

A New York appeals court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s decision that found the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act (NYVRA) violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. The Second Department of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division rejected the defendants’ argument that any application of the NYVRA would violate the [...]