US House of Representatives voted in favor of House Resolution 4 (HR4) Thursday, which will retract approximately $9 billion in funds that had already been allocated for the next two fiscal years.  The cuts are to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), along with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), international peacekeeping and [...]

US federal district judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong for the US District Court for the Central District of California, ruled Friday that race, language, and work location are not grounds for reasonable suspicion for a detentive stop by immigration agents.  She issued two temporary restraining orders (TROs) in the case Perdomo, et al. v Noem, et [...]

Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil filed a complaint against the US government on Friday, four months after he was detained by ICE agents for his role in campus protests in support of Palestine. Khalil made several claims in his complaint, including false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and abuse of process. The Center for Constitutional [...]

The US Supreme Court confirmed Thursday that the US government may proceed with the deportation of eight migrants to South Sudan. This order comes at a time when the US State Department has issued a “Level 4: Do Not Travel” advisory for South Sudan due to high levels of armed conflict and violent crime. On [...]

A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit Friday to prevent the federal government from opening a migrant detention center at an airstrip in Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve. The detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” because the alligators, panthers, and pythons in the surrounding swamp would deter escapes, was set to open next week. The [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management that the members of the US Preventive Services Task Force were properly appointed under Article II of the Constitution, preserving preventive care requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). A group of Christian-owned businesses sued the task force, claiming that the preventive care mandates [...]

The Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision on Friday that retirees are not “qualified persons” under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and therefore cannot bring ADA suits over issues that occur in retirement. The appellant in the case, Karyn Stanley, took disability retirement from the fire department in the city of Sanford, Florid, [...]

A US federal judge on Friday ordered the federal government to release detained activist Mahmoud Khalil immediately. Judge Michael Fabiarz of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey said Khalil can return to his home after over three months in detention. Khalil is restricted to New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Washington, DC, and [...]

On Saturday, I joined the No Kings Day protest in Ardmore, an affluent suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  I was scared, but I had to go. “Action binds anxiety,” is a maxim in my daytime work.  The current political environment creates an ambient fear, like computer malware jamming wi-fi and wasting battery.  I needed to get [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blocked a lower court’s decision to return the California National Guard to Governor Gavin Newsom’s control late Thursday. A hearing on the temporary stay, which reversed US District Judge Charles Breyer’s ruling earlier Thursday to remove the California National Guard from federal control, has been scheduled for [...]