The states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin filed separate briefs on Thursday urging the US Supreme Court to reject Texas’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a complaint with the Supreme Court Tuesday against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, seeking to overturn their 2020 presidential election results. On Wednesday [...]

The US Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control announced sanctions Wednesday on former Kyrgyz Customs Service deputy Raimbek Matraimov for his role in a $700 million money-laundering scheme. The Treasury also announced sanctions on two other individuals and three companies. According to the department, Matraimov was involved in a company’s evasion of custom fees [...]

The Nevada Supreme Court Tuesday confirmed a lower court’s dismissal of US President Donald Trump’s suit to overturn the state’s presidential results. Joe Biden won the presidential election vote in Nevada, which has six votes in the Electoral College, by 33,596 votes in the November 3 election. The president’s legal team challenged the results in [...]

The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, alleging that approximately 221,000 ballots were affected by absentee voting abuse. More than three million ballots were cast in Wisconsin during the general election. Wisconsin finished a partial recount of the votes on Sunday, and Governor Tony Evers formally certified Joe Biden’s victory [...]

A redacted memorandum opinion from the US District Court for the District of Columbia unsealed Monday revealed that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating a potential bribery scheme for a presidential pardon. On November 25, the government submitted a status report asking that the record remain unsealed. After the court directed the government [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday rejected a lawsuit seeking to nullify a New York law allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. Under New York law, applicants can apply for “standard licenses.” Under the Driver’s License Access and Privacy Act, the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) [...]

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf vetoed a bill Monday that would limit COVID-19 liability for schools, health care providers and other businesses. House Bill 1737 would limit the liability of businesses, child care facilities, health care facilities and schools for any personal injury or property damage related to COVID-19 exposure. The bill would have applied during disaster [...]

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) called Tuesday for the appointment of a special prosecutor and new grand jury to examine the police killing of Breonna Taylor. LDF reviewed audio files from the jury proceedings and found that Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s team “presented evidence in a biased manner that protected the [...]

Pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy charges related to the company’s marketing of OxyContin and other opioid products, admitting its tactics contributed to the nation’s opioid epidemic. On October 21 Purdue announced it had entered into an agreement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve multi-year investigations into its marketing [...]

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Monday that the District Attorney’s Office filed homicide charges against Chris Samayoa, a former rookie San Francisco police officer who was on his fourth day on the job when he fatally shot Keita O’Neil, an unarmed carjacking suspect, in 2017. On December 1, 2017, Samayoa and his training [...]