Three human rights organizations filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday, claiming his recent executive orders “falsely assert” that diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives are “illegal.” The plaintiffs are the National Urban League, the National Fair Housing Alliance, and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. They claim that three of [...]
The US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis affirmed a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, which blocks former President Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan from taking effect. The plaintiffs in the case are the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma. The defendants include President Donald Trump and Denise [...]
Twnety-seven religious groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), among various government officials, challenging a new immigration enforcement policy near places of worship. The plaintiffs, faith-based groups in the Jewish and Christian traditions, brought the lawsuit after a “Recession Memo” was released [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland granted a preliminary injunction at a hearing on Wednesday against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end all birthright citizenship. The plaintiffs, CASA, Inc., Asylum Advocacy Project, and five pregnant mothers under pseudonyms, filed the lawsuit against Trump, among other government officials, [...]
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced the arrival of 10 migrants at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility on Wednesday, after they took off the day before on the first US military plane headed there for the new mission. The DOD’s statement said: “These 10 high-threat individuals are currently being housed in vacant detention facilities.” [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that a federal statute requiring people to be 21 to purchase handguns from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions and the Second Amendment. The plaintiffs, Caleb Reese and Emily Naquin, challenged the constitutionality of 18 USC 922 (b)(1) and (c)(1) on [...]
The Oklahoma State Board of Education on Tuesday to approved a new administrative rule proposed by State Superintendent Ryan Walters that would require parents to disclose their children’s immigration status when enrolling them in school. The rule states that when parents or legal guardians enroll their children in school, they must “provide proof of United States citizenship at the time [...]
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld its previous decision on Tuesday which found Pennsylvania statutes preventing “18-to-20-year-olds from carrying firearms outside their homes during a state of emergency” to be unconstitutional. Pennsylvania statutes 6106, 6107, and 6109 have the combined effect of “preventing most 18-to-20-year-old adult Pennsylvanians from carrying firearms.” The appellants, Madison Lara, [...]
President-elect Donald Trump applied for a stay of criminal proceedings to the US Supreme Court on Tuesday for his hush-money case pending his interlocutory appeal for presidential immunity. The application provides several grounds to support why a stay of proceedings should be granted. One of the grounds the application argues is there is a reasonable [...]
US President Joe Biden issued two memoranda on Monday to prohibit new offshore drilling within three ocean and coastal regions, compromising over 625 million acres. One of the memoranda includes the withdrawal of the entire eastern US Atlantic coast and the eastern Gulf of Mexico as well as the Pacific Coast along California, Oregon and [...]
