The Arizona Supreme Court held 4-3 Monday that a non-discrimination ordinance enacted by the city of Phoenix in 2013 prohibiting public accommodations from discriminating against persons based on their status in a “protected” group, which includes a person’s sexual orientation, is unconstitutional under the Arizona Free Exercise of Religion Act and the free exercise clause [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that a stricter air quality rule imposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2016 is constitutional under its authority established by the Clean Air Act. The Clean Air Act includes a Good Neighbor provision to address problems of upwind states’ [...]
The National Rifle Association (NRA) filed a lawsuit on Monday in federal court in San Fransisco fighting a September 3 resolution the city passed which declared the lobby group a domestic terrorism organization. The San Fransisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed the resolution, urging the City and County of San Francisco to “take every reasonable [...]
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into legislation California bill SB276 Monday, which brings stronger consequences to doctors who write fraudulent medical vaccine exemptions for school-aged children. The legislation includes provisions for the creation of a database of physicians with pending accusations and charges, from which California’s Department of Public Health shall not approve a vaccination [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri on Tuesday blocked Missouri’s 8-week abortion ban from going into effect. Missouri’s governor signed the law in May of this year, making it illegal to for any pregnant individual in the state to have access to an abortion after eight weeks, unless [...]
The US Department of Justice on Monday asked the Supreme Court to stay an injunction blocking a July 15 Trump administration asylum rule requiring most asylum-seekers to ask for protection in another country before reaching the US-Mexico border. Under the new rule, people from countries like Honduras and El Salvador, where one would have to [...]
The Trump administration and Republican party sued the state of California on Tuesday over a law signed last week by Governor Gavin Newsom that requires presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns in order to be on the state’s primary ballot. The law does not explicitly name President Donald Trump, who has not disclosed his [...]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed two gun control bills into law Monday: the first, a 30-day waiting period requirement for anyone who wants to buy a gun in the state, and the second, to close a loophole in the ownership and sale of bump stocks. The waiting period law requires those who have come [...]
A new California law requires presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns in order to be on the state’s primary ballot. The law doesn’t explicitly name President Donald Trump, but it is clearly inspired by his failure to disclose his tax information. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, SB 27 or the Tax Transparency and [...]
After more than three years of legal dispute, a federal judge in North Carolina approved a settlement Tuesday that will allow transgender people to use the bathrooms in state buildings that match their gender identities. North Carolina’s House Bill 2 (HB 2), “the bathroom bill,” was passed in March 2016, requiring transgender people to use [...]
