The US Supreme Court Wednesday reversed a decision by Wisconsin’s Supreme Court selecting state legislative districts drawn by the governor while also allowing the use of the governor’s congressional district map. The 2020 census revealed population shifts that necessitated redrawing Wisconsin’s election maps. The Republican-dominated legislature proposed new maps, which were vetoed by Democratic Governor [...]
A federal judge Tuesday found Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin guilty of trespassing on US Capitol grounds during last year’s January 6 Capitol violence. The second defendant to go on trial on charges stemming from the riot, Griffin was convicted on a charge of entering a restricted area and acquitted of disorderly and disruptive [...]
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed a bill Monday that would ban parents from seeking abortions because of potential disability. The “Unborn Child with a Disability Protection and Education Act” would ban such abortions except in the case of medical emergency or if the fetus is found to “nonmedically viable.” Justice announced the signing on [...]
The US Senate Tuesday unanimously approved a bill that would make daylight saving time (DST) permanent. The Sunshine Protection Act, sponsored by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), passed the Senate by unanimous consent. If approved by the House and signed by President Joe Biden, the act would eliminate the process of changing the clocks two times [...]
JURIST Ukraine Chief Correspondent Anna Tymoshenko spoke Thursday with CNN about the current situation in Poltava, Ukraine, where many Ukrainians have arrived after fleeing areas under bombardment. Tymoshenko said that while things are currently relatively quiet in Poltava, she fears that the area may become a target for Russian bombing. She said that civilians have [...]
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers Wednesday urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an investigation into Amazon for obstruction of Congress. In a 24-page letter, members of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law called upon US Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate allegations that Amazon officials deliberately misled the Judiciary [...]
The US Senate Monday unanimously approved a bill that will make lynching a federal hate crime. The Emmett Till Antilynching Act is named after 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Black boy from Chicago who was kidnapped and lynched while visiting family in Mississippi in 1955 after allegedly flirting with a white woman. The legislation would make [...]
A fractured US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Wooden v. United States that a man who broke into 10 separate storage units committed only one crime for sentencing enhancement purposes under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). James Wooden broke into a mini-storage facility in 1997 and burglarized 10 different storage units, for which he [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Thursday in Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center that Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron can defend the state’s controversial law restriction abortion. HB 454 bans dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion procedures, the most common method of abortion in the second trimester. The law was challenged by EMW Women’s Surgical [...]
A judge in Travis County, Texas, has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating the family of a transgender youth who filed a lawsuit earlier this week. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Texas and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit Tuesday after Texas [...]
