The US Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear a case brought by two Maine families who want to use a state tuition program to send their children to Christian schools. Families who reside in Maine towns that do not have public schools are allowed to use the tuition assistance program to pay for a [...]

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein announced on Monday that Juul Labs Inc., an electronic cigarette giant, will pay $40 million to North Carolina and make changes to its business practices to settle accusations that the company unlawfully marketed and sold products to young people. Juul allegedly fueled an increase in teenage vaping, including through [...]

President Joe Biden signed a bill Friday honoring the victims of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting and designating the nightclub as the National Pulse Memorial. In June 2016, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 at the popular nightclub located in Orlando, Florida. The gunman used an AR-15-style rifle and a pistol. The mass [...]

US Secretary of Defense Llyod Austin released a statement on Tuesday announcing that he will support changes to the military justice system that would allow independent military lawyers to handle sexual assault cases, removing the cases from the chain of command. Austin’s statement is in response to a report from the Independent Review Commission (IRC) [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that the court cannot review challenges to asylum interview procedures in a suit filed by migrants seeking asylum. The court said that it lacks jurisdiction. In September 2019, 126 asylum-seekers filed suit, challenging “eleven alleged policies on how asylum officers conduct interviews [...]

A federal judge in Texas dismissed a lawsuit Saturday by 117 hospital employees who sued Houston Methodist over its requirement that all employees receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The hospital employees who refused to be vaccinated were placed on unpaid suspension on Monday. The employees were told that they would be fired if they were not [...]

The Federal Anti-Solitary Taskforce (FAST) released its Blueprint for Ending Solitary Confinement on Monday, detailing how the government can end solitary confinement of inmates in federal custody through executive, administrative and legislative action. On any given day, more than 10,000 people are in a form of solitary confinement in federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities, [...]

Nicaraguan police detained opposition presidential hopeful Arturo Cruz on Saturday and charged him with “conspiring against Nicaraguan society.” Cruz is the second opposition politician to be detained in less than a week as President Daniel Ortega seeks to maintain power leading up to the November presidential election. Cruz was a former ally to Ortega and [...]

Federal prosecutors filed a motion Tuesday to dismiss a criminal case against Christopher Kelly, a New York man accused of participating in the Capitol riot on January 6. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged more than 450 people for participating in the riot, and Kelly’s case is the first the DOJ has moved to [...]

The Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law released a report on Friday stating that in 2021, 14 states have enacted 22 laws that restrict voting access, making it more difficult for Americans to vote. According to the report, “the United States is on track to far exceed its most [...]