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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) found Tuesday that the state of Alaska violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide accessible voting facilities in the 2020 and 2022 elections. Voters across Alaska reported that the accessible voting machines were inoperable on Election Day during the 2020 and 2022 [...]

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The US Supreme Court sided with Starbucks on Thursday by determining that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) needed to follow a four-part test to establish unfair labor practices and for the rehiring of unionized employees. A group of six Starbucks employees unionized their Memphis store in 2022 and conducted interviews with local news, citing [...]

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The US House of Representatives passed a resolution by a vote of 216-207 on Wednesday in finding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the Committee on the Judiciary’s subpoena for the audio recordings of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Biden.  While Garland previously told the Judiciary [...]

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The US Supreme Court decided Thursday that when Native Americans administer healthcare through their own programs, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Indian Health Service must pay for costs associated with the operation of the healthcare program. The case was brought by the San Carlos Apache Tribe and Northern Arapaho Tribe, both of which [...]

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The US House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) if it issues an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. H.R. 8282, or the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, will impose sanctions for “any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United [...]

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US Supreme Court Justice John Roberts declined senators’ request on Thursday to discuss Justice Alito’s Appeal to Heaven and the upside-down American flag controversy, which raised questions about the US Supreme Court’s ethics and impartiality. Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (Democrat, Illinois) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat, Rhode Island) wrote Roberts a letter a week [...]

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Michigan State Police Detective Sergeant Brian Keeley was charged on Tuesday with second degree murder or involuntary manslaughter of Samuel Sterling by Michigan Attorney General.  Keeley has been charged with second degree murder, which is a life offense. Alternatively, Keeley has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, which is a felony with a fifteen-year sentence. Michigan [...]

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The United States government, and dozens of states, sued Live Nation Entertainment, a multinational entertainment company, in an antitrust suit Thursday, alleging they monopolized the live entertainment space, harming artists, venues, and concertgoers. The US Government alleges that Live Nation violated § 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, an 1890 US antitrust law that [...]

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Rudy Giuliani, former lawyer for Donald Trump and erstwhile Mayor of New York, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in an Arizona election interference case regarding a false slate of electors submitted in the 2020 Presidential election. Giuliani, along with ten others, was charged with counts of tampering with a public record, forgery, and changing vote of [...]

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