Utah Governor Spencer Cox on Tuesday vetoed Senate Bill 296, a bill that would have granted him the power to appoint the chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court every four years. Presently, the members of the Utah Supreme Court have an exclusive say on who becomes the chief justice. SB 296 would have changed [...]

New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte signed House Bill 592 on Tuesday “to end the failed reform social experiment in New Hampshire.” The bill rolls back some of the reforms made on the bail setting process over the years and increases the length of time police can detain a suspect without bail. Specifically, the bill permits [...]

A coalition of educators, school districts, and unions filed a complaint in a Massachusetts federal court on Monday against the Trump administration to prevent the dismantling of the US Department of Education. This suit comes in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order issued last week, titled “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and [...]

A group of former journalists and other employees of the federal government-funded media company  Voice of America (VOA) filed a complaint in a New York federal court Friday seeking to force the federal government to restore the terminated employees and contractors to the positions they held before March 14 — the date President Donald Trump signed [...]

In a 137-page ruling, the US District Court for the District of Maryland granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Thursday blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from having continued unlimited access to sensitive Social Security information of millions of Americans. The plaintiffs in this case were two national labor and membership associations, [...]

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed House Bill 1489 on Tuesday, making Arkansas the fifth state to permit executions by use of nitrogen gas. The signing of this legislation coincides with Louisiana’s first execution by this method of Jessie Hoffman the same day. Titled “An Act to Amend the Method of Execution to Include Nitrogen [...]

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court refused to grant a stay to block Louisiana’s execution of an inmate by use of nitrogen gas. 46-year-old Jessie Hoffman Jr. became the first person ever to be executed in the state through this method on Tuesday evening . The Louisiana State Penitentiary scheduled Jessie Hoffman’s execution by nitrogen gas [...]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, a Houston-based midwife, for performing abortions and in the northwest Houston area. This marks the first known criminal arrest of an abortion provider since the Supreme Court  overturned Roe v Wade in 2022. Performing an abortion is a second degree felony in Texas. [...]

The International Bar Association (IBA) raised alarm on Friday regarding US President Donald Trump’s latest actions, including pardons issued to approximately 1,500 individuals who were either convicted or charged in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol, pardons issued to 14 militia organization members, and a “blanket pardon” for many others. Trump had also followed [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Friday reversed a lower court decision temporarily blocking President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at federal agencies and business that contract with the federal government. The US District Court for the District of Maryland had blocked orders 14151 and [...]