The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday filed a complaint against the state of New York, specifically challenging policies the state has in place that prevent federal immigration officers from making arrests in certain areas of the state. The DOJ is specifically challenging New York’s “Protect Our Courts Act,” which makes it unlawful for [...]

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to increase the number of undocumented migrants being transferred to the US Naval facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, according to government documents obtained by POLITICO and the Washington Post. The documents, reported by the media outlets Tuesday, state that 9,000 undocumented immigrants are currently being vetted for transfer to Guantánamo, [...]

The US Department of State imposed sanctions on Thursday on four individuals currently serving as judges on the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their involvement with the ICC’s investigations into the US and Israel. These sanctions were imposed pursuant to Executive Order No. 14,203, entitled “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court,” which President Donald [...]

US President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum to his attorney general on Wednesday, directing an investigation into executive actions taken towards the end of former President Joe Biden’s term. Specifically, the memorandum directed an investigation into whether certain individuals in the White House conspired to cover up Biden’s “cognitive decline” while he was in [...]

The US Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s decision involving the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on Thursday, effectively narrowing the scope of the statute’s required environmental review of major infrastructure projects. NEPA is an environmental impact review statute that was passed in 1970, among the most important of a slew of environmental protection statutes [...]

The US Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari from nonprofit Apache Stronghold on Tuesday, which sought an injunction on a federal government land transfer of an Apache holy site to a copper mining company. Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, more commonly known as Oak Flat, is a 6.7 square-mile site east of Superior, Arizona. The petition for [...]

National Public Radio (NPR) and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit against US President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday, challenging the legality of an executive order that called for a cessation of federal funding to NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The order, titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media,” directs the Corporation [...]

A US district judge on Wednesday found that President Donald Trump’s administration “unquestionably” violated a previous court order requiring adequate time for due process for migrants up for deportation. This statement comes from US judge Brian Murphy of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, who in an emergency hearing on Tuesday, instituted [...]

A Texas federal judge struck down the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s transgender employee protection policy on Thursday, stating the policy contradicts the plain text of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas said that Congress is the entity that can add [...]

Women’s rights organizations around the world are reaching “a breaking point” due to foreign aid cuts, according to a report published Tuesday by UN Women. The report says that a survey conducted in March found that 47 percent of the surveyed organizations are expecting to shut down over the next six months if current conditions [...]