A US federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Tuesday that saw President Donald Trump suing every federal judge in Maryland over orders blocking the immediate deportation of migrants contesting removal. Trump filed the suit on Monday in response to an order written by Maryland Chief District Judge George L. Russell III in May. The order [...]
The US Department of State announced in a statement on Wednesday a new round of sanctions targeting members of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the sanctioned members include Kimberly Prost of Canada, Nicolas Guillou of France, Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji, and Mame Mandiaye Niang of Senegal. The US [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday upheld an Oklahoma law that bans gender-affirming care for minors. The court affirmed the lower court’s ruling in favor of the law, finding no evidence that the bill was enacted with discriminatory intent towards transgender minors or their families. The court applied the “deeply [...]
The student newspaper at Stanford University sued US President Donad Trump’s administration on Wednesday over the government’s attempt to use federal immigration law to deport noncitizens who have spoken out on their pro-Palestine beliefs. The newspaper, The Daily Stanford, brought the suit because of two anonymous members of the newspaper, who have had to “self-censor” [...]
Brown University announced a settled deal signed by the university and US President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday, restoring millions of dollars of frozen federal grants paused due to the university’s alleged mistreatment of Jewish students and use of race in the admissions process. The deal, published on Brown’s website, stated a list of agreements [...]
US lawmakers initiated a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday, challenging the administration’s new policy regarding visitation procedures for members of Congress visiting detention facilities. Representative Joe Neguse, a Democrat of Colorado, announced that he would be leading a group of lawmakers in challenging this policy on Wednesday. He announced via a press [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a block on President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order on Wednesday, concluding that plaintiffs are likely to succeed in demonstrating that the executive order is unconstitutional. The Ninth Circuit has now become the first appeals court to weigh in on the birthright citizenship order. The [...]
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in a post on X on Tuesday that the newly appointed US attorney for the District of New Jersey, Desiree Leigh Grace, has been fired by the Department of Justice (DOJ). Grace, who was only appointed mere hours before her work termination, was selected by federal judges on Tuesday to [...]
Twenty US states sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday with the aim of blocking the cut of funding to a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) pre-disaster mitigation program. The lawsuit specifically seeks to preserve the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, a multi-billion-dollar initiative created in 2018 that funds infrastructure projects to protect [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published a statement Wednesday protesting against the signing by Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov of new amendments to the Kyrgyz Code that impose administrative penalties on individuals and entities that publish “false or unreliable” information. The most recent amendments to the Kyrgyz Code signed by President Japarov on July 8 [...]
