The Attorneys General of 38 states and territories sent a letter to Congress Wednesday urging passage of the SAFE Banking Act, a bill aimed at reforming banking regulations for institutions that handle marijuana-related accounts. Though medical cannabis is legal in the majority of the country and recreational use has been decriminalized in 10 jurisdictions, marijuana [...]

The New York Senate approved two bills on Wednesday aimed at forcing US President Donald Trump to release his tax returns and limiting his power to pardon state criminal offenses. The first, New York Senate Bill S5072A, requires the state’s commissioner of taxation to release state tax return information to certain committees in the US [...]

Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd informed the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday that the US Department of Justice would not permit Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Gore to testify before the committee about the addition of a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 census, defying a congressional subpoena that demanded his deposition. In [...]

The US Supreme Court held on Wednesday that under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) an ambiguous contract could not compel parties to submit to class arbitration. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court reversed the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Writing the opinion for the majority, Chief Justice Roberts stated that “arbitration is strictly a [...]

The State Duma, the lower house of parliament in Russia, approved a bill Tuesday aimed at tightening government control of the internet in the country. The bill, which sponsors said is aimed at securing “reliable” access to the World Wide Web independently from the control of other countries, would force Internet Service Providers to route [...]

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin agreed Monday to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of a series of restrictive laws passed during a special session of the state legislature in late 2018. Following the election of Democratic Governor Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul in 2018, the Republican-controlled state legislature convened a special session [...]

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto on Tuesday signed four gun control laws, setting up a fight over the limits of municipal authority over the regulation of firearms in Pennsylvania. Following the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in October that killed 11, the Pittsburgh city council passed a series of gun control regulations aimed [...]

The Trump administration filed a notice Monday with the US District Court for the District of Maryland that it intends to appeal the court’s ruling that the addition of a citizenship question on the 2020 census is unlawful. On April 5 Judge George Hazel decided that the addition of a proposed question on the 2020 [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday that a Kentucky law requiring a doctor to perform an ultrasound prior to performing an abortion does not violate their First Amendment rights. Kentucky’s Ultrasound Informed Consent Act requires doctors to perform an ultrasound for pregnant women wishing to have an abortion and play [...]

In a letter to EU President Donald Tusk delivered on Friday British Prime Minister Theresa May formally requested an extension to the UK’s deadline to withdraw from the EU until June 30. May was mandated to seek an extension to the deadline by the House of Commons on Thursday. Following the defeat of her negotiated [...]