Twenty-one states led by Texas sued the Biden administration Wednesday over its revocation of the Keystone XL pipeline permit. They claim the administration has sought to “leverage its power regarding U.S. foreign policy to unilaterally contradict Congress’s stated domestic policy” with regards to the Keystone XL pipeline. The states claim that President Joe Biden’s executive [...]
Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies voted Thursday to decriminalize marijuana. The measure was approved by a vote of 315 to 128, with 23 members abstaining. The law will allow any adult to smoke marijuana with certain restrictions. These restrictions include a cap on possession that would make it illegal to possess more than 28 grams of [...]
Conservative social media website Parler filed a new lawsuit against Amazon Wednesday alleging that Amazon removed Parler from its hosting platform because they saw them as a threat and wanted to “destroy” the competition. The move comes after Parler withdrew their previous federal antitrust suit against Amazon Tuesday. Parler brought the suit two months ago [...]
The South Carolina Senate voted 32-11 in favor of expanding permissible ways of executing death row inmates. The bill, which was introduced to the Senate last year, would allow firing squads and the electric chair to be used for executions. The bill was first introduced last December in response to an expiring lethal injection stockpile. [...]
On Thursday, the Tribunal Oral Federal 5 de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires sentenced multiple people involved in the Escuela de Mecánia de la Armada (ESMA) case. ESMA was the top clandestine detention center in Argentina during the last military dictatorship. It was the site of more than 800 crimes including torture, kidnapping, and [...]
The Biden administration sent a letter to the US Supreme Court Wednesday informing them of the government’s change of position on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), with Joe Biden’s government believing the ACA is constitutional. This letter comes three months after the court heard oral arguments in California v. Texas and presents a [...]
The Arkansas Senate approved the Medical Ethics and Diversity Act Thursday, which would allow medical providers, such as doctors and hospitals, to raise conscientious objections to treating certain people. The act seeks to protect the conscience of the medical providers or institutions. Included in the institutions are employers and health plans, which could choose to [...]
The Belgrade higher court on Tuesday found Bosnian Serb Milorad Jovanovic guilty of torturing prisoners while working as a police officer during the Bosnian War. He was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison. The charges stem from an incident in 1992 where Javinovic and his superior officers forcibly removed non-Serb civilians from their [...]
Lawyers for former US president Donald Trump said Thursday that Trump would not testify at his upcoming impeachment trial, which is slated to begin on February 9. House Impeachment Manager Jamie Raskin had requested that Trump testify earlier on Thursday. The House Impeachment Managers submitted an 80-page memo earlier this week outlining the facts that [...]
US President Joe Biden signed two health care-focused executive orders Thursday seeking to reopen the enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), strengthen Medicaid and protect reproductive health care access. The first executive order directors the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to open a special enrollment period for the ACA and Medicaid [...]
