The US Supreme Court on Monday blocked the deposition of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in a lawsuit challenging the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion where he explained that the district court’s decision to focus on a showing of “bad faith” by Ross was unusual and that [...]

La Segunda Sala Penal de Peru on Wednesday ordered the release of former Peruvian presidential candidate and opposition party leader Keiko Fujimori, following her arrest last week in an ongoing money laundering investigation. Keiko Fujimori is the daughter of former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori. She is still under investigation over undeclared contributions made to her [...]

The US Justice Department on Tuesday filed two counts against Treasury Agent Natalie Mayflower Edwards for leaking information pertaining to Paul Manafort and the Russia Probe. Edwards works for the FinCen unit of the Department of Treasury. FinCen’s mission statement is to “safeguard the financial system from illicit use and combat money laundering and promote [...]

Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a Kansas birth certificate policy that prevents transgender individuals from changing the gender designation on their birth certificates. Lambda filed the suit on behalf of four transgender Kansas residents. While no specific law prohibits changing the gender designation on birth certificates, the plaintiffs allege that Kansas enforces a policy [...]

The Florida Supreme Court ruled Monday that Governor Rick Scott “exceeded his authority by directing the Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission … to submit its nominations to fill” three upcoming Florida Supreme Court vacancies prior to the end of his term. The Florida Supreme Court cited Article 5, Section 11 (c) of the Florida Constitution [...]

Several civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit Thursday against Georgia Secretary of State and Republican nominee for governor Brian Kemp to stop enforcement of HB268, an election law that has placed a hold on over 50,000 registered voters. HB268 has a provision that places pending status on any voter that has voter registration information that does not [...]

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday voted 5-2 to uphold Act 633 of 2017, a voter identification law that requires Arkansas voters to provide ID “that shows the person’s name and photograph” and “is issued by the federal or state government or an accredited postsecondary educational institution in Arkansas.” In 2014 the Arkansas Supreme Court struck [...]

Guatemala’s Court for High Risks on Tuesday sentenced former vice president Roxana Baldetti to prison for 15 years and six months for committing corruption in the awarding of a multi-million dollar government contract to decontaminate a lake near the capital. A UN anti-corruption commission supported Guatemalan prosecutors in the case against Baldetti and 12 other people for [...]

A court of appeals in The Hague on Tuesday upheld a historic legal order that requires the Dutch government to make “a reduction obligation of at least 25% from the emissions in 1990 by end-2020” because that is within the “State’s duty of care.” The court cited Article 2 and Article 8 of the European Convention on [...]

The Trump administration on Monday began to implement its new policy  of denying visas to unmarried, same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and employees of the UN. The G-4 Visa  is used for family members of foreigners working in the US on behalf of a foreign government or international agencies. The visa also allows for family [...]