A federal judge on Thursday sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to 47 months in prison. Manafort was found guilty of eight charges of bank and tax fraud in August, which, under federal sentencing guidelines, could have resulted in a prison term of 19-24 years, as projected by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team in their sentencing memo. [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted an injunction on Wednesday that prevents a citizenship question from appearing on the 2020 census. The Secretary of Commerce had previously ordered the question, “Is this person a citizen of the United States?” to appear on the 2020 census. The Department [...]
US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, filed suit in the New York Supreme Court against the Trump Organization Thursday. Cohen alleges that the Trump Organization failed to meet its obligations under the indemnification clause of their contractual agreement and should have to pay for the legal fees in connection with the work he performed [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held Wednesday that a policy of the Board of Regents for the University System of Georgia barring the enrollment of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients at Georgia’s most selective universities had a rational basis and was not superseded by federal law. Three DACA recipients, who would otherwise have [...]
A Georgia House committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would prohibit abortions after the discovery of a fetal heartbeat. The bill is known as the “Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act” and aims to “protect the fundamental rights of particular classes of persons who had not previously been recognized under law.” The bill [...]
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday reversing an Obama-era order requiring intelligence agencies to report deaths from airstrikes in noncombat conflict zones. The new order revokes the requirement put into place by Barack Obama’s executive order that was originally intended to increase transparency between the government and the public after the [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Tuesday that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority must make the subway station wheelchair accessible, regardless of cost. The subway station in question, Middletown Road Station Subway in the Bronx, can only be accessed through a stairway. Although the station was renovated from 2013 [...]
The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) announced Tuesday that human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh had been convicted in absentia by Judge Mohammad Moghiseh of Iran’s Revolutionary Court. Sotoudeh had been charged with a number of crimes including “assembly and collusion against national security,” “propaganda against the state,” “membership in the Defenders of Human Rights Center, [...]
Chinese telecommunications company Huawei filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the US government to block the enforcement of a law that prohibits government agencies from using equipment from Huawei. The lawsuit marks the latest escalation of a dispute that has already seen the US government warn citizens against purchasing Huawei products and ban their sale on [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held on Wednesday that a rule limiting participation in competitive dance programs to female students likely violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Pursuant to Bylaw 412 of the Minnesota State High School League, male students are not permitted to [...]
