Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner filed a civil lawsuit against Elon Musk and his America PAC on Monday. The lawsuit alleges that the PAC’s petition, with an offer to pay some Pennsylvania registered voters who sign $1 million, amounts to an illegal lottery. In the complaint, Krasner argues that this petition violates the State Lottery [...]
Virginia elections officials filed an emergency application to stay with the US Supreme Court Monday, requesting the court restore a state program that would remove 1,600 individuals from state voter lists. The request comes immediately following the US Court of Appeals for Fourth Circuit’s refusal to revive the program on Sunday, after a federal district [...]
A Louisiana judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday barring state police from further sweeps of the homeless in New Orleans. The order requires the Louisiana State Police, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development to not destroy or dispose of unhoused people’s property without judicial process. [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday invalidated a Mississippi election law that allowed mail-in and absentee election ballots as long as they were sent on or before Election Day. The ruling overturned the lower court’s decision that upheld the law. The unanimous appeals court ruled that the Mississippi law was [...]
US President Joe Biden on Friday issued an official apology on behalf of the United States at the Gila River Indian Reservation for the historic abuses of the federally-run boarding schools forcefully imposed on Native Americans. Biden remarked on Native Americans’ achievements before the US expanded its rule westward, highlighting their democratic governance, advanced agriculture, [...]
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey launched an investigation into Google on Thursday, alleging that the search engine is censoring conservative speech during the presidential election period. In his statement on X (formerly Twitter), Bailey accused Google of “waging a war on the democratic process.” Bailey plans to subpoena Google to investigate its algorithms and the [...]
US legal think-tank Brennan Center said that there is no connection between progressive prosecutorial policies and increased crime rates, in a report published on Wednesday. The report revealed no correlation between progressive prosecutors and higher crime rates. Moreover, the report suggests that in the brief instances where the data diverges, crime rates under progressive regimes [...]
Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins struck down Ohio’s restrictive abortion ban on Thursday, citing the 2023 voter-approved Reproductive Freedom Amendment that protects the right to abortion under the state constitution. The decision enforces a permanent injunction against the ban, a 2019 law that prohibited abortions once fetal cardiac activity was detected, often as [...]
Former St. Louis circuit attorney Kimberly M. Gardner entered a plea agreement on Wednesday for misusing public funds. The plea agreement stated that Gardner unlawfully took public funds of $5,004.33 to recoup the costs of a disciplinary order. The plea agreement provides Gardner immunity from prosecution for her misconduct if she does not violate any [...]
The city council of Odessa, Texas, voted this week to approve a ban on transgender individuals’ use of bathrooms on city property that do not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Tuesday’s 5-2 vote amends a 1989 ordinance that made it “unlawful for any person to knowingly and intentionally enter any public restroom designated [...]
