A US federal judge in Oregon issued a temporary restraining order on Tuesday that limits when federal officers can use tear gas and other less-lethal force against protesters who assembled near a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon. The lawsuit was filed by protesters and freelance journalists represented by the American Civil [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned both the January attack by the US military on Venezuela and the abuses long committed by the ousted Maduro government. On January 3, the Trump administration announced that it had conducted a raid on Venezuela, resulting in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.  US President [...]

A US federal judge delivered an order on Monday allowing the Sunrise Wind project to continue operations off the coast of New York state’s Long Island. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction requested by Denmark-owned company Orsted in response to President Donald Trump’s [...]

Thirteen plaintiffs, including an immigration nonprofit, a legal clinic, and US citizens, filed a lawsuit against the Department of State (DOS) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday, seeking to overturn a visa ban recently instituted by President Donald Trump’s administration. The new policy aims to prevent immigration “for nationalities at high risk of [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled last Wednesday that Montgomery County, Maryland, may require teachers to use students’ preferred pronouns and prohibit teachers from sharing information about gender identity with parents. The 2-1 opinion, written by Judge Robert Bruce King, held that the school board’s policy requiring teachers to use preferred [...]

A US federal judge in Minnesota on Saturday refused to halt the Trump administration’s massive immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities, denying a request by the state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul for preliminary injunctive relief.​​ District Judge Katherine Menendez held that plaintiffs had not shown a sufficient likelihood [...]

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration for a second time from enforcing a policy requiring members of Congress to give seven days’ notice before visiting immigration detention facilities, finding the government’s revised restriction still likely violates federal law. US District Judge Jia M. Cobb granted a temporary restraining order sought by 14 [...]

On Saturday, United States District Judge Fred Biery ruled that five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father must be released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Judge Biery in his ruling wrote: Before the Court is the petition of asylum seeker Adrian Conejo Arias and his five-year-old son for protection of the Great Writ [...]

Don Lemon, a well-known independent journalist, was arrested with eight other people on Thursday after being indicted by a federal grand jury.  The charges relate to his involvement in coverage of a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a church in St. Paul the previous day. Protesters said that they targeted the church [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) charged a man on Thursday with “forcibly assaulting and interfering with” Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar at a town hall in North Minneapolis. The defendant, Anthony James Kazmierczak, appeared in front of a US District Court in the District of Minnesota following a complaint filed by US Attorney Daniel N. [...]