US Legal News

The US Senate on Thursday approved an amendment to repeal two authorizations for the use of military force (AUMFs) in Iraq, a significant push to restore Congressional war-making powers more than 20 years after the 2003 invasion. SA 3337, a bipartisan amendment sponsored by Senators Tim Kaine and Todd Young, was passed as part of [...]

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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday urged Vietnamese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Huynh Ngoc Tuan. Tuan was arrested at his home in Buon Ho town and charged with “propagandizing against the state,” which carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison. CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative Shawn Crispin [...]

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A federal judge in Chicago issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Thursday to prevent the deployment of the National Guard in the city. April Perry, district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, enjoined the defendants (excepting President Trump) from “ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within [...]

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Former FBI director James Comey on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to US Department of Justice charges accusing him of lying during a congressional hearing. The indictment concerns statements that Comey made in 2020. Comey told Congress in 2017 that he did not authorize leaks related to various investigations of the first Trump administration and other [...]

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Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a open letter on Wednesday, joined more than 3,700 non-profit and non-partisan organizations to reject threats to nonprofit organizations introduced by US President Donald Trump’s recent domestic terrorism memorandum. The letter comes shortly after the coalition issued a press statement on October 1 calling the action an attempt to intimidate [...]

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California became the first state in the US Wednesday to define and ban ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) from meals served to schoolchildren. The law, AB 1264, follows an executive order signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom earlier this year to crack down on UPFs. Under the new legislation, California will phase out the most concerning UPFs [...]

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Nonprofit organization Democracy Forward sued the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI on Monday after the agency failed to release key video recordings in an alleged bribery scheme case involving former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tom Homan. Homan, currently Trump’s White House “Border Czar,” became the subject of a federal bribery investigation [...]

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A coalition of labor unions, nonprofit organizations and solar companies filed suit Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), challenging the agency’s termination of the $7 billion Solar for All program. The suit claims that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin exceeded statutory authority when he withdrew program funding in August. Plaintiffs argued that Congress only permitted [...]

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The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed suit against the Trump administration on Monday seeking to enjoin the deployment of National Guard troops. “These advances in President Trump’s long-declared ‘War’ on Chicago and Illinois are unlawful and dangerous,” the complaint asserts. The suit comes after Secretary of Defense (“Secretary of War”) Pete [...]

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