A US federal appellate court on Monday held that the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (NJDGE) cannot enforce state sports-betting laws against financial services company and prediction market facilitator Kalshi while litigation is pending. The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a district court ruling that enjoined NJDGE and allowed Kalshi [...]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced Sunday that it will receive third-country deportees from the US as part of a new arrangement between the two nations, signaling ongoing Trump administration efforts to continue its controversial removal practices. DRC’s statement said the nation will begin to accept deportees in April, and the US will [...]

At least eight migrants deported from the US arrived in Uganda on Wednesday. The Ugandan Foreign Ministry only admitted to accepting the deportees on Friday, after widespread media coverage of a statement released by the Ugandan Law Society (ULS). On Thursday, the ULS and the East Africa Law Society released a joint statement announcing that [...]

Responding to a “catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis,” a group of 16 UN experts on Thursday urged the immediate protection of civilians and the facilitation of humanitarian access in South Sudan. The experts warned that “South Sudan stands at a critical juncture” and that “ll parties must immediately cease hostilities and engage in meaningful [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Barbara v. Trump, a case that could potentially redefine the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. The case involves a policy promulgated by an executive order from President Donald Trump. The policy was intended to restrict the citizenship of children who are US-born but [...]

A US appeals court on Wednesday rejected an initiative proposed by the Trump administration that would have cut millions of dollars from permanent housing funds for the homeless and shifted them to transitional programs requiring sobriety checks and mental health treatment. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has not announced whether it will [...]

Idaho’s governor signed a bill into law on Tuesday that prohibits transgender individuals from using bathrooms and changing rooms that align with their gender identity. The bill applies to those who enter such spaces “knowingly and willfully.” First offenses carry a misdemeanor penalty of up to one year in prison. Repeat violations, including those that [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Tuesday condemning the “unlawful use of lethal force outside any context of armed conflict” by the US military over the past months. The statement said that the deadly US strikes on vessels thought to be carrying illegal drugs in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific amount to “extrajudicial [...]

Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.  The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral argument in Trump v. Barbara, testing whether President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship can survive the Constitution’s Citizenship Clause [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors violates the First Amendment when applied to counselors who use only talk therapy, a landmark decision with sweeping implications for how states regulate speech by licensed health care professionals. The court voted 8-1 to reverse a lower court ruling that had [...]