The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday that there is no standalone “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment that would allow police to conduct a warrantless search and seizure of a person’s home as part of a welfare check. This case, Caniglia v. Strom, involved a welfare check, which led to police searching and [...]
The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Association, a case that presents the issue of “hether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.” The case, which concerns Mississippi’s ban on non-emergency abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, will allow the Supreme Court to reconsider its rulings in Roe [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a $25 million judgment and jury verdict Friday finding that a California man, Edwin Hardeman, developed cancer from exposure to agribusiness Monsanto’s weed-killer, Bayer’s Roundup. Hardeman alleged that he developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a result of the use of Roundup over decades. In 2019, the [...]
The US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control Wednesday removed Jesús “El Rey” Zambada, who had testified against Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, from its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List. Sanctions had been placed on Zambada for his involvement in the drug cartel. A department official stated that [...]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Thursday that it would repeal a Trump-era rule that controlled how the EPA could conduct benefit-cost analyses (BCAs) before enacting rules related to the Clean Air Act, which allows the EPA to monitor and control air emissions that can harm public health. Under administrator Andrew Wheeler, a [...]
The US Department of Justice announced the arrest of Marine Corps major Christopher Warnagiris on Thursday for crimes related to his involvement in the January 6 siege on the US Capitol. Warnagiris is the first active-duty military member that has been arrested for crimes perpetrated during that attack. An FBI Special Agent filed the criminal complaint [...]
US President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday in the wake of a ransomware attack on a major US pipeline “to improve the nation’s cybersecurity and protect federal government networks.” The executive order seeks to improve the security of software by “establishing baseline security standards for development of software sold to the government,” including [...]
The Minnesota judge who oversaw Derek Chauvin’s murder trial issued a ruling on Wednesday that could significantly increase the amount of time Chauvin spends in prison. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was found guilty last month of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in May 2020. In [...]
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed a bill into law on Tuesday that would remove individuals from a list of voters who automatically receive mail-in ballots if they fail to vote in the primary and general elections for two consecutive election cycles. Arizona voters can opt-in to automatically receive mail-in ballots for every election. The list [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit found Tuesday that a racist slur used by a former military officer was protected speech under the First Amendment. In November 2018, former military officer Jules Bartow was shopping at the Quantico Marine Corps Exchange when he used a racist slur that generally seemed aimed at [...]
