The US Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday released a draft of a new regulation that would make it more difficult for migrants to claim asylum in the US. The departments propose to amend the current regulations that govern credible fear determinations so that any individual that has a credible fear [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that the US Postal Service (USPS) 2018 rule that disallowed political content on custom stamps is unconstitutional. Since 2005, USPS has offered customers the opportunity to create their own customized stamps. In 2015 USPS established content requirements that were established and maintained [...]
Nearly 1,300 former US Department of Justice (DOJ) called Wednesday for an internal investigation into Attorney General William Barr’s role in the violent clearing of peaceful protesters outside the White House last week. This DOJ Alumni letter was written in response to Barr ordering law enforcement to clear protesters out of Lafayette Square with [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit dismissed on Tuesday a lawsuit filed by a member of the Satanic Temple against a Missouri abortion law. Judy Doe, a member of the Satanic Temple, alleged that the informed-consent requirement violates her Satanist beliefs, as well as the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the [...]
Retired federal judge John Gleeson on Wednesday published an 82-page memo accusing the US Department of Justice (DOJ) of a “gross abuse of prosecutorial power,” and urging the court to reject the attempt to drop the criminal case against Michael Flynn. Gleeson also accused the attorney general of giving special treatment to a presidential ally [...]
Iranian Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili announced Tuesday that Iran will soon execute the citizen informant who allegedly gave the US and Israeli forces information on General Qassem Soleimani, possibly leading to the airstrike in January that killed the General. Esmaili stated: “Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd, one of the spies for and Mossad, has been sentenced to death. [...]
Amid days of protests across the country in response to the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Tony McDade by police, the Washington, DC, council approved emergency reforms to policing Tuesday. The reforms were approved on only a temporary basis, and the council wrote that some of the goals of these reforms were to [...]
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday proposed a record $225 million fine against a Houston, Texas-based health insurance telemarketing company for apparently making approximately 1 billion illegally spoofed robocalls. The record-breaking fine represents the largest fine in the FCC’s 86-year history and reflects “the seriousness of the apparent violations by John C. Spiller [...]
A US grand jury indicted Dr. Charles Liber on Tuesday for making false statements to federal authorities about his participation in China’s Thousand Talents Program. The charging documents claim that Lieber had a relationship with Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) while chairing Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department. Lieber also headed the Lieber Research Group [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday alleging that the city of Seattle violated the constitutional rights of protesters throughout the city by allowing Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers to “deploy unnecessary violence against peaceful demonstrators who speaking out against discriminatory police brutality.” The protests follow the May 25 murder of [...]
