The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected a claim Monday that local government institutions enjoy sovereign immunity. The appeals court held that the Tarrant County Local Workforce Development Board (WDB) failed to provide sufficient evidence to support its claim that for all intents and purposes in this situation, it was the state [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) asked a federal judge Tuesday to grant a temporary stay of her order requiring former White House Counsel Don McGahn to testify in the House impeachment probe on Tuesday. The motion for a temporary stay comes one day after Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the US District Court for [...]
The UN Environment Program has released its tenth annual report on emissions gaps, having found that the current rate of global carbon emissions will lead to an average temperature rise of 3.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels by 2100. The report was completed by international scientists and specialists that assess where countries are in terms [...]
Student Debt Crisis, a nonprofit organization, initiated a lawsuit against US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Kathy Kraninger, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Monday. The complaint states that DeVos and Kraninger manipulated federal policy requiring the supervision of loan services by the federal government. The CFPB also claimed to only [...]
US President Donald Trump signed into law on Monday the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT Act), making animal cruelty a federal crime. The PACT Act forbids intentional acts of “animal crushing,” which includes conduct where non-human mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians are “purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or otherwise subjected to serious [...]
The US Supreme Court Monday remanded a case challenging the constitutionality of Alaska’s $500 limit on campaign contributions from individuals to either a candidate or a group other than a political party. This case arose in 2015 when two Alaska residents, Aaron Downing and Jim Crawford, contributed the maximum amounts permitted under Alaska law to [...]
A federal judge ruled Monday that former White House counsel Donald McGahn must testify before the House of Representatives impeachment probe. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the US District Court for the District of Columbia concluded that “Presidents are not kings” and “individuals who have been subpoenaed for testimony by an authorized committee of Congress [...]
The US Supreme Court granted President Trump a stay on Monday, temporarily blocking an order by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit that required the president’s tax returns to be turned over to the US House Committee on Oversight and Reform. This newest order follows a string of legal actions the Trump [...]
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted the government’s petition to hear a dispute over whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) allows lawsuits for money damages against individual federal employees who placed individuals on the “no fly list.” This case arose when several Muslin men—Muhammad Tanvir, Jameel Algibah and Naveed Shinwari—alleged that in retaliation [...]
US President Donald Trump on Thursday reversed the decision of the US Navy to remove Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher from the Navy SEALs. Trump announced the decision via Twitter: The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher’s Trident Pin. This case was handled very badly from the beginning. Get [...]
