Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed an Executive Order on Thursday granting full and unconditional pardons to almost 3000 Coloradans with past convictions for possession of one ounce or less of marijuana. The order highlighted a brief history on the legality of marijuana in the state of Colorado: first, discussing the 2012 ballot measure Amendment 64, [...]

The Jefferson County Circuit Court in Kentucky released the recordings of the Grand Jury proceedings in the Breonna Taylor case on Friday. Lousiville police officers killed Taylor in a raid on her apartment in March. Last week Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced that the Grand Jury had indicted only one of the officers involved [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that the US had received a final injunction against Edward Snowden in a case over proceeds from his book. The case was first filed in 2019, and the DOJ was seeking to receive all proceeds from the publication of the book Permanent Record. The DOJ alleged that [...]

Former US Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys accused Attorney General William Barr of “weaponizing the DOJ in the service of Trump’s personal interests” in an open letter Thursday. The letter expresses concern that Barr intends to manipulate the DOJ’s law enforcement powers to undermine the November election. The letter states that Barr has hinted at [...]

Clark County District Court Judge Linda Bell on Wednesday approved an $800 million settlement from MGM Resorts to the victims of the 2017 Mandalay Bay shooting in Las Vegas. On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a street concert from a room at the Mandalay Bay Resort. Fifty-eight people were killed, and more [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Thursday granted Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s request to restore COVID-19 restrictions on indoor and outdoor gatherings. Four counties in Western Pennsylvania sued Wolf arguing that his executive orders issued to combat the COVID-19 pandemic violated their constitutional rights. More specifically, plaintiffs alleged that Wolf and [...]

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in seven cases on Friday, consolidating several of them for a total of four oral arguments to be heard early next year. The first grant, a consolidation of Barr v. Dai and Barr v. Alcaraz-Enriquez, concerns credibility determinations in asylum hearings. In both cases, applicants for asylum were given [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday vetoed a bill that sought to give low-income households, regardless of immigration status, $600 for emergency food assistance. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, many families throughout the US have been struggling financially. This bill sought to help alleviate that financial burden by using state funding to contract with a [...]

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Kimberly Gardner, the first African American Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, claiming a “racially motivated conspiracy to deny the civil rights of racial minorities.” In her initial complaint, Gardner argued that the city of St. Louis, the local police union, a special prosecutor and [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday to stop the enforcement of a requirement that mail-in absentee ballots be received by noon on Election Day to be considered valid. The case was brought against Connie Lawson, Indiana’s Secretary of State, by Common Cause Indiana [...]