The US and Canada signed a new trade deal Monday to replace the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “Late last night, our deadline, we reached a wonderful new Trade Deal with Canada,” tweeted US President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning, “to be added into the deal already reached with Mexico. The new name [...]
The Trump administration on Monday began to implement its new policy of denying visas to unmarried, same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and employees of the UN. The G-4 Visa is used for family members of foreigners working in the US on behalf of a foreign government or international agencies. The visa also allows for family [...]
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law on Sunday that will require public corporations to include more women on their boards of directors. State Senators Toni Atkins and Hannah-Beth Jackson introduced Senate Bill 826, citing a report that one-fourth of California’s companies have no women sitting on their boards. According to their research, achieving gender parity [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Monday, marking the beginning of its 2018 term. At issue in Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service is whether the Endangered Species Act forbids an agency to designate private property as an “unoccupied critical habitat” if the land is not essential to species conservation. There is [...]
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Sunday that would allow past marijuana convictions to be recalled or dismissed if the conviction would no longer violate the law due to the passage of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use Marijuana Act (AUMA). AUMA legalized, among other things, possession of up to 28.5 grams of [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday upheld New York’s Zero Emissions Credit (ZEC) program, which provides subsidies to specific nuclear power plants in New York for being greenhouse gas-emission free sources of energy. In the first two years of the program, the FitzPatrick, Ginna and Nine Mile Point nuclear power [...]
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a net neutrality bill into law Sunday, drawing an immediate lawsuit from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) . The suit alleges that the bill “unlawfully imposes burdens on the Federal Government’s deregulatory approach to the Internet.” US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that “nder the Constitution, states do not regulate [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Friday that Democratic members of Congress may sue President Donald Trump over alleged violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. Under the Foreign Emoluments Clause, federal officials, including the president, are not allowed to accept any foreign “present, Emolument, Office, or [...]
Palestine asserted in an application submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday that the recent relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem constitutes a breach of international diplomatic law. In support of its claim, Palestine directed the ICJ to multiple UN General Assembly and Security Council Resolutions affirming the [...]
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-10 Friday to advance Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh for a full vote on the Senate floor. The vote was along party lines, with the 11 committee Republicans voting in favor of Kavanaugh’s advancement and the 10 committee Democrats voting against his advancement. However, Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said that he would only vote [...]