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 [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday found a Washington county violated the First Amendment when it refused to run an anti-terrorism advertisement on the side of a bus. The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) sued King County Metro for refusing to run an ad featuring photographs of people exclusively of [...]

The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony  from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and US Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh regarding the sexual assault allegations made by Blasey Ford earlier this month. In her opening statement , Blasey Ford said: My motivation in coming forward was to provide the facts about how Mr. Kavanaugh’s actions have [...]

Ed Royce (R-CA) , Chairman of the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, called upon the Trump administration Wednesday to “go further” in its reaction to the Myanmar Rohingya conflict and to condemn crimes against the Rohingya people which “amount to genocide.” Last week UN investigators renewed their call for charges to be [...]

The US Supreme Court granted  certiorari in five cases Thursday. The first of these cases is Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Authority , which “tests the immunity of governmental ‘sue and be sued’ entities” and questions whether the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit used the correct rule in order to protect the Tennessee [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a Louisiana abortion law “requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a hospital located within thirty miles of the clinic where they perform abortions.” The court contrasted the Louisiana law, Unsafe Abortion Protection Act , with the US Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Whole [...]

A judge for the US District Court of the Northern District of California  ruled  Tuesday that homeless groups may pursue a class action lawsuit against the city of Berkeley, California. Plaintiffs, who identify themselves as members of the homeless activist group “First They Came for the Homeless” (FTCftH), filed suit against the city of Berkeley [...]