The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Friday blocked Governor Tony Evers’ third emergency order to limit public gatherings and business occupancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The court blocked the order after a lower court declined to grant an injunction. The court reasoned that the emergency order was unenforceable in light of a recent Wisconsin Supreme [...]

Responding to the discussions on Reparations are replete while the appalling reality on the ground is not in doubt, to be of assistance and subject to the wisdom of people who have been working on this far longer than me I put on my Business School hat and put this practical and constitutional proposal together. [...]

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled in two decisions on Friday that Kansas state law will recognize same-sex couples as parents when they have a child together. The court held that under the Kansas Parentage Act (KPA), a woman may establish parental rights by acknowledging maternity at the time of the child’s birth. The cases, In [...]

The Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee, and the Arizona Republican Party filed a lawsuit on Saturday challenging rejected ballots from voters in Maricopa County, where the majority of voters supported the Biden/Harris ticket, according to preliminary results. The Trump campaign alleges that poll workers deviated from protocol by pressing “the so-called ‘green button’ on [...]

The City of San Francisco has passed a charter amendment removing the requirement that a person must be a US citizen in order to serve on any city board, commission, or advisory body. Currently, people who serve on San Francisco’s advisory bodies must be registered to vote and a U.S. citizen. In July, the proposed [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”) filed a lawsuit on Friday against the United States Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) and the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) in connection with poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in immigrant detention centers. The lawsuit relies on the  Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. Section [...]

The US Supreme Court Friday ordered Pennsylvania election boards to segregate mail-in ballots arriving after 8:00 PM on November 3rd. Segregated ballots must be kept “in a secure, safe and sealed container separate from other voted ballots,” and “all such ballots, if counted, be counted separately.” The order provides that election boards must count mail [...]

A three-judge panel of the federal district court for Maryland issued an opinion Friday ruling against the president’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 census count. This was the third federal court opinion against the president, following decisions in New York and California. The issue involves a memorandum President Trump issued over the [...]

With nearly all precincts reporting on Friday, voters in Philadelphia approved two police reform ballot measures by wide margins. The first measure would amend the city’s home rule charter to end the “practice of unconstitutional stop and frisk,” by mandating that police officers may only stop individuals if they have a reasonable suspicion that the [...]

The United States has just completed a historically divisive election. As I write, the winner of the presidential election is not yet definitively known, though it seems highly likely that Democratic candidate Joe Biden will ultimately prevail when all the votes are counted. Whatever the outcome, many millions of people will be deeply distressed at [...]