In 2017 the Department of the Interior Solicitor’s Office released Opinion M-37050 which challenges the current interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA).  As such, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reevaluating current practices of criminalizing companies that accidentally kill migrating birds during the scope of their business. The opinion states that the [...]

The California Senate voted on Thursday to reject SB50, rejecting an effort to substantially increase available housing. SB50 acknowledged, among other issues, that California’s housing has created a unfilled backlog, an increase in pricing, and “premature and unnecessary development of agricultural lands for urban uses” which has “adverse effects on the availability of those lands [...]

President Trump signed an executive order on Friday directing US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to take several steps designed to curtail the flow of counterfeit goods into the United States. The order acknowledged that “E-commerce… is being exploited by traffickers to introduce contraband into the United States, and by foreign exporters and United States [...]

The United States Senate on Friday voted down a motion to consider witnesses and documents in President Trump’s impeachment trial. The vote fell primarily along party lines. While all Senate Democrats voted in favor of the measure, they were joined by two Republicans. Senators Susan Collins and Mitt Romney defected from their party to vote [...]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced yesterday that President Trump had signed a proclamation adding travel restrictions to six more countries, effectively barring potential immigrants from these six countries from entering the United States. The identified countries are Nigeria, Eritrea, Tanzania, Sudan, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar. In the statement, DHS Acting Secretary Chad Wolf said [...]

The United Kingdom officially left the European Union at 11 p.m. on Friday, severing a 47 year long relationship with the world’s largest trading bloc.  In an address to the nation, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated: The most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end, but a beginning… This [...]

Virginia, Illinois and Nevada—the last three states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)—sued US archivist David Ferriero in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday in a bid to force the addition of the ERA to the US Constitution. The House first passed an equal rights amendment in 1970. The [...]

The Kenya High Court ruled Thursday that a recent bill involving a biometric identification system for citizens can only be enforced under a “proper legislation framework.” The court cited the right to privacy and struck down parts of the bill. The court suspended the DNA collection and GPS information requirements of the bill. The judges stated that [...]

The South Dakota House approved a bill Wednesday that would ban doctors from treating transgender children through the usage of certain gender affirming treatment. Practicing physicians who engage in treatment for young patients, such as puberty blockers, gender confirmation surgery or hormone therapy, could be charged with a misdemeanor if the child were below the [...]

The Allied Pilots Association filed a lawsuit on Thursday, seeking to halt American Airlines US-China service as cabin crews worldwide voiced unease about exposure to coronavirus. This lawsuit was filed the same day that the coronavirus was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). Recent events relating to the outbreak of [...]