Counsel for the US House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday informing the court that President Donald Trump’s lawyers had made arguments during the impeachment trial that directly contradicted those they made in its ongoing case. Last year the committee subpoenaed grand [...]
President Donald Trump’s defense team rested their case in the Senate impeachment trial Tuesday. White House counsel Pat Cipollone said, “The election is only months away. The American people are entitled to choose their president. Overturning past elections and massively interfering with the upcoming one would cause serious and lasting damage to the people of [...]
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced on Monday that Chipotle Mexican Grill had been fined $1.3 million for an estimated 13,253 child labor violations and other state wage and hour violations in Massachusetts. In 2016 a minor employee’s parent complained to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office that the minor had worked well past midnight. This [...]
According to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday, arbitrary detention of homeless children at Rwanda’s Gikondo Transit Center has been characterized by violent beatings, dismal conditions, and other abuse. The report calls on the Rwandan government to close the facility and change its policies of detention for what it calls “deviant [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was formally indicted on charges of corruption on Tuesday, after he withdrew a request for parliamentary immunity from prosecution. The charges were filed while Netanyahu was in Washington meeting with US President Donald Trump ahead of the release of the President’s Israel-Palestine plan. In a Facebook statement, Netanyahu said that [...]
On the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the US House of Representatives voted Monday overwhelmingly in favor of the Never Again Education Act — funding created to support Holocaust education across the country. The measure authorizes $10 million over the next five years to expand the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s [...]
The US Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) on Monday certified CommScope, Federated Wireless, Inc. (Federated), Google and Sony as Spectrum Access System (SAS) Administrators in the 3.55-3.7GHz band. The FCC, Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) reviewed each SAS Administrator’s Initial Commercial Deployment (ICD) report, and certified that all prospective [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that Arizona’s out-of-precinct (OOP) policy and House Bill 2023 violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Fifteenth Amendment. Arizona’s policy is to completely discard OOP ballots, rather than counting or partially counting those ballots. HB 2023 criminalizes the collection of another [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Monday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review the biofuel waivers it granted to three oil refineries. The waivers exempt small oil refineries from complying with an amendment to the Clean Air Act passed by Congress in the early 2000s. The amendments require crude [...]
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers signed an executive order Monday establishing the People’s Maps Commission, a non-partisan redistricting commission. Wisconsin is the fourteenth state to give authority over redistricting to an office outside the state legislature, and the eleventh to give said authority to an independent commission. Wisconsin’s current congressional districts are considered highly partisan and [...]
