Erie County, New York, Clerk Michael Kearns filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday challenging New York’s state law authorizing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. The new state law allows for undocumented immigrants to obtain state driver’s licenses, which are a crucial form of identification necessary for many services like jobs and housing, and [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled unanimously Monday against a prayer policy in Brevard County, Florida, that excluded certain groups from giving an invocation. The plaintiffs were five individuals who identify as atheist or Secular Humanist and three organizations. One of the plaintiffs from the Central Florida Freethought Community (CFFC) sent [...]

The Supreme Court of India on Monday rejected a plea for Muslim women to be allowed entry into mosques in the country. A regional head of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, a far-right political organization, had filed the public interest litigation petition. The petitioner had also sought the abolition of the “purdah system,” or the [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday struck down a final rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requiring drug manufacturers to disclose their prices in TV ads. The final rule was an attempt by the Trump administration to combat rising drug prices. Specifically, drug [...]

An appeals court in Rome sentenced 24 people to life in prison on Monday, including senior officials in Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina’s military dictatorships. The officials were found to have been involved in the US-backed Operation Condor, which took place in the 1970s and 80s. Operation Condor involved tracking down and removing [...]

A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump cannot selectively block followers of his Twitter with whom he disagrees. The ruling affirmed a decision by a judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, who held that the “interactive [...]

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced the formation of the Commission on Unalienable Rights based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Pompeo said the Commission, which is to be composed of human rights experts, activists, philosophers and members of both political parties, will guide him regarding the role of [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Monday that she is shocked by the state of migrant children and adults held in detention centers in the US. Bachelet noted that groups of UN lawmakers have considered the detention of migrant children to constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment that is in violation of [...]

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law Monday that will allow the release of the President’s state tax returns to Congress. The bill would order the New York Tax Department to release New York returns to one of the three major congressional committees, the House Ways and Means Committee, the US Senate [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday convicted Bosco Ntaganda, a notorious Congolese rebel commander known as “The Terminator,” of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. These crimes were committed in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), from 2002-2003. Ntaganda was found guilty of “murder and attempted murder, rape, sexual slavery, [...]