The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a group of Tennessee voters regarding Amendment 1 to the state’s constitution, a 2014 ballot measure that eliminated the right to an abortion from the document. The petitioners argued that the vote counting method was fundamentally unfair and skewed the voting in support [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments  Tuesday over whether the state can execute an individual who suffers from dementia and cannot remember the crime. Madison v. Alabama  is before the Supreme Court for a second time. This time, the court seeks to answer the question : “onsistent with the Eighth Amendment … may the State [...]

British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Tueday that after Brexit, visa priority will be given to high-skilled workers while low-skilled workers may be barred from working in the country. The report was originally filed on September 18, but May announced it to the public this morning. It includes salary thresholds for different kinds of labor [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina ruled Sunday that a lawsuit against North Carolina’s new “bathroom bill,” which prohibits local governments from enacting new anti-discrimination laws regarding multiple occupancy restrooms, can move forward. The case was originally brought by a group of transgender individuals challenging the state’s 2016 [...]

The US and Canada signed a new trade deal Monday to replace the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “Late last night, our deadline, we reached a wonderful new Trade Deal with Canada,” tweeted US President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning, “to be added into the deal already reached with Mexico. The new name [...]

UK Prime Minister Theresa May  announced Tuesday that all couples will now have the choice to enter into a civil partnership rather than to get married. May stated that allowing this union for all couples was necessary since some individuals “want to formalize their relationship but don’t necessarily want to get married.” This change stems [...]

The Trump administration on Monday began to implement its new policy  of denying visas to unmarried, same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and employees of the UN. The G-4 Visa  is used for family members of foreigners working in the US on behalf of a foreign government or international agencies. The visa also allows for family [...]

California Governor Jerry Brown  signed a bill  into law on Sunday that will require public corporations to include more women on their boards of directors. State Senators Toni Atkins and Hannah-Beth Jackson  introduced  Senate Bill 826, citing a report that one-fourth of California’s companies have no women sitting on their boards. According to their research, achieving gender parity [...]

The International Court of Justice ruled on Monday that landlocked Bolivia cannot force neighboring, coastal Chile to grant it access to a portion of the Pacific Ocean Chile presently controls. “The Court is unable to conclude, on the basis of the material submitted to it, that Chile has the obligation to negotiate with Bolivia in [...]

The US Supreme Court  heard oral arguments in two cases on Monday, marking the beginning of its 2018 term. At issue in Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service  is whether the Endangered Species Act  forbids an agency to designate private property as an “unoccupied critical habitat” if the land is not essential to species conservation. There is [...]