A three judge panel for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Wednesday rejected 2-1 a constitutional challenge to Pennsylvania’s electoral map. Although there was no unified majority opinion in Agre v. Wolf , two judges found that Plaintiffs failed to bring a cognizable claim under the federal Constitution’s Election Clause [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Wednesday that a 17-year-old immigrant in government custody was blocked by the Trump administration from obtaining an abortion. The unidentified 17-year-old girl, referred to as Jane Moe, is believed to be in her second trimester of pregnancy and made it clear that she wanted an abortion about two [...]

Canada filed a 32-page complaint against the US at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday concerning certain laws, regulations and other measures in relation to US anti-dumping or countervailing duty investigations, reviews or other proceedings. Canada alleges that the challenged laws, regulations and measures are inconsistent with US obligations under the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a 2014 citizen vote to amend the state constitution to remove the right to abortion. The question before the court was not whether such a provision was constitutional, but whether the voting method used to ratify the amendment was consistent with Tennessee’s constitution. [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute , a case challenging Ohio’s voter registration maintenance policy, which permits the government to remove individuals from the voter registration list after several years of absence at the polls. Ohio implemented a law to maintain and update its voter [...]

Myanmar prosecutors said Wednesday that two Reuters journalists have been charged with obtaining state secrets. Journalists Wal Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested on December 12, 2017, while investigating the government’s crackdown on the Rohingya minority group in the nation’s Rakhine region. They were reportedly invited to meet with police officers in a restaurant. [...]

The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice issued an opinion Wednesday urging the court to void the EU’s fisheries agreement with the Kingdom of Morocco. Advocate General Melchior Wathelet grounded his decision in the concepts of self-determination, sovereignty over natural resources and humanitarian rules concerning disputed or occupied territories. The principle concern is [...]

The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted Tuesday to legalize recreational marijuana . After a committee recommendation that the lawmakers kill the bill, the House voted against killing the bill. The House then voted 207-139 to pass an amended version of the bill that would allow adults to cultivate up to six plants at home, [...]

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, filed two defamation lawsuits on Monday regarding BuzzFeed’s publication of the Steele Dossier , a condemning but unsubstantiated report indicating collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian agents. The first suit names BuzzFeed along with four staffers as defendants for the publication of the materials and was filed [...]

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Wednesday issued a unanimous advisory opinion that member states “must recognize and guarantee all the rights that are derived from a family bond between people of the same sex.” The ruling establishes that couples in same-sex marriages have the same family and financial rights as heterosexual couples. Due [...]