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Voters in Arizona, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon and South Dakota passed statewide ballot measures favoring marijuana legalization Tuesday. Arizona voters passed Arizona Proposition 207, which legalizes the recreational use of marijuana for adults 21 and over. Under this new legislation, adults will be able to purchase no more than one ounce of marijuana at [...]

A US federal district court judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction to plaintiffs alleging that federal officers violated protestors’ free speech rights in summer protests in Portland, Oregon. The lawsuit was originally filed in July by two Oregon state lawmakers, Janelle Bynum and Karin Power, legal observer Sara Eddie, as well as the First [...]

The US Department of the Interior rolled back federal protections for gray wolves on Thursday despite protests from environmentalists. According to the announcement: The gray wolf is the latest in a strong list of recoveries that includes the bald eagle, peregrine falcon, American alligator, brown pelican and 48 other species of animals and plants in [...]

The cities of Seattle, New York and Portland, Oregon, filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump Thursday, challenging his efforts to withhold federal funding from those cities for having permitted “anarchy, violence and destruction” as alleged in a Presidential Memorandum issued in early September following a wave of protests and civic disturbances largely animated by [...]

Several environmental nonprofit organizations brought a lawsuit against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Wednesday, alleging the agency broke environmental laws by suppressing protests in Portland, Oregon with tear gas and other chemical munitions without first measuring the chemicals’ impacts on human health and the environment. The Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides, along [...]

The attorneys general for eleven US states and the District of Columbia submitted a comment letter to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Monday, demanding that the agency regulate airplane exhaust pollution more strictly than the Trump administration proposed. During the Obama administration, the EPA first proposed regulating emissions of greenhouse gasses from airplanes in [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in cases concerning copyright and personal jurisdiction issues. Google v. Oracle, involves a $9 billion copyright suit. The suit originated several years ago when Google created the mobile software Android using part of Oracle’s programming language. While Google argued that allowing the company to copy the language [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Thursday that more than 300 have been arrested and are facing federal charges in connection with the racial justice protests that have sprung up across the US since May. The protests began in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, who was killed by police in Minnesota. [...]

US Attorney General William Barr labeled New York City, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, “anarchy” jurisdictions in a press release on Monday. The move will give the federal government the ability to deny federal funding to those jurisdictions. In the press release, Barr cited increases in violence correlated with the protests for racial justice that began [...]

A coalition of seven American cities submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request Wednesday to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) for records pertaining to Executive Order 13933 and the deployment of federal agents to US cities. Executive Order 13933 permits the attorney general and the secretary of Homeland Security [...]