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The US House Homeland Security Committee held its first impeachment hearing on Wednesday into Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The hearing was initiated by House Republicans who accused Mayorkas of failing to follow immigration law and of violating the public trust as border crossings have reached record levels. Chairman Mark Greene (R-TN) of the Homeland [...]

In September 2023, the US Department of Labor (DOL) launched investigations into possible child labor violations by meat and chicken processors Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods. The investigation, which is to determine whether migrant children are working inside slaughterhouses owned by the poultry-processing giants, follows a New York Times magazine report of minors working at the facilities [...]

It is Thanksgiving Day. The aroma of turkey; of dressing; candied sweet potatoes; green bean casserole; cranberry sauce; freshly baked yeast rolls; giblet gravy, and of pies emanating from the kitchen fills our nostrils. Home is the place to be today. But have you ever given thought to the law of the gobbler? This Day in [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Biden administration can temporarily continue to communicate with social media companies about moderation policies, lifting a lower court ruling blocking communication between social media companies and a limited number of Executive Branch officials. The order from the court’s majority both temporarily removes the lower court stay and [...]

The US Supreme Court declined on Friday to block a district court ruling that a Missouri law that attempts to invalidate federal firearm law within the state is unconstitutional. Missouri applied to Justice Brett Kavanaugh to stay the lower court ruling. Justice Clarence Thomas noted in the order that he would have granted the application to [...]

Michelangelo Landgrave is an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri’s Harry S. Truman School of Government and Public Affairs, where he focuses on state and local politics, legislative studies, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and immigration. JURIST Assistant Editor Pitasanna Shanmugathas spoke to Professor Landgrave about his thoughts on the creation of a [...]

In its euthanasia guidelines, the American Veterinary Medical Association advises against the use of nitrogen gas to kill rats. And yet Alabama is pushing ahead with plans to experiment with using the gas to execute its condemned. Even defendants convicted of the cruelest of murders cannot, except for cynically and spitefully, be said to be [...]

The US Supreme Court temporarily stayed on Thursday a lower court ruling which would have restricted the Biden administration’s ability to encourage social media platforms to remove content it considers misleading. The decision temporarily halts a July preliminary injunction imposed upon the Biden administration by a federal court in Louisiana. In the Biden administration’s application [...]

The great end of government and laws is human happiness; the rulers ought, therefore, to understand and know on what it consists; and the means of producing it. — Hon. Jesse Root, “On the Principles and End of Government” The summer of 1776 was quite productive in the annals of American intellectual and legal thought. [...]

The US Supreme Court decided Friday that it would take up Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, a case determining whether an employee can sue under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act for discrimination based on bias-motivated transfers in the workplace. In Friday’s order, the court stated, “The petition for a writ of [...]