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A grand jury declined to return an indictment Thursday against Brittany Watts, an Ohio woman facing an abuse of corpse charge after suffering a miscarriage in her home. The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office stated that, after evaluating the case, they believed Watts did not violate the Ohio Criminal Statute of Abuse of a Corpse. The grand [...]

On Jan. 25, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) plans to execute Kenneth Smith by forcing him to breathe pure nitrogen gas, an untested execution method with profound legal and ethical consequences. Death penalty abolitionists worldwide have railed against this form of capital punishment, but these efforts have thus far failed to alter the state’s [...]

Our Supreme Court is now and has always been a political and ideological institution. But the Court fares the worst when it engages in naked partisan politics strongly favoring one side. Congress should take this political question out of the hands of the justices and remove Trump’s disqualification from state ballots pursuant to the last [...]

Former US president Donald Trump filed to dismiss state-level criminal charges by asserting immunity claims in an election interference case on Monday. In seeking to have the Georgia judge dismiss the case, Trump asserts that his indictment is unconstitutional because he was acting in his official presidential capacity, which exempts him from being prosecuted. In [...]

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin ruled 4-3 that the state legislature’s assembly district maps are unconstitutional under the Wisconsin Constitution on Wednesday and ordered new remedial maps to be drawn for the 2024 elections. Justice Jill J. Karofsky authored the majority opinion of the court. Karofsky noted that Article IV Sections 4 and 5 of [...]

Former US President Donald Trump asked a Georgia court on Monday to dismiss the 13 criminal charges against him in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s 2020 presidential election interference case. Trump claimed that, because all of the charges stem from political speech or advocacy, the US Constitution’s First Amendment shields him from criminal responsibility. [...]

Two prominent voting rights advocacy groups sued Republican state leadership in North Carolina on Tuesday over the state’s redistricting plans. The groups argue that the plans will disenfranchise Black voters and make Democratic majorities impossible in the state. Under the new map, which split several Democratic districts and attached the pieces to red-leaning rural areas, [...]

The Georgia Republican Legislature Leadership announced the newest version of the proposed Georgia Congressional Redistricting Map Friday, a month after a federal judge ruled the previous version of the map violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and discriminated against Black Georgia voters. The new map would completely change the geographical and racial makeup [...]

Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment disqualifies people from holding an office under the United States if they previously swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and then participated in an insurrection or rebellion. The last sentence of Section 3, however, says that “Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such [...]

The Georgia state Supreme Court denied review Wednesday of proposed rules to discipline state prosecutors in a blow to a state legislature effort to oversee the actions of district attorneys. The proposed rules would have allowed the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Qualifications Commission to “discipline, remove, and cause involuntary retirement of appointed or elected district attorneys or [...]