The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday appealed a lower federal court order, denying it access to Arizona’s statewide voter registration list (SVRL), in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The list contains sensitive information of voters such as full name, date of birth, residential address, and driver’s license number or [...]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) on Wednesday reclassifying approximately 8,000 senior policy-influencing federal roles into the Schedule Policy / Career category, which effectively enables the “at will” removal of federal workers in these roles. According to the Trump Administration, the present personnel rules present significant hurdles to removing federal employees for “any” [...]

Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has permanently abandoned the $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” created as part of a May 18 settlement between President Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service, even as two federal [...]

A Kenyan court on Tuesday lengthened its suspension on building a US Ebola quarantine center near the Laikipia airbase following protests that left two people dead. After reviewing an emergency petition by the Katiba Institute, Justice Patricia Mande Nyaundi postponed the operation of the planned quarantine facility by another three weeks. The petition raised issues [...]

The US Supreme Court issued an unsigned order Tuesday allowing Alabama to use a congressional map that is expected to benefit Republican candidates during the midterms, effectively eliminating a district currently represented by a Black Democrat. Over the dissent of the three liberal justices, the court released the order despite the fact that Alabama has [...]

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to establish government oversight of emerging artificial intelligence technologies. Section 3 of the order calls for developing and maintaining a “classified benchmarking process to assess the advanced cyber capabilities of AI models.” Specifically, the administration wants to determine which models constitute a “covered frontier model,” a [...]

Plaintiffs on Monday filed an appeal of the decision not to block President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) directed at placing restrictions on voting by mail. The appeal is the latest development in the fight by advocacy organizations to stop the Trump administration from reshaping the mail-in ballot guidelines ahead of the November midterm elections. [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a Notice of Appeal with the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Monday in a case seeking personal information regarding Massachusetts voters. Following the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s refusal to turn over the information, the administration filed a lawsuit. In the complaint, the administration argued that [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Monday that a Trump administration policy banning transgender troops from military service is illegal. In a split decision, the court concluded that the administration may stop transgender recruits from joining, but could not immediately remove transgender troops who are already actively serving. The [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday cleared the way for Texas to enforce Senate Bill 4 (SB 4), staying a district court injunction that had blocked the state immigration enforcement measure from taking effect. The decision allows Texas law enforcement officers to arrest people suspected of entering the country without [...]