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The US Court of International Trade ruled against the Trump administration’s sweeping 10 percent global tariff in a 2-1 decision on Thursday. The majority stated that the tariffs are “invalid” and “unauthorized by law,” calling for the administration to halt collecting tariffs from the plaintiffs and refund prior payments. The court’s decision applied to three [...]

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The Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday struck down a voter-approved constitutional amendment authorizing partisan gerrymandering of the state’s congressional districts, ruling 4-3 that the legislature violated procedural requirements when proposing the change. In a majority opinion authored by Justice D. Arthur Kelsey, the court noted that the General Assembly’s October 31, 2025 vote to [...]

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The Trump administration has built a network of third-country transfer agreements with more than 30 governments and used them to remove over 17,400 people, in some cases in defiance of federal court orders and after individuals had won their release through habeas corpus, according to data released Tuesday by Human Rights First and Refugees International. [...]

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled on Monday a new congressional map that would carve out four additional Republican-friendly seats in the state—a move made significantly easier by a Supreme Court ruling just days earlier that gutted the primary legal tool minority voters have used for four decades to challenge discriminatory maps. The GOP-heavy proposal, which [...]

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The Supreme Court on Monday put a brief hold on a federal appeals court ruling that had banned telemedicine prescriptions for the abortion drug mifepristone, giving the justices time to weigh whether to intervene more fully in the case. Justice Samuel Alito, who handles emergency applications from the Fifth Circuit, issued administrative stays in two [...]

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A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from stripping temporary deportation protections for nearly 3,000 Yemeni nationals living and working in the US. Judge Dale Ho of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, handed down his decision in favor of a group of Yemeni nationals who had sued [...]

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Six transgender residents of Idaho have filed a challenge Thursday to their state’s new bathroom law. The suit, filed by attorneys from the ACLU and Lambda Legal, alleges that the law violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. The law, which takes effect on July 1, is the [...]

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A federal appeals court on Friday suspended a Biden-era regulation that allowed the abortion drug mifepristone to be prescribed online and dispensed through the mail. The ruling immediately halts telemedicine abortion pill prescriptions nationwide while litigation continues. The unanimous three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stayed the Food and [...]

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The US Supreme Court sided with a Christian faith-based pregnancy crisis center in New Jersey on Wednesday. The First Choice Women’s Resource Centers was seeking to curb a state investigation into its activities. All Supreme Court justices unanimously reversed a lower court’s decision, ruling in favor of First Choice in a federal lawsuit. First Choice had [...]

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A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a proposed class action accusing the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) of conspiring with law schools to fix application fees and monopolize the admissions process, but gave the plaintiff until May 12 to file an amended complaint. US District Judge John Murphy of the US District Court for the [...]

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