US civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking a preliminary injunction against the “Unlawful Voter Initiative” ahead of midterm elections. The plaintiff organizations, which include the ACLU Voting Rights Project, OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates, and Common Cause, filed the suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The rights [...]

The United States Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the Anne Arundel County Board of Education alleging that the Maryland county’s school district’s policy on gender identity and expression violates federal law. Specifically, the department claims that the school district’s policy perpetuates “secretly gender transitioning” students without parental consent [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied an emergency application to reinstate a 2024 federal regulation that allowed immigration judges to temporarily pause deportation proceedings through a practice known as administrative closure. In a one-sentence unsigned order in City of Baltimore v. Texas with no noted dissents, the Court left in place a June 22 [...]

James Comey, former FBI director, was charged on Monday with leaking national security information, and conspiring to leak such information, while directing the FBI in 2016. Comey was charged with violating the Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. § 793(d), which criminalizes improperly sharing any document that “relat to the national defense, or information relating to the national [...]

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday held that the Trump administration’s firing of federal prosecutor Maurene Comey was unconstitutional and in violation of the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA). Under 5 US Code § 7513 of the CSRA, an agency may take action against an employee “only for [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit questioned the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday over its emergency demand that California election officials set aside the mail ballots of roughly 20,000 people the government suspects are non-citizens. After a nearly two-hour hearing, the panel took the matter under submission [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday that immigrants who enter the US illegally have no right to a bond hearing to challenge their detention. The hearings consider habeas corpus petitions that force the government to produce a prisoner and justify continued confinement. The petitions also give the prisoner the chance [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday while a federal judge in California had not yet ruled on its request to stop the state from counting mail ballots from more than 20,000 registered voters. The DOJ claims these voters are likely noncitizens; California [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday vacated a preliminary injunction aimed at blocking Mississippi’s law barring diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) measures in education, and ordered US District Judge Henry Wingate removed from the case. Writing for a unanimous three-judge panel in Jackson Federation of Teachers v. Fitch, Circuit Judge [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday sued Alaska election officials in the US District Court for the District of Alaska, asking the court to block certification of November’s US Senate election results if incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses and voter confusion involving a similarly named candidate may have affected the outcome. The [...]