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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney temporarily suspended a state rule on Tuesday requiring paper ballots to be hand-counted in Georgia in the upcoming US election. The decision came in an expedited bench trial following the parties’ emergency motions. The respondent in the case, the Georgia State Election Board (SEB), approved the hand-count rule [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday rejected the Nevada Green Party’s request to reinstate its presidential candidate, Jill Stein, on Nevada’s 2024 general election ballot. This decision leaves in place a ruling by the Nevada Supreme Court that bars Stein and the Green Party from appearing on the ballot. The controversy began when the Nevada [...]

The Nevada Secretary of State’s Office confirmed on Friday that a proposed constitutional amendment to change identification procedures for in-person voting and mail ballots has qualified for the November ballot in Nevada. The amendment includes provisions that would require voters submitting mail ballots to provide the last four digits of their driver’s license or Social [...]

Venezuela’s 8rd National Prosecutor ordered the investigation of claims by Colombian paramilitaries that they were approached to destabilize the government of President Nicolás Maduro, Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced Friday. According to Maduro, the alleged plan was aimed at creating the impression of a “civil war” in Venezuela on July 28, the day of the [...]

The United States government, and dozens of states, sued Live Nation Entertainment, a multinational entertainment company, in an antitrust suit Thursday, alleging they monopolized the live entertainment space, harming artists, venues, and concertgoers. The US Government alleges that Live Nation violated § 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, an 1890 US antitrust law that [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal of a decision that struck down an ATF final rule aimed at limiting ghost guns. Ghost guns are weapons parts kits that can be put together to create a firearm without having to register it. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit previously [...]

The Nevada Supreme Court upheld a 2021 state ban on ghost guns Thursday, overturning a lower-court decision that declared the law unconstitutional for being vague. Ghost guns are guns without serial numbers and are usually assembled by the user. Justice Lidia S. Stiglich authored the opinion of the court. Stiglich ruled that the law’s definition [...]

Alabama’s experimental use of gas to torture to death Kenneth Smith on January 25th — like all executions by lethal injection — has perpetuated a horrific Nazi legacy in the United States and is a traumatizing affront to many in the Jewish community. The fact that this torment was blindly carried out just ahead of [...]

A federal judge blocked a California law on Wednesday which would have required background checks for individuals seeking to buy ammunition. The judge found that the California law, known as Proposition 63, violated the US Constitution’s Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. In 2016, California voters passed Proposition 63, which established background check [...]

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced Wednesday that six individuals have been indicted by a Nevada grand jury for falsely representing themselves as electors in the 2020 election. The six individuals, all members of the Republican party, were charged after falsely portraying themselves as electors for the state of Nevada and producing false voting records [...]