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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday against a physician for providing gender transition care to 21 minor patients, in violation of a Texas law prohibiting medical interventions related to gender transition. The lawsuit accuses Dr. May Lau of engaging in “deceptive trade practices, including misleading pharmacies, insurance providers, and/or patients by falsifying [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a stay barring constitutional challenges against a controversial Texas law criminalizing “vote-harvesting” until after the November 5 presidential election. The court suspended an injunction from the lower court, allowing the ballot harvesting provision in Senate Bill 1 (SB-1) to remain in effect for the presidential [...]

Federal judges and magistrates in Mexico voted to end their nearly two-month strike on Friday against judicial reforms implemented by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador which made judges elected rather than appointed. Although the National Association of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges (JUFED) announced that judicial proceedings will recommence, the judges and magistrates have [...]

Irish Officials reported Tuesday to Politico that Russia had used its intelligence services to recruit an Irish Politician to act on their behalf in order to exploit tensions in the UK following Brexit. The politician, who remains a sitting member of the Irish parliament, The Oireachtas, was recruited to be a “propaganda mole and emissary” [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Hampshire filed a complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief in the US District Court for the District of New Hampshire on Monday challenging the state’s new voter identification law. The legal action targets legislation requiring proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration and photo identification for casting [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill (SB) 1047 on Sunday, concluding the bill was insufficiently broad in its regulation of large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models, and lacked empirical support. Newsom viewed SB 1047 as premature and overly sweeping, noting that it “applies stringent standards to even the most basic functions” of AI, so long [...]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted Thursday for impermissibly soliciting and accepting donations from foreign agents in exchange for political favors, as well as illegally obtaining public funds through the guise of small donor campaign contributions. The 57-page indictment accuses Adams of accepting benefits from Turkish foreign nationals that included plane tickets, hotels, [...]

Democratic US Senator Ron Wyden on Thursday introduced the Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act, a bill aimed at reforming the United States Supreme Court. The proposed legislation seeks to expand the court from nine to fifteen justices among other reforms.  Beyond adding six new justices to the Court, Senator Wyden’s proposal seeks to implement new [...]

A US federal court on Wednesday partially blocked enforcement of an Alabama law criminalizing absentee ballot assistance. The court sided with a coalition of plaintiffs who argued the law would violate the rights of disabled, blind, and low-literacy voters. The judge enjoined several sections of Senate Bill 1 (SB1). The bills Submission Provision restricted an [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday called on the Texas legislature to impose stricter oversight and deny additional funds to the Texas Military Department (TMD), which oversees Texas’s National Guard (TNG) forces. This follows reports of TNG troops firing pepper-spray projectiles, commonly known as “pepper-ball,” against migrants at the US-Mexico border as part of Operation [...]