The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld Kentucky’s campaign finance restrictions in a unanimous opinion on Thursday. The complaint was originally brought by John Schickel, the incumbent state senator for the 11th Senatorial District in Kentucky, and David Watson, an unsuccessful candidate for the 6th House District in 2016. The plaintiffs challenged [...]
The Calcutta High Court in the Indian state of West Bengal on Thursday granted protection from arrest and any coercive action until July 10 to a senior police officer. The court’s decision came after India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) served a notice on Rajeev Kumar, former Commissioner of Kolkata Police, over an alleged “suppression [...]
Four African-American residents of Mississippi filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday seeking to block Mississippi’s process for electing statewide officials due to its discriminatory origins and impact. The plaintiffs challenge a Jim-Crow-era restriction unique to Mississippi: any candidate for statewide office must win not only a majority of the popular vote but a [...]
A group of plaintiffs who have been challenging the citizenship question on the 2020 census filed a motion for an order to show cause Thursday based on newly discovered evidence. According to evidence recovered off the hard drive of Dr. Thomas Hofeller, the plaintiffs allege that the citizenship question was created with a discriminatory purpose [...]
The US Supreme Court denied a stay of execution for Alabama inmate Christopher Lee Price on Thursday. Price was convicted and sentenced to death after he murdered a pastor in 1991. The Supreme Court had first denied the stay in April over the objections of the court’s more liberal wing. Price argued that the state’s use [...]
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak on Wednesday signed two bills, restoring felon voting rights and sealing records related to decriminalized offenses. Assembly Bill 431 grants convicted felons the right to vote immediately after release from prison or discharge from parole or probation. Felons will not have to undergo a waiting period or further conditions to restore [...]
US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) announced Wednesday that it had apprehended 1,036 individuals immediately after they illegally crossed the Rio Grande river into El Paso, Texas. CBP described the group as the largest ever to be encountered by border patrol agents. The members of the group—all from Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador—included 934 family [...]
US President Donald Trump announced intentions late Thursday to issue a 5 percent tariff on all goods entering the US from Mexico. The president’s tariff is being issued in response to his perception that migrants from Latin America are continuously crossing the border into the US. Immigration has been a major issue for Trump since [...]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a bill enabling people with certain diseases to legally adopt children who are living with them. Before this bill was signed, a 2013 list of diseases created by the Russian government was used to enforce a ban on all adoption proceedings by disease-positive individuals. This ban prevented individuals [...]
Maine Governor Janet Mills on Wednesday signed a bill prohibiting licensed professionals from administering conversion therapy to minors, becoming the seventeenth state in the US to ban the practice. The bill forbids “advertising, offering and administering of therapy designed to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, also known as conversion therapy, to individuals [...]
