US Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta announced his resignation Friday amid renewed criticism concerning his handling of a sex crimes case against Wall Street billionaire Jeffrey Epstein during Acosta’s tenure as US Attorney in Miami. Though Acosta’s involvement in the Epstein case was a matter of controversy during his March 2017 confirmation hearing, the issue gained [...]

US President Donald Trump announced Thursday he would drop efforts to include a citizenship question on the official 2020 census but issued an executive order to obtain data specific to citizenship and non-citizenship status for those living in the US by alternative means. The US Supreme Court ruled in June that while the government is [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday denied emergency motions against its previous decision refusing to block the Title X “gag rule.” Title X funded clinics generally serve low-income men and women, offering contraception and a wide variety of related reproductive health services. Under the Trump administration’s rule, facilities receiving Title [...]

In a report published on Thursday, Amnesty International called on South Korea to abolish a law criminalizing consensual gay sex in the military. The report focuses on the “discrimination, intimidation, violence, isolation and impunity” that soldiers experience as a result of Article 92-6 of the Military Criminal Act, which punishes sexual activity between men in [...]

Judge Victoria Roberts of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled Wednesday that a lawsuit by the Arab American Civil Rights League against Proclamation No. 9645, the Trump Administration’s third iteration of of the so-called travel ban that restricts travel from seven countries, can move forward. The Proclamation states that, after [...]

France’s National Assembly on Thursday approved a digital tax bill known as the GAFA Tax, an acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, that will charge the companies a 3 percent tax on digital revenue earned in France. The tax has been defended as a targeted approach, only applying to businesses with “global digital revenues [...]

The First District Court of Appeal for Florida ruled Tuesday that the state’s approach to regulating marijuana is unconstitutional. The plaintiff, Florigrown, was seeking registration as a Medical Marijuana Treatment Center (MMTC) under Art. X, § 29, of the Florida Constitution. Their application was denied as a result of a bill that amended section 381.986 [...]

A UN report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) warned Tuesday that the impacts of climate change and inequality across countries are increasing global hunger and undermining goals to end extreme poverty by 2030. The report identified notable gaps toward achieving 17 SDGs, some of which address poverty, clean water and sanitation, economic growth, and [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday reversed and remanded a district court’s decision that had previously instructed discovery for potential Emoluments Clause violations. The attorneys general for Washington, DC, and Maryland had filed a lawsuit to investigate foreign and domestic violations of the Emoluments Clauses related to President Donald Trump’s [...]

Judge Jesse Furman of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday denied the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) notice of motion to withdraw as counsel on a case concerning the census citizenship question. The court analyzed two factors in determining whether to grant the motion: the reasons given for withdrawal [...]