A federal on Wednesday upheld Vermont Secretary of State James Condos’ directive permitting Vermont residents to utilize mail-in-voting for the November Election. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many states have altered the way in which citizens can vote. Vermont’s legislature, in accordance with Acts 91 and 135, authorized the Secretary of State to require [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday upheld the Trump administration’s ability to proceed with implementing three executive orders issued by President Donald Trump on the federal government’s labor and employee relations program. Trump signed Executive Orders 13836, 13837, and 13839 in 2018, which related to federal labor-management relations. They dealt [...]

The Trump administration gave notice on Wednesday that it intends to appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling from the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. In a unanimous decision last week, a three-judge panel blocked the president’s order to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census data to reapportion congressional seats. A [...]

Six months after Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot and killed by police in her home, the city of Louisville, Kentucky, has agreed to pay her family a historic $12 million settlement. Introduced Tuesday, the settlement also contains a promise from the city to adopt police reforms, including mandatory safeguards and an early [...]

A World Trade Organization (WTO) panel ruled Tuesday that tariffs that US President Donald Trump has leveled against more than $200 billion worth of Chinese goods are inconsistent with certain provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994. The trade dispute began in June 2018 when the US placed a 25 percent tariff on $34 [...]

A UN report published Wednesday accused Venezuelan state authorities, including the president, of being complicit in human rights violations and crimes “amounting to crimes against humanity.” The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela found cases of extrajudicial executions, disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture committed by the government or its agents. The [...]

The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld two constitutional amendments from 2018 referenda. During its 2017-2018 session, the North Carolina General Assembly proposed various amendments to the state constitution to be put on the 2018 ballot. Voters passed two of these amendments. One amendment lowered the maximum North Carolina income tax rate from [...]

Human rights organizations signed an open letter Tuesday declaring China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang province a genocide. The letter cited a November 2019 UN report that raised concerns over “increasing practices of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, absence of judicial oversight and procedural safeguards … within an increasingly securitized environment, particularly for designated minorities, [...]

Ireland’s High Court Monday granted Facebook leave to seek judicial review of a preliminary ruling by the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC), temporarily halting its probe into EU-US data flows. The preliminary ruling concerned a standard contractual clause (SCC) used by many countries to transfer European data globally. Facebook took legal action on the grounds [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday ruled that the Trump administration can end aid protections for more than 300,000 immigrants from Haiti, Sudan, Nicaragua and El Salvador. The aid protections, called Temporary Protected Status (TPS), allowed people who would face extreme hardship if forced to return to countries plagued by [...]