President-elect Donald Trump applied for a stay of criminal proceedings to the US Supreme Court on Tuesday for his hush-money case pending his interlocutory appeal for presidential immunity. The application provides several grounds to support why a stay of proceedings should be granted. One of the grounds the application argues is there is a reasonable [...]
US President Joe Biden issued two memoranda on Monday to prohibit new offshore drilling within three ocean and coastal regions, compromising over 625 million acres. One of the memoranda includes the withdrawal of the entire eastern US Atlantic coast and the eastern Gulf of Mexico as well as the Pacific Coast along California, Oregon and [...]
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Wednesday signed a bill into law that restricts transgender students from using bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity. Senate Bill (SB) 104 requires public school buildings and facilities to “designate each student restroom, locker room, changing room, or shower room” to be for “the exclusive use by students of [...]
The Los Angeles City Council voted to pass an ordinance Tuesday that bans the city’s resources from being used for federal immigration enforcement or by federal immigration agents. Council members unanimously voted to pass the ordinance. LA Mayor Karen Bass and City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto drafted the “sanctuary city” ordinance in early November after [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Alaska residents’ challenge of a ballot measure that requires public disclosure of political donations. The plaintiffs argue that the requirement violates their constitutional right to free speech. The plaintiffs initially requested a preliminary injunction to prevent the provisions of Ballot Measure 2 from taking effect. These [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed and remanded a lower court ruling on Tuesday that allowed the organizations VoteAmerica and the Voter Participation Center (VPC) to send out mail-in ballot applications to Kansas voters with pre-filled information. VoteAmerica and the VPC, the plaintiffs, initially brought the case against Kansas Secretary of [...]
The US Supreme Court issued an order on Wednesday permitting the state of Virginia to continue to remove voters from its election rolls with just five days until the federal election. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed the lawsuit against Virginia in early October, alleging that since the state has been removing voters so [...]
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner filed a civil lawsuit against Elon Musk and his America PAC on Monday. The lawsuit alleges that the PAC’s petition, with an offer to pay some Pennsylvania registered voters who sign $1 million, amounts to an illegal lottery. In the complaint, Krasner argues that this petition violates the State Lottery [...]
The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously declined to hear an expedited appeal and emergency supersedeas filed by the intervenors, including the Republican National Committee (RNC), following last week’s lower court order declaring new state election rules void. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox issued the order, declaring the new Georgia State Election Board [...]
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 [...]
