The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Tennessee filed a lawsuit against a Nashville suburb on Wednesday to stop a zoning ordinance that effectively bans surgical abortions within the city limits. Two days after the opening of Carafem, the only abortion clinic within the city limits of Mt. Juliet, the Mt. Juliet Board of Commissioners [...]
The US House Intelligence Committee approved a report on Tuesday summarizing the evidence it has collected in regards to the impeachment inquiry. The vote, which was cast down party lines, will send the report to the House Judiciary Committee. The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report highlights two instances of presidential misconduct: withholding Ukrainian aid in exchange [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) asked a federal judge Tuesday to grant a temporary stay of her order requiring former White House Counsel Don McGahn to testify in the House impeachment probe on Tuesday. The motion for a temporary stay comes one day after Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the US District Court for [...]
Deputy Attorney General Rosen released a statement on Monday stating that the Department of Justice is willing to broaden its review of technology cases beyond Antitrust laws. This statement was released during Rosen’s participation in the American Bar Association’s 2019 Antitrust Fall Forum. The question that Deputy Attorney General Rosen sought to address in his [...]
The California Trucking Association (CTA) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging a new labor law that seeks to give wage and benefit protections to workers in the gig economy, including those who are employed by Lyft and Uber. The new California labor law, AB5 is expected to take effect on January 1, 2020. AB5 will [...]
The US House voted on Thursday to formalize its impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, who is accused of using the influence of his office to persuade Ukraine to harm his political rival, Joe Biden. The vote of 232 in favor and 196 against fell largely along party lines, with only two Democrats, Representative Jeff [...]
Democrats in the US House of Representatives released a resolution Tuesday detailing rules they intend to follow during the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. The resolution provides that House committees can continue their existing investigations into whether there is sufficient evidence to employ the Constitutional powers of impeachment. More specifically, the resolution outlines time [...]
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi distributed a “fact sheet” on Monday, amid the ongoing impeachment inquiry, outlining what her office describes as a gross abuse of power by President Donald Trump. The fact sheet reveals developments from the whistleblower complaint, which stated that Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice [...]