A group, including a pair of Republican candidates for office, Monday submitted an emergency application for a writ of injunction, asking the Supreme Court to stop the implementation of a new congressional map in Pennsylvania. The application was submitted just a few weeks after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ordered state election officials to implement [...]

A bipartisan group of senators submitted a resolution Tuesday calling on the US Senate to support Ukraine “against any further Russian military aggression.” These calls follow Russia’s deployment of over 100,000 troops to the Ukrainian border in the last few days. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday announced that it had granted review to three additional cases dealing with civil procedure, bankruptcy law, and workers’ compensation. The announcement marked the court’s first regularly scheduled order list in almost a month, as the justices returned from their recess for the winter holidays. The first case, United States v. [...]

Lousiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced Wednesday that he was signing a posthumous pardon for Homer A. Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy was arrested in 1892 for deliberately violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890, which required “separate but equal” train car accommodations for Blacks and whites. His [...]

The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey ordered a company and ints principals to cease distribution of a product touted as a COVID-19 treatment on Tuesday, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), because the product was misbranded and unapproved. The DOJ said that the company Natural Solutions Foundation and its [...]

The former chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department was found guilty by a federal jury Tuesday of lying to authorities about his connections to China and one of its universities, according to a press release from the Department of Justice (DOJ). Charles Leiber was convicted by a jury in the US District [...]

Human Rights Watch called Monday for Japan to cut ties with Myanmar’s military and halt a military study-abroad program, according to a post on the organization’s website. The organization, which conducts research and advocacy for human rights, wrote that Japan should also end a program where cadets from Myanmar receive combat training. Human Rights Watch said [...]

Two weeks after a military coup seized power in Sudan, the United Nation’s Human Rights Council voted Friday to condemn the coup and appoint an expert to monitor abuses in Sudan. The British-introduced resolution called for the restoration of the civilian-led government and the release of “all those who have been arbitrarily detained since the takeover [...]