The Utah Supreme Court unanimously decided Thursday that Utah citizens have a constitutional right to reform their government in response to past redistricting efforts to divide Salt Lake City into four congressional districts, resulting in Republicans winning by a large margin. The Utah League of Women Voters alleged that the Republicans in the state legislature have [...]

The US Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a case challenging a Texas law that requires age verification and imposes health warnings for pornography websites. Texas Bill 1181, which was passed in September 2023, requires age verification measures to be used by websites that host sexually explicit material if it comprises at least one-third of [...]

The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the creation of a publicly-funded religious charter school, St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Charter School violates the First Amendment and Oklahoma State Constitution. The court said the St. Isidore contract violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which says the government “shall make no [...]

The US Supreme Court held Thursday in Gonzalez v. Trevino that the existence of probable cause does not necessarily defeat retaliatory arrest claims. The case concerns a Texas councilwoman who argues that she was arrested in retaliation for her speech critical of a city government official. Retaliation-arrest claims generally must prove the absence of probable [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) found Tuesday that the state of Alaska violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide accessible voting facilities in the 2020 and 2022 elections. Voters across Alaska reported that the accessible voting machines were inoperable on Election Day during the 2020 and 2022 [...]

The US Supreme Court sided with Starbucks on Thursday by determining that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) needed to follow a four-part test to establish unfair labor practices and for the rehiring of unionized employees. A group of six Starbucks employees unionized their Memphis store in 2022 and conducted interviews with local news, citing [...]

The US House of Representatives passed a resolution by a vote of 216-207 on Wednesday in finding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the Committee on the Judiciary’s subpoena for the audio recordings of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Biden.  While Garland previously told the Judiciary [...]

The US Supreme Court decided Thursday that when Native Americans administer healthcare through their own programs, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Indian Health Service must pay for costs associated with the operation of the healthcare program. The case was brought by the San Carlos Apache Tribe and Northern Arapaho Tribe, both of which [...]

The US House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) if it issues an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. H.R. 8282, or the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, will impose sanctions for “any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United [...]

US Supreme Court Justice John Roberts declined senators’ request on Thursday to discuss Justice Alito’s Appeal to Heaven and the upside-down American flag controversy, which raised questions about the US Supreme Court’s ethics and impartiality. Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (Democrat, Illinois) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat, Rhode Island) wrote Roberts a letter a week [...]