Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was granted bail Wednesday on charges related to fraud and national security. Hong Kong authorities arrested Lai in August. He was charged with fraud for violating the lease terms of his company Next Digital’s office. Additionally, he was charged with colluding with foreign forces and endangering national security. He [...]
President Trump issued an executive order Monday to make federal buildings more “beautiful.” The executive order promotes neoclassical architecture and criticizes the modernist style for federal buildings. Throughout the order, the President admonished the General Services Administration for its policy of encouraging contemporary architectural designs throughout the last several decades: For approximately a century and [...]
Reuters released a comprehensive report Wednesday on women’s deaths in jails across the US. The report collected data from more than 500 jails from 2008 through 2019 and documented 914 female inmate deaths. The report cited suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, deficient medical care for inmates detoxing from opioids, and inadequate medical standards for treating pregnant [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the state’s COVID-19 mask mandate. The court found that the complaint was a “shotgun complaint.” It criticized the complaint for supplying “irrelevant factual allegations and legal conclusions,” having “arguments that stray from the statutory and constitutional underpinning [...]
The US Supreme Court refused Monday to review an appeal seeking to reinstate Kansas’ voter identification law. The case, Schwab v. Fish, was appealed from the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The appeal by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt sought to authorize the state’s requirements of proof of citizenship for voter registration, photo identification for [...]
The US Supreme Court refused to hear a case Monday that sought to reverse a lower court ruling allowing same-sex couples to be listed as birth parents on a child’s birth certificate. The case, Box v. Hendersen, was appealed from the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The Seventh Circuit had ruled that [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in United States v. Briggs that the rape convictions of three military members were timely under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Justice Samuel Alito authored the opinion. He noted that a plain reading of the UCMJ would suggest that the former service members’ convictions were untimely. However, he [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 8-0 Thursday in Tanzin v. Tanvir Thursday that federal officials can be personally sued for violating a person’s First Amendment right to religious freedom under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The case concerned two Muslim respondents whom federal agents placed on the no-fly list after the men refused to [...]
Two United States District Court judges blocked Trump campaign election challenges in Georgia and Michigan Monday, slamming them for their overeach and presumption. The dismissed Georgia case was the infamous “Kraken” lawsuit filed by Trump attorney Sidney Powell. According to Georgia Public Broadcasting, a federal judge dismissed the Georgia case from the bench Monday morning. [...]
A Nevada court Friday dismissed with prejudice a Trump campaign election contest lawsuit. In the suit, the president’s legal team alleged voter fraud in mail-in ballots, voter irregularities in provisional ballots, machine signature matching errors, in-person voter fraud and denial of legal voters, double voting, voter impersonation, late counted ballots, failures in voter roll maintenance, [...]
