Former US Representative Matt Gaetz (FL) withdrew his name from consideration for attorney general on Thursday in the face of considerable Republican opposition in the Senate and pending release of a report from a House Ethics Committee investigation into sex trafficking allegations. Citing meetings with members of the Senate and the uphill battle the nomination [...]

The daughters of civil rights leader Malcolm X filed a civil action Friday against the US, the city of New York, and the estates of various former federal agents for their alleged role in concealing, condoning, and facilitating his assassination in 1965. The family of Malcolm X is represented by noted civil rights attorney Ben [...]

President-elect Donald Trump nominated former congressman Matt Gaetz on Wednesday to be the 87th US Attorney General. This represents a stunning reversal of fortunes for the embattled Gaetz who until February of this year was under investigation by the very Department of Justice (DOJ) that he has now been chosen to lead. Gaetz tendered his [...]

The UN Human Rights Office released a report Friday detailing six months of war in Gaza from November 2023 to April 2024, denouncing the “horrific” suffering inflicted by Israel as well as Palestinian armed groups, and warning of potential crimes against humanity. In an accompanying release, the UN rights chief Volker Türk urged Israel to comply [...]

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) released a guide Wednesday for supporting asylum seekers in light of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 US presidential election, while also calling on the incoming administration to collaborate on the protection of refugee rights. According to the IRC, over 120 million people have been displaced by conflicts or disasters [...]

Pennsylvania District Judge David Ridge issued an order Friday affecting 17,000 voters who did not receive mail-in ballots, granting them early in-person voting and new absentee ballots to replace the missing ones. Erie County Clerk Karen Chilcott laid the blame on a ballot vendor Election IQ who was hired to send out the mail-in ballots [...]

The Cato Institute asserted that the policy focus on mass deportation of asylum seekers during Donald Trump’s 2017-2020 presidency caused an increase in the number of criminals released by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a report released by the right-of-center US think tank on Wednesday. The report posits that the former president’s immigration [...]

The city council of Odessa, Texas, voted this week to approve a ban on transgender individuals’ use of bathrooms on city property that do not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Tuesday’s 5-2 vote amends a 1989 ordinance that made it “unlawful for any person to knowingly and intentionally enter any public restroom designated [...]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday against a physician for providing gender transition care to 21 minor patients, in violation of a Texas law prohibiting medical interventions related to gender transition. The lawsuit accuses Dr. May Lau of engaging in “deceptive trade practices, including misleading pharmacies, insurance providers, and/or patients by falsifying [...]

Two public interest groups implored US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on Tuesday to investigate anonymous text messages sent to young Wisconsin voters threatening civil penalties and jail time for violating state voting laws. The groups described the messages as attempts at voter intimidation. Free Speech for the People wrote [...]