US President Donald Trump on Tuesday vetoed a joint resolution by Congress that would require the president to withdraw the US military from Yemen. In his veto message to the Senate, the president described the resolution as: an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service [...]

The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday containing amendments to the Internal Revenue Code with one amendment criticized as aiding tax preparation services such as TurboTax and service providers like H&R Block. HR 1957, titled the “Taxpayer First Act,” passed the House by voice vote. The bill includes provisions changing the management of the [...]

Following Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s signing of four gun control laws on Tuesday, Pittsburgh residents filed a lawsuit with the help of the National Rifle Association (NRA) challenging the interpretation of “large capacity magazines” in one of the laws. The case in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas is styled Anderson v. City of Pittsburgh. The [...]

The US State Department has revoked the entry visa of International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda after cautioning that it would revoke visas of any individuals investigating allegations of war crimes committed in Afghanistan by the US military. In March Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the US would deny visas to ICC personnel investigating any [...]

US Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan testified in front of the House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government of the House Committee on Appropriations on Thursday regarding the court’s budget for 2020. In Alito’s opening statement to the House, he said the that the request would come in two parts. The [...]

The North Carolina State Board of Elections voted unanimously Thursday to hold a new election for the 9th Congressional District following an investigation into impropriety involving absentee ballots. Currently, the North Carolina 9th District race is the last undecided congressional race coming out of the 2018 midterm elections. Leading up to the Thursday vote to hold [...]

Attorney General nominee William Pelham Barr was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday in a 12-10 vote. During the hearing, Democrats on the Committee expressed concern about a memo that Barr wrote last year that called the Mueller investigation into the Russian interference in the 2016 election “fatally misconceived.” Senate Democrats expressed concern that Barr would [...]

The New York State Assembly passed comprehensive gun legislation on Tuesday to diminish gun violence in the state. Among the legislation passed is the “Red Flag Bill” that blocks a person deemed to be a threat to the safety of themselves or others from buying a gun for up to a year. A petitioner, which [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called Friday for investigations into violence including deaths during protests in Venezuela. On Wednesday, leader of the opposition and National Assembly head, Juan Guaido, declared himself acting president of Venezuela. On the same day, US President Donald Trump released a statement recognizing Guaido as Interim President of [...]

The New York State Assembly passed two bills on Tuesday protecting transgender and gender non-conforming individuals from discrimination and banning “conversion therapy.” The first bill, Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), protects individuals from discrimination based on gender identity or expression. The bill adds gender identity and expression to the list of classes protected against discrimination in [...]