A Louisiana grand jury on Friday indicted a New York doctor for enabling the termination of a minor’s pregnancy by prescribing an abortion bill. The grand jury also indicted the minor’s mother, though the mother’s name has not been released to protect the minor’s identity. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill supported the indictment, stating: “It [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that a federal statute requiring people to be 21 to purchase handguns from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions and the Second Amendment. The plaintiffs, Caleb Reese and Emily Naquin, challenged the constitutionality of 18 USC 922 (b)(1) and (c)(1) on [...]

A federal judge temporarily blocked a presidential order that would halt gender-affirming care for a transgender woman inmate and force her transfer to a men’s prison, her lawyers said Thursday. The inmate — called Maria Moe — sued the Trump administration over its January 20 executive order that prohibits male-born individuals from being detained in [...]

A New York appeals court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s decision that found the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act (NYVRA) violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. The Second Department of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division rejected the defendants’ argument that any application of the NYVRA would violate the [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday dropped the criminal proceedings against Trump’s co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliviera, in the classified documents case initiated by former special counsel Jack Smith. The appeals court must still approve the Justice Department’s request for the appeal to be officially terminated. The [...]
A class of consumers sued Amazon.com, Inc. on Wednesday, claiming the technology company secretly tracked and sold their sensitive data without their consent. Plaintiff Felix Kolotinsky brought the class action lawsuit with a demand for a jury trial in the US District Court for the Northern District of California San Francisco Division on behalf of [...]
In a move that intensifies the national debate over how race and gender are taught in American schools, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at championing so-called “patriotic education.” Under the auspices of combatting “radical indoctrination” in primary and secondary schools, the order aims to restrict curricular content on the [...]
US President Donald Trump laid out plans on Thursday to combat what he described as an “explosion of antisemitism on our campuses and in our streets” in recent months. The announcement came on the heels of an executive order, issued Wednesday, on measures the administration planned to take to protect American Jews. As has become [...]

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act (the “Act”) into law Wednesday, which will require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain individuals who are unlawfully present in the United States and have been charged with, or arrested for, burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting. This is the first piece of legislation that President Trump has [...]

A federal judge sentenced Bob Menendez, the former US senator for New Jersey, to 11 years in prison Wednesday. Additionally, he must forfeit over $900,000. Menendez was found guilty last year on 16 counts, including bribery, corruption, and conspiracy to act as a foreign agent, after receiving more than $500,000 in cash, $100,000 in gold [...]