A US federal judge Monday rejected a case brought by Texas Republicans which sought to toss out 127,000 drive-through votes cast in Harris County, Texas, concluding that the plaintiffs did not have standing to bring the lawsuit. Many states have recently changed their voting laws due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Texas has still generally required [...]

California voters will render a verdict Tuesday on Proposition 16, a controversial ballot measure that would repeal Proposition 209 (1996), which says that the state cannot discriminate or grant preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in public employment, education or contracting. When Prop 209 was first passed, it spurred a [...]

A Nevada state judge on Monday denied a Republican Party attempt to discount mail-in ballots. The Trump campaign and the Nevada Republican Party alleged the county failed to comply with public record requests pertaining to signature verification on mail-in ballots, calling for a temporary restraining order. Carson City District Court Judge James Wilson denied the [...]

A judge for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court, Lake County, Illinois, on Friday granted the prosecution’s motion to extradite 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse to Wisconsin to face charges of murder and attempted murder. Rittenhouse’s lawyers argued that the extradition documents did not conform to statutory standards and that extraditing Rittenhouse violated his constitutional rights. The judge rejected [...]

In a brief, unsigned order issued Sunday morning, the Supreme Court of Texas denied an effort by state Republicans to throw out more than 126,000 votes cast via “drive-thru” polling stations in Harris County. Harris County is the largest county in Texas and has the third-largest population of any county in the United States. In [...]

The US District Court for the Southern District of California Friday expanded the scope of a preliminary injunction that blocked a Trump administration policy severely limiting asylum claims at US ports of entry. The Trump administration first introduced its Asylum Eligibility and Procedural Modifications policy in July 2019. The interim rule found that “an alien [...]

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York Friday denied injunctive relief and granted motion for summary judgement in a lawsuit brought on by 12 plaintiffs from Israel who were denied voter registration in New York for missing the October 9th postmark deadline. The complaint was brought by a dozen US citizens [...]

A US federal district court judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction to plaintiffs alleging that federal officers violated protestors’ free speech rights in summer protests in Portland, Oregon. The lawsuit was originally filed in July by two Oregon state lawmakers, Janelle Bynum and Karin Power, legal observer Sara Eddie, as well as the First [...]

Various environmental groups filed suit Friday in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  Their suit challenges the EPA’s interim registration review decision, which approved the sale and use of the herbicides atrazine, propazine, and simazine. These herbicides allegedly harm both the environment and human health. [...]

Texas Republicans have filed suit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, seeking emergency and permanent injunctive relief against Harris County, Texas and the county clerk for allegedly violating federal and state laws by permitting curbside voting. This is not the first attempt to seek a court order halting curbside voting [...]