New York Attorney General Letitia James filed suit Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Donald Trump, in his capacity as President, Louis Dejoy, in his capacity as Postmaster General, and the US Postal Service (USPS). Joined in the complaint as plaintiffs are the states of Hawaii, New Jersey, and [...]
The Supreme Court of Chile on Monday rejected a request from the US for the extradition of Carlos Cardoen Cornejo. The Chilean businessman is being accused of illegally exporting Zirconium metal between August 1982 and October 1989. This metal was allegedly used for manufacturing cluster bombs, which were used by the Iraqi airforce against Iran. [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion for summary judgment on Tuesday vacating a time-in-service requirement for non-citizens who qualify for US citizenship based on their service in the US military. On October 13, 2017, the US Department of Defense (DOD) adopted a policy requiring non-citizen service [...]
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a motion in state court on Monday to compel the production of documents from the Trump Organization as well as testimony from its key personnel, including Eric Trump, the president’s son. The motion is part of an ongoing investigation launched into Donald Trump and the Trump Organization’s finances in [...]
A circuit judge in Florida on Monday invalidated an emergency order requiring “brick-and-mortar” schools to reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic. This order granting a temporary injunction is the result of a lawsuit filed by Florida Education Association (FEA), Florida’s largest teachers’ union, seeking to prevent the reopening of schools and resuming of in-person instruction. Judge Charles [...]
US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied the emergency application for a stay on Tuesday filed by Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton related to the fight over whether Green Party candidates should be included on the ballot for the upcoming general election. Stapleton filed the application on Monday against the Montana Democratic Party requesting that the Supreme [...]
TikTok, a popular video-sharing mobile app owned by a Chinese company, sued the US government on Monday over President Donald Trump’s efforts to ban the app in the US. The lawsuit comes a month after Trump, invoking theInternational Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), issued an executive order that would effectively ban the operation of TikTok in the [...]
A federal judge ordered a stay Sunday in the Trump re-election campaign’s lawsuit against Pennsylvania over the commonwealth’s election procedures. The campaign sued Pennsylvania in an attempt to ban mail ballot drop boxes and to prevent other election procedural changes. The campaign also sought an injunction to allow poll watchers to monitor absentee vote collection [...]
The US House of Representatives Saturday passed legislation aimed at prohibiting Postmaster General Louis DeJoy from implementing new policy changes at the US Postal Service (USPS) and providing USPS with $25 billion to help alleviate the pressures of the record number of mail-in ballots expected for the November election. Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight [...]
The US Department of Justice filed a petition for writ of certiorari on Thursday with the Supreme Court, appealing a decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that bars President Trump from blocking critics on Twitter. Shortly after his inauguration, Trump blocked several Twitter users critical of him and his administration. Together with Columbia [...]
