The Federal District Court for the Middle District of Alabama granted a preliminary injunction on Tuesday blocking the enforcement of the Alabama Human Life Protection Act. Alabama Governor Kay Ivy signed the act in May, banning nearly all abortions in the state except for pregnancies that threaten the mother’s life. Planned Parenthood and other organizations [...]

The North Carolina Superior Court of Wake County granted a preliminary injunction on Monday barring the use of a new electoral map in the 2020 primary and general elections for illegal partisan gerrymandering. The plaintiffs, led by the National Redistricting Foundation (NRF), sought to block the state’s remedial electoral map from being used in the [...]

General Motors, Toyota, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, among other carmakers, announced Monday that they were supporting US President Donald Trump’s bid to block California from setting its own strict emission standards. The automakers have backed the Trump administration’s proposal to prohibit individual emission standards by state, saying “The certainty of one national program, with reasonable, [...]

A jury on Friday recommended awarding Keith Wildhaber, a sergeant for the St. Louis County police department, nearly $20 million in damages in an employment discrimination case after finding that the department discriminated against him because of his sexual orientation. Wildhaber filed the lawsuit in 2017 alleging that he had been passed up for promotions [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a notice of appeal Monday against a federal judge’s order to release grand jury material from the Mueller report to congress. A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order Friday that required the DOJ to release the grand jury material to [...]

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the terrorist organization known as ISIS, died on Saturday during a US raid in northwest Syria, according to a Sunday morning statement by US President Donald Trump. According to Trump’s statement, the ISIS leader died after he fled into a dead-end tunnel and detonated a suicide vest, killing himself [...]

Maria Butina, the Russian operative convicted and sentenced on one count of conspiracy, has finished her 18-month sentence in a Florida federal prison and was released Friday into custody of the US Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement for immediate deportation. Butina, now 31 years old and a former American University graduate student, was charged in July [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday dismissed petitions for review brought by several states, environmental groups and industry representatives against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) due to lack of jurisdiction. The EPA has begun the process of changing the rules governing emission standards for motor vehicles but has [...]

A federal judge ruled Friday that the US Department of Justice must provide the House Judiciary Committee with access to grand jury materials stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential Election. House Democrats contend that grand jury information is necessary in deciding whether to bring articles of impeachment [...]

President Donald Trump on Thursday sought rehearing from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after a three-judge panel upheld a lower court ruling requiring the president’s accounting firm to comply with the subpoena issued by the Oversight Committee. Trump based his request on Federal Rule 35, which permits rehearing if [...]