A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on Wednesday temporarily blocked enforcement of the “signature match” voting law on procedural due process grounds. The law allows the rejection of absentee ballots if signatures do not match other state records. The ACLU filed suit to block the law’s enforcement last [...]

A judge for the US District Court of the Western District of Washington ruled Thursday that part of President Donald Trump’s executive order to end federal grant funding for sanctuary cities is unconstitutional. The order, which was signed by Trump days after his inauguration in early 2017, allowed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to withhold [...]

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions Thursday claiming that lawyer Michael Avenatti and accuser Julie Swetnick deliberately obstructed the committee’s investigation into the claims made against Brett Kavanaugh, who was confirmed to the Supreme Court earlier this month. “When charlatans make false claims to the Committee—claims [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that Chevron has agreed to settle with the federal government and Mississippi for claims regarding violations of the Clean Air Act. The settlement will require safety improvements at all of its petroleum refineries across the US to prevent “accidental releases of hazardous chemicals that can have serious [...]

US President Donald Trump signed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act into law Wednesday, a measure to combat the opioid crisis by reducing drug demand through education, awareness and prevention efforts, enhancing treatment and recovery, and cutting off the supply from traffickers. The act has been deemed “the single largest legislative package addressing a single drug crisis [...]

Four immigrant rights organizations filed suit in federal court in the Pacific Northwest against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tuesday alleging that ICE has been singling out immigrant activists in particular for deportation. Northwest Detention Center Resistance (NWDC), Detention Watch Network, The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild and the Coalition of [...]

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against election officials of Waller County, Texas, accusing them of voter discrimination. The LDF claims that officials refused to provide any early voting location on the campus of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), a historically black university, during the first week [...]

The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Hartford Courant Tuesday in a lawsuit seeking the release of documents related to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The Hartford Courant requested documents created by the perpetrator, Adam Lanza, through Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act (FOI). When the state denied the request, the Hartford Courant brought this suit. [...]

A New Hampshire judge on Monday granted an injunction to block a requirement that voters have proof of residence when registering to vote on election day. The New Hampshire legislature passed the law in 2017, largely along party lines. The League of Women Voters of New Hampshire, who brought the suit, argue that the law [...]

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law America’s Water Infrastructure Act, which seeks to “provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources and authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the .” The law purports to benefit nearly every state by authorizing “construction [...]