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The United States Bankruptcy Court on Friday dismissed the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of former New York City mayor and Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, citing his ongoing failure to comply with financial disclosure obligations. Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2023, citing financial strain from a $148 million defamation judgment. This judgment stemmed [...]

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The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Thursday mostly upheld a lower court’s decision that prevents the rejection of absentee ballots with address variations for upcoming elections. This decision is expected to reduce the number of ballot rejections in the state. The legal dispute deals with interpreting an absentee ballot witness’s address, which involved a January [...]

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The Utah Supreme Court unanimously decided Thursday that Utah citizens have a constitutional right to reform their government in response to past redistricting efforts to divide Salt Lake City into four congressional districts, resulting in Republicans winning by a large margin. The Utah League of Women Voters alleged that the Republicans in the state legislature have [...]

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) introduced articles of impeachment on Wednesday against United States Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. The first impeachment resolution against Justice Thomas includes the failure to disclose financial income, gifts, and reimbursements. Additionally, Thomas’s refusal to recuse from matters concerning his spouse’s legal and economic interests in cases before [...]

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The United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced Monday a resolution agreement with Brown University to ensure compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for alleged harassment of students with Jewish, Palestinian, Arab, and or/Muslim ancestry. Brown University named four key priorities under which it would revise policies [...]

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A group of Louisiana families filed a motion for an injunction Monday to stop officials from implementing a law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom in the state. Louisiana is set to become the first state to impose such a requirement, though the action has been debated in other [...]

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Boeing is set to plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay a fine of $243.6 million, according to a Sunday court filing from the US Department of Justice (DOJ). The plea deal comes after the DOJ found that Boeing violated a 2021 settlement regarding two fatal 737 Max [...]

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The Kansas Supreme Court issued two decisions on Friday striking down a series of abortion rules and restrictions that reaffirmed its 2019 decision that the state constitution guarantees the right to terminate a pregnancy. In its first opinion, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld the district court’s decision. The court reaffirmed that Section 1 of the [...]

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Friday to reinstate the use of secure ballot drop boxes for the 2024 US elections, reversing a prior ruling from 2022 by the court’s then-conservative majority that had banned this method for returning absentee ballots. The appellants argued that the state Supreme Court wrongly decided a 2022 case that [...]

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US Democratic congressman Joe Morelle announced plans Wednesday to attempt to reverse this week’s US Supreme Court ruling on former US President Donald Trump’s immunity claims. He said in a statement: I am introducing a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court’s catastrophic decision and ensure no president is above the law. This amendment will [...]

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