A Texas federal judge struck down the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s transgender employee protection policy on Thursday, stating the policy contradicts the plain text of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas said that Congress is the entity that can add [...]

Women’s rights organizations around the world are reaching “a breaking point” due to foreign aid cuts, according to a report published Tuesday by UN Women. The report says that a survey conducted in March found that 47 percent of the surveyed organizations are expecting to shut down over the next six months if current conditions [...]

The attorneys general for 15 US states sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday over the president’s executive order declaring that the US is in a national energy emergency. Executive Order No. 14,156, titled “Declaring a National Energy Emergency,” was signed by Trump on his first day in office. The order directed agencies to utilize [...]

A panel of three US federal judges struck down a 2023 Alabama congressional map on Thursday, stating that the map was in violation of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution. The permanent injunction comes after a long process of appeals beginning back in 2021, when the plaintiffs, a [...]

Attorneys for high-profile murder defendant Luigi Mangione moved for dismissal of the state charges against him on Thursday, citing violations of Mangione’s constitutional rights. In the motion to dismiss, attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo claimed the state charges violated Mangione’s rights under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the US Constitution. Friedman Agnifilo claimed the “most [...]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court temporarily suspended Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan on Tuesday after she was arrested and charged last week for obstructing immigration authorities. The Court said Dugan is “temporarily prohibited from exercising the powers of a circuit court judge in the State of Wisconsin,” effective immediately and until a further court [...]

A US federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from withholding federal funds to certain “sanctuary jurisdictions” around the US. This suit was brought after 16 cities with sanctuary laws, and challenged Trump’s Executive Orders 14,159, “Protecting the American People Against Invasion”; 14,218, “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders”; and a [...]

A New York federal jury on Tuesday found The New York Times (NYT) not liable for libel against 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The former Alaska governor filed suit in 2017, stating that the NYT damaged her reputation by erroneously linking her to a mass shooting in an editorial piece. The opinion piece, titled [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland imposed a preliminary injunction on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Thursday, restricting access to personally identifying data in the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) database. The preliminary injunction comes after Judge Ellen Hollander granted a temporary restraining order on March 20, [...]

The Associated Press (AP) filed a motion on Wednesday seeking to ensure immediate compliance with the injunction imposed last week that ordered the White House to allow AP reporters access to the press pool. The injunction was filed just one day after information was leaked regarding a new White House press policy that would once [...]