(Headline USA) A federal judge has upheld a state court agreement that extends Minnesota's deadline for counting absentee ballots by seven days, expanding opportunities for political parties and candidates who trail on Election Day to "find" new votes to make up deficits.
Republicans had asked U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel to...
(Associated Press) A federal judge on Sunday expressed serious concerns about Georgia's new election system but declined to order the state to abandon its touchscreen voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots for the November election.
The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by voting integrity activists that challenges...
(Headline USA) A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Saturday threw out a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's campaign.
Trump's campaign said it would appeal at least one element of the decision, with barely three weeks to go until Election Day in a state hotly contested by Trump and Democratic...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court said in a 6-2 decision on Thursday that it would for now continue to allow women to obtain an abortion pill by mail during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh joined the court's three liberals in delaying...
A transgender man filed a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against Amazon this week, alleging that she was harassed and denied a promotion after telling her boss she was pregnant.
Shaun Simmons, a biological woman who identifies as a man, reportedly told her supervisors, Mike Menno and Tyler Houpt, about the pregnancy....
(Headline USA) The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd posted bail Wednesday and was released from jail, leading Minnesota's governor to activate the National Guard to help keep the peace in the event of protests.
According to court documents, Derek Chauvin posted a $1...
A grand jury indicted Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who went viral after confronting a mob of protesters trespassing on their property, on charges of exhibiting guns and tampering with evidence, according to KMOV-4.
The grand jury accused the couple of tampering with Patricia McCloskey’s gun, which...
(Headline USA) A U.S. judge said the IRS can't keep withholding coronavirus relief payments from incarcerated people, potentially clearing the way for at least 80,000 checks totaling more than $100 million to be sent to people behind bars across the United States.
The ruling late last month from U.S. District Judge...
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts “despises Donald Trump,” and therefore deliberately rules against the Trump administration.
During an interview this week, Cruz said Roberts, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, has pivoted away from championing conservative causes over the past few years...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court, already poised to turn more to the right, opened its new term Monday with a jolt from two conservative justices who raised new criticism of the court’s embrace of same-sex marriage.
The justices returned from their summer break on a somber note, following the death of...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a requirement that South Carolina residents voting by mail in November’s election get a witness to sign their ballots.
Democrats had sought to have the requirement put on hold, blaming the coronavirus, but Republicans had defended it as deterring fraud.
While the high court...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court's docket when it begins its new session includes cases about the Affordable Care Act, elections, religious liberty, technology, and the Mueller investigation.
A week after the presidential election, the court will hear arguments in a bid by the Trump administration and Republican-led states to overturn...