Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner participated in meetings involving his share of a $67.5 million settlement shortly after taking office in 2015, according to a newly-unsealed lawsuit on Tuesday. Rauner claims to have no day-to-day involvement in his...
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order on Wednesday to expand access to medical marijuana in the state. The order, signed one week after Murphy took office, seeks to remove barriers to access for individuals with...
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to bypass a federal appeals court and decide whether the Acting Secretary's decision to "winddown" the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy is lawful. In...
The US Senate voted 65-34 on Thursday in favor of a six-year extension of the FISA Amendments Act , which authorizes the National Security Agency (NSA) to gather intelligence by means of...
The US Supreme Court heard two Fourth Amendment cases Tuesday involving the search of motor vehicles. In the first case, Byrd v. United States , the court heard arguments as to whether a driver has...
The US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday dismissed a case against President Donald Trump, which accused him of violating the Constitution's emoluments clause . The plaintiffs argued that Trump failed to...
US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday denied the Trump Administration's bid to forestall transgender recruits from military service. Thursday's order merely denied the administration's plea to suspend an order by a federal judge in...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday morning. The first case involves award of attorney's fees in civil rights cases. In Murphy v. Smith , Chris Murphy, a prisoner at an Illinois correctional facility,...
Ethiopian officials have renewed their campaign of collecting intelligence against government critics abroad through the use of commercial spyware, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. According to Citizen Lab , an independent research group in Toronto,...
Charlottesville authorities failed to protect public safety and free speech during the August white supremacist rally that turned deadly, according to an independent report by US Attorney Timothy Heaphy found that , citing breakdowns in planning and...
