The US Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped their appeal against minor Jane Roe on Tuesday night, which was preventing her from receiving an abortion. Jane Roe was being housed in a federally-funded shelter due to lack of authorization and was initially refused her abortion services through the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) . At some [...]

The US Senate on Wednesday voted 51-48 along party lines to approve a slightly modified version of the conference committee version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act . The bill underwent minor changes between Wednesday afternoon’s passage by the US House of Representatives after the Senate Parliamentarian struck three provisions under the Byrd Rule [...]

The US Senate’s vote on the sweeping tax bill approved earlier today by the House of Representatives hit a procedural bump after the Senate Parliamentarian struck three provisions of the conference committee bill under the Byrd Rule governing the content of bills passed through the reconciliation process. The Parliamentarian found that the bill’s short name, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday detalied the “methodical massacre” in the Rohingya village of Tula Toli, also known as Min Gyi, in Burma’s Rakhine State on August 30, 2017. HRW alleges that Tula Toli was attacked by several hundred Burmese soldiers in uniform, as well as ethnic Rakhine villagers armed with machetes who trapped [...]

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 227-203 to approve the conference committee version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act . The vote split largely along party lines, with 12 Republicans and all 191 Democrats voting against the measure. The House and Senate need to approve the conference committee report, issued on Friday [...]

The city of Detroit filed suit on Monday in the United States District Court Eastern District of Michigan against a number of pharmaceutical companies in relation to the distribution of prescription opioid drugs. Following the lead of other states and municipalities , the 153-page complaint alleges that numerous manufactures and distributors of opioids, including Purdue [...]

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Department of Health and Human Services from preventing two undocumented immigrants in federal custody from accessing abortion services. The government immediately appealed the decision. The two minors, referred to as Jane Roe and Jane Poe, were placed in a federally-funded shelter after entering the US without authorization. [...]

Anti-virus and cybersecurity company Kaspersky Labs filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday seeking to set aside an order directing all civilian agencies to stop using Kaspersky products. Kaspersky alleges that the review process contained in Binding Operational Directive BOD-17-01 violated the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) in two respects. First, they [...]

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on Monday vetoed a bill that would have placed stricter limits on abortion. The vetoed bill, SB-3, decreased the legal gestational age for an abortion from 24 weeks to 20 weeks. It also made the “dilation and excavation” method of abortion illegal, which the bill referred to as a “dismemberment abortion.” [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Allen Rostron of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law discusses policy and constitutional concerns about the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would expand the right to carry concealed guns outside one’s home state… For years, liberals and conservatives have argued about how to strike the ideal balance between federal and [...]