A federal judge in Boston has blocked parts of President Trump's executive order to limit voting by mail. The Trump administration is expected to appeal the ruling.
Judge Evelyn Padin ruled the Justice Department’s lawsuit was flawed because it did not also challenge a state directive limiting local cooperation with federal immigration agents.
The proposal grew out of President Donald Trump’s March executive order on election integrity.
The Trump administration’s federal law enforcement hiring surge has been a success for the Border Patrol as the organization’s total number of agents rose this spring to the highest level seen in a century. As of this spring, 21,471 Border Patrol agents were serving nationwide, as well as abroad, the most seen since the federal police organization […]
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday blocked key portions of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to tighten rules governing mail-in voting, ruling the president lacked constitutional authority to impose the changes on states ahead of this year’s midterm elections. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction halting implementation of several provisions in Trump’s […]
The ruling of a three-judge appeals panel in Michigan was the most significant rebuke yet to the Department of Justice’s effort to find ineligible voters in state voter rolls.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to remove legal protections from thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants in the United States, meaning they could be subject to deportation
President Trump has pushed to rescind Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of people from countries convulsed by humanitarian crises.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that consumers can't use state courts to bring "failure-to-warn" lawsuits against manufacturers that don't warn of hazards surrounding their products.Why it matters: The case was a major friction point for activists in the "Make America Healthy Again" movement, who have been calling for a crackdown on chemicals like glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup, in the food supply.Driving the news: In a 7-2 ruling, justices said federal pesticide law preempts a lawsuit against Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, for failing to include a warning about cancer risks on the label.While Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pointed to glyphosate as an environmental toxin that contributes to chronic disease, the Environmental Protection Agency, which regulates pesticides, has balked at characterizing it as harmful.Federal law "requires Monsanto to sell Roundup with the label that EPA approved at the initial registration and that EPA has subsequently re-approved on multiple occasions—that is, the label without a cancer warning," Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the majority.Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Neil Gorsuch dissented.Monsanto said the decision "is good for science, farmers, and industries that depend on regulatory clarity for innovation."This is breaking news. Check back for updates.