A federal judge in Washington rejected the Justice Department's bid to obtain the District of Columbia's full voter registration list on Thursday, ruling the administration has no legal authority to compel the city to turn over birthdates, ID numbers and other personal data on registered voters.
The US Department of Health and Human Services has decertified an organ procurement organization after it was revealed that some patients had begun showing signs of regaining consciousness.
A federal judge in Washington confirmed Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of Haitian nationals living in the United States have lost their Temporary Protected Status, closing out a years-long legal fight that reached the Supreme Court.
The Government Accountability Office said Thursday it could verify solid support for only 4% of the $110.3 billion in savings the Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have delivered for taxpayers before shutting down in July.
Governments have wanted to know who owns what for about as long as governments have existed. Caesar Augustus ordered the whole Roman world registered so it could be taxed, the story that puts a pregnant woman on a donkey to Bethlehem in the Gospel of Luke. Rome wanted names attached to property because names attached to property are names you can tax, conscript, and control. That instinct never went away. It just got better paperwork.
In 1846, New York tore up the old way of putting judges on the bench. Judges would face voters, just like everyone else in government. Nineteen states called constitutional conventions between 1844 and 1853 largely to copy that reform, and from 1846 to 1860, only two states even proposed keeping the old appointive system on the books. Voters rejected both. Americans decided, almost unanimously, that if a judge could rule on your life, your land, and your laws, that judge should have to answer to you. This week, Kansas walked away from that promise.
A Maryland public school changed a child's name and pronouns behind her parents' backs. The parents found out by accident, through a lab class email. Now they are suing, and the Trump administration is threatening to pull the district's federal funding. That story out of Anne Arundel County is not an isolated glitch. It is the logical end point of a fight that has been running for a century, one most parents never knew was happening until it landed in their own inbox.
Anthony Fauci sat before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday and refused to answer more than one hundred questions. One hundred and eleven times, by the official count, America's most famous bureaucrat hid behind the Fifth Amendment rather than explain himself to the people who paid his salary for over fifty years. Anyone on the right claiming the autopen alone makes Fauci's pardon "void" is overstating the law and handing the left an easy fact check to hide behind. But that is not actually the scandal, and Republicans should stop pretending it is.
A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that key parts of the 1934 National Firearms Act are unconstitutional, opening the door to eliminating registration requirements for silencers and short-barreled rifles and shotguns.
President Trump declared on Wednesday that the United States will "never be a socialist country," condemning Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a formal investigative subpoena to Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday, seeking records tied to what his office calls "self-dealing" during the former health official's tenure leading the pandemic response.
Adam Candeub, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday in a confirmation hearing that could determine the direction of federal antitrust cases against Google and Apple.
New Mexico has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice in an effort to gain access to Jeffrey Epstein records, accusing Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche of "stonewalling" the state's investigation into Epstein's Zorro Ranch.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Wednesday that Republicans should "turn our fire on the Democrats" over the SAVE America Act, as the chamber heads into its five-week August recess without passing the citizenship-verification voting bill.
A divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Florida can enforce a law barring minors from attending sexually explicit live performances, handing Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier a win after three years of litigation.
In 1846, New York tore up the old way of putting judges on the bench. Judges would face voters, just like everyone else in government. Nineteen states called constitutional conventions between 1844 and 1853 largely to copy that reform, and from 1846 to 1860, only two states even proposed keeping the old appointive system on the books. Voters rejected both. Americans decided, almost unanimously, that if a judge could rule on your life, your land, and your laws, that judge should have to answer to you. This week, Kansas walked away from that promise.