Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a statement that the emergency powers used during COVID-19 were the "greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country."
A released court order revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) misused a surveillance tool while searching for intelligence relating to the January 6 Capitol riot and 2020 racial protests.
North Carolina's Republican-dominated General Assembly has successfully overruled a veto from Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, to enact legislation that severely restricts abortions beyond 12 weeks of pregnancy.