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More than a quarter of the nation’s federal district courts have never had even one black judge. That’s the takeaway from a new investigation by Bloomberg Law’s Tiana Headley and Andrew Satter. Listen here and subscribe to On The Merits on
A panel of federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest congressional map on Tuesday, ruling that a new map needed to be drawn because Republican lawmakers had failed to comply with orders to create a second majority-Black district or something “close to it.” In a sharp rebuke, the judges ordered that the new map be independently drawn, […]
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services is formally recommending that the Drug Enforcement Administration ease government restrictions on marijuana, which remains illegal at the federal level despite 40 states allowing its use in some form. The move comes 11 months after
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The Environmental Protection Agency removed federal protections for a majority of the country’s wetlands on Tuesday to comply with a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The EPA and Department of the Army announced a final rule amending the definition of protected “waters of the United States” in […]
At a hearing today in Washington, the judge overseeing the federal prosecution of Donald Trump on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election said that the trial would start on March 4. The trial date, which the former president and his lawyers had sought to delay, is likely to conflict with
From the Administrative Office of the US Courts Judge Tanya Chutkan was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in June 2014. CNN — A Texas woman has been charged with threatening in a voicemail to kill the federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s
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A panel of federal judges on Monday began a review Alabama’s redrawn congressional map which opponents argue blatantly defies the court’s mandate to create a second district where Black voters have an opportunity to influence the outcome of an election By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press August 14, 2023, 1:36 PM ET • 3 min read […]
JIM MUSTIAN, Associated Press 3 days ago FILE – This Dec. 10, 2020 photo provided by the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office shows Louisiana State Police Trooper Jacob Brown. A federal jury in Louisiana on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023, acquitted Brown charged with violating the civil rights of a Black motorist despite body camera footage that […]
Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office/AP Louisiana State Police Trooper Jacob Brown is shown in a photo provided by the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office. CNN — A federal jury has acquitted Louisiana State Police Trooper Jacob Brown, who was charged with a single count of deprivation of rights under color of law, for the beating of a […]