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[1/3]U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith makes a statement to reporters after a grand jury returned an indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump in the special counsel’s investigation of efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat, at Smith’s offices in Washington, U.S. August 1, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin
Governor of New Mexico Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks at a Democratic Party of New Mexico campaign rally featuring U.S. President Joe Biden at the Gallegos Community Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., November 3, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
A group from Texas that is part of the more than 200 “Dreamers,” their families and supporters from around the U.S., who traveled to Washington to lobby lawmakers to provide citizenship to “Dreamer” immigrants who entered the United States illegally or overstayed a visa as children, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. December 13, 2022.
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a South Dakota Republican party rally in Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S. September 8, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Acquire Licensing Rights
The FTC’s chief administrative law judge (ALJ) ruled that Intuit, the parent company of TurboTax, “deceived consumers” and “engaged in deceptive advertising” by advertising its “Free Edition” tax filing service as free when users ultimately had to pay. The Verge reports: The ruling (PDF) includes several pages of commercials and online ads where Intuit advertised […]
WASHINGTON, Sept 6 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge ordered Texas to move floating buoys that were placed in the middle of the Rio Grande to block migrants from illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, a tentative win for President Joe Biden, whose administration sued the state. U.S. District Court Judge David Ezra on Wednesday issued a […]
Comment on this storyComment A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to reposition floating barriers the state placed in the middle of the Rio Grande, rebuking one of the more contentious elements of Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to deter illegal border crossings. The preliminary injunction granted by Judge David A. Ezra sided . . .
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
Background: The new map divided one district into four, each with a much smaller Black population. At issue in the ruling was an area previously mapped as House District 5, which stretched from Jacksonville to Tallahassee along Florida’s northern border with Georgia. The district, whose voting population was about 46 percent Black, had elected Al […]
State Sen. Kelli Stargel looks through redistricting maps during a Senate Committee on Reapportionment hearing on Jan. 13, 2022, in Tallahassee, Fla. A Florida redistricting plan pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution, a state judge ruled Saturday. Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP hide caption toggle caption Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP State Sen. Kelli Stargel looks […]