Recent Updates
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Australia plans to strengthen laws banning children from social media
Legal Compliance 06/26/2026The Australian government plans to strengthen laws that ban children younger than 16 from social media platforms, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.Observers said on Friday the government was responding to evidence that the ban on young children h...
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Court strikes down Hawaii law requiring permission to carry guns
Law Review 06/25/2026The Supreme Court struck down a Hawaii law requiring people to get permission to carry guns into stores and hotels on Thursday, in its latest opinion backing Second Amendment rights.The high court's 6-3 decision means people can carry guns onto priva...
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Court can’t stop Trump ballroom construction, government lawyer tells judge
Law Review 06/07/2026Lawyers representing the federal government argued Friday that a court could not stop construction of a White House ballroom because it was already underway and because of the sensitive security concerns they say the structure is meant to address.Att...
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President Trump says he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general
Law Review 06/03/2026President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, tapping his former personal lawyer who has aggressively pursued the Republican president’s agenda while leading the Justice Department in an ...
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Alabama asks Supreme Court to allow use of congressional map helping GOP
National Legal News 05/30/2026Alabama on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, despite a lower court’s ruling that the redistricting plan intentionally discriminates against Black people...
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Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants
National Legal News 05/23/2026The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda.” The purge of news relea...
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Federal Judge bans most arrests by federal agents in immigration courts in New York
Legal Compliance 05/19/2026Federal agents can no longer make arrests without exceptional circumstances in and around three Manhattan buildings where immigration proceedings occur, a judge ruled Monday. The decision by U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel brings an abrupt halt t...
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Court temporarily extends women’s access to a widely used abortion pill
Legal Compliance 05/15/2026The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect. Justice Samuel Alito’s orde...
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A man shot by ICE in California pleads not guilty to federal charges
National Legal News 05/04/2026A man who was shot multiple times during an arrest by immigration officers in central California pleaded not guilty on Monday to federal charges that he rammed his vehicle into two agents, prosecutors said.A federal grand jury on Friday indicted Carl...
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Trump’s lawyers are in talks with the IRS to resolve president’s $10B lawsuit
Legal Compliance 04/26/2026Lawyers for President Donald Trump are engaged in talks with the IRS to resolve a $10 billion lawsuit the president filed against his own tax collection agency over the leak of his tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020. In a federal c...
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Already under financial pressure, Midwest soybean farmers are squeezed further by tariffs
Legal Compliance 04/14/2026Strong winds whipped around Doug Bartek, a fifth-generation farmer, as he headed into a grain bin to shovel soybeans onto a conveyor chute. The 60-year-old was anxious at the onset of the spring planting season, rattling off the long list of issues a...
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Immigration lawyers accuse Vermont prisons of impeding their work
National Legal News 03/16/2026Attorneys and volunteers with the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project used to go into Vermont's prisons and meet with every immigration detainee, using their phones and computers for language interpretation, according to Jill Martin Diaz, executive dir...