President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration takes place on January 20, 2021. All federal prisons in the U.S., more than 120, have been put on lockdown as of midnight on Saturday, January 16, in response to “current events,” according to a statement by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The BOP says this... Read More »
The Keystone XL pipeline project was rejected by the Obama administration because it went against its efforts to fight climate change. Trump made building the pipeline a central platform in his presidential campaign. Biden, who was vice president under Obama, plans to cancel the permit for the project as one... Read More »
Just days before President Trump is to leave office, his administration published a finalized rule amending the process by which U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) selects applicants for H-1B visas. In one of the final attempts to leave the administration’s lasting mark on the U.S. immigration system, the new... Read More »
In 2020, the federal government executed 10 prisoners. That’s more prisoners than all the states together put to death last year. With this statistic in hand, and noting the three inmates scheduled for execution in January, Democrats revealed legislation that would end federal capital punishment. A total of 13 federal... Read More »
No one paying attention to politics in recent years suspected President Trump to accept electoral defeat in the 2020 elections graciously. The dozens of failed lawsuits and cries of foul play fell in line with what America could have predicted. However, when armed Trump supporters, freshly riled up by the... Read More »
Matthew Ryncarz, owner and operator of Fusion Health and Vitality LLC (doing business as Pharm Origins) was halted from continuing to sell Vitamin D products that he claimed were certified treatments for the COVID-19 virus and other diseases. This permanent injunction from the U.S. District Court of the Southern District... Read More »
An angry ninth-grader who just learned she didn’t make the varsity cheerleading squad posted a message on social media. It included what her public school considered offensive gestures and language. She was removed from the cheerleading squad and sued her school. She won her case in the lower courts, and... Read More »
Tracy Chapman, an American singer-songwriter, filed a lawsuit against Nicki Minaj, an American-Trinidadian rapper, in 2018, claiming Minaj’s song “Sorry” took “both lyrics and vocal melody” from Chapman’s 1988 hit “Baby Can I Hold You.” Earlier this month, Chapman accepted Minaj’s offer to settle the suit by paying Chapman $450,000... Read More »
The Department of Justice Antitrust Division charged Surgical Care Affiliates LLC with two counts of collusion with the labor market on January 7, 2021. The indictment claims the company “enter[ed] into and engag[ed] in two separate bilateral conspiracies with other health care companies to suppress competition between them for the... Read More »
When Congress met on January 6 to certify the election results, there were about a dozen Republican senators who said they would object to the election results for at least one state. However, after pro-Trump protestors broke into the Capitol, they were forced to evacuate their chambers and have an... Read More »
Last week, The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) finalized a rule that would make it illegal for any financial institution regulated by the OCC with over $100 billion in assets to reject potential customers for any reason other than financial risk. In essence, the new rule would... Read More »
The Supreme Court has supported a Trump mandate that all women seeking medical abortions must pick up their medications in person. However, many other medicines are now allowed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be mailed to patients due to the dangers of contracting COVID-19. The order, split... Read More »
Jason Joey Berry and Xuan Cahn Nguyen were extradited from Canada to stand first trial and arraignment in North Dakota in early January 2021. The two are alleged to be part of an international fentanyl trafficking organization responsible for moving more than 500 grams of Schedule I and Schedule II... Read More »
In the wake of the blitzkrieg second impeachment of President Trump, Congress is now faced with the question of how to move forward. The Senate is in recess until January 19, meaning that the earliest possible time it could receive the Article of Impeachment from the House would be 1:00... Read More »
Rudy Giuliani, Trump attorney and former Mayor of New York City, is being considered by the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) for expulsion. The organization has received hundreds of complaints due to Giuliani’s numerous efforts leading up to the Capitol riots, including his comments at the now infamous rally... Read More »
