Biden administration seeks to speed some asylum cases with new immigration docket
Asylum seekers board a bus en route to a shelter in New York City on May 18, 2023. The Biden administration announced changes Thursday, May 16, 2024, meant to speed…
Wyoming’s Title IX lawsuit highlights governor’s complicated stance on transgender youth
Wyoming is taking the Biden administration to court over new Title IX rules intended to strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ students. Gov. Mark Gordon touted Wyoming’s involvement in the suit, though…
Advocates press U.S. House to act soon on compensation for nuclear testing victims
New Mexico Democrats Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, at the lectern, and Sen. Ben Ray Luján, and Guam’s Republican House delegate, James Moylan, along with advocates, on May 16, 2024, urged…
Brown v. Board litigants, family mark anniversary as Biden decries ongoing school inequality
Plaintiffs and family members of plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case Cheryl Brown Henderson (2nd R), John Stokes (2nd L) and Nathaniel Briggs (R) speaks…
Advocates press U.S. House to act soon on compensation for nuclear testing victims
New Mexico Democrats Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, at the lectern, and Sen. Ben Ray Luján, and Guam’s Republican House delegate, James Moylan, along with advocates, on May 16, 2024, urged…
Advocates press U.S. House to act soon on compensation for nuclear testing victims
New Mexico Democrats Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, at the lectern, and Sen. Ben Ray Luján, and Guam’s Republican House delegate, James Moylan, along with advocates, on May 16, 2024, urged…
U.S. House panel debates voting by noncitizens, which is already illegal
U.S. House Republicans are promoting a bill to curb voting by noncitizens. Though noncitizens can vote in some local elections, it is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal…
Cox says he wants an ICE facility in Utah
Gov. Spencer J. Cox speaks to reporters during the Governor’s Monthly News Conference at the PBS Utah Studios in Salt Lake City on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Pool photo by…
Plaintiffs seek permanent injunction of Arkansas’ blocked library obscenity law
The “social section” in Crawford County Library’s Van Buren branch (Screenshot from court documents) The 18 plaintiffs challenging an Arkansas law that would alter libraries’ processes for reconsidering materials asked…
U.S. House rebukes Biden administration over pause in heavy bomb shipments to Israel
U.S. Capitol | Susan J. Demas WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed legislation Thursday rebuking President Joe Biden’s decision to withhold some military assistance from Israel amid its ongoing war…