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(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill raising the U.S. debt limit into law, the White House said in a statement, averting what would have been an unprecedented default. The U.S. Congress on Tuesday approved raising the federal government's borrowing authority by $2.5 trillion to about $31.4 trillion, sending the bill to Biden for his approval.

Oregon will receive $662 million if Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is implemented  KPTV.com

Nakita Blocton (Image via Alabama Administrative Office of Courts) The Alabama Court of the Judiciary removed Judge Nakita Blocton of Jefferson County, Alabama, from the bench. The court found she “engaged in a pattern of abuse of staff, attorneys and litigants” and communicated with litigants on social media using aliases. According to the Judicial Inquiry Commission, some of the more egregi...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy addresses the 2019 Alaska Federation of Natives convention at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks. In part of his speech, he identified specific communities that were supposed to have gotten some type of law enforcement presence. (Nathaniel Herz/Alaska Public Media) A lack of law enforcement in rural Alaska prompted a federal public safety disaster declaration in 2019, as well ...

Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, part of the Transportation Department, has suspended a program that puts students at sea for a year. That followed reports of sexual assault of students aboard commercial vessels. Members of Congress have called on th...

The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to allow a legal challenge to proceed against the Texas law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy is on its surface encouraging, but there is much that is deeply disturbing about the ruling. Although the court ruled that some Texas officials can be sued to block the anti-abortion statute, it also made clear how states can nullify federal constit...

By Giovanna Deo For nearly 30 years, over 2800 students have been matched with practicing attorneys—Iowa Law alumni and friends—across the globe for the Partner for a Day program. The program serves as an opportunity for students to personally learn from an attorney and gain a feel of what it is like to be in practice. Based on a survey of each student’s interests, the Career Services Office ...

Immigration-rights activists at a rally in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 12, 2019. Scores of current and former prosecutors and law enforcement officials backed a Biden administration appeal of a U.S. district court judge’s ruling that the DACA program protecting undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as children from deportation was unlawful. The U.S. ...

On December 15, 2021, the Ohio Senate passed its version of House Bill 126 (which proposed to modify the procedure when a school district challenges a property tax valuation). Instead of merely modifying the procedure to challenge a property tax valuation, Substitute House Bill 126 as passed by the Senate prohibits a school district from initiating such a challenge. The Senate amendment still...

SPRINGFIELD – Starting Jan. 1,students who wish to attend an Illinois public college or university will no longer be required to submit ACT and SAT scores when applying, thanks to a law championed by State Senator Christopher Belt (D-Swansea). “Standardized test scores do not showcase a student’s ability,” Belt said. “Students struggle each year to do well on ACT and SAT tests. Removing this ...