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April 06, 2022
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SALT LAKE CITY — Students at West High School in Salt Lake City staged a walkout Wednesday in protest over the state's new transgender athletes law that was recently passed in the Utah Legislature.
About a thousand students gathered in front of the school, with many student body lead...
April 06, 2022
Justice News
On April 4 and 5, in Mexico City, Mexico, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico hosted a collaborative Regional Smuggling Forum and Roundtable event to promote the Bicentennial Agreement. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Office of Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) led the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)-fu...
April 06, 2022
LAREDO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Laredo South Station, together with local law enforcement partners, shut down a stash house yielding the apprehension of several undocumented individuals and the seizure of a large amount of narcotics in west Laredo.
The incident occurred on April 5, when an interagency collaboration between Laredo Sector agents, CBP Air and Marine Ope...
April 06, 2022
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has filed a petition for a state court of appeals to rehear a twice struck down law banning dilation and evacuation abortions after 11 weeks — a common procedure in the second trimester.
The U.S. Supreme Court granted him the power to do so just over a month ago.
In 2018, then-Governor Matt Bevin, a Republican, signed the bill into law. The ACLU and EM...
April 06, 2022
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Lawyers across Canada are stunned by the revelation that a “phantom” trial has taken place in the province of Quebec.
“We live in a democracy, this is not a dictatorship. We don’t have secret trials,” said Jody Berkes, former head of the criminal justice section of the Canadian Bar Association. “To have a secret trial, where there’s no evidence that a tria...
April 06, 2022
On March 18, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana issued a preliminary injunction in Montana Medical Association v. Knudsen, enjoining enforcement of part of Montana’s vaccination law against “all Montana health care facilities and individual practitioners and clinics” subject to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) COVID-19 vaccination requirement.
The M...
April 06, 2022
LOUISIANA LAW follows the men and women of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries as they patrol one of the most geographically diverse states in the U.S. Their jurisdiction ranges from the deep forests at the Arkansas border to the lowland marshes and bayous near the coast and extends 200 miles into the Gulf of Mexico.
Louisiana’s wildlife agents are tasked with protecting the na...
April 06, 2022
Free Speech for Students
Legislation will ensure that students who engage in the political process on campus are protected, guaranteeing the same rights as other on-campus organizations.
Last week, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves (R) signed House Bill 1416 into law. The bill was sponsored by State Representative Kent McCarty (R). It will ensure that public school students can engage in polit...
April 06, 2022
A group of Texas press photographers filed suit against the 2013 law, which prevented journalists from using drones to photograph news events over private property. The law was among the most restrictive in the country.
A drone flies in downtown Austin.
People and businesses use drones for tasks ranging from taking aerial photographs to monitoring crops. Soon, they’ll deliver packages. But a ...
April 06, 2022
The Republican lawmaker was the chief sponsor of the controversial bill regulating discussions of gender and sexual orientations in classrooms.
Republican Rep. Joe Harding raised more than $70,000 in donations from across the country last month, averaging less than $19 per contribution, his campaign announced Wednesday.
Harding received a groundswell of grassroots support in March when the pa...