Category: Law & Courts
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A federal judge blocked a new Postal Service rule on mail ballot envelopes, finding it threatened disenfranchisement weeks before the election. The administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift that block, and challengers’ responses were due this morning.
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A federal judge called it a cruel bait-and-switch, said the timing was bizarre — and ruled for the Pentagon anyway. Three Stars and Stripes journalists can be fired while their lawsuit proceeds, because speech made as part of official duties is not protected the way private speech is.
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A campaign group, not a public authority, is prosecuting alleged animal welfare offences at a Lincolnshire pig farm. A court deadline falls this week. Nobody has been found guilty of anything, and the case is as much a test of who enforces animal welfare law in England as of what happened on one farm.
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Three people died in a shooting outside a Tucson bar frequented by LGBTQ people. Five days later, investigators confirmed it was motivated by homophobia. What that classification changes when the perpetrator is already dead.
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Federal authorities want to check state voter rolls against federal citizenship records. Whether that removes ineligible registrations or eligible voters comes down to three procedural details, not to the stated purpose.
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Twelve people were sentenced to death in Egypt for drug trafficking, in one paragraph of wire copy. The treaty Egypt has signed limits capital punishment to the most serious crimes — and the body that interprets it says drug offences are not among them.
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Missouri’s top court has blocked the state’s mid-decade congressional map for November. It did so on state constitutional grounds — which, since 2019, is the only avenue left for challenges of this kind.
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Catholic health providers are suing Illinois over its assisted-dying law. The fight is not over whether a doctor can refuse — it is over what an institution owes a patient after it has refused.
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The House passed a bill stripping federal funding from universities that take part in boycotts of Israel, 237 to 169, with 33 Democrats voting yes. The constitutional question splits between two Supreme Court cases that point in opposite directions.
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Lianyong Wei was found unresponsive in a Saipan lockup on 23 August, a day after being taken into immigration custody. He was the 57th person to die in ICE or Border Patrol custody since March 2025. The Chinese government is asking questions almost nobody else is.