The Trump administration on Monday appealed a district court judge’s dismissal of its Tennessee criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the 30-year-old man living in Maryland who drew national attention to the administration’s immigration enforcement practices after he was wrongly deported to El Salvador last year. U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismissed human smuggling […]
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate said Monday his office is unlikely to issue guidance in the upcoming election for county auditors to challenge the ballots of people identified as as potential noncitizens, a situation that happened in 2024. Two weeks before the Nov. 5, 2024 election, Pate issued guidance to county auditors to challenge […]
The Trump administration Monday appealed a federal judge’s decision to dismiss its case against Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, from whom it’s trying to pry sensitive voter information. The U.S. Department of Justice has sued 30 states and Washington, D.C., for their refusal to turn over unredacted voter rolls to the federal government. Federal […]
Democratic secretary of state candidate Ryan Peterman said Saturday he believes recent changes to Iowa election law dealing with early voting and voter identification do not make Iowa elections more secure — but do make elections less accessible. Peterman, who is challenging incumbent Republican Secretary of State Paul Pate in the 2026 election, gave a […]
A member of New Mexico’s congressional delegation and state Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Wednesday announced newly proposed legislation that they say will help law enforcement agencies across the nation file legal challenges against the U.S. Department of Justice when it refuses to release documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
There have been 52 lawsuits filed over the past two months alleging correctional officers at Jetson Center for Youth sexually abused youth in their care between 1972 and 2005.
TOPEKA — An anonymous tip accusing a Chinese-American chemist and researcher of espionage spurred the University of Kansas into action, notifying the U.S. Department of Justice and building a case against its own employee, Feng “Franklin” Tao said in a lawsuit. Tao was a tenured chemical engineering professor at KU in 2019 when he became […]
Anti-abortion activist Paul Vaughn was convicted in 2024 on a felony charge of conspiring to prevent access to a Mt. Juliet reproductive clinic, then pardoned the following year by President Donald Trump just days after he retook office for a second term. Earlier this week, attorneys with the Thomas More Society, who represent Vaughn, announced […]
Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore has asked the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to audit records covering the first two years of the state’s contract with the company now under scrutiny for a software glitch in New Jersey where 6,600 noncitizens were registered to vote. Amore’s request aims to confirm if any noncitizens […]
Missouri withdrew this week from a multi-state lawsuit seeking to strike down a part of federal law requiring states to provide services to allow people with disabilities to live in their communities instead of institutions. The lawsuit began in September 2024 with 17 Republican-led states challenging a Biden administration rule that indicated gender dysphoria “may […]
