The Sixth Circuit denied Tennessee’s motion for a stay of an order enjoining a state statute that imposed a 48 or 24 hour waiting period on women seeking an abortion. A stay would harm women seeking an abortion and the “public has no interest in the enforcement of an unconstitutional law,” the court ruled.
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Rejecting another attempt by former President Donald Trump to declare himself immune from criminal investigations, the Supreme Court refused Monday to block a New York subpoena of his tax records.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Friday extended a medical stay of deportation for a Guatemalan boy who needed emergency head surgery, remanding the case to federal court with instructions to examine new evidence in his initial temporary restraining order application.
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The Trump administration executed the eighth federal inmate this year just before midnight, after a late Thursday ruling from the Supreme Court overturned a federal judge’s temporary reprieve.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit stayed a district court’s ruling that had found that an exemption in Governor Greg Abbott’s statewide face mask mandate, which exempted polling places, discriminated against Black and Latino voters and was invalid and void.
Read moreAs Wisconsin’s Covid-19 cases surge, an appeals court in the state stayed Governor Tony Evers’ limits on public gatherings pending an appeal. The gatherings order limited bars, restaurants and other businesses to 25% of their capacity.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit stayed a district court’s ruling that prohibited the rejection of Texas voters’ ballots on the basis of a mismatched signature without first providing notice to the voter and a “meaningful opportunity to cure his or her ballot’s rejection.”
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to let Pennsylvania Republicans enforce their original deadline for mail-in ballots.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit stayed an injunction that had required Indiana to count all absentee ballots received by Nov. 13, finding the state’s law requiring all ballots to be received by noon on Election Day is “rational.” The circuit court added that the Supreme Court “insists the federal judges not change electoral rules close to an election.”
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The U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to halt the 2020 census count on Tuesday evening while litigation unfolds in the Ninth Circuit.
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The Trump administration cannot pause an order blocking the president’s memo excluding undocumented immigrants in determining the political heft of U.S. states in the census, a three-judge panel found in a blistering ruling Tuesday.
Read moreThe Eighth Circuit granted Republicans a stay pending appeal of a federal judge’s order awarding Democrats a preliminary injunction to prevent Minnesota from enforcing a law governing the order in which candidates appear on the ballot.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit granted a request from the Trump administration on Tuesday evening to hold off shutting down the Dakota Access pipeline.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit denied Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s request for a stay pending appeal of a case relating to ballot signature requirements. Proponents of a criminal justice reform initiative say the combination of the governor’s stay-at-home order and the signature requirements create an unconstitutionally severe restriction on their access to the ballot.
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday halted the voting registration of thousands of Florida felons who cannot pay fines or fees, just weeks after a lower court threw out the state law mandating payment of all legal financial obligations before voting.
Read moreA federal judge denied Michigan’s emergency motion for a stay of an injunction preventing the state from keeping an initiative off the ballot that would allow prisoners to earn time off their sentences.
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A federal judge ruled it is in the public’s best interest that the nation’s first supervised drug-injection site in Philadelphia be barred from opening while federal prosecutors appeal the site’s legality.
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The Fifth Circuit on Thursday rebuked a San Antonio federal judge in its unanimous order blocking an injunction that would have allowed any Texan to qualify for a mail-in ballot during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to temporarily block an order for the Trump administration to hand over to House Democrats records from the Mueller probe still hidden behind the grandy jury veil of secrecy.
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The same judge who last year blocked the Trump administration from denying green cards to immigrants on welfare grappled Monday with whether to do so again, despite a Supreme Court stay.
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