The Voting Rights Act marks its 60th anniversary as its core provisions are being eroded The Voting Rights Act was signed into law 60 years ago but has been slowly eroding for more than a decade The Independent UK · Aug 6, 2025
A judge tells federal agencies they can't enforce anti-trans bias policies against Catholic groups A federal judge has ruled that two federal agencies cannot punish Catholic employers and health care providers if they refuse, for religious reasons, to provide gender-affirming care to transgender patients or won’t provide health insurance coverage for such care to their workers The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2025
THINGS TO KNOW: Deadline looms for new map in embattled North Dakota redistricting lawsuit Time is running out on a Friday deadline for North Dakota's Legislature to enact new lines for legislative districts encompassing two tribal nations that successfully challenged the state's 2021 redistricting map as violating the Voting Rights Act The Independent UK · Dec 21, 2023
8th Circuit ruling backs tribes’ effort to force lawmakers to redraw N.D. legislative boundaries The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request from North Dakota's secretary of state to delay a federal judge's ruling that found the state's 2021 redistricting map violated the Voting Rights Act in diluting the voting strength of two Native American tribes The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2023
Judge rejects delay of ruling backing North Dakota tribes' effort to change legislative boundaries A federal judge has denied a motion to stay his decision in a redistricting lawsuit brought by two Native American tribes who alleged North Dakota's 2021 redistricting map violated the Voting Rights Act The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2023
Decades in prison for 3 sentenced in North Dakota fentanyl trafficking probe Three more men charged in connection with an alleged international fentanyl ring have been sentenced this month to decades in federal prison The Independent UK · Jul 25, 2023
Judge's ruling awaited in tribes’ lawsuit over North Dakota redistricting map A federal judge is expected to decide in the coming weeks whether the new boundaries of North Dakota’s legislative districts dilute Native American voters’ strength on two reservations whose tribes are challenging the map approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2023
Biden rule regulating ‘ghost guns’ sold online survives lawsuit for now WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s new rule regulating untraceable build-at-home “ghost guns” in the U.S. for the first time can take effect while a group of Republican-led states sues to vacate the policy, a judge ruled. Tribune News Service · Aug 24, 2022