Maria Acosta’s heart sinks every time she hears the question. “Señora, do I need to move?” Immigrants in Iowa keep asking her. And Acosta says she doesn’t know how to respond. “I feel powerless. I feel frustrated,” says Acosta, a community organizer for the Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice. “What can I tell people? I can’t tell them, ‘Oh, no, everything is going to be fine.’ I don’t know if everything is going to be fine. Right now, it’s not fine at all.” Last month, Iowa lawmakers swiftly...
House Bill 900 requires books sold in the state be rated for sexual content by the book seller, similar to how Hollywood rates movies.
A federal appeals court has declined to consider overturning its January ruling that blocked Texas from enforcing a Republican-championed law that would force booksellers to rate books for sexual content if they plan to sell to school libraries, Reuters reports. Tuesday's move by New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a victory for booksellers and First Amendment champions, who argued Texas' so-called READER Act violated constitutional protections for free speech....
People can be barred from Canada under espionage-related provisions of the immigration law only when their activities have a clear link to Canadian security, the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled. The finding came in a pair of decisions involving men from Ethiopia who were deemed inadmissible to Canada for being members of an organization that had engaged in spying. The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act bars permanent residents and foreign nationals who engage in espionage that is...
A basketball match between a group of Stanford Law students and Berkeley Law students started a new tradition.
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in two consolidated cases, Moyle v. Idaho and Idaho v. United States, to determine whether a federal law governing Read More
A case working its way through the Supreme Court could end up giving cities the power to outlaw homelessness.
A Federal High Court in Kano has halted the suspension of the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, by his ward.
Supreme Court justices clashed Thursday over former President Donald Trump’s claims of “absolute immunity” from being prosecuted for his official acts while he was in the White House.
There has been significant recent controversy and criticism in response to actions taken by the state of Iowa regarding immigration to the U.S. Iowa is now the second state to push against Biden’s immigration policies by creating its own exclusionary laws to be enforced by the local federal officers. In simple terms, Senate File 2340,
The county’s guaranteed income pilot program was designed provide $500 monthly subsidies for more than 1,900 low-income households for 18 months. The first payments, set to go out Wednesday, are now on indefinite hold.
France's new immigration law - finally passed in January 2024 - includes extra requirements for some foreigners in France to pass a language test, attend classes on French history and culture and sign a contract promising to adhere to 'republican values'.