President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed outrage to aides because there have been no violent mass street demonstrations against his statements and policies. He believes he needs violent demonstrations against him in order to declare a national state of emergency that would allow him to do anything he wants.   read more

Lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) have sued the U.S. government to force the release of the only known surviving videotape documenting the use of torture against terrorism suspects.   CCR seeks the recording of detainee Moh...   read more

A legal expert has questioned the conventional wisdom that the U.S. Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has been a strong proponent of free speech.   Monica Youn, a lawyer with the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York Unive...   read more

Having made hundreds of millions of dollars off the regime, defense contractor Lockheed has publicly defended the dictatorship in Bahrain by using a former high-ranking military commander now on the company’s payroll. In the past year, King Hamad ...   read more

A conservative parents’ organization and the Obama administration find themselves on the same side in a court case brought by the major television networks.   Fox and other networks have sued the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to challe...   read more

Allegedly upset by allegations of abused Afghans at the prison, President Hamid Karzai has demanded that the U.S. turn over control of its most important detention facility in Afghanistan, adding that any prisoners held without supporting evidence...   read more

A 40-year-old actress is suing Amazon, owner of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), for revealing her age and consequently costing her employment opportunities in Hollywood.   Huong Hoang, who goes by Junie Hoang, contends Amazon used her person...   read more

Senate Republicans want the American people to think that President Barack Obama is on a “power grab” after using a recess appointment to install Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three new members to the Nati...   read more

The Department of Defense is investing heavily in cloud-based computing that relies on software developed in China—the same country deemed a major cybersecurity threat to the United States.   In order to shift military operations to the cloud, t...   read more

Teachers in Pennsylvania’s Chester Upland School District in Delaware County, west of Philadelphia, intend to keep working indefinitely even though they won’t be paid after Wednesday by the broke district.   Unions representing more than 260 ins...   read more

If victimized by a crime from the hours of 4 pm to 8 am, residents of the Northeastern District of Detroit, starting today, should not go to their nearest police precinct—because it will be closed to them for crime reporting. The new hours will pr...   read more

The state of Georgia may be looking at prolonged delays for many of its death-row inmates unless it can come up with more money for legal defense.   Most of the 90 prisoners facing execution are represented by the Georgia Appellate Practice and ...   read more

Echoing the criticism of American labor unions, the Netherlands’ largest pension fund has cited Walmart’s poor labor practices as reason for withdrawing its investments from the world’s biggest retail chain.   Algemeen Burgerlijk Pensioenfonds (...   read more

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officially expanded its definition of rape this week, changing the standards for sexual assault for the first time since 1929. Under the new definition, rape will include male victims as well as women and ...   read more

Republicans in Congress have been going after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) ever since its “Fast and Furious” gun operation became exposed. The GOP critics have been beside themselves, asking how the ATF could have ...   read more

Less than a third of all U.S. states are complying with the federal law intended to protect children from sex offenders, with most states choosing not to invest in sharing their information with Washington.   Congress adopted the so-called Adam ...   read more

As far as the State Department is concerned, WikiLeaks’ release of 250,000 of the agency’s secret cables never happened. That’s why if any American requests copies of the exposed documents, the State Department refuses—insisting the information is...   read more