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A recent change in North Carolina’s election law should prompt a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from felon voting advocates as moot. That’s the argument the State Board of Elections and local district attorneys made in a court filing Wednesday. A hearing in the case is scheduled Nov. 14 in Durham.

Critics of North Carolina’s felon voting restrictions believe the state’s newest election law has no impact on their federal lawsuit. They argued in a court filing Friday that a federal

The first head of the IRS, who wanted to abolish the income tax, waged an unlikely campaign on behalf of the Taftite remnant.

If the high court takes this case, it will become the first chance justices have had to weigh in on transgender health care restrictions, which have been enacted in 21 states.

Critics of North Carolina’s felon voting restrictions believe the state’s newest election law has no impact on their federal lawsuit. They argued in a court filing Friday that a federal judge should grant their request to strike down the 50-year-old felon re-enfranchisement law. A hearing in the case is scheduled Nov. 14 in Durham.

Several Tennessee families and health care providers asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to declare unconstitutional the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

The Supreme Court is not required to take up the case. Even when so-called circuit splits make cases ripe for review, the court sometimes declines to add them to its

(TNS) Seven Kentucky transgender minors and their families, who sued the state this summer over a new gender-affirming medical care ban, plan to appeal their case to the U.S. Supreme

The Arab American Civil Rights League and a San Francisco lawyer filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. State Department and the Department of Defense on behalf of Palestinian Americans who are stuck in war-torn Gaza. 

The ACLU is trying to stop a ban from going into effect.