Legislation, regulation, and what a bill or ruling actually does.
Reported by Jonah Reyes, Rosa Delgado
The justices heard argument in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy on Tuesday. A Q&A on the funding rule, the two lower court losses and the narrow questions the court is actually deciding.
By Rosa Delgado
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Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui ruled from the bench Monday. A grand jury indictment is still possible, and the written order on whether the dismissal bars refiling was not yet public.
A federal judge in Boston struck the extra impairment test CMS added to the Medicaid medically frail exemption, but left the work requirement and two proof-of-frailty limits in place.
Hennepin County says two hidden-camera filmmakers used the names of dead and already-voted residents at four precincts. The statute turns on the misrepresentation, and prosecutors concede neither man meant to vote.
Texas sued and the Justice Department asked for judgment within hours in June. On October 27 the justices declined to pause the result, without explanation.
A two-count Espionage Act filing sat under seal from October 5 until Monday. Comey's lawyers say an information cannot toll the limitations period. The government says courts have approved it.
The October 22 suit leans on one purpose line in the National Voter Registration Act and a second Dan Sullivan who took 2.5 percent in the primary. No hearing is set, and the complaint itself was not available for this report.
The state's own fiscal table shows average bills falling in every income group below $1 million, which turns the fight over rich-taxpayer flight into a dispute about a pool of 46,328 filers and a Massachusetts precedent that cuts both ways.
Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides face one count each over 2023 House testimony about Hunter Biden. Because no grand jury has acted, a preliminary hearing is set for Tuesday and an indictment deadline runs to roughly November 22.
An unsigned order Thursday pauses a federal judge's ruling that kept student IDs usable as backup evidence of identity. HB 323, which removed them as primary ID, was never blocked.
The Senate's 47-3 vote on SB 1014 requires bell-to-bell phone policies statewide, but the text leaves confiscation, storage and consequences to each school board.
Judge Denise Cote held on October 20 that OPM's access grants to DOGE-linked staff violated two Privacy Act provisions. She also found OPM's fixes tracked court deadlines, and has not decided whether an injunction is still needed.
The October 19 grant in McNutt (No. 26-204) limits the question to the taxing power. The Solicitor General dropped the commerce theory and told the Court Ream's standing is weaker.
Both would open the governor's office to records requests. The competing bill in conference committee is written to supersede the ballot measure, and the two diverge on legislative settlements, contracts, and appeals.
Federal records show a September 30 task order with $69.9 million obligated and a two-year term. They do not show that the money came from teen pregnancy prevention grants. A court hears the challenge Tuesday.
The Graham Act has two ways for a president to ease its penalties. The one Trump used on October 16 needs a certification and a report. The other needs a Russia-Ukraine peace deal and a 30-day wait.
DPS stopped forwarding online registrations to counties in October 2025. Officials say affected voters can still vote, by provisional ballot if needed. The size of the problem is still disputed.
A Justice Department letter sets a noon Thursday deadline for California to vet a password-protected list of names and set aside ballots it cannot confirm. The 90-day rule on voter-roll purges is the legal fight underneath.
The Commerce Department's proposal, open for comment until November 2, sorts foreign citizens into counted and uncounted in two lines of regulatory text. How the Bureau would tell them apart is left to records it says it is "considering."
A federal judge froze tree removal at East Potomac Golf Links after hundreds came down over a holiday weekend. The notice she expected was never written into an order, and the tree counts filed in court do not match.
