Federal courts regularly engage in public outreach and civics education efforts. A new interactive civics map is helping the public more easily find court educational resources and civics program information nationwide.
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The cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services today make a mockery of the “Make America Healthy Again” slogan by arbitrarily decimating new staff in key public health agencies who might actually implement the slogan.
The firings impact staff across HHS and affect thousands of people on “probationary” status.
The mass firings will undermine the work of two of the agencies that solve and prevent foodborne outbreaks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the … Read the rest
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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him. Ruben Gutierrez was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville, Tex. Gutierrez has maintained his innocence and says DNA from several pieces of evidence — such as a hair and nail scrapings from Harrison’s finger and … Read the rest
Politicians have called for funding to be maintained for meat inspections after hearing evidence on the scale of products being seized at the border.
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee examined biosecurity measures for animal and plant imports to the UK. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is responsible for product of animal origin imports.
The committee has written to Sue Hayman, Defra Minister for biosecurity and borders, to request a timeline of the agency’s response to … Read the rest
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:
- Trump, Vance and Musk take aim at the courts as judges halt some of 2nd term agenda (Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News)
- State v. state battles over abortion laws are coming to a head – and likely will end up at the Supreme Court (Tierney Sneed, CNN)
- SCOTUS case involving St. Isidore, state charter school board will be
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The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.
People held in state prison can turn to federal court to challenge the validity of their conviction or sentence. But they face a high bar in doing so: They have to convince a federal trial judge that their state conviction or sentence was “unreasonable,” and if they fail in that … Read the rest
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The toxic baby food crisis is not just a failure in public health. It is a defining moral challenge for an industry entrusted with the most sacred responsibility: nourishing our children.
For years, warnings about heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and cadmium, coupled with pathogens such as Cronobacter sakazakii, have sounded loudly, only to be met with insufficient action. The public’s trust has been steadily undermined by corporate inertia and regulatory gaps that prioritize short-term profits over long-term … Read the rest
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The Trump administration on Friday notified the Supreme Court that, in its view, a Tennessee law banning the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors does not violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection. But although that position is a change from the one advanced by the Biden administration when the justices heard oral argument in a challenge to the law in December, the Trump administration nonetheless urged the Supreme Court to go ahead and decide … Read the rest