Labour’s new small boats legislation will reportedly retain a number of controversial measures the party previously opposed, including a ban on migrants claiming modern slavery protections and powers to detain children. The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill – set to be published on Thursday – is expected to include new counterterrorism-style powers to target […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday that the Trump administration has revoked a decision that would have protected roughly 600,000 people from Venezuela from deportation. On “Fox and Friends,” Noem said that she reversed the decision made by her successor, Alejandro Mayorkas, in the waning days of the Biden administration that […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain There’s a universe of possible outcomes if the Supreme Court takes up the TikTok case, a Northeastern University legal scholar says, including a ruling that signals a “slippery slope” toward more restrictions on constitutional freedoms of speech. The stakes are high, says Sahar Abi-Hassan, assistant professor of political science on Northeastern’s […]
In anticipation of more hostility toward abortion under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, California lawmakers announced two new pieces of legislation Monday aimed at protecting medication abortion and punishing local governments that interfere with access to reproductive health care. California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the bills at a press conference, saying Californians are in an […]
American voters this week chose to reelect a man who has repeatedly bragged about handcrafting the Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe v. Wadeconsistently spreads disinformation about pregnant people aborting their fetuses “after birth,” said there ought to be “some form of punishment” for women who end their pregnancies, and held that it’s up to […]
