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Federal Government Pausing $1 Billion in Medicaid Payments to 2 States
‘If those states want that money, they need to provide documentation that these payments are legitimate,’ the health secretary said.
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Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot
District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín said in a Monday ruling that the class-action settlement provides “meaningful relief” to affected authors and publishers.
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Thousands of Noncitizens Registered to Vote in New Jersey, Governor Says
A software error resulted in roughly 6,600 people who indicated they were not U.S. citizens being registered to vote in New Jersey.
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Democratic Governor Says ‘Software Error’ Registered 6,600 Self-Identified Non-Citizens to Vote
Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Tuesday that over 6,000 non-citizens were mistakenly added to her state’s voter rolls due to a “serious software error.”
Sherrill said in a statement that last week, she discovered a software error in the state’s Motor Vehicles Commission (MVC) had “led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who indicated that they were not U.S. citizens between June 2023 and June 2024, almost three years prior to my taking office.” She added that the individuals had “answered ‘no’ when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for drivers’ licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway.”
Rights Groups Sue Trump Administration over Proposed Childcare Funding Cuts
The Hill Civil rights groups sued the Trump administration on Monday, after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records relating to attempts to freeze billions of dollars in federal childcare funding in response to fraud claims. The lawsuit was brought on by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Illinois, the ACLU of Colorado, the National Women’s Law Center and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice. The groups accused the agency of failing to respond to a March FOIA request seeking documents relating to the administration’s funding freeze affecting five Democrat-led states: California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York. READ THE FULL STORY
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Supreme Court to hear from Alaskan bush pilot whose plane was confiscated over a six-pack of beer…
The appeal from the 82-year-old pilot, Kenneth Jouppi, could have national implications if the 6-3 conservative court limits the ability of state and local governments to rely on asset forfeiture.
Jouppi argues that under the 8th Amendment’s bar on excessive fines, courts must consider the “gravity of the specific defendant’s wrongdoing.” In his case, he said, that didn’t happen and his “airplane [was] forfeited for a six-pack.”
John Eastman Asks SCOTUS To Protect Speech Rights Of Lawyers Doing Their Jobs
If conservative lawyers lose their free speech rights, our constitutional system of law is doomed. We’re fighting to prevent that.
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FBI Files Expose Michigan Operation Suspected of Targeting Trump Voters
Newly released FBI files reveal that an employee of a mysterious Michigan voter-registration operation told federal agents she believed the company may have been attempting to suppress support for President Donald Trump during the 2020 election.
Still, the memo raises new questions about who financed the organization, why canvassers were paid via malfunctioning debit cards, what happened to the collected forms, and why a former employee came away believing the operation may have targeted Trump voters.