OLYMPIA, Washington, Nov. 24 -- Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown issued the following news release: * * * AG Brown issues statement on the appointment of Colleen Melody to the Washington State Supreme Court * Attorney General Nick Brown today released a statement on the appointment of Colleen Melody, Senior Assistant Attorney General and Wing Luke Civil Rights Division Chief, to the Washington State Supreme Court. "Colleen is a brilliant attorney, the founding division director  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following news release on Nov. 24, 2025: * * * California violated state law when it gutted rooftop solar program, EWG claims in legal brief SAN FRANCISCO - California utility regulators violated state law by approving policy changes pushed by monopoly utilities that severely throttled a once-thriving rooftop solar market, the Environmental Working Group and its allies claim in a new legal filing. The November 21 filing, in th  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 -- The House Education and Workforce Committee released the following written testimony by EdTrust Senior Vice President Wil Del Pilar from a Nov. 18, 2025, hearing entitled "The Future of College: Harnessing Innovation to Improve Outcomes and Lower Costs": * * * Chairman Walberg, Ranking Member Scott, and members of the Committee on Education & Workforce, thank you for the opportunity and invitation to testify before the Committee on innovation in higher education and its   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following weekly digest: * * * Commission meetings and hearings The Commission executive sessions scheduled for October 21 and November 13 were not held. * * * Advisory Opinions Request Received and Extension of Time Advisory Opinion Request 2025-08 (Coolidge Reagan Foundation) (https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions/2025-08/) On September 30, the Commission made public an advisory opinion request from the Coolidg  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Nov. 19 -- Yale University posted the following news: * * * From Reform to Regression: Yale Lecture Explores Mexico's Democratic Backsliding By Rick Harrison To Alejandro Poire, democracy does not simply need defending. Instead, he said we must "reinvent and reconstruct the very concept of democracy." "I think the way in which we think about democracy contemporarily is simply insufficient," Poire said. "It's not going to be the type of concept or blueprint that is a  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 25 -- The Goldwater Institute issued the following news on Nov. 24, 2025: * * * Defending Donor Privacy from the IRS By Timothy Sandefur The Goldwater Institute today joined forces with our friends at the Rio Grande Foundation and the National Federation of Independent Business to file a friend of the court brief in a lawsuit that challenges the IRS's requirement that nonprofit organizations turn over their supporters' private information as part of their annual paperw  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: * * * HHS Announces Five New Agency Leaders to Advance MAHA Goals * WASHINGTON NOV. 24, 2025 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced five new agency leaders who will serve our nation's families and advance goals to Make America Healthy Again. Four of these five presidential appointees required and recently received Senate confirmation. "I promised Presid  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 [Category: Political] -- Democracy Forward, an organization that says it advances democracy and social progress through litigation, policy and public education and regulatory engagement, issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Politico Calls Democracy Forward the "Legal Resistance to Trump 2.0" * Democracy Forward CEO & President Skye Perryman: "Fighting an autocratic threat is not a training exercise, and you cannot fight autocracy by the spoonful" Democracy For  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 22 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary to the Reason magazine: * * * California Clears Path for Gig Unions By Jarrett Dieterle Even after the Prop 22 rebuke, California is pushing a system that could standardize schedules and undermine gig work. In October, California lawmakers passed a bill allowing rideshare drivers to unionize. Under the law, a unionization election can be triggered when just 10 percent of the state's rideshare drivers   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 -- The House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections released the following testimony by Jessie Hahn, senior counsel for labor and employment policy at the National Immigration Law Center, from a Nov. 19, 2025, hearing entitled "E-Verify: Ensuring Lawful Employment in America": * * * Chairman Mackenzie, Ranking Member Omar, and Members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony on the E-Verify program. My name is Jessie Ha  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 [Category: Business] -- NSSF-The Firearm Industry Trade Association, issued the following news release: * * * NSSF Files Amicus Brief in Support of Challenge to Hawaii's Second Amendment Restrictions in Wolford v. Lopez * WASHINGTON, D.C.NSSF (r), the Firearm Industry Trade Association, filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the petitioners in Wolford v. Lopez, a challenge to Hawaii's law prohibiting the carry of handguns by licensed conceal carry  more

MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 25 -- The Supreme Court of the Philippines issued the following news release: * * * SC Remains as One of the Best Employers in the Philippines The Supreme Court (SC) once again emerged as one of the Philippines' best employers, according to a survey by The Philippine Daily Inquirer (Inquirer) in partnership with German market firm Statista, earning a place on the "Philippines' Best Employers 2026" list. The ranking is based on an independent survey of more than 16,0  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 24 [Category: Think Tank] -- The Buckeye Institute, an independent research and educational institution that says its mission is to advance free-market public policy, posted the following news release: * * * The Buckeye Institute to SCOTUS: Hawaii Cannot Restrict Constitutional Rights It Does Not Like * The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in Wolford v. Lopez, calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and tell Hawaii it c  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Two Months After Trump Signs TikTok Executive Order, Senator Markey Demands Answers on Details of the Supposed TikTok Deal * Ahead of the two-month anniversary of President Donald Trump signing an executive order on a supposed TikTok deal, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, wrote a letter to President Trump, requestin  more

PEMBROKE, North Carolina, Nov. 25 -- The University of North Carolina-Pembroke issued the following news: * * * UNCP Announces Keynote Speakers for Historic Winter Commencement UNC Pembroke to Award First-Ever Doctoral Degrees During Historic Winter Commencement * The University of North Carolina at Pembroke will make history next month as it confers the institution's first-ever doctoral degrees during Winter Commencement. Eight students in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program will   more