MONONA, Wisconsin, Jan. 16 -- A Better Wisconsin Together, a state-based research and communications hub for progressives, posted the following news release on Jan. 15, 2026: * * * Maria Lazar's Bizarre Campaign Continues: Finance Report Edition Lazar's bizarre campaign for the Wisconsin State Supreme Court continues * MADISON, Wis. -- Right-wing Judge Maria Lazar's bizarre campaign for the Wisconsin State Supreme Court continues with the filing of a campaign finance report detailing who sh  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The America First Policy Institute issued the following statement on Jan. 15, 2026: * * * Blackwell Statement on Supreme Court Decision Allowing Challenge to Illinois Mail-In Ballot Law The America First Policy Institute's Election Integrity Initiative welcomed today's Supreme Court decision allowing a challenge to Illinois' mail-in ballot law to move forward, reaffirming that candidates for federal office have a legitimate interest in the rules governing how votes are   more

SACRAMENTO, California, Jan. 14 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Bonta Supports Minnesota's Fight Against USDA's Attacks on SNAP * Celebrates preliminary injunction blocking Trump Administration's latest illegal action. OAKLAND -California Attorney General Rob Bonta today celebrated a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota preliminarily enjoining the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) demand t  more

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minnesota, Jan. 16 -- C.H. Robinson Worldwide, a company that says it solves logistics problems, issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2026: * * * C.H. Robinson Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Affirm Uniform Federal Freight Laws Brief filed today argues safety and the economy are best served by maintaining one national set of rules instead of 50 state-level ones * C.H. Robinson, the leader in Lean AI supply chains, today filed its merits brief in Montgomery v. Caribe Trans  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Cato Institute issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2026: * * * Cato Expert Available: Supreme Court Rules on Warrantless Home Entries in Case v. Montana Today, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Case v. Montana, concerning when police officers can enter a home without a warrant to provide emergency aid to someone inside. In an opinion by Justice Kagan, the Court held that officers do not need probable cause that an emergency exists before doing s  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Cato Institute issued the following news release on Jan. 15, 2026: * * * Cato Expert: Yesterday's Double Jeopardy Decision Raises Questions Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided unanimously in Barrett v. United States that prosecutors cannot get separate convictions for a single act unless it is clear Congress intended to allow cumulative punishment. In a recent blog post, Matthew Cavedon, director of the Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice, argues that the cou  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Cato Institute issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2026: * * * Scott Lincicome: SCOTUS or Not, Tariff Complexity Remains a Big Problem In December, Scott Lincicome, Vice President of Economics at the Cato Institute, and first documented how the US tariff system had become "increasingly complex and convoluted" in 2025, thanks to a rash of new and overlapping executive branch tariff measures. Today, Lincicome released an updated flowchart (https://www.cato.org/  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Rep. Joseph Morelle, D-New York, issued the following news release: * * * CONGRESSMAN JOE MORELLE LEADS EFFORT TO BAN STOCK TRADING IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT * (Washington, D.C.)-Today, Congressman Joe Morelle, top Democrat on the Committee on House Administration, called out House Republicans for failing to adequately address corruption in our government. During a hearing of the Committee on Wednesday (link is external), Morelle denounced House Republicans' new legisl  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin Condemns Dark Money In Politics On Anniversary Of Citizens United Supreme Court Decision * January 15, 2026 Durbin: "Citizens United was mindless. To say that a business has the same rights as an individual under the Constitution is mindless." WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined his Senate Democratic c  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 15, 2026: * * * Durbin Condemns Dark Money In Politics On Anniversary Of Citizens United Supreme Court Decision U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined his Senate Democratic colleagues in marking the sixteenth anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. FEC decision, whi  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich Introduces Legislation to Redirect ICE Funding to Help New Mexico Law Enforcement Keep Communities Safe * WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, joined 5 Senate Democrats to introduce the PUBLIC SAFETY Act, legislation that will redirect almost $75 billion from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and send it inst  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 15 [Category: Political] -- The Hispanic Federation, an organization that supports and strengthens Latino institutions through education, health, immigration, civic engagement, economic empowerment and the environment, issued the following news release: * * * Hispanic Federation Concerned About SCOTUS Decision Opening Doors to Additional Lawsuits Challenging Vote by Mail * Chicago, IL - Today, Hispanic Federation expressed concern following a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Jan. 16 -- The Illinois Supreme Court issued the following news release on Jan. 15, 2026: * * * Illinois Supreme Court Appoints Associate Judge Julia Yetter as Sixteenth Circuit Court Judge Justice Elizabeth M. Rochford and the Illinois Supreme Court have announced the appointment of Associate Judge Julia Ann Yetter as an At Large Circuit Judge in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Kane County. Judge Yetter is being appointed to fill the vacancy created by the impending r  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- George Washington University posted the following news: * * * Media Tip Sheet: Supreme Court Likely to Support State Bans on Transgender Athletes * WASHINGTON (January 15, 2025) - The Supreme Court seems likely to uphold current laws barring transgender athletes from participating in women's sports. The oral arguments in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. addressed state laws in Idaho and West Virginia that prohibit transgender women from competing on women'  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 15 [Category: Media] -- PEN America, an organization that says it stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression, posted the following news release: * * * PEN America Warns of Expanding Web of Control as Politicians Escalate Campaign to Censor U.S. Colleges and Universities * As a result of a dramatic escalation in political censorship, more than half the students at U.S. colleges and universities now study in a state with at least one law  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The Peterson Institute for International Economics issued the following commentary on Jan. 15, 2026: * * * Bamboozled: What made anyone think the Trump tariffs were legal? By Alan Wm. Wolff (PIIE) The American people deserve an explanation on how the president of the United States on April 2 last year announced the largest tariff package in modern history with no action by Congress. It is not the province of the president to set tariffs. This is entirely within Congres  more

MERRIFIELD, Virginia, Jan. 16 -- The Public Advocate of the U.S. issued the following news release: * * * Public Advocate Fights for Women's Rights and Supreme Court Seems to Agree Public Advocate president Eugene Delgaudio says "Public Advocate has filed several briefs in support of Title IX law protections applying to women by the will of Congress and that women are protected. It wonderful that the judges and the major news media agrees with the possible outcome is that the Court will uphol  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2026: * * * REMINDER: Janet Mills supports biological males in women's sports Today, the U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments over allowing states to ban biological males from competing in women's sports. Janet Mills supports allowing biological males in women's sports, putting Maine's women athletes in danger. She is so passionate about it, she even went as far as shouting at  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 16 -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion on Jan. 14, 2026: * * * 1100 North Main LLC v. Shoreby Hill Properties, Inc. Present: Suttell, C.J., Goldberg, Robinson, Lynch Prata, and Long, JJ. OPINION Justice Long, for the Court. The plaintiff, 1100 North Main LLC (plaintiff), appeals from a Superior Court judgment in favor of the defendant, Shoreby Hill Properties, Inc. (defendant), dismissing the plaintiff's complaint for declaratory and  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following opening statement on Jan. 15, 2026, at an executive business meeting to vote on 13 executive and judicial nominations: * * * Good morning. On today's agenda, we have 13 nominations listed. This includes seven nominees who the Committee already favorably reported in 2025. Because they remained pending on the floor as the first session of the 119th Congress expired, the ot  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release: * * * Title IX Special Investigations Team Probes the California Community College Athletic Association for 'Transgender Participation Policy' * Today, the U.S. Department of Education's (ED's) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ's) Title IX Special Investigations Team (Title IX SIT) initiated an investigation into the California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) amid allegations that i  more

PARIS, France, Jan. 16 [Category: Media] -- Reporters Without Borders issued the following news: * * * USA: Congress must rein in Trump's war on press freedom after FBI raid on journalist Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is raising the alarm after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided the home of Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson and confiscated her personal and professional laptops, phone, and smart watch. This seizure is likely illegal and puts Natanson and her hundreds o  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Warner, Kaine & Democratic Colleagues Join Effort Challenging Attempts to Suppress Mail-In Voting * WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a former civil rights lawyer, (both D-VA), joined their Senate Democratic colleagues in filing an amicus brief in the case of Watson v. Republican National Committee, a landmark mail-in voting case that will be argued before the U.S. Supreme  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Warner, Kaine & Democratic Colleagues Join Effort Challenging Attempts to Suppress Mail-In Voting * WASHINGTON - U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a former civil rights lawyer, (both D-VA), joined their Senate Democratic colleagues in filing an amicus brief in the case of Watson v. Republican National Committee, a landmark mail-in voting case that will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: * * * Watch: Hawley Grills Pro-Abortion Doctor Over Refusal to Say Men Can't Get Pregnant * WASHINGTON -This morning, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Dr. Nisha Verma of Physicians for Reproductive Health, simply asking if men could get pregnant. The witness evaded answering the Senator's questions, claiming to take care of patients with "different identities." Senator Hawley asked Dr. Nisha   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: * * * WATCH: Senator Hassan Calls out Republican "Gaslighting" and Stands Up for Women's Health Care Access at Senate Hearing * WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) forcefully defended a woman's fundamental freedom to make her own reproductive health care decisions and called out the "gaslighting at the highest level" from Republicans attacking mifepristone access during a Senate Health,   more

MONROVIA, California, Jan. 16 -- World Vision International issued the following news release: * * * Humanitarian Crisis Deepens in Venezuela: Children Face Hunger, Malnutrition, and Protection Risks Caracas - Eleven days after the United States' military incursion into Venezuelan territory, the country is navigating a profound humanitarian crisis, institutional control by the ruling Chavista movement under new leadership, and direct external oversight from Washington. The intervention, whi  more