BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 16 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: * * * AG Campbell Urges Supreme Court To Preserve Block On Trump Administration's Unlawful Termination Of Temporary Protected Status Protection For Haitian Nationals * Boston -Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell today co-led a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in Miot, et al. v. Trump, et al. in the Supreme Court of the United State  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, March 16 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: * * * Attorney General Alan Wilson defends transparency in asbestos litigation * (COLUMBIA, S.C.) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is leading an 11-state friend-of-the-court brief to the Delaware Supreme Court, raising serious concerns that certain asbestos bankruptcy trusts are planning to destroy documents and data related to past claims and compensation payments. "Doc  more

ALBANY, New York, March 16 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General James Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Protections for Haitian Immigrants * March 16, 2026 NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James today co-led a coalition of 18 other attorneys general in urging the United States Supreme Court to preserve the legal status of hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants, including many who have lived and worked in the Unite  more

AUSTIN, Texas, March 16 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Ken Paxton Helps Secure Order Blocking Rogue Oklahoma Property Owner from Expanding Oklahoma Border and Stealing Texas Land * Attorney General Ken Paxton helped secure a court order to protect Texas land after an Oklahoma property owner attempted to claim a portion of Texas's Red River property by arguing that the Texas-Oklahoma border had shifted. In August 2025, an Oklah  more

AUSTIN, Texas, March 16 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Victory in the Supreme Court of Texas to Protect the OAG's Investigative Authority * Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a ruling from the Supreme Court of Texas that reaffirms the Attorney General's authority to issue civil investigative demands ("CIDs") under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act to obtain documents relevant to investigations into potential   more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: * * * Blumenthal Urges Passage of Student Athlete Fairness & Enforcement (SAFE) Act * [Hartford, CT] -U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) today urged Congress to pass his Student Athlete Fairness and Enforcement ( SAFE ) Act, legislation to codify athletes' rights and protections in law, expand revenue for all schools, support women's and Olympic sports and bring much-needed stability to the  more

LOS ANGELES, California, March 16 -- The University of California at Los Angeles School of Law posted the following news: * * * Commencement 2026: Goodwin Liu to deliver keynote address at UCLA Law * Justice Goodwin Liu of the Supreme Court of California will deliver the keynote address to the Class of 2026 at UCLA School of Law's commencement ceremony on May 15. Liu is among the leading lawyers, legal scholars, and jurists in the country today. Gov. Jerry Brown nominated him to the state'  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, issued the following news release: * * * Congressman Vicente Gonzalez Introduces Bill to End Warrantless Immigration Raids * Contact: Alexis Torres (link sends email) Washington, D.C.- Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) introduced the Say No to Warrantless Searches Act to codify Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. In South Texas, Minnesota, and other parts of the country, Federal law enfor  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies issued the following news release: * * * DFI Urges Ninth Circuit to Reject School Policies That Hide Gender Transitions from Parents The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit urging the court to reverse a lower court decision allowing a California school district to keep parents in the dark when students socially transition at sch  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Health released the following testimony by Army Lt. Col. Alan Johnson (ret.), former aeromedical physician assistant, from a March 5, 2026, hearing entitled "Hidden Wounds: Effectively Supporting Veterans with TBI." TBI stands for traumatic brain injury. * * * Chairwoman Miller-Meeks, Ranking Member Brownley, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Alan Johnson  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government issued the following information for a hearing entitled "Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. Doe" at 10 a.m. on March 18, 2026, at 2141 Rayburn House Office Building: The hearing will examine why Plyler v. Doe, the 1982 Supreme Court decision requiring states to provide illegal aliens a free K-12 education,was wrongly decided and how it harms America's schools and   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 16 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: * * * ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL CO-LEADS COALITION URGING SUPREME COURT TO PRESERVE BLOCK OF UNLAWFUL TERMINATION OF TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS PROTECTION FOR HAITIAN NATIONALS * Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul co-led a coalition of 19 attorneys general today in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Miot, et al. v. Trump, et al., opposing the Trump administration's effort  more

MANILA, Philippines, March 16 -- The Supreme Court of the Philippines issued the following news release: * * * Justice Singh Engages Negros Occidental Judges in Dialogue on Judicial Conduct, Social Media Use, and Court Operations Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Maria Filomena D. Singh held a dialogue with first- and second-level judges from Negros Occidental on the morning of March 4, 2026, at the Acacia Hotel in Bacolod City. The session brought together 43 judges from courts across the  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 17 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Brown Urges Supreme Court to Preserve Block on Trump Administration's Unlawful Termination of Temporary Protected Status Protection for Haitian Nationals Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in Miot, et al. v. Trump, et al. in the Supreme Court of the United States, opposing the Trump admin  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, issued the following news release: * * * NEW DATA: GOP's Voter Suppression Law Would Cost WA Taxpayers $35M+ This Year * 03.15.26 A new snapshot report from Sen. Cantwell, WA SoS, and WA Assoc. of County Auditors shows the SAVE America Act would spike the cost of administering elections by 60%; Cantwell: "The SAVE America Act will actually cost Americans: time, money, and even their constitutional right to vote" WASHINGTON, D.C.   more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Peterson Institute for International Economics issued the following commentary by senior fellow Michael A. Clemens: * * * The economic case for a $100,000 tax on H-1B visas rests on several errors here is a debatable but serious intellectual case for tariffs on migrant workers. The Nobel laureate economist Gary Becker argued decades ago that charging a tax on immigrant workers could allocate scarce visas to the workers and firms that value them most, and generate p  more

MANILA, Philippines, March 17 -- The Supreme Court of the Philippines issued the following news release: * * * SC Conducts Fifth Leg of Gender Sensitivity Training for Judiciary in General Santos City Reaffirming its commitment to building an inclusive and responsive judicial system, the Supreme Court (SC), through its Committee on Gender Responsiveness in the Judiciary (CGRJ), held the fifth leg of the Gender Sensitivity Training (GST) for the Judiciary from February 24 to 26, 2026, at the G  more

MANILA, Philippines, March 16 -- The Supreme Court of the Philippines issued the following news release: * * * SC Rejects Challenge to Manila Ordinance Raising Garbage Collection Fee The SC has dismissed the petition questioning the validity of a Manila City ordinance that updated the city's garbage collection fees. In a Resolution, the SC En Banc ruled that the petition filed by John Barry T. Tayam against Manila City Mayor Francisco M. Domagoso and the City Council failed to meet the basic  more

LONDON, England, March 17 -- PEN International issued the following news on March 16, 2026: * * * Philippines: PEN International welcomes recommendation to acquit journalist and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa in cyber libel case 'Maria Ressa has shown extraordinary courage in defending independent journalism in the Philippines. The recommendation by the Solicitor General is a significant step toward correcting a case that has long raised serious concerns about press freedom. The Supreme Court sho  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Rep. Adelita S. Grijalva, D-Arizona, issued the following statement on March 16, 2026: * * * Rep. Grijalva Statement on Ninth Circuit Ruling on Oak Flat Congresswoman Adelita S. Grijalva (AZ-07) released the following statement after the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a preliminary injunction to halt mining at Oak Flat pending review by the U.S. Supreme Court: "I am deeply disappointed by this decision which will allow drilling to immediately begin at Oa  more

VICTORIA, Australia, March 16 -- The Australian Securities and Investments Commission issued the following news: * * * Supreme Court orders Macquarie Securities to pay $35 million penalty in short sale misreporting case * The New South Wales Supreme Court has ordered Macquarie Securities (Australia) Limited (MSAL) to pay a $35 million penalty for multiple systems-related failures that caused the misreporting of tens of millions of short sales over several years. The Court also found that M  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 16 [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: Data Center Tariff Undermines Ohio's Competitive Edge * Columbus, OH - As the Ohio Supreme Court prepares to consider whether American Electric Power's (AEP) data center tariff plan constitutes discriminatory pricing, The Buckeye Institute is   more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 16 -- The University of Arkansas Little Rock campus issued the following news: * * * UA Little Rock Names College Level Faculty Excellence Award Winners in Research and Creative Works * The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has named three faculty members as college-level recipients of the Faculty Excellence Award for Research or Creative Works, recognizing outstanding contributions to scholarship and creative activity. Each academic college can select one   more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution released the following written testimony by Ilan Wurman, Julius E. Davis professor of law at the University of Minnesota, from a March 10, 2026, hearing entitled "Protecting American Citizenship: Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens and Tourists": * * * Chairman Schmitt and Members of the Committee: It is often believed that the common-law rule of birthright citizenship was that mere birth on the sovereign's s  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution released the following testimony by Amanda Frost, David Lurton Massee Jr. professor of law at the University of Virginia, from a March 10, 2026, hearing entitled "Protecting American Citizenship: Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens and Tourists": * * * Thank you for inviting me to testify regarding the meaning of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I am a professor of l  more

NEW YORK, March 16 [Category: International] -- Human Rights Watch posted the following news: * * * US/El Salvador: Deportees Forcibly Disappeared * (Washington) - El Salvador is forcibly disappearing and arbitrarily detaining Salvadorans deported from the United States, Human Rights Watch said today, one year after some of the men were sent to El Salvador. The detained people are among more than 9,000 Salvadorans deported by the United States since the start of 2025. Some of them were dep  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Rep. Eugene Vindman, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Vindman Joins Congressional Amicus Brief Supporting Veterans' Access to Education Benefits * Washington, D.C. -Congressman Eugene Vindman (D-Va.-07) joined U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and U.S. Representatives Rob Wittman (R-Va.-01), Bobby Scott (D-VA-03), Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.-04), John McGuire (R-VA-05), Don Beyer (D-VA-08), Suhas S  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Warren Probes Meta, Microsoft, Target, Companies on Mass Layoffs Despite Strong Financials and Trump Tax Handouts * Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to the CEOs of Amazon, Home Depot, Meta, Microsoft, Nike, Target, UPS, and Verizon, slamming them for their recent mass layoffs despite having strong earnings and financial positions. In   more