Tuesday, the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) published the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act 17(d)(1) Environmental Impact Statement’s Record of Decision concluding a lengthy process and finalizing the Secretary of the Interior’s decision to retain protections on all the subject 28 million acres across Alaska. These D-1 lands include BLM-managed lands in five BLM […]
Friday, the Alaska Supreme Court upheld Alaska’s correspondence school allotment program, allowing more than 22,000 students and families enrolled in the program to breathe a sigh of relief. The Court reversed a Superior Court ruling that had struck down Alaska’s correspondence school statutes as unconstitutional, restoring the program as it has existed for the […]
A legal journalist described the liberal justice’s dissent as “one of the most terrified and terrifying pieces of judicial writing I’ve ever encountered.” In her dissent against the U.S. Supreme Court’s Monday ruling in Trump v. United States, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor listed several acts that she argued the high court’s right-wing supermajority has effectively sanctioned as unprosecutable […]
The 9-0 ruling which reverses a decision by the Colorado Supreme Court, warned one pro-democracy watchdog, “undermines the integrity of our Constitution and emboldens those seeking to disrupt and dismantle our democratic systems.” The U.S. Supreme Court delivered Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump a resounding legal victory on Monday by rejecting a push by Colorado voters to […]