Law

Yes. On Sept. 9–10, 2026, the U.S. Census Bureau published a proposed rule that would limit the 2030 decennial census count to U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents. That would exclude undocumented immigrants and many other noncitizens who are in the country only on temporary lawful status. The same proposal would also drop race, ethnicity, … Read more

No. Presidential pardons cover only federal offenses. Clancy faces Massachusetts state murder charges, so any pardon would have to come through state authorities, not the president.

Yes. On Sunday, September 6, 2026, the Trump administration filed a new emergency application asking the Supreme Court to put on hold U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s September 4 preliminary injunction that bars parts of a U.S. Postal Service rule on mail-in ballots. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who handles emergency appeals from Massachusetts, directed the … Read more

Yes. On September 3, 2026, the Missouri Supreme Court unanimously blocked new congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump from being used in the November 2026 general election and ordered a statewide referendum on whether to uphold or reject the map. The court ruled that a referendum petition with more than 300,000 signatures put the … Read more

Yes. Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was arrested Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026, by the Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office while working as a featured extra on a Christmas movie set at a horse farm near Paris, Kentucky. The arrest executed a June bench warrant from Jefferson Family Court Judge Angela Johnson for civil contempt after Bevin … Read more

A mistrial is a trial that ends without a verdict or judgment on the merits. In U.S. courts, that usually happens when a jury cannot agree (a hung jury), or when a serious procedural error or misconduct would make a fair trial impossible and the judge stops the case and orders a new trial. Common … Read more