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A federal appeals court upheld California Governor Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order banning in-church services to blunt the spread of coronavirus, over First Amendment arguments.

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts cannot bar employees from making political contributions, attending campaign events, publicly supporting candidates or engaging in other political speech on their own time, District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled.

Federal Judge Robert Gettleman rejected two Illinois churches’ requests for a temporary hold on Governor Pritzker’s stay-at-home order, calling them non-essential businesses.

Encouraging illegal aliens to remain in the United States is a crime, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in an opinion written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Justice Samuel Alito issued a rebuke of the Supreme Court’s decision to discard a case involving the Second Amendment, in a 30-page-long dissent.

A federal judge in California blocked a state law requiring background checks for every ammunition purchase, saying it violated the Second Amendment.

Federal Judge John W. Broomes blocked an order by the Kansas governor which limited attendance to in-person church services.

Federal Judge Myron Thompson ruled that Alabama cannot ban abortions as part of its coronavirus restrictions.

A federal appeals court ruled that Texas may go ahead with plans to temporarily ban most abortions during the coronavirus pandemic.

Judge James Boasberg has ordered further environmental analysis in a 42-page decision that favors opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline.