PoliticsA Commerce Department proposal for the 2030 census would leave every noncitizen without a green card out of the count used to divide House seats among the states, and would drop race, ethnicity and sexual-orientation questions from the census form. Forty-five House Republicans now want it to go further and leave out green-card holders too. Here is what the rule says, who is fighting it, and what happens after the public comment window closes Monday.
PoliticsU.S. District Judge Richard Stearns ruled Thursday that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services broke the law when it said people with serious illnesses or disabilities count as 'medically frail' only if their condition 'significantly impairs' their ability to meet Medicaid's new 80-hour work requirement. He struck that language from the rule. He upheld two other limits the states challenged, and the work requirement itself still starts Jan. 1.
PoliticsTwo Second Amendment rulings came down on Wednesday. A unanimous Fifth Circuit panel held that the 1958 law's ban on moving switchblades in interstate commerce fails the Bruen test, but it left the law's limits on federal and tribal land standing. In Buffalo, a federal judge permanently enjoined New York's ban on civilian body armor sales and paused his order for 14 days so the state can appeal.
