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Since 2010 dozens of U.S. states considered or passed laws aimed at blocking “Sharia” or foreign/religious law; databases count between roughly 201 and 233 anti‑Sharia/anti‑Muslim bills introduced acr...
No U.S. state has “passed Sharia law” as a parallel legal system; instead, more than a dozen states have enacted laws or ballot measures intended to block courts from applying “Sharia,” “foreign,” or ...
There is no reliable reporting that any U.S. city has officially adopted or imposed Sharia as municipal law; fact‑checks and longstanding reporting say communities or cities “under Sharia law” do not ...
No U.S. president has lawfully pardoned someone for a state crime; the Constitution limits the presidential pardon to “offences against the United States,” and legal authorities and government guides ...
Since 2020, reporting shows a renewed push by some Republican lawmakers and state officials to curb the influence of “Sharia” by advancing new bills or touting existing laws; Texas actions and multipl...
States enacted a variety of “Sharia bans” or foreign‑law restrictions mainly in 2010–2011, and several high‑profile measures (for example Oklahoma’s 2010 constitutional amendment) were later blocked b...
Donald Trump has reshaped the federal bench more than most modern presidents: his first term yielded 234 Article III appointments (including three Supreme Court justices, 54 appellate judges and 174 d...
U.S. state-level efforts to ban “Sharia” or the use of foreign/religious law surged around 2009–2011, with more than two dozen and by some counts over 40 states considering measures; several states en...
The available reporting does not identify an executive order issued by President Trump on December 16, 2025 specifically; however, a string of 2025 executive orders and policy moves cited by disabilit...
The 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown charged 324 defendants with intended losses exceeding $14.6 billion and saw more than $245 million in assets seized, but the public releases do not aggrega...
Courts can subpoena ChatGPT conversations when the provider stores the data and a valid legal demand (subpoena, court order) is issued to the company holding those records; OpenAI executives and repor...
There is no single count in the provided reporting that tabulates “how many lawsuits the federal government filed against the Obama administration.” Available sources document many high‑profile suits ...
Anti‑Sharia and “foreign‑law” restrictions have been proposed in roughly two dozen states; a handful of states enacted versions of the American Laws for American Courts (ALAC) model and related measur...
Federal courts have repeatedly struck down or blocked state measures that single out “Sharia” or broadly ban foreign or religious law as unconstitutional, finding such provisions unnecessary and discr...
Appellate courts repeatedly rejected venue and standing theories in post‑2020 election litigation, with many suits dismissed for lack of Article III standing and improper forum choices; Wikipedia and ...
U.S. courts have repeatedly held that American law — not foreign religious codes — controls in U.S. courts, but they also enforce private agreements or arbitral awards that incorporate religious rules...
The Supreme Court’s September 2025 emergency order paused a federal court’s restraining order that had barred ICE and DHS from using apparent race, language, workplace, or location as bases for immigr...
U.S. courts have on multiple occasions upheld private agreements, arbitrations, wills and choice-of-law clauses that incorporated or called for application of Islamic law (often via foreign law or pri...
State courts have generally allowed private parties to use religious rules (including Islamic/Sharia-based arbitration or mediation) so long as outcomes do not conflict with public policy, while state...
The Juris Master (also called Master of Jurisprudence or MJ/JM) is a graduate legal-master’s degree designed to give non‑lawyer professionals legal literacy and industry‑focused skills, whereas the Ju...