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The Justice Department Is Taking A Step Back From Efforts To Protect Transgender People Under Existing Law
The department withdrew a request on Friday that a federal court limit an injunction that has halted enforcement of existing civil rights laws to provide protections for transgender people. An independent federal agency, however, continued to press ahead in its pro-transgender legal position in another case.
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Here’s Everything You Need To Know About What Happened On Friday With The Travel Ban
There’s been a lot of confusion as the White House weighs its options regarding the Ninth Circuit’s denial on Thursday night. Here’s how this works. (See you in court!)
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Administration Lawyers Are Arguing A Lawyer’s Letter Overrules The Executive Order Trump Actually Signed
“You have a problem here,” a federal judge told a Justice Department lawyer on Friday.
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Appeals Court Keeps Trump’s Travel Ban On Hold, Keeping Door Open For Visa Holders And Refugees
“[A]lthough courts owe considerable deference to the President’s policy determinations with respect to immigration and national security, it is beyond question that the federal judiciary retains the authority to adjudicate constitutional challenges to executive action.”
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Supreme Court Nominee Calls Trump’s Judicial Attacks “Demoralizing"
“Disheartening” and “demoralizing,” Judge Neil Gorsuch says of President Trump’s comments in recent days.
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Appeals Court Judges Skeptical Of Justice Department Arguments In Support Of Reinstating Ban
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard one hour of arguments over the temporary restraining order against President Trump’s refugee and travel ban.
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Appeals Court Will Hear Arguments Tuesday On Whether To Keep Trump’s Travel Ban On Hold
The Justice Department has asked an appeals court to allow it to restart enforcement of Trump’s refugee and travel ban. Washington and Minnesota lawyers argue that would “unleash chaos.” The Tuesday arguments will be livestreamed, the appeals court announced.
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Appeals Court Denies Request For "Immediate" Order Bringing Back Trump’s Travel Ban
Justice Department lawyers had asked a federal appeals court for a quick order allowing the federal government to enforce the refugee and travel bans again, but the court denied the request. A further request to put the bans back into effect remains under consideration, but a ruling isn’t expected before Monday afternoon at the earliest.
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Federal Judge Stops Enforcement Of Trump Refugee And Travel Ban Nationwide
President Donald Trump called the decision “big trouble” and said it would be overturned. On Saturday, the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security announced that they had officially stopped complying with the executive order.
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Here’s The White House Memo Used To "Clarify" That Green Card Holders Are Not Covered By Trump’s Ban
The Justice Department provided the memo as evidence in the ongoing lawsuit over Trump’s executive order in federal court in Massachusetts. In advance of a Friday hearing, the judge granted Massachusetts’ request to intervene in the case.
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Trump Makes His Supreme Court Pick: Neil Gorsuch
“Standing here, in a house of history and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge, if I am confirmed, I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great country,” Gorsuch said, in accepting Trump’s nomination.
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Trump Fires Acting Attorney General After She Orders Justice Lawyers Not To Defend Travel Ban
“Sally Yates has been relieved,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer tweeted on Monday night, hours after Yates, the acting attorney general, had ordered department lawyers not to defend President Trump’s executive order in court. Dana Boente, a federal prosecutor in Virginia, has been named by Trump as acting attorney general.
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The Supreme Court Nomination Fight Might Now Be About Trump’s Ban
President Trump is going to try to change the subject this week by announcing his Supreme Court nominee. But the immigration executive order has fired up a debate about executive authority and the role of the courts.
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Federal Judges Push Back Against Trump Order, Stopping Deportations Nationwide
The ruling out of New York was the first of several Saturday night and Sunday early morning. Rulings out of federal courts in Massachusetts, Virginia, and Washington — all siding with challengers to Trump’s executive order — followed. [Update: A federal judge in California later on Sunday ordered the federal government to return a person deported under Trump’s order to the US.]
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"Administration-Related Changes" Lead To Delay In A Key Transgender Rights Case
The ACLU, meanwhile, seeks to step in to represent the transgender woman at the center of the Michigan case in case the EEOC drops its appeal.
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The Trump Administration’s Day One Moves Were Copied From Mitt Romney’s Playbook
How the most traditional of Republican planning efforts is helping a radical new presidency get started.
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Ohio’s New Execution Process Has Been Ruled Unconstitutional, Stopping Executions
If the ruling stands, three executions scheduled for the next few months would be halted.
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That New “Black Site” Plan Isn’t New, It Came From Mitt Romney’s Campaign
A draft of a 2012 executive order proposal for Mitt Romney’s “First 100 Days” is nearly a verbatim match to a draft executive order proposal published by multiple outlets Wednesday.
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Supreme Court Lets Ruling Against Texas Voter ID Law Stand — For Now
Although the justices turned away Texas’ request to hear its defense of the law now, Chief Justice John Roberts made it clear the justices could hear the larger challenge to the law in the future.
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Top Legal, Ethics Scholars File First Major Lawsuit Against Trump
The lawsuit alleges that President Trump’s foreign business interests are leading to constitutional violations. “These violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause pose a grave threat to the United States and its citizens,” it claims.
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