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A Judge Has Blocked New Trump Administration Rules Aimed At Sanctuary Cities
A judge said Chicago was likely to succeed in arguing that Attorney General Jeff Sessions exceeded his authority in imposing new conditions on a federal grant program.
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A Judge Will Not Dismiss Criminal Charges Against People Arrested On Inauguration Day
Trials for the nearly 200 people charged with felony rioting and property destruction are scheduled to begin in November.
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A Federal Judge Is Suing The Government For Ordering Him To Get a Mental Health Evaluation
In an unusual lawsuit, US District Judge John Adams in Ohio said that a panel of federal judges was wrong to order him to undergo a mental health evaluation.
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Democrats Fear They’re About To Lose Leverage In The Fight Over Trump’s Judicial Nominees
Republicans used an informal rule to block some of former president Barack Obama’s judicial nominees. Now that Democrats are trying to use it, the Senate Judiciary chairman is hinting he might change it.
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The Government Has Dropped Its Demand That Facebook Not Tell Users About Search Warrants
Federal prosecutors said that nondisclosure orders stopping Facebook from telling customers about search warrants for their account information “are no longer needed.”
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Trump Still Hasn’t Nominated Anyone For Top Legal Jobs At Defense And Intelligence Agencies
The Trump administration has been slower than its predecessors in nominating top lawyers for the Defense Department, State Department, Department of Homeland Security, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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The Justice Department Is Supporting Joe Arpaio’s Bid To Get His Conviction Dismissed
Joe Arpaio, who was found guilty of criminal contempt but was never sentenced, has argued that President Trump’s pardon means his criminal case is moot.
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Trump Has Nominated 42 US Attorneys So Far. Only One Is A Woman.
A US attorney under Obama told BuzzFeed News the numbers indicated diversity “is not a priority” for the Trump administration.
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The New President Of The Country’s Largest Lawyers Group Keeps Criticizing Trump But Says It’s Not About Politics
Hilarie Bass, a lawyer in Miami, will be the public voice of the US legal community for the next year.
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Trump Is Nominating A Senior White House Lawyer For The Powerful DC Circuit
Greg Katsas has served as deputy counsel to the president since January.
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15 States And DC Just Hit Trump With A New Lawsuit Over Ending DACA
They argue Trump’s decision to end DACA was rooted in anti-Mexican prejudice.
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Members Of Trump’s Election Integrity Commission Used Personal Email Accounts
A civil rights group suing the Commission on Election Integrity over transparency raised concerns about the use of personal email accounts by commission members in a new court filing.
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A Mexican-Born DREAMer Is Taking Legal Action To Halt Trump’s Reversal Of DACA
“The Administration’s reversal is unconstitutionally motivated by anti-Mexican and anti-Latino animus,” a DREAMer’s lawyers wrote in a court filing Tuesday.
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The Trump Administration Is "Rescinding" DACA
Since the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program began in 2012, the federal government has provided temporary protection against deportation to nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children.
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The Backlog Of Cases In Immigration Courts Has Hit A Record High This Summer
As of the end of July, the number of cases pending before US immigration courts had passed 600,000 — a new record.
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A Judge Just Dismissed Sarah Palin’s Defamation Lawsuit Against The New York Times
A judge found that Palin failed to show that the Times acted “maliciously” in publishing an editorial about a mass shooting earlier this year that included inaccurate information about a pro-Palin political action committee.
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Joe Arpaio Wants His Conviction Tossed Out Now That He’s Been Pardoned
Arpaio’s lawyers have asked a judge to vacate his conviction, arguing that President Trump’s pardon means he can’t pursue any appeals.
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Joe Arpaio’s Pardon Did Not Go Through The Justice Department. It Didn’t Have To.
The Justice Department does not have to sign off on presidential pardons. But clemency actions that didn’t go through DOJ in the past have been among the most controversial.
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Trump Orders An End To Open Transgender Military Service In 2018
Trump’s new policy — reverting to the pre-2016 policy not allowing open transgender service — is not due to take effect until March 23, 2018. The policy also gives significant discretion to the secretary of defense.
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A Judge Said The Government Can Search Data About A Trump Protest Website, But Under His Supervision
Lawyers for DreamHost, the web-hosting service challenging the search warrant, said they will consider appealing the judge’s order.
