ProPublica has sued the FDA, accusing the agency of withholding information about the safety and availability of generic drugs critical to millions of Americans.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-fda-lawsuit-drug-safety?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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#SCOTUS on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on #gender-affirming care for #transgender minors, a stunning setback to #TransgenderRights.
The 6-3 decision in a case from #Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by #Trump’s #Republican admin & #state govts to roll back #protections for transgender people. 26 other #states have laws similar to the one in TN.
#law #discrimination #bigotry #LGBTQ #CivilRights #HumanRights #privacy #BodilyAutonomy
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-transgender-health-care-trump-79fc6f3bbdab2e92d6f0184201a468a9?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-18-Breaking+News
Internal #DOJ messages bolster claim that #Trump judicial nominee spoke of defying #court orders
#EmilBove, the deputy US Attorney General who has been nominated to be an appellate #judge, is the subject of #whistleblower allegations.
A fired DOJ attorney has provided #Congress with a trove of emails & text messages to corroborate his claims that a controversial Trump judicial nominee—top DOJ official Emil Bove—crudely discussed defying court orders.
#law #judiciary
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/10/emil-bove-whistleblower-documents-00446225
Top Experts’ Backgrounder: #Military Action Against #Iran & US #Domestic #Law
With #Trump reportedly considering bringing the #UnitedStates directly into the armed conflict between #Israel & Iran, & in particular #offensive strikes against Iran’s #nuclear program, it is important to understand the #legal framework that governs whether & when a President can use military force overseas under US domestic law (…the use of force must also comport w/ #InternationalLaw…).
https://www.justsecurity.org/64645/war-powers-trump-iran-strikes/
The #FBI Is Using #Polygraphs to Test Officials’ #Loyalty to #Trump & his allies
Some senior officials who have taken the test have been asked whether they said anything negative about the FBI director, #KashPatel, in a highly unusual use of the tool.
#law #fascism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/fbi-polygraph-kash-patel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Barack #Obama warns the #US is ‘dangerously close’ to slipping into #autocracy under #Trump
In rare public remarks, the fmr president said recent actions from the admin are “not consistent with American #democracy.”
#USpol #democracy #Constitution #law
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/barack-obama-trump-speech-trump-autocracy-rcna213729
Frightening images out of #Pasadena, #California show a plainclothes #federal #LawEnforcement officer at a stoplight jumping out of his vehicle & drawing his #weapon on a person attempting to #photograph his license plate.
Details are limited & exact circumstances of the incident are unknown, but the potentially deadly confrontation occurred Wed morning at around the same time federal #immigration agents carried out an op at a bus stop nearby.
#law #Trump #AbuseOfPower
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/plainclothes-federal-agent-draws-gun-on-man-at-stoplight-in-pasadena/
#LA #Dodgers denied #ICE agents access to #DodgerStadium parking lot
The #LosAngeles Dodgers on Thurs said they had denied ICE agents access to the parking lot at Dodger Stadium earlier in the day.
"This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium & requested permission to access the parking lots," the team said in a social media post.
"They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight's game will be played as scheduled."
#immigration #law #Trump
https://www.reuters.com/sports/la-dodgers-say-they-denied-ice-agents-access-dodger-stadium-parking-lot-2025-06-19/
US #judge blocks #Trump plan to tie #states' #transportation funds to #immigration enforcement
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump admin from forcing 20 #Democratic-led states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in transportation #grant #funding, according to a court filing.
#law #judiciary
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-trump-plan-tie-states-transportation-funds-immigration-2025-06-19/
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US court lets #Trump retain control of #California #NationalGuard for now
A US appeals court let Trump late Thurs retain control over CA's National Guard while the state's #Democratic #governor proceeds with a lawsuit challenging the legality of the #Republican president's use of the #troops to *quell* #protests & unrest in #LosAngeles.
#law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-lets-trump-retain-control-california-national-guard-now-2025-06-20/
#California surgical center staff demand to see #warrant as #ICE agents detain landscaper
Federal #immigration agents seeking to detain a Honduran landscaper chased him into a SoCal surgical center & quickly found themselves in a tense standoff as clinic staff demanded to see identification & a warrant.
#law #Trump #immigration #Gestapo #DueProcess
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrest-california-surgery-center-c827038f1a40227dc05ab1c28b048035
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Burning of migrant boat #effigy in #NorthernIreland triggers police investigation
Authorities in Northern Ireland are investigating a bonfire that featured effigies of migrants in a boat & a banner reading “stop the boats” to determine whether it was a hate incident.
#law #HateCrime #immigration #UK #Ireland #Éire #TuaisceartÉireann
https://apnews.com/article/northern-ireland-bonfire-migrants-effigy-fa590eb31b67fd97a4350ce2aae1e95c
A #California #farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when #US #immigration agents raided a cannabis operation & arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group.
Dozens of #ImmigrantRights activists faced off w/ #federal agents in rural Southern California on Thursday. It was the latest escalation of #Trump's campaign for #MassDeportations of immigrants in the US.
#law #HumanRights #ICE #Gestapo #PoliceBrutality
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/one-california-worker-dead-hundreds-arrested-after-cannabis-farm-raid-2025-07-11/
N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to sign a bill that bans anonymous complaints to the state child abuse hotline. The law would still maintain the confidentiality of callers.
The change comes in the wake of a 2023 ProPublica investigation that showed how the hotline had been weaponized by people endlessly calling in baseless allegations against exes or rivals.
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-bans-anonymous-child-welfare-reports?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The story behind the arrest of 87-year-old #veteran #JohnSpitzberg at the Capitol
John Spitzberg joined a #veterans march at the National Mall on March 14 in Washington, DC. The 87-year-old veteran was #arrested June 13 at the US Capitol while protesting #Trump’s birthday parade spectacle.
#AmericanAutocracy #law #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #dissent
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5438406/john-spitzberg-veteran-arrest-trump-parade
I am delighted to see the publication of the Bristol University Press book, Climate Technology and Law in the Anthropocene
Edited by Leonie Reins and Alexander Zahar
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/climate-technology-and-law-in-the-anthropocene
Open Access - https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-oa/book/9781529232912/9781529232912.xml
I contributed a chapter on the topic, 'Promethean Dreams: Intellectual Property and Climate Change in the Anthropocene', https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781529232912/ch017.xml
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#DOJ fires 9 more employees from JackSmith's team
#US AG #PamBondi on Friday fired at least 9 more *#Justice* Dept employees who worked for Special Counsel #JackSmith to investigate #Trump's retention of #ClassifiedDocuments & efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to 5 people familiar with the matter.
#law #MafiaState #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-fires-nine-more-employees-jack-smiths-team-sources-say-2025-07-12/
A federal judge blocked the #Trump admin on Friday from making indiscriminate #immigration arrests in the #LosAngeles area & denying detainees the right to consult with a lawyer.…
The California judge granted 2 TROs in response to a lawsuit filed last week by immigrant advocacy groups. A fuller hearing is expected in the coming weeks, but the initial rulings represent a sharp rebuke of the tactics that federal agents have employed in & around #LA….
#law #ICE #Gestapo
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/immigration-raids-judge-injunction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Two-thirds of the #DOJ unit defending #Trump policies in court have quit
The #US *Justice* Department unit charged with defending against legal challenges to signature Trump administration policies - such as restricting birthright citizenship & slashing funding to Harvard University - has lost nearly two-thirds of its staff, according to a list seen by Reuters.
#law #lawless #felon47 #judiciary #RuleOfLaw #constitution
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/two-thirds-doj-unit-defending-trump-policies-court-have-quit-2025-07-14/
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Furor over Epstein files sparks clash between #PamBondi & #DanBongino at DOJ
The #DOJ & #FBI are struggling to contain the fallout & appease the demands of #FarRight *conservative* personalities & influential members of Trump’s base after the admin’s decision this week to withhold records from the #JeffreyEpstein #SexTrafficking investigation [likely because #Trump is in them].
#law #idiocracy #BreadAndCircuses #PanemEtCircenses #ConspiracyTheories
https://apnews.com/article/epstein-files-dan-bongino-bondi-trump-fbi-0f02f67b6c97fc50e4d93bc4dbf4c4d0
#SCOTUS is allowing #Trump to put his plan to dismantle the #Education Dept back on track & go through with firing nearly 1,400 employees.
With the 3 liberal justices in dissent, the court on Monday paused an order from US District Judge Myong Joun in Boston, who issued a preliminary injunction reversing the layoffs & calling into question the broader plan.
The SCOTUS action enables the admin to resume work on winding down the department.
#law #AbuseOfPower
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-7-14-2025?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-14-Breaking+News
#ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds
After the passage of #Trump’s domestic policy #law, #DHS is poised to hire thousands of new #immigration agents & double detention space.
Thousands of new #deportation agents deployed into American #cities. A doubling of #detention space to hold tens of thousands of immigrants before they are expelled. Miles of new border wall, along with #surveillance towers equipped with #ArtificialIntelligence.
#AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/us/politics/ice-expansion-concerns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#ICE memo outlines plan to #deport #immigrants to countries where they are not #citizens
The shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
Federal #immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as 6 hours notice to countries not their own even if ofcls have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from #persecution or #torture….
#Trump #law #rendition
https://wapo.st/3TxrUES
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The People Being #Disappeared by #ICE in #LosAngeles
As communities across Southern #California document & #protest the escalating #raids, loved ones grapple with the unimaginable.
In Los Angeles in recent weeks, a popular phrase has been revived on protest signs & social-media posts: “Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo,” or, “only the people can save the people.”
#Trump #law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-los-angeles/the-people-being-disappeared-by-ice-in-los-angeles
‘It Felt Like Kidnapping,’ #MahmoudKhalil Says in First Interview Since Release
The #Columbia graduate & pro-#Palestinian #activist returned to New York after more than three months in #detention. The #Trump administration is still seeking to deport him.
#law #immigration #StateSponsoredAbduction
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-interview-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q08.08iZ.quUx5RwW5FJ5&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare