#SCOTUS sends closely watched #NativeAmerican #VotingRights decision back to lower court
SCOTUS acted in a #VotingRightsAct case brought by Native American tribes on Monday, saying a closely watched ruling needs to be reconsidered after the high court weakened the #CivilRights era #law.
The justices ordered lower courts to take another look at the decision that went against the tribes & undercut a key enforcement mechanism: lawsuits from voters & advocacy groups.
My piece on the #US #sanctions against #ICC judges, prosecutors & other jurists:
Attacks Against the International Criminal Court: Who Cares About Victims of Atrocity Crimes? “Diplomacy to protect the ICC must go beyond…oblique statements of general support. To prevent further erosion of the international #ruleoflaw, small & middle powers…need to join forces to uphold international #humanrights #law & institutions...” | full article at https://www.slaw.ca/2026/01/28/attacks-against-the-international-criminal-court-who-cares-about-victims-of-atrocity-crimes/ 1/2
Ending his #IRS lawsuit could allow #Trump to pursue a #settlement instead [he’d likely lose the lawsuit, he might get $$ from a settlement].
Trump moved on Monday to dismiss his extraordinary $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS that claimed the tax agency had improperly released some of his financial records [records he had promised to release himself].
#law #scammer #fraud #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/trump-irs-lawsuit.html?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share&rsrc=cl-share
This Is the Land of Wolves Now
Masked agents snatching people off the street. Govt ofcls using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains.
“They have clearly been posed by the jailers, forced to hold position so that they can be useful props for the American woman so that she can manufacture #propaganda for her regime.
“We have seen this kind of thing before. Just not from America.”
#Trump #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #HumanRights
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-the-land-of-wolves-now?triedRedirect=true
#House #Ethics Committee makes rare public information request about #SexualMisconduct on Capitol Hill
The rare move comes after recent scandals raised questions from lawmakers & others about how #Congress handles [ir rather doesn’t handle] investigations involving its own members.
#law #abuse #SexualAssault #rape #RapeCulture #misogyny #power #AbuseOfPower #ViolenceAgainstWomen
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/20/house-ethics-sexual-misconduct/
*** This report may not be accurate. Times of India is the only outlet reporting it. ***
Hundreds of international #students have received an email telling them their #visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus #activism or #SocialMedia posts.
#Trump #immigration #law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #Education #Universities #Colleges #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hundreds-of-international-students-are-waking-up-to-an-email-asking-them-to-self-deport-for-campus-activism-or-even-sharing-posts-on-social-media/articleshow/119679695.cms
Horrifying!
A 2-year-old #UScitizen was deported ‘with no meaningful process,’ a judge suspects.
A federal judge in Louisiana expressed concern on Friday that the #Trump admin had deported a 2-year-old US #citizen to #Honduras “with no meaningful process” & against the wishes of her father.
#law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #DueProcess #judiciary
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/us-citizen-deported.html?smid=url-share
Why immigration lawyers warn you might want to bring a burner phone if you're going to the U.S.
#travel #immigration #law #politics #US #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadians-travel-to-united-states-advice-1.7498326?cmp=rss
#FBI Dir #KashPatel said Friday the bureau had arrested a #Milwaukee #judge & charged her w/obstructing an #immigration arrest op last week—the 1st known instance of *Justice* prosecuting a local official for allegedly interfering w/immigration enforcement since #Trump returned to office.
Patel announced the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge #HannahDugan in a post on social media, which he deleted moments after posting.
#law #tyranny
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-director-says-arrested-judge-obstructing-immigration-operation-2025-04-25/
Court records show that interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin violated a judge’s order, ghostwrote online attacks on a judge and engaged in what experts called professional misconduct.
Such a track record might have derailed another lawyer’s career. Not so for this Trump prosecutor.
A federal jury in North Carolina on Monday found #Uber liable for a #SexualAssault by a driver in 2019, handing the ride-hailing company a second consecutive defeat in its first trials of more than 3,000 pending sexual assault & #SexualMisconduct lawsuits.
#law #business #accountability
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/uber-sexual-assault-verdict-bellwether.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
#Musk Loses
A federal #jury has sided with #OpenAI & its top executives in a feud with #ElonMusk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to guide #ArtificialIntelligence’s development as a #nonprofit dedicated to #humanity’s benefit.
The nine-person jury unanimously found that Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit & missed the deadline for the statute of limitations.
#law #tech #business
https://apnews.com/article/musk-openai-trial-verdict-0b9b0bfaffe96f2c930341f52dfe4f8c
The drummer for #Austin, #Texas metal band #LordBuffalo, who is a #legal #GreenCard holder, was seized by #ICE off of a plane as the band was departing for a European tour. His current whereabouts are unknown.
#immigration #law #Trump #StateSponsoredAbduction
https://www.metalsucks.net/2025/05/14/lord-buffalo-forced-to-cancel-european-tour-after-u-s-border-police-detained-their-drummer/
Madness #AmericanAutocracy
‘Vaguely Threatening’: #Trump Federal Prosecutor #EdMartin Queries Leading #Medical Journal
The New England Journal of Medicine [#NEJM] received a letter suggesting that it was biased & compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.
#law #censorship #FirstAmendment #Constitution #democracy #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #tyranny #dictatorship #AntiIntellectualism #science #medicine
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/health/nejm-prosecutor-letter.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=68CE025A-703F-4C94-87AA-8D0D7D06D23B
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#Trump Admin Knew Vast Majority of #Venezuelans Sent to #ElSalvador Prison Had Not Been Convicted of US Crimes
#DHS records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having NO #criminal record in the US & had only violated #immigration laws.
#law #AlienEnemiesAct #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #judiciary #FactCheck #TrumpLies #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/30/trump-el-salvador-deportees-criminal-convictions-cecot-venezuela
Former “We Buy Ugly Houses” Franchise Owner to Plead Guilty in Fraud Scheme That Cost Investors $40 Million
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Charles Carrier agreed to plead guilty to one count of felony wire fraud that carries a potential 20-year prison sentence. The plea follows a ProPublica report detailing how Carrier bilked investors across Texas out of millions of dollars.
#News #Housing #Home #Fraud #Lawsuit #Law #Texas #RealEstate
#PBS sued #Trump on Friday to block an #ExecutiveOrder that would cut federal #funding for public television & radio, arguing that it was #unconstitutional.
The lawsuit, filed in DC by PBS & a public TV station in #Minnesota, says that Trump’s EO violates laws that “forbid the President from serving as the arbiter of the #content of PBS’s programming, including by attempting to defund PBS.”
#law #democracy #Constitution #FreePress #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/business/media/pbs-trump-lawsuit-funding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=BD8357FA-8CA8-4C37-B249-5CDD44A19A77
#Trump admin orders enhanced vetting of all #Harvard linked #visa applicants
The US #State Dept ordered all its consular missions overseas to begin additional vetting of visa applicants looking to travel to #HarvardUniversity for any purpose, acc/to an internal cable seen by Reuters on Friday, in a move that significantly expands Trump's persecution of the academic institution.
#law #immigration #RevengePolitics #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-orders-extra-vetting-all-visa-applicants-linked-harvard-2025-05-30/
Remember when #Trump told people that they’d get tired of winning once he was in office? If you are a Trump Admin lawyer, it surely doesn’t feel that way. Based on the #litigation tracker compiled by #JustSecurity, the admin…has lost in 36 of 56 cases decided so far in the federal district courts & not yet subject to appellate rulings. It has lost in 10 of 15 cases that have been decided at the next level of review, the federal circuit courts of appeals.
#law #felon47
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/has-trumps-legal-strategy-backfired
…Trump’s speech perpetuated the dissonance that has characterized the #IranWar from the start. In Trump’s first extended speech about the #war, delivered 32 days into it, he did not provide a clearer picture.
This is not the fog of war. It’s the fog of Trump’s rhetoric & perhaps his thoughts.
Opinion by Ramesh Ponnuru
#idiocracy #kakistocracy #TrumpsWar #US #Iran #Trump #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #law #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #economy #oil #EnergyCrisis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/02/trump-iran-war-speech/
#kleptocracy & #corruption on full display:
Exclusive: #SpaceX, #ULA to clinch multibillion-dollar #Pentagon launch contract
#ElonMusk's SpaceX & United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a #US #SpaceForce rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of dollars over the next several years to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive #satellites into #space, acc/to 2 people familiar w/the procurement decision.
#law #Trump #broligarchy #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-ula-expected-clinch-multibillion-dollar-contract-key-pentagon-launch-2025-04-04/
More of this please:
The #NY State #Education Dept issued a defiant response to #Trump’s threats to pull federal #funding from #PublicSchools over #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs, a remarkable departure from recent conciliatory approaches of other institutions. A day earlier, the federal govt issued a memo to education ofcls across the nation, telling them to confirm the elimination of all programs it argues *unfairly* promote #DEI.
#law #democracy #FreeSpeech
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/new-york-trump-dei-order.html?smid=url-share
‼️ #Idaho #Criminalizes #Transgender Use of Some Bathrooms in Private Businesses‼️
The bill passed Friday by the Idaho legislature would make it a #crime punishable by up to a year in #prison to use a #gender designated bathroom that does not conform to a person’s sex at birth.
#law #CriminalLaw #ignorance #bigotry #discrimination #LGBTQ
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/idaho-transgender-bathroom-law.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Saudi Prince Is Said to Push #Trump to Continue #Iran #War in Recent Calls
Prince Mohammed bin Salman [#MBS] sees a “historic opportunity” to remake the region, according to people briefed by #US officials on the conversations.
#law #murder #WarCriminals #TrumpsWar #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #geopolitics #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/politics/saudi-prince-iran-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court.
The cases, known as habeas petitions, total more than were filed under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.
https://www.propublica.org/article/habeas-petitions-immigrant-detentions-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #ICE #Law #USPolitics #Trump #Immigrants #Legal
