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A federal judge appeared deeply skeptical on Monday of the #Trump admin’s efforts to strip #HarvardUniversity of billions of dollars in #research #funding, suggesting the school might prevail in its #legal battle against the admin.
Judge Allison D. Burroughs did not issue a ruling…, but she did seem receptive to #Harvard’s arguments, as both the #school & the #DOJ sought to have the case decided in their favor without a trial.

#law #Constitution #DueProcess #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/trump-administration-harvard-hearing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#GiftArticle

Because of course.

The star witness against #KilmarAbregoGarcía was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.

Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time #felon who has been released early from federal #prison to a halfway house in exchange for his *cooperation* in the case.

#trump #immigration #law
https://wapo.st/40i4Ttt

The #Trump admin has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national #citizenship #data system.

The tool, which is being rolled out in phases, is designed to be used by state & local election officials [sure] to give them an easier way to ensure only citizens are voting. But it was developed rapidly without a public process, & some are already worrying about what else it could be used for.

NPR is the first to report….

#surveillance #law #privacy
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/29/nx-s1-5409608/citizenship-trump-privacy-voting-database

Want to learn about the Supreme Court justices’ financial connections to companies and people?

We’ve updated our database with the latest filings from eight justices, detailing millions in book income, almost 40 trips and one gift:
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-supreme-connections-database-2024-filings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#SCOTUS #Law #Transparency #Data #Journalism #Research

Multiple #firefighters attacked while responding to a blaze near #CoeurdAlene

Authorities in western #Idaho urged residents to shelter in place Sunday afternoon because of law enforcement activity following a shooting in Kootenai County near Coeur d’Alene.

Gov. Brad Little said on the social media that multiple firefighters were attacked while responding to a blaze.

#Shooting #MassShooting #GunControl #law
https://apnews.com/article/coeur-dalene-idaho-shooting-57e4143642c5a0e98d134051a7147a89?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-29-Breaking+News

#DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke #citizenship

The *Justice* Dept is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some #Americans of their US citizenship.

DOJ leadership is directing its #lawyers to prioritize #denaturalization in cases involving naturalized #citizens who commit certain crimes — & giving DAs wider discretion on when to pursue this tactic, acc/to a June 11 memo published online.

#law #immigration #criminal
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement

The #Trump #Labor Dept is aiming to rewrite or repeal >60 “obsolete” #workplace #regulations, ranging from #MinimumWage requirements for home #healthcare #workers & people w/ #disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances.

The wide-ranging changes…would also affect working conditions at #constructions sites & #mines, & limit govt ability to penalize #employers if #workers are #injured or #killed while engaging in inherently risky activities…

#law
https://apnews.com/article/labor-department-deregulation-worker-safety-wages-223309692fecb3721ef377154e7689ed?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-22-Labor+laws

Because it isn’t already about who has the richest friends:

#SCOTUS will hear #Republicans appeal over #spending limits in #elections

SCOTUS will take up a Republican-led drive to wipe away limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination w/candidates for Congress & president.

The justices said Mon they’ll review an appellate ruling that upheld a provision of federal #election #law that’s >50 yrs old. #Democrats want the court to leave the law in place.

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-6-30-2025#00000197-c11d-de08-a1f7-c7dfd2e50000

#GiftArticle

For months, #ElonMusk’s U.S. #DOGE Service plumbed the federal government’s information systems, scouring arcane internal records that the billionaire said were guiding his hunt for waste. Now that #Musk has stepped away from his government role, some of that data could be valuable in another way — by giving the world’s richest man a competitive advantage over his rivals in the private sector.

#Trump #law #corruption #broligarchy
https://wapo.st/44yQIS6

#Trump sues #LosAngeles over #immigration enforcement

Trump's admin sued LA on Monday over policies limiting city cooperation w/federal immigration authorities, continuing a confrontation over Trump's #deportation efforts in the largely #Democratic city.

The lawsuit, filed by the DOJ, alleges that policies barring city resources from aiding in immigration enforcement ops or collecting info about individuals' #citizenship status violate federal #law.

#RevengePolitics
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/justice-department-sues-la-over-immigration-enforcement-policies-2025-06-30/

In the runup to a final #Senate vote on #Trump’s big bill of tax cuts & spending cuts, #Republicans have voted down #Democratic amendments to strike portions of the bill that would reduce funding for rural #hospitals, #FoodStamps & #Medicaid.

Sen #SusanCollins (R-ME)joined #Democrats on an amendment to strike language that would force rural hospitals to limit their services.

#law #policy #PublicDisservice
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-6-30-2025#00000197-c1a1-d0e0-abbf-ffbf19690000

#SCOTUS tosses rulings that favored #transgender people

The #US #SupremeCourt threw out on Monday judicial decisions that favored transgender people in cases from #NorthCarolina, #WestVirginia, #Idaho & #Oklahoma, including in legal challenges to #state #health #insurance programs that deny coverage for patients seeking gender-affirming #medical #treatment.

#law #hate #discrimination #bigotry #LGBTQ #ActivistCourt
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-supreme-court-tosses-rulings-that-favored-transgender-people-2025-06-30/

LOL. A I'm not aware some were expanded, and a few were new to me as well. 😅😅 youtu.be/_nBZNh1jqUQ...#Philippines #Law

20 Laws That Only Exist in the...

“It’s the end of the world as we know it…”

#BadScene

#Trump #immigration raids leave #crops #unharvested, #California #farms at risk

#economy #groceries #agriculture #inflation #recession #law #immigration

Lisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in Ventura County, California, an area that produces billions of dollars worth of fruit and vegetables each year, much of it hand-picked by immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

https://www.reuters.com/business/immigration-raids-leave-crops-unharvested-california-farms-risk-2025-06-30/

The #UnitedNations’s top court announced Wednesday that if countries fail to take measures to protect the planet from #ClimateChange, they could be in violation of #InternationalLaw.

The International Court of Justice [#ICJ] was delivering an advisory opinion in a landmark case about nations’ obligations to tackle climate change & the consequences they may face if they don’t, calling it an “urgent & #existential” threat to #humanity.

#EnvironmentalLaw #ClimateLaw #law
https://apnews.com/article/un-court-opinion-climate-change-1ac84a94a5aaffd63518ef1da3502a9e?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-23-Breaking+News

LOL. A I'm not aware some were expanded, and a few were new to me as well. 😅😅

https://youtu.be/_nBZNh1jqUQ?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-myDefault

#Philippines #Law

Another day another coup

SOMEBODY! ANYBODY!

I believe in nonviolence, in debate, in figuring shit out w/o resorting to what #Trump did #Jan6. I don’t want to abandon my values. Where are the MOTHERFUCKING SAFEGUARDS the aspirationally pacific founders put into place to avert this shite?

Right…SCOTUS

#SCOTUS allows Trump to remove consumer product safety regulators

Trump admin fired 3 Democratic members of the #CPSC as part of its effort to consolidate #power.

#law
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-lets-trump-remove-consumer-product-safety-commissioners-now-2025-07-23/

Pure #authoritarianism

#Trump repeatedly threatens to violate the #FirstAmendment: says he will prosecute #CNN for its reporting on an app, he plans to prosecute the creator of the anti-ICE app, & he will prosecute CNN for its reporting about the Iran bombing.

#law #Constitution #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfThePress #democracy #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy

#MafiaState

#Trump said Tuesday he would arrest #ZohranMamdani if the #NYC Democratic mayoral nominee doesn't allow federal #immigration officials to arrest undocumented #immigrants in the city.

#law
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/trump-mamdani-arrest-ice-immigration

The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to #ban #transgender women from its women’s sports teams to settle a #Trump lawsuit that alleged the school violated the rights of female athletes.

#acquiescence #appeasement #law #fascism
https://apnews.com/article/upenn-lia-thomas-swimmer-transgender-athletes-trump-71720ecbeb8493ddbed539dd61995076?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-01-Breaking+News

#Jury reaches partial #verdict in #SeanCombs #Diddy trial

The panel said it had reached a verdict on all but 1 of the charges in Combs’s #SexTrafficking case, but will likely continue deliberating. The case could send the music mogul to prison for life.

As of 5PM NY time, the judge had not yet told jurors he would accept a partial verdict, or send them back to deliberate. Both the defense & prosecution wanted jurors to keep deliberating.

#law #SexCrimes #rape #BelieveSurvivors

The #Trump admin has *declined* to release nearly $7 billion in federal #funding for #schools that helps pay for after-school & summer programs, support for #students learning English, #teacher training & other services.

The money, which was already allocated by #Congress, was expected to be released by Tuesday. But in an email on Monday, the Trump *#Education* Department notified #state education agencies that the money would not be available.

#law #policy #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/trump-education-funds.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#Mexico, the #UnitedStates’ biggest trading partner, will get another 90 days to try to reach a #trade deal, #Trump & President #ClaudiaSheinbaum of Mexico announced after a phone call Thursday morning. The extension came a day before the *deadline* Trump has set for countries around the globe to strike deals or face #tariffs of as much as 50%.

#TACO #economy #law #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/trump-tariffs-mexico-extension.html?smid=url-share

#SeanCombs found #guilty on 2 counts, but #acquitted on most serious charges

A federal jury in Manhattan has found Sean Combs, the hip-hop mogul also known as #Diddy or Puff Daddy, guilty on 2 counts of transportation to engage in #prostitution. He was found not guilty of one count of #racketeering conspiracy & 2 counts of #SexTrafficking.

The jury deliberated for 13 hours before announcing their split decision.

#rape #BelieveSurvivors #criminal #law
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5446128/sean-combs-diddy-trial-guilty-two-counts

#AmericanAutocracy

‘Time is running short’: Letters show growing #DOJ ire at #UVA

Over 2 months this spring, *#Justice* Dept officials sent 7 letters to the #UniversityOfVirginia, alleging possible *racial* #discrimination in #admissions & #hiring, inaction to address *#antisemitism* [#FreeSpeech] on campus, & a failure to cleanse #diversity, #equity & #inclusion efforts at the institution.

#law #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #tyranny #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/02/university-of-virginia-justice-department-investigation-letters/