Courts & Law
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Federal judge blocks Trump admin pause on immigration processing for migrants from 39 countries
Trump has imposed travel bans and pauses on immigration applications from a litany of countries, primarily in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
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NFL Commissioner Goodell declines to testify before Congress on lucrative TV, streaming deals
Media contracts run until the 2033 season are reportedly worth over $110 billion.
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SPLC charged with offering would-be KKK, Neo-Nazi defectors salaries to stay in, spy on hate groups
A superseding indictment of SPLC, which charges SPLC with 11 counts of wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, shed light on how it paid individuals seeking to escape from extremist groups to instead stay and inform on the groups.
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Jury acquits former Uvalde school police officer over response to 2022 shooting
Gonzales, a former Uvalde school police officer, was charged with 29 counts of child abandonment or endangerment in the 2022 shooting that killed 21 people and became one of the deadliest school shootings in American history.
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New York judge rules Malliotakis' district is unconstitutional, orders new map ahead of midterms
New York Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Pearlman said voters showed a continuing pattern of “discrimination against minority voters” in the district that would worsen under the new map, and ordered the commission to redraw it by Feb. 6.
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Supreme Court appears hesitant to let Trump fire Fed governor
“We have to be aware of what we’re doing and the consequences of your position for the structure of the government,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh said
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Bondi threatens legal sanctions on Minnesota officials for challenging ICE deployment
The U.S. Attorney General argues the lawsuit violates federal Civil Procedure rules, requiring legal motions be well-grounded in both facts and law.
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Judicial Watch sues DOJ for unredacted, missing records from Durham's probe of Crossfire Hurricane
The watchdog filed the lawsuit after the department failed to respond to a FOIA request from August
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California GOP asks SCOTUS to block redistricting map
The emergency request asks the Supreme Court to weigh in by Feb. 9, and accuses the state of violating the United States Constitution by engaging in "racial gerrymandering," by redrawing the lines to favor Hispanic voters.
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Judge orders release of actor Timothy Busfield from New Mexico jail pending child sex abuse trial
Busfield turned himself in to authorities last week over allegations that he sexually abused two children on the set of the Fox series, “The Cleaning Lady,” which he directed and acted in. An arrest warrant was issued for the actor earlier this month.
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Huge scale of Chinese birth tourism may impact SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship, author says
In a new book, investigative journalist Peter Schweizer exposes the grand scale of Chinese birth tourism, estimating that between 750,000 and 1.5 million Chinese received U.S. citizenship in the last 13 years by exploiting the birthright citizenship laws.
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Judge blocks Lindsey Halligan from 'masquerading' as U.S. attorney
Halligan assumed the post in an acting capacity and speedily brought a criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, who challenged her qualifications for the post and to bring the case.
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DOJ subpoenas Tim Walz and other Minnesota Democrats over ICE obstruction
The DOJ is scrutinizing the Minnesota Democrats over their anti-ICE policies.