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A US federal judge on Wednesday temporarily halted a plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to move 20 former federal death row prisoners to the country’s most restrictive correctional facility. This comes after the judge ruled that the prisoners would likely succeed in their claims of a violation of their Fifth Amendment due process rights. [...]

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US President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said on Thursday that the administration has agreed to end the immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota. Homan held a news conference in Minneapolis where he stated: “I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude… A significant drawdown has already been underway this [...]

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The attorney of Marimar Martinez, shot by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents multiple times in Chicago in October, argued Wednesday that released evidence shows that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lied about information tied to investigations. Attorney Christopher Parente detailed instances in which he said DHS lied about circumstances of the shooting [...]

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On Tuesday, a US federal grand jury in Washington DC decided not to indict six Democratic lawmakers on charges related to a video released in November in which lawmakers informed US service personnel of their right and obligation to disobey unlawful orders. “Today, it was a grand jury of anonymous American citizens who upheld the [...]

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Puerto Rico’s governor on Thursday signed a law to recognize a fetus as a human being for the purposes of homicide law. The signed law was approved by the Senate of Puerto Rico as Senate Bill 923. It amends the definition of murder under the territory’s Penal Code. The definition now treats the killing of [...]

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Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, declined to answer questions from the US House Oversight Committee on Monday, following the release by the Justice Department (DOJ) of unredacted Epstein files to congressional leaders. Republican committee chair James Comer announced that Maxwell would be exercising her Fifth Amendment rights after she was subpoenaed to discuss her [...]

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Opening statements in a landmark trial involving some of the world’s biggest social media companies, including Google, YouTube and Meta, opened in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday, to determine the platforms’ alleged harmful effects on children. The case will test claims about addiction and whether the tech giants can be held liable for [...]

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A US federal judge on Monday temporarily halted her prior order requiring the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to release funds to New York and New Jersey for the Hudson Tunnel Project, to allow the administration time to appeal. The order denied the Trump administration’s request for a longer stay, only granting the pause through [...]

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A judge in Maricopa County Superior Court ordered Friday that Arizona must stop enforcing laws that predate the state’s 2024 Right to Abortion constitutional amendment. Judge Greg Como enjoined the state from enforcing laws that barred abortion if sought for a non-fatal genetic abnormality and that barred the prescription of abortion pills by telehealth.  He [...]

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an interim final rule (IFR) on Friday, granting the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) expanded discretion to decline review of certain immigration cases, a move that has prompted immediate due process concerns from immigration advocates. In 2021, amid a rapidly growing backlog, the primary regulatory measure adopted to increase [...]

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