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How Federal Judges Put a Trans Civil Rights Lawyer under Criminal Investigation

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Last Monday, federal prosecutors in Alabama revealed that they had indicted a lawyer for allegedly making false statements under oath. Perhaps such a charge might not seem extraordinary. But the case, which targets Carl Charles, a transgender civil rights attorney, is anything but ordinary. Over three years, multiple federal judges in Alabama have used secret […]

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How Federal Judges Put a Trans Civil Rights Lawyer Under Criminal Investigation

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Last Monday, federal prosecutors in Alabama revealed that they had indicted a lawyer for allegedly making false statements under oath. Perhaps such a charge might not seem extraordinary. But the case, which targets Carl Charles, a transgender civil rights attorney, is anything but ordinary. Over three years, multiple federal judges in Alabama have used secret […]

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Justice Department Aims to Kill State Laws That Compel Major Polluters to Pay for Climate Harm

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s justice department has asked a judge to shut down a Vermont law which holds major polluters financially responsible for climate damages. In a brief filed on Monday in a federal court in Burlington, the administration said the policy was “unlawful on its […]

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Let’s Review Trump’s Week of Massive Legal Losses, Shall We?

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It was a week of so much losing. Over the past week, President Donald Trump and his authoritarian agenda have sustained one loss after another in the courts. Putting all of them together reveals a stunning legal rebuke, and unsurprisingly, Trump World has been erupting with anger and petulance. Let’s review: On top of all […]

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DeSantis Celebrates as Appeals Court Blocks Dismantling of Alligator Alcatraz

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An appeals court has temporarily blocked a federal judge’s decision ordering Florida and federal officials to begin winding down operations at Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial immigration detention center in the Everglades that opened in July.  As I reported last month, in response to a lawsuit filed in June by environmental groups, US District Judge Kathleen […]

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Texas Lawsuit Over Cocoa “Laced” With Abortion Drug Gets Even Wilder

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A Texas man accused of putting abortion pills in his partner’s drink has countersued for $100 million, claiming she made the whole thing up. Last month, Autonomy News reported on a lawsuit filed by Liana Davis, a Texas woman who alleged that Christopher Cooprider, a 34-year-old Marine pilot, had given her abortion-inducing medication without her […]

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Putting Military Lawyers in Charge of Immigration Courts Is Problematic—and “Unlawful”

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The Trump administration has decided to get more immigration judges from an unprecedented source: the military. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the Pentagon plans to send up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to temporarily run immigration courts around the country. Some of them could receive their new assignments as early […]

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Judge: Tear Down Alligator Alcatraz Within 60 Days

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A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days. Two weeks after US District Judge Kathleen Williams, an Obama appointee, ordered a temporary pause on any […]

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Republican Gerrymandering Schemes Target Minority Voters and Their Representatives

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Donald Trump is not particularly popular. The only recent president with lower approval ratings six months into his term was Trump, in his first term. This summer, he asked Republicans in Congress to put their political lives on the line to pass a bill that would hand tax cuts to the wealthy at the expense […]

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Report: Half of Trump’s Judicial Nominees Have Anti-Abortion Records

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During his campaign for a second term in office, President Donald Trump claimed that he would leave abortion “to the states” if reelected. Trump has, in fact, managed to quietly shape the national abortion politics in his second term. According to a new analysis from the Associated Press, roughly half of Trump’s nominees to the […]

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No Showers, Sleeping on Concrete Floors: The “Squalid” Conditions for Immigrants in NYC

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A new class-action lawsuit filed by a coalition of immigration advocacy groups alleges that undocumented immigrants have been detained in “crowded, squalid, and punitive conditions” in New York City. The complaint paints a bleak picture of life inside the holding facility, confirming details previously published in articles by Gothamist and the New York Times, which […]

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Congressional Dems Sue After Being Turned Away from ICE Facilities

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Over and over again, Democratic members of Congress have attempted to enter Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities to investigate the conditions inside—and again and again they have been turned away, even though federal law guarantees them access to ICE detention facilities in order to conduct oversight. The Trump administration’s decision to keep lawmakers out created […]

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