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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow Big Bend border wall construction

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to clear the way for border wall construction to resume around Texas’s Big Bend region. Solicitor General D. John Sauer called a lower judge’s block on the construction “baseless” and said it disrupts the government’s ability to secure a quarter of the southern border. “Such judicial...

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New Mexico judge reduces jury’s penalty against Meta to $25 billionIn September, a jury asked Meta to pay $219 billion — what would have been the nation’s largest civil penalty on record — for misleading the 1.4 million users of the platform who reside in the state.

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Top DOJ official asks judges to step aside from immigration casesA top official at the Justice Department is attempting to disqualify two Minnesota federal judges from a pair of cases related to immigration.

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Meta hit with $25 billion penalty for misleading Facebook usersA New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties Wednesday after a jury found in September that the social media giant misled users about their data privacy. Why it matters: The penalties come nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal first broke and signal that Big Tech can face significant financial consequences for…

Axios11h agoWhole story →

Prosecution for Threatening to Cut President's Face Off and Feed It to Stray Dogs Can Go to JuryU.S. v. Santiago, decided Monday by Judge Chad Meredith (E.D. Ky.), involves this Instagram post: Santiago is being prosecuted for… The post Prosecution for Threatening to Cut President's Face Off and Feed It to Stray Dogs Can Go to Jury appeared first on Reason Magazine.

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Supreme Court rebuffs Trump administration restrictions on medical care for transgender inmatesThe Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to allow the Trump administration to immediately enforce new medical restrictions for transgender people in prison. The decision leaves in place a lower-court block on the policy.

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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Restart Big Bend Border WallThe Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to lift a court order that stopped border wall construction across the Big Bend region of Texas. The post Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Restart Big Bend Border Wall appeared first on Breitbart .

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Judge curtails DHS crackdown on ‘unlawful voters’ during midterm electionsThe so-called Unlawful Voter Initiative and its sweep focused on nine states amounted to intimidation of union members who urge people to exercise their right to vote, the judge said.

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Trump ally escalates war on Elissa Slotkin with demand DOJ probe her staff: reportA close Trump ally is pushing federal investigators to go after a Democratic senator, and he isn't stopping with her. Mike Davis , founder and president of the conservative Article III Project, sent a letter Wednesday asking the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to investigate Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), the Washington Examiner reported . The…

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‘Whoops!’ Trump lawyers caught erasing key Kennedy Center closure justificationThe Trump administration's lawyers just pulled back a key argument for shutting down the Kennedy Center , and a legal expert noticed right away. In a notice of errata filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington, Justice Department attorneys withdrew their claim that renovating the building in phases would cost $41 million more than closing it…

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Judge Restricts D.H.S. Field Operations Aimed at Unearthing Voter FraudThe ruling largely blocked homeland security agents from carrying out field interviews in nine states, including California, as part of a sprawling effort to find noncitizens registered to vote.

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