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Kristi Noem implicated in MAGA smear campaign against fired FEMA veteran: report

Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her adviser Corey Lewandowski personally fed false information to far-right activist Laura Loomer to smear a career FEMA official the department had just fired, a federal judge has found. The finding came in a ruling Tuesday by U.S. Magistrate Judge William E. Fitzpatrick, who officially cleared the name…

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Trump-appointed justice joins Sotomayor in unlikely alliance to rip DOJ's handling of illegal immigrant caseSupreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor joined forces after prosecutors charged a deported man despite ordering him to stay in Oklahoma after his first conviction.

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Missouri Republicans frustrated by court losses seek to change how top judges selectedSome 86 years ago, Missouri voters enshrined a system for selecting top judges that would remove political influence from the courts. And almost immediately, it came under attack. Under what has come to be known as the Missouri Plan, lawyers help choose a slate of three candidates from which the governor must make an appointment for the state Supreme…

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Federal judge blocks relocation of Forest Service headquarters to Utah

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9th Circuit Court Smacks Down California Law Unmasking ICE Agents For Violence-Hungry LeftistsA federal appellate court shot down a California law on Wednesday that sought to require ICE agents to show identification while conducting immigration operations in the state. In its unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that Section 10 of the state’s No Vigilantes Act violates the U.S. Constitution’s […]

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Judge Refuses to Recuse in Case Involving Alleged Misconduct by Philly DA's OfficeJudge Diamond says Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's filing is "frivolous" and generates "more heat than light."

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Trump invokes executive privilege in Kennedy Center court fightA White House lawyer said information about the president’s management of the center, including efforts to add his name to it, should be off-limits.

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White House 'money laundering operation' exposed by ex-DOJ pardon attorney: 'Shady'After records revealed the donors behind President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, former Justice Department pardon attorney Liz Oyer called the project “basically a money laundering operation.” Oyer made the charge Thursday in a YouTube video reacting to a Washington Post investigation published that morning. The Post obtained an internal…

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An Angry Judge and a Maybe-Lawyer in the Briefing RoomA roundup of legal news from the past week.

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Musk bankrolls PAC spending big on Paxton in TexasTech mogul Elon Musk poured $158 million into a key super PAC backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's (R) Senate run as part of his push to keep Republican majorities in Congress. Musk was the single donor to Texas PAC — a political action committee backing Paxton's run — in the third quarter, according to...

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Trump loses challenge to NYC sanctuary city lawsNo federal law requires states to participate in federal immigration enforcement or compels states to comply with those efforts, the judge said.

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