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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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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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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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Texas Camp Hit by Floods Must Have New Manager, Judge SaysCamp Mystic, the Texas girls camp where 28 people were killed in flash floods last summer, must have a new management team with the power to settle lawsuits filed against the company, replacing the family blamed for the deaths, a judge ruled.

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Ohio Supreme Court candidates for two seats will have their party affiliation appear along with their names on the general election for the third time on Nov. 3Four candidates are running in partisan general elections for two seats on the Ohio Supreme Court on Nov. 3, 2026. Incumbent Justice Jennifer L. Brunner (D) and Colleen O'Donnell (R) are running for one seat, and incumbent Justice Dan Hawkins (R) and Marilyn Zayas (D) are running for the other. Republicans have a 6-1 majority […]

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New Mexico AG lawsuit accuses Epstein's attorney and accountant of facilitating sex traffickingDarren Indyke and Richard Kahn allegedly helped finance and conceal Epstein's sex trafficking, which included abuse at his Zorro Ranch, a lawsuit says.

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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Border Wall Construction in Big BendA lower court judge had halted the administration’s plan to erect hundreds of miles of barriers in the Big Bend region of Texas.

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DOJ begs judge to hide Dem raid warrant that's not 'fully executed' until after midtermsPresident Donald Trump's Justice Department asked a judge for a delay that would keep the warrant for the unusual raid on the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) secret through the midterm elections. Lawyers in U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office asked Chief Judge James Boasberg in a motion filed Wednesday to push back the deadlines for answering three…

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