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Appeals court blocks Trump administration from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

Appeals court blocks Trump administration from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United States. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California upheld a lower court ruling that maintained temporary protected status, or TPS, for Venezuelans while the …

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Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley won’t run for re-election

Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley won’t run for re-election

Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley on Friday announced that she will not seek re-election, setting up another major judicial election in the battleground state next year. “For years I have warned that under the control of judicial activists, the court will make itself more powerful than the legislature, more powerful than the governor. That warning went unheeded and …

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Court blocks Trump from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

Court blocks Trump from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United States. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a lower court ruling that maintained temporary protected status for Venezuelans while …

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Cardi B’s court testimony becomes an online spectacle. So do her wigs.

Cardi B’s court testimony becomes an online spectacle. So do her wigs.

In her upcoming studio album, Cardi B asks fans “Am I the Drama?” Weeks ahead of the album’s release, some who have been following her trial seem to have settled on an answer. Cardi B, the Grammy-award winning rapper, took the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday in a case involving an alleged incident with former security guard Emani …

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Judge holds Fulton County Commission in contempt of court, ordering $10,000 a day fine – WABE

Judge holds Fulton County Commission in contempt of court, ordering $10,000 a day fine  WABE Georgia’s Fulton County fined $10,000 a day for not appointing Republican election board nominees  AP News Fulton commission must appoint GOP nominees or face $10K daily fines  AJC.com Fulton county election board faces $10,000 a day fine for not appointing Republicans  The Guardian Court Fines Fulton Board After Democrats …

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California Supreme Court rules on Republicans’ second redistricting case – Sacramento Bee

California Supreme Court rules on Republicans’ second redistricting case  Sacramento Bee Officials in California’s San Joaquin County vote no on opposing Proposition 50  CBS News Newsom adviser says California redistricting fight will be a referendum on Trump  Politico Will your congressional district shift left or right in Newsom’s proposed map?  Los Angeles Times California Supreme Court tosses second GOP effort to block redistricting  San Francisco …

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California Supreme Court Rejects Latest GOP Redistricting Challenge – Democracy Docket

California Supreme Court Rejects Latest GOP Redistricting Challenge  Democracy Docket Newsom adviser says California redistricting fight will be a referendum on Trump  Politico Will your congressional district shift left or right in Newsom’s proposed map?  Los Angeles Times Officials in California’s San Joaquin County vote no on opposing Proposition 50  CBS News California Supreme Court tosses second GOP effort to block redistricting  San Francisco Chronicle …

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Flag burning, targeted by Trump, has Supreme Court protection : NPR

Flag burning, targeted by Trump, has Supreme Court protection : NPR

A 2002 file photo shows demonstrators burning U.S. flags during a protest in front of the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. AFP/AFP via Getty Images/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption AFP/AFP via Getty Images/AFP via Getty Images President Trump has long opposed flag burning as a form of protest, and now he’s directing the Justice Department to …

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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to be vacated in compliance with court order to shut it | US immigration

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to be vacated in compliance with court order to shut it | US immigration

Florida’s immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz” will probably be empty of detainees within days, a state official has said, indicating compliance with a judge’s order last week that the facility must close. The Republican governor Ron DeSantis’s administration appealed the order by federal court judge Kathleen Williams that the tented detention camp in the Florida Everglades, which attracted criticism …

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Court throws out lawsuit by Trump administration against all 15 Maryland federal judges

Court throws out lawsuit by Trump administration against all 15 Maryland federal judges

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Maryland’s entire federal bench over an order by the chief judge that stopped the immediate deportation of migrants challenging their removals. U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen granted a request by the judges to toss the case, saying to do otherwise “would run counter to overwhelming …

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