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  • US judge blocks Trump from suspending Biden-era migrant 'parole' programs

    05/29/2025 8:03:01 AM PDT · by thegagline · 60 replies
    Fox News ^ | 05/29/2025 | Michael Dorgan
    A U.S. federal judge has inflicted another blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to end a multiple Biden-era parole program for hundreds of thousands of migrants*** U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of Massachusetts on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to resume processing applications from those migrants who are seeking work permits or renewing their status. Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, rejected the Trump administration's claim that suspending the parole programs was within its broad discretion to direct immigration policy. Federal law still requires agencies under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to follow a lengthy process for...
  • 'Rigged from the start': Bureaucrats face personal liability for firing 'Black privilege' professor

    05/26/2025 1:52:24 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 10 replies
    Just the News ^ | May 25, 2025 10:26pm Updated: May 25, 2025 10:32pm | Greg Piper
    Judge denies qualified immunity to four University of Central Florida administrators including president, tasks jury with considering punitive damages. Two have moved on to Texas Tech, Yale. The University of Central Florida's outrage at a faculty member's assertion "Black privilege is real" could end up putting its top administrators at the mercy of a jury, sending a warning to campus bureaucrats nationwide not to overreact to minority views.U.S. District Judge Carlos Mendoza denied qualified immunity to President Alexander Cartwright, Provost Michael Johnson, former College of Sciences Dean Tosha Dupras and former Office of Institutional Equity Director Nancy Myers in a...
  • BREAKING: First Federal Judge Says Trump Can Invoke Alien Enemies Act to Deport Tren de Aragua Gang Members

    05/13/2025 2:09:17 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 59 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | May 13, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Tuesday became the first to say President Trump can invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua gang members. US District Judge Stephanie Haines, a Trump appointee, said President Trump’s description of the Venezuelan gang’s “incursion” into the US meets the threshold to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. “Having done its job, the Court now leaves it to the Political Branches of the government, and ultimately to the people who elect those individuals, to decide whether the laws and those executing them continue to reflect their will,” the judge wrote. The judge...
  • JUST IN: Obama Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Revoking Legal Status of Hundreds of Thousands of Migrants Flown in on Biden Parole Program

    04/11/2025 12:29:46 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 112 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | April 11, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    US District Judge Indira Talwani said the DHS did not interpret the law properly and asserted the migrants have a right to be in the US. The DOJ argued that the parole programs were discretionary and it is up to the government to decide when it can cut the program. Last month is was reported that President Trump was set to strip the status of 532,000 migrants living in the United States who were flown in on Joe Biden’s parole program.
  • BREAKING NOW: Obama Judge Blocks Trump’s Mass Cancelation of Biden-Era Parole Program That Ushered in Hundreds of Thousands of Migrants

    04/14/2025 6:45:29 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 67 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | April 14, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    A federal judge on Monday blocked President Trump’s mass cancelation of the Biden-era parole program that ushered in hundreds of thousands of migrants. US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee in Boston, said Trump’s decision to cancel the parole program was premised on legal error. Last week Judge Talwani blocked the Trump Administration from revoking the legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants flown in on Joe Biden’s parole program. Judge Talwani said the DHS did not interpret the law properly and asserted the migrants have a right to be in the US.
  • Mass. judge demands answers after Tufts student detained by federal agents is rushed to Louisiana [the same liberal Indira Talwani blocked ICE in 2019]

    03/27/2025 10:59:45 AM PDT · by Freeleesy · 27 replies
    Boston25news (and more) ^ | March 27, 2025
    In a statement, a DHS spokesperson said agents detained Ozturk because she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.” “Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national and Tufts University graduate student who was granted the privilege to be in this country on a visa. DHS and ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of [[Hamas]], a foreign [[terrorism|terrorist]] organization that relishes the killing of Americans,” the statement read. “A visa is a privilege, not a right. Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated. This is commonsense security.”... However, Ozturk was already...
  • Federal Court Chides Dem Activists: There’s Nothing Racist About Election Integrity Laws Like Florida’s

    09/23/2023 12:16:21 PM PDT · by CFW · 22 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 9/22/23 | SHAWN FLEETWOOD
    A full federal appeals court declined to take up Democrat groups’ challenge of Florida’s 2021 election integrity law on Thursday, marking a major win for Gov. Ron DeSantis and the GOP-controlled state legislature. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Thursday’s decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals “let stand an April ruling by a three-judge panel of the [court] that sided with the state on major issues in the case.” The 11th Circuit’s April decision effectively overturned a prior ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Mark Walker — an Obama appointee — who baselessly claimed the law in question discriminated...
  • Democrats scramble to reach voters after Florida cancels mail-in ballot requests

    07/23/2023 3:59:53 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 60 replies
    NBC News / Comcast ^ | July 22, 2023 | By Jane C. Timm (D-NBC)
    Florida Democrats say they’re spending and organizing to chase down people who vote by mail after election officials across the state canceled all standing mail ballot requests this year. The mass cancellations were to comply with a 2021 election law that added new restrictions to mail-in voting. The legislation — which was celebrated by Gov. Ron DeSantis and slammed by voting rights advocates as discriminatory — cut the duration of mail-in ballot requests in half from four years to two. It also required that existing requests for mail ballots be canceled at the end of 2022, forcing election workers to...
  • Federal judge rules MA student's 'there are only two genders' T-shirt ‘invades the rights of others,’ is NOT protected by free speech

    06/17/2023 3:30:26 PM PDT · by DFG · 131 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | 06/17/2023 | Sara Higdon
    On Friday, a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled a shirt that read "THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS" could be construed as bullying of a protected class and is not protected speech after a 12-year-old and his father filed suit against officials in the Middlesbrough Public School district for First and Fourteenth Amendment rights violations. Judge Indira Talwani said in the court ruling, the boy and his father had "not established a likelihood of success on the merits where he is unable to counter Defendants’ showing that enforcement of the Dress Code was undertaken to protect the invasion of the rights...
  • Federal appeals court blocks ‘Stop Woke Act,’ but state confident in appeal (FL)

    03/17/2023 12:07:15 PM PDT · by Jacquerie · 5 replies
    The Capitolist ^ | March 16th 2023 | Caden DeLisa
    A trio of federal appellate judges upheld a prior legal ruling on Thursday that bars the state of Florida from enforcing the ‘Stop WOKE Act’ while it faces ongoing legal battles related to its constitutionality. The measure, supported by Gov. Ron DeSantis, imposes restrictions on the instruction of race-related concepts in Florida’s public universities. The decision affirmed a ruling ordered by Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker last year, where he granted a preliminary injunction against the legislation, finding that it violated First Amendment rights. “Neither the state of Florida’s authority to regulate public school curriculum nor its interest in...
  • Federal judge hands DeSantis admin win over 'Stop WOKE Act'

    01/15/2023 11:11:28 AM PST · by Golden Eagle · 19 replies
    Fox News ^ | January 15, 2023 | Emma Colton
    A federal judge ruled that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration did not violate a court order regarding the state’s "Stop WOKE Act," which prohibits colleges from promoting critical race theory lessons and targets other "woke" concepts prevalent on higher education campuses. "Although this court would not hesitate to compel compliance with its preliminary injunction, this court finds there has been no violation of the injunction at this time," U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker wrote on Thursday, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Plaintiffs had challenged the law, known as the "Stop Wrongs To Our Kids and Employees Act" or "Stop...
  • DeSantis DEFEATED – Judge’s ruling deals DeSantis this major setback

    11/22/2022 1:40:19 PM PST · by Signalman · 46 replies
    DeSantis Daily ^ | 11/18/2022 | DeSantis Daily
    Democrats are waging lawfare to try and slow down Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Now these leftists scored a huge win. And Ron DeSantis was defeated when a judge’s ruling dealt him this major setback. Democrats are utilizing the same strategy to thwart Governor DeSantis’ agenda that they did with Donald Trump. Judge-shop until you find a friendly left-wing judge who will issue preliminary injunctions blocking key agenda items. Even if you lose on appeal, it generates headlines in the press that allows leftists to claim DeSantis is some kind of rogue executive. That’s exactly what happened when U.S. District Court...
  • Judge blocks DeSantis law on barring ‘woke’ education

    11/17/2022 2:52:13 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 38 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | November 17, 2022 | By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida on Thursday blocked a law pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in colleges. Tallahassee U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a temporary injunction against the so-called “Stop Woke” act in a ruling that called the legislation “positively dystopian.” The law prohibits teaching or business practices that contend members of one ethnic group are inherently racist and should feel guilt for past actions committed by others. It also bars the notion that a person’s status as privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by their race or...
  • Federal judge puts Florida on 10-year probation after ruling voting law disenfranchises Black voters

    04/01/2022 7:28:00 PM PDT · by zeestephen · 28 replies
    Salon (via MSN.com) ^ | 01 April 2022 | Igor Derysh
    U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ruled that portions of the law restricting the use of ballot drop-boxes, assistance for voters, and third-party voter registration drives violated the Voting Rights Act and constitutional protections because they were passed "with the intent to discriminate against Black voters."
  • Breaking: Federal District Court Strikes Down Restrictive Florida Voting Rules, Imposes Requirement That Florida Submit Certain Voting Changes to Court for Preclearance Under Section 3(c) of Voting Rights Act Upon Finding of Intentional Discrimination

    03/31/2022 12:12:38 PM PDT · by fwdude · 69 replies
    Election Law Blog ^ | March 31, 2022 | Rick Hasen
    Quite a blockbuster ruling from the federal district court. The court found that in enacting certain election laws limiting registration outreach and the use of drop boxes, Florida violated the Voting Rights Act. The court also found that Florida acted intentionally discriminating against the state’s black voters. And although the parties hardly briefed it, the Court imposed a very strong remedy of requiring that certain changes in voting rules in Florida be precleared before the court for a period of 10 years under section 3c of the Voting Rights Act.
  • Democrat-backed challenge to Florida’s elections integrity law wins trial date from Obama-appointed judge

    12/21/2021 12:12:37 PM PST · by Jacquerie · 24 replies
    The Capitolist ^ | December 21st 2021 | Dara Kam
    TALLAHASSEE — A legal showdown over a controversial state elections law is set to take place next month, after a federal judge rejected efforts to short-circuit a trial in constitutional challenges by voting-rights groups. The League of Women Voters of Florida, the Florida Conference of the NAACP, Disability Rights Florida and a number of other groups filed a series of lawsuits challenging the measure (SB 90), passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature this spring as part of GOP leaders’ nationwide attempts to make it more difficult for people to vote by mail. Lawyers for the plaintiffs allege that the changes are...
  • Federal judge blocks key portion of anti-riot law, targets DeSantis and three sheriffs

    09/09/2021 6:55:46 PM PDT · by blueplum · 19 replies
    Miami Herald ^ | 09 September 2021 | BY ANA CEBALLOS HERALD/TIMES TALLAHASSEE BUREAU
    A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Gov. Ron DeSantis and three Florida sheriffs from enforcing a key portion of the state’s so-called anti-riot law, in part, because it “encourages arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.” The definition of what constitutes a riot under a new state law pushed by the governor is too vague “to the point of unconstitutionality,” U.S. District Judge Mark Walker of Tallahassee wrote in his preliminary injunction order....
  • Federal judge: Florida's 'anti-riot' bill violates First Amendment rights

    09/09/2021 12:42:33 PM PDT · by rarestia · 37 replies
    BayNews9 ^ | 2:54 PM ET SEP. 09, 2021 | SPECTRUM NEWS STAFF
    ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida's new "anti-riot" law, championed by Florida lawmakers as a way to prevent violent protests, violates First Amendment rights. That's according to a federal judge, who blocked HB 1 Thursday. Chief Federal District Judge Mark Walker said the groups who brought the lawsuit demonstrated that the law chilled protest activities since it was enacted, because "the challenged law's confusing definition of 'riot' fails to give their members sufficient notice of what is prohibited or when they could be subject to arrest, such that their members do not wish to participate in future protests or have ceased organizing...