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(Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge in California on Friday blocked the Trump administration from implementing a new rule that would have dramatically reshaped the U.S. asylum system and restricted asylum eligibility for immigrants seeking refuge in the United States. The injunction undermines the Trump administration's last-minute efforts to solidify its hardline immigration policies before U.S. president-elect Joe Biden takes office later this month. U.S. District Judge James Donato of the Northern District of California granted an injunction sought by immigrant advocacy groups seeking to block the rule, which the Trump administration published on Dec. 11 and was set to...

PM's pick for bench draws fire Social activists cite conservative views KIRK MAKIN JUSTICE REPORTER -- The appointment of an Ontario judge who is seen as an opponent of pro-choice and gay rights has created a stir among social activists. Spokesmen expressed concerns yesterday about the appointment of Mr. Justice David Brown, a Toronto lawyer who has represented Christian family-value positions in several cases, and has written papers dealing with legal developments involving the sanctity of life. Judge Brown will sit on the Ontario Superior Court bench in the Toronto region. "What we are seeing is something we predicted: The...

<p>Another rank judicial usurpation impends that will prohibit the death penalty for gruesome homicides perpetrated by unrepentant 17-year-olds, like sniper Lee Malvo. Associate Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, whose votes and opinions bespeak political compromise and elite orthodoxies, will probably cast the deciding vote in State ex rel. Simmons vs. Roper to ban the practice as unconstitutionally cruel and unusual. There may be better examples of idiosyncratic policy views masquerading as law, but if there are, they do not readily come to mind.</p>