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  • Second Court Ignores Landmark SCOTUS Ruling, Issues Nationwide Injunction

    07/24/2025 12:43:49 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 20 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | July 24, 2025 | C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal
    In a 6-3 ruling late last month, Justice Amy Coney Barrett minced no words when it came to so-called “universal injunctions,” lower-court rulings that extended far beyond that court’s jurisdiction. “It is unnecessary to consider whether Congress has constrained the Judiciary; what matters is how the Judiciary may constrain the Executive,” Barrett wrote in the decision. “That goes for judges, too,” Barrett added. “When a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too.” That decision, by the way, did not decide the merits of the case in...
  • BREAKING: Trump, Bondi Outmaneuver Corrupt Judges, Appoint Alina Habba as Acting US Attorney for New Jersey

    07/24/2025 4:34:46 PM PDT · by blueyon · 59 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | 7/24/25 | Cristina Laila
    Alina Habba on Thursday announced that she is now the Acting US Attorney for New Jersey after district court judges ousted her from her post earlier this week. Alina Habba’s term as interim US Attorney expires on Friday at 11:59 pm so Trump and Bondi outmaneuvered the activist judges. Habba resigned as Interim US Attorney and is now Acting US Attorney for New Jersey.
  • Davidson County (NC) student suspended for saying 'illegal alien' in class to receive apology, $20K

    07/24/2025 1:59:21 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 26 replies
    https://www.wfdd.org ^ | July 24, 2025
    A federal judge approved a settlement this week between the Davidson County Board of Education and the parents of a student who was suspended for using the term “illegal alien” in class. Leah and Chad McGhee’s 16-year-old son was suspended for three days last year after making what school officials called a “racially insensitive remark.” The parents filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education shortly after the incident. Now, court documents show the parties have reached a settlement. The school board has agreed to issue a public apology for the “mischaracterization of racial bias” of the student’s comments and...
  • Supreme Court allows Trump to fire members of product safety agency

    07/23/2025 1:55:41 PM PDT · by CFW · 28 replies
    NBC ^ | 7/23/25 | Lawrence Hurley
    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency set up by Congress to be independent of political pressures. The justices, granting an emergency request filed by the Trump administration, blocked a Maryland-based federal judge’s ruling that reinstated Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric and Richard Trumka Jr., all of whom had been appointed by then-President Joe Biden. Without the three members in place, the five-member commission would for now lack the necessary quorum to fulfill its obligation to protect consumers from defective products. Under existing law, members...
  • BREAKING: Obama Judge Denies DOJ Bid to Unseal Epstein Docs

    07/23/2025 12:08:44 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 30 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | July 23, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    A federal judge on Wednesday denied the Justice Department’s bid to unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury transcripts from a Florida investigation. Florida-based US District Judge Robin Rosenberg, an Obama appointee, said the DOJ failed to justify unsealing the records related to grand juries in West Palm Beach in 2005-2007. Judge Rosenberg also denied a request to transfer the matter to the Southern District of New York. Reuters reported: A U.S. judge on Wednesday denied a U.S. Justice Department bid to unseal grand jury transcripts related to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in South Florida, the first ruling...
  • Florida Judge Denies DOJ Request to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Testimonies

    07/23/2025 12:51:56 PM PDT · by Valpal1 · 12 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | 7-23-2025 | Mary Chastain
    U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg denied the DOJ’s efforts to unseal grand jury testimonies regarding Jeffrey Epstein and transfer the petition to the Southern District of New York. “For the reasons set forth below, Eleventh Circuit law does not permit this Court to grant the Government’s request; the Court’s hands are tied—a point that the Government concedes,” Rosenberg wrote. The request to send it to Manhattan is because the DOJ asked the court to unseal testimonies in Manhattan connected to Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.
  • Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from criminal custody, second judge bars ICE from immediately detaining him

    07/23/2025 12:27:09 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 67 replies
    CBS News ^ | July 23, 2025 | By Jacob Rosen, Melissa Quinn
    Washington — A federal judge on Wednesday barred federal immigration authorities from immediately taking Kilmar Abrego Garcia into custody once he is released from criminal confinement in Tennessee and ordered the Trump administration to provide him 72 hours' notice if it plans to initiate proceedings to remove him to a country that is not his place of origin. The order from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis was issued as a federal judge in Tennessee, who is presiding over Abrego Garcia's criminal case, ruled that the Salvadoran national should be released from the custody of federal law enforcement under conditions that...
  • BREAKING: Maryland federal judge Paula Xinis has just issued an order that will block ICE from arresting “Maryland man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia upon his release on bail in Tennessee

    07/23/2025 12:42:16 PM PDT · by rxsid · 59 replies
    X ^ | 07.23.2025 | Bill Melugin
    BREAKING: Maryland federal judge Paula Xinis has just issued an order that will block ICE from arresting “Maryland man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia upon his release on bail in Tennessee for his federal human trafficking charges. Judge Xinis is also ordering a 72 hour pause on any effort… pic.twitter.com/JKBfwnPrB8— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 23, 2025
  • ‘Another Win For The American People’: Appeals Court Hands Trump Admin Deportation Victory

    07/22/2025 4:43:52 PM PDT · by CFW · 7 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 7/22/25 | Jason Hopkins
    An appellate court ruled the Trump administration can move forward with ending temporary deportation protections for thousands of Afghan and Cameroonian nationals. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is allowed to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for roughly 10,000 Afghans and Cameroonians while a court challenge against the move continues to play out in court, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. The court determined that while CASA — an immigration advocacy group suing DHS — has a plausible case, there is not enough evidence to block the TPS phaseout while the court challenge continues. “We agree with...
  • NJ can't ban private ICE detention contracts, federal court rules

    07/22/2025 11:23:49 AM PDT · by 11th_VA · 12 replies
    https://www.northjersey.com ^ | July 22, 2025 | Hannan Adely NorthJersey.com
    A federal appeals court has ruled that New Jersey’s ban on private immigration detention contracts is unconstitutional, dealing a blow to state leaders and advocates who have long fought to curb U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's footprint in the Garden State. In the 2-1 decision, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals found that New Jersey’s 2021 law blocking ICE from contracting with private companies unlawfully interfered with federal immigration enforcement, in violation of the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause.
  • Just In: Obama judge has reportedly been assigned to President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal.

    07/21/2025 10:57:57 AM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 58 replies
    Newsmax ^ | July 21, 2025 | Erick Mack
    former President Barack Obama judge has reportedly been assigned to President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal. U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in the Southern District of Florida was nominated by Obama in February 2014, and became the first openly gay Black federal judge. Gayles was also assigned a Trump $500 million lawsuit against embattled former attorney Michael Cohen in 2023, but Trump was forced to temporarily pause that case due to court-date conflicts in the Democrat prosecutor-led cases he faced before the 2024 presidential election. Gayles has filed dissent against voter...
  • It’s Bigly Hitting the Fan Week

    07/20/2025 4:20:37 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 49 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 20 Jul, 2025 | Clarice Feldman
    The three biggest stories this week expose judicial hijinks, the willingness of the Wall Street Journal to publish defamatory anti-Trump nonsense in violation of all journalism ethics, and Tulsi Gabbard’s public declassification of material showing how President Obama worked from the moment of Trump’s 2016 election victory on to tar and hamstring him with made-up Russian influence lies. Judicial MalfeasanceAs usual, the most significant coverage of lefty judiciary hijinks is by Margot Cleveland. She uncovered a memo of a judicial conference in which the notorious D.C. judge James Boasberg confirmed to Chief Justice John Roberts the anti-Trump bias of that...
  • BREAKING: Biden Judge Rules Trump Firing Democrat FTC Commissioner Illegal

    07/18/2025 6:33:00 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 38 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | July 17, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    A federal judge on Thursday rehired the Democrat FTC Commissioner who was fired by President Trump earlier this year. US District Judge Loren AliKhan, a Biden appointee, said President Trump’s firing of Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the Democrat FTC Commissioner was illegal. The Trump Administration will promptly appeal this order. Politico reported: A federal judge has restored commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter to her role at the Federal Trade Commission, ruling that President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire the Democratic appointee in March was illegal. U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan issued the order on Thursday, saying that the Trump administration’s firings violated...
  • Republican-led US Senate confirms Trump's first second-term judicial nominee

    07/14/2025 9:25:18 PM PDT · by Republican Wildcat · 18 replies
    Reuters ^ | 7/14/2025 | Nate Raymond and Jack Queen
    WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump secured approval of his first judicial nominee of his second term, as the U.S. Senate confirmed a former law clerk to three members of the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority to a seat on a federal appeals court. The Republican-led Senate voted 46-42 along party lines in favor of Whitney Hermandorfer, a lawyer serving under Tennessee's attorney general, to be appointed as a life-tenured judge on the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
  • Judge Continues Block On Defunding Planned Parenthood

    07/12/2025 12:10:20 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 24 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | Jul 11, 2025 | Mariane Angela
    A Massachusetts district judge extended a temporary restraining order Friday blocking the enforcement of a new provision that would cut Medicaid funding to certain Planned Parenthood health centers. Obama-appointed federal Judge Indira Talwani ruled that a provision of the Reconciliation Act, which would prevent Medicaid reimbursements to organizations providing abortions and meeting certain financial criteria, including receiving over $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursements in 2023, could not be enforced. The ruling specifically impacts the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates, including the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts and Planned Parenthood Association of Utah. “Defendants, their agents, employees, appointees, successors,...
  • Judge rules Los Angeles police can't use nonlethal weapons against journalists

    07/11/2025 5:48:06 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 47 replies
    Politico ^ | Jul 11, 2024 | Lindsey Holden
    A federal judge ruled Los Angeles police cannot force journalists out of protest areas or use nonlethal weapons against them after reporters alleged officers targeted them during anti-ICE demonstrations last month. U.S. District Judge Hernán D. Vera granted the Los Angeles Press Club's request for a 14-day restraining order against the city's police department after the group said it documented dozens of incidents in which officers forced reporters away from public spaces where protests were taking place, hit them with rubber bullets and nonlethal weapons and exposed them to tear gas. Vera's ruling is an emergency order giving the court...
  • Judge orders Trump administration to stop immigration arrests in Southern California without probable cause

    07/11/2025 7:33:59 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 166 replies
    CNN — A federal judge on Friday found that the Department of Homeland Security has been making arrests in Los Angeles immigration raids without probable cause and ordered the department to stop detaining individuals based solely on race, spoken language or occupation.
  • DEVELOPING: Biden Judge to Block Trump DHS From Carrying Out Raids at Home Depots, Car Washes – Prevent Agents From Relying on Race, Type of Work When Making Arrests

    07/10/2025 7:09:38 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 90 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | July 10, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    A federal judge has written a tentative decision that sides with the anti-American ACLU’s plaintiffs and will block Trump’s Department of Homeland Security agents from raiding Home Depots, car washes and other places in the Los Angeles area (7 counties in the Central District of California) unless they have reasonable suspicion that there is a violation of immigration laws. According to Fox News, US District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Biden appointee, has written a tentative decision and it is still subject to change. The judge wrote her tentative ruling as leftists attack ICE agents during an immigration raid at...
  • Federal judge issues new nationwide block against Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship

    07/10/2025 9:01:06 AM PDT · by libstripper · 41 replies
    CNN via MSN ^ | jULY 10, 2025 | Devan Cole
    A federal judge agreed Thursday to issue a new nationwide block against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. The ruling from US District Judge Joseph Laplante is significant because the Supreme Court last month curbed the power of lower court judges to issue nationwide injunctions, while keeping intact the ability of plaintiffs to seek a widespread block of the order through class action lawsuits, which is what happened Thursday in New Hampshire. Ruling from the bench, Laplante granted a request from immigration rights attorneys to certify a nationwide class that “will be comprised only of those...
  • JUST IN: District Judge Issues Major Ruling On Birthright Citizenship

    07/10/2025 8:31:47 AM PDT · by Signalman · 50 replies
    Trending Politics ^ | 07/10/2025 | Michael
    Despite a recent ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that restricts the ability of lower court judges to block President Donald Trump’s policies using nationwide injunctions, a federal judge ruled on Thursday to bar the administration from enforcing an executive order placing limits on birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante from Concord, New Hampshire, reached his decision after advocates for immigrant rights asked him for class action status in a lawsuit they filed to represent any babies who would have their citizenship status jeopardized by the president’s order. He ruled the plaintiffs could move forward as a class, which...