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  • 🚨BREAKING: Judge Brendan Hurson, appointed by Biden, has blocked President Trump’s ban on transgender surgeries for minors.

    02/13/2025 1:43:38 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 109 replies
    Benny Johnson on Twitter X ^ | February 13, 2025 | Benny Johnson
    Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: Judge Brendan Hurson, appointed by Biden, has blocked President Trump’s ban on transgender surgeries for minors. These people are sick. From Nick Sortor 3:04 PM · Feb 13, 2025
  • Vigilant Fox: Bill O’Reilly Drops a Bombshell on Letitia James and Alvin Bragg

    02/13/2025 12:30:23 PM PST · by Red Badger · 31 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | February 13, 2025 | Guest
    Bill O’Reilly made a stunning prediction Wednesday night on NewsNation’s Cuomo: Donald Trump is going to destroy NY Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. And Trump may just have an unlikely ally to make that goal a reality. O’Reilly claimed that New York Mayor Adams “knows where the bodies are buried” when it comes to James and Bragg, the two figures who aggressively pursued Trump in court. What he means by this is Adams may hold damaging information that could help Trump turn the tables on the prosecutors who have relentlessly targeted him. “I’m going to predict...
  • LAWFARE: Web of Leftist Groups Working in Tandem to Tie Up Trump Agenda in Court

    02/13/2025 11:40:22 AM PST · by jeannineinsd · 14 replies
    Daily Signal ^ | 2/12/2025 | Fred Lucas
    Lawfare hasn’t stopped since Donald Trump became president again, but has been repackaged into civil litigation to stop his second term agenda—and most of the civil lawfare can be traced to groups affiliated with a coalition known as Civil Service Strong. Members of the coalition scored federal court wins in recent days to temporarily block Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, to delay a federal employee buyout, and to halt the shuttering of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The member groups have also been involved in numerous other lawsuits against the Trump administration, including challenging the Schedule F executive...
  • State, Baltimore sue Glock for rise in modified guns that function like ‘illegal machine guns’

    02/13/2025 7:27:51 AM PST · by CtBigPat · 33 replies
    Maryland Matters ^ | 2/12/2025 | Danielle J. Brown
    The state and the city of Baltimore sued gun maker Glock on Wednesday for its failure to stop the rising trend of its handguns being modified into machine-gun-like weapons used in violent crimes.
  • Killed in a Footnote: Important New DOJ Order Lost in the Flood of Big Moves

    02/13/2025 6:30:41 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 20 replies
    Tell Me How This Ends ^ | 11 Feb, 2025 | Chris Bray
    A culturally significant development has been lost in the flood of news. In September of 2021, the National School Boards Association sent a shameful letter to part-time President Joe Biden demanding that aggressive parental criticism of local school boards be coded as threats and treated as criminal behavior. If you’ve forgotten that letter, the NSBA specifically asked the Biden administration to use “the PATRIOT Act in regards to domestic terrorism” against parents. Attorney General Merrick Garland quickly gave the NSBA what it wanted, issuing guidance to federal law enforcement to investigate parental criticism as potential federal crimes, under the premise...
  • Judge declines to block Trump administration's resignation offer to federal employees

    02/12/2025 3:19:25 PM PST · by hardspunned · 27 replies
    NPR ^ | 2/12/25 | Andrea Hsu
    After issuing two stays, U.S. District Judge George O'Toole has declined to block the Trump administration's deferred resignation program for federal employees. The ruling comes more than two weeks after the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent an email to more than 2 million civilian employees of the federal government with the subject line "Fork in the Road."
  • Suing USAID for stopping the funding of the LGBT Association League in Odessa.

    02/13/2025 12:36:22 AM PST · by Reverend Wright · 30 replies
    TWitter ^ | Feb 12, 2025 | Lord Beto
    I ASK THE COURT: 1. To recognize as unlawful the termination of funding of the LGBT Association "LIGA" in Odesa by USAID representatives. 2. To oblige the defendant to restore the financing of the organization in the amount sufficient to fulfill its statutory tasks. 3 Take measures to prevent similar violations in the future.
  • LAWFARE: Judge John McConnell has been on the board of a federally funded NGO since 2006.

    02/12/2025 3:45:58 PM PST · by hardspunned · 17 replies
    amuse ^ | 2/12/25 | amuse
    Are federal judges allowed to be on the boards of NGOs? Can they preside over cases that impact the funding of their NGOs?
  • DOJ announces lawsuit against New York, Hochul and state AG James over ‘sanctuary’ status

    02/12/2025 2:32:35 PM PST · by kevcol · 105 replies
    NY Post ^ | February 12, 2025 | Samuel Chamberlain
    The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was suing New York state over its policy of limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, with Gov. Kathy Hochul, state AG Letitia James and DMV chief Mark Schroeder in AG Pam Bondi’s crosshairs. “This is a new DOJ,” Bondi announced. “New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops. It stops today.”
  • This obscure law is one reason Trump's agenda keeps losing in court

    02/12/2025 10:51:15 AM PST · by aquila48 · 58 replies
    yahoo news ^ | February 12, 2025 | Lawrence Hurley
    WASHINGTON — Lawyers challenging President Donald Trump's aggressive use of executive power in the courts are turning to a familiar weapon in their armory: an obscure but routinely invoked federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act. While lawsuits challenging such provocative plans as ending birthright citizenship and dismantling federal agencies raise weighty constitutional issues, they also claim Trump failed to follow the correct procedures as required under the wonky 1946 statute. Trump fell afoul of the law in some high-profile cases that reached the Supreme Court during his first term, raising the possibility he could suffer the same fate this...
  • ‘Climate homicide’ architects pitch theory to prosecutors

    04/09/2024 6:20:32 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 35 replies
    E & E News ^ | April 9, 2024 | By Lesley Clark
    CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Lawyers advancing an effort to charge oil companies with homicide over climate-related deaths are ramping up their campaign to hold fossil fuel producers criminally accountable for contributing to climate change. The authors of “Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil for Climate Death” embarked on a road trip of college campuses this spring, making the case for bringingcriminal charges against oil and gas companies. The push by David Arkush, director of Public Citizen’s climate program, and Donald Braman, an associate professor at George Washington University Law School, aims to bolster support for the theory through presentations at law schools....
  • BLAGOJEVICH SPEAKS AFTER BEING PARDONED

    02/11/2025 6:13:12 PM PST · by aspasia · 46 replies
    FOX 32 Chicago ^ | February 11, 2025 | FOX32 Chicago
  • Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says

    02/11/2025 5:39:29 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 17 replies
    NPR ^ | 02/11/2025 | Tom Dreisbach
    Attorneys for a group of news organizations, including NPR, said in a legal filing on Tuesday that evidence used at the sentencing of a rioter charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol had "disappeared" from an online government platform. The missing evidence consists of nine video exhibits from the Justice Department's case against Glen Simon, who pleaded guilty to a charge of "Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds." Simon said as part of his plea that he pushed against police officers with a metal bike rack, stormed the U.S. Capitol and recorded...
  • BREAKING: Leftist Judges Shocked to Learn Trump Won’t Roll Over and Play Dead

    02/11/2025 2:43:54 PM PST · by Starman417 · 56 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 02-11-25 | Kurt Schlichter
    Here is a long take on the court injunction crisis, which is less crisis than an opportunity… OK, stop panicking about all the stupid legal decisions from leftist judges that the left is getting from judge shopping in leftist jurisdictions. Stop. Panicking. First, no one should be surprised by any of this. The administration certainly isn’t. We always knew exactly what they would do. Do not take the fact they are not screaming and yelling as them rolling over. They are not rolling over. There’s plenty going on behind the scenes as administration lawyers prepare their papers for the legal...
  • X user reveals how DOGE can beat left-wing activist judges at their own game…

    02/11/2025 2:43:15 PM PST · by packagingguy · 28 replies
    Revolver.News ^ | February 11, 2025 | Revolver Staff
    @DOGE, a single district judge has issued a ruling blocking the executive branch from access to Treasury data. There’s a simple fix: DOJ should demand injunction bonds. This will be a repeat problem for the Trump administration, just like it was in the first term, unless something is done to rein in frivolous injunctions. Activist judges could single-handedly gum up the entire Trump/DOGE agenda. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), judges can issue injunctions “ONLY IF” the suing party posts a bond to cover potential damages if they’re wrong. But guess what? This rule is hardly used! When I...
  • Steve Bannon pleads guilty in border wall funding case

    02/11/2025 12:33:09 PM PST · by srmanuel · 20 replies
    Reuters ^ | 02/11/2025 | Jack Queen
    At the end of Trump's first term, he pardoned Bannon for the exact same case, immediately afterwards, The State of NY charged Bannon, given how various Trump supporters went to prison for bogus charges, this was probably the best Bannon could hope for in the State of NY.
  • BREAKING: Congressman Drafting Articles of Impeachment Against Lawless Anti-Trump Judge

    02/11/2025 8:25:30 AM PST · by hardspunned · 75 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 2/11/25 | Matt Margolis
    Over the weekend, an Obama-appointed judge issued a temporary injunction blocking the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing sensitive Treasury Department data. While the media frames this as a limited restriction on political appointees and special government employees, the reality appears far more sweeping. Judge Paul Engelmayer’s ruling explicitly bars all political appointees—including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent—from Treasury payment records and financial systems, restricting access to career civil servants (essentially the Deep State) within the Bureau of Fiscal Services. This unprecedented move effectively prevents the Treasury secretary from overseeing his own department’s financial data, raising serious concerns about executive...
  • An Obama-appointed judge ruled that President Trump must work with Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, a Biden-appointed official, instead of his own chosen legal counsel

    02/11/2025 8:02:01 AM PST · by hardspunned · 69 replies
    X ^ | 2/11/25 | amuse
    An Obama-appointed judge ruled that President Trump must work with Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, a Biden-appointed official, instead of his own chosen legal counsel. Judge Jackson issued an order mandating Dellinger represent the president and barred Trump from appointing any other Special Counsel.
  • The Judicial Coup Against Trump

    02/11/2025 9:27:44 AM PST · by thegagline · 29 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | 02/11/2025 | Daniel Greenfield
    Dems and their media have been shouting about a “constitutional crisis” for two weeks now. If you believe Rep. Jared Huffman, it’s even the worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War. But the actual constitutional crisis is once again proving to be a judicial coup. Democrat federal judges have blocked lawful moves by the Trump administration under various technical pretexts with the aim of upending legal presidential authority. We’ve already seen this during Trump’s first term, so it comes as no real surprise, but it’s even more aggressive out of the gate with leftist activists and leftist federal judges moving...
  • Alan Dershowitz Says Many ‘Improper’ Injunctions Against Trump Executive Orders Will Get Tossed

    02/11/2025 8:41:45 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 59 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | Feb 10, 2025 | Harold Hutchison
    Attorney Alan Dershowitz said Monday that many of the injunctions blocking actions by President Donald Trump, ranging from his executive orders to his efforts to address wasteful and fraudulent spending, will be thrown out on appeal. The Trump administration is appealing injunctions imposed by federal judges that targeted the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order ending birthright citizenship, among others. Dershowitz said during “The Dershow” that the cases will eventually be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court. “Nobody ever said that our system of checks and balances would make it easy to govern or would...