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  • Terror Suspect Loses Bid to Dismiss Charges Over Alleged Torture

    05/11/2010 12:47:45 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 3 replies · 146+ views
    New York Law Journal ^ | May 11, 2010 | By Mark Hamblett
    The CIA's alleged torture of accused U.S. embassy bomber Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani does not justify dismissing criminal charges against him, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Southern District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected the claim made by Mr. Ghailani's defense attorneys that the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment requires dismissal of the indictment based on "outrageous" government misconduct. The reason, the judge said, was that there was no causal connection between the defendant's alleged mistreatment and his prosecution in the Southern District.
  • Trump Fires Joint Chiefs of Staff After Alleged Coup Plot Exposed by James O’Keefe Video

    02/23/2025 4:29:44 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 150 replies
    X.com ^ | 11:43 PM · Feb 22, 2025 | Project Constitution✓@ProjectConstitu (James O'Keefe reposted)
    By: Collin Campbell @ProjectConstitu(Watch The Video Here) https://x.com/ProjectConstitu/status/1893527590087852473Feb 22, 2025 - Washington, D.C. In a stunning and unprecedented move, President Donald Trump has fired the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking military officers in the United States, following allegations of a plot to undermine his authority. The dramatic shakeup, announced late Friday night, February 21, 2025, stems from a controversial video released by investigative journalist James O’Keefe on January 15, 2025, which purportedly exposed a high-level Pentagon official discussing secret meetings to defy and potentially overthrow Trump if he issued orders deemed controversial by military leadership. The firings have ignited...
  • Inside the Justice Dept. "rubber room," where veteran lawyers do jigsaw puzzles and stream shows to pass time

    06/12/2025 3:52:48 PM PDT · by CFW · 23 replies
    CBSNews ^ | 6/11/25 | Daniel Klaidman, Jacob Rosen
    When the Trump administration swept into the Department of Justice on Jan. 20, it moved swiftly to purge, demote, transfer and otherwise sideline career lawyers not perceived to be team players or sufficiently committed to the MAGA legal agenda. [snip] Inside, nearly a dozen of the government's most seasoned civil rights, environmental and national security lawyers have been reconstituted as members of a newly created group called the Sanctuary Cities task force. At first glance, the job seemed promising — a legal strike team that would sue municipalities the administration claimed were facilitating the violation of immigration laws, a task...
  • California Dreamin'

    06/09/2025 10:10:21 AM PDT · by MacNaughton · 15 replies
    https://www.kunstler.com/p/california-dreamin ^ | 6/09/2025 | James Howard Kuntsler
    The operation to cue riots over the removal of illegal immigrants has been well-planned in advance. Chief lawfare artists Norm Eisen and Mary McCord have engineered the legal strategy to oppose enforcement of US immigration law. They will clog the courts with lawsuits to prevent it and enlist their allied federal judges to issue injunction after injunction paralyzing the deportation process. ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Quietly Installed Nearly 200 Attorneys As Ed Dept Pursued Radical Agenda

    05/28/2025 4:49:01 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 23 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 21 May, 2025 | Jaryn Crouson
    The Department of Education (ED) under the Biden administration used an obscure hiring gimmick to bring in nearly 200 attorneys while pushing radical policies that faced persistent legal opposition. The Biden administration used the Schedule A hiring process, which provides an expedited path by bypassing the usual competitive process and negating the requirement that appointments be made based on merit. ED hired 193 attorneys from Jan. 20, 2021 through April 30, 2024 mostly staffing the department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) and shared...
  • Federal judge mulls sanctions for attorneys who used AI in court filing

    05/27/2025 1:30:26 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 10 replies
    Alabama Reflector ^ | May 21, 2025 | Ralph Chapoco
    A federal judge said Wednesday she would consider sanctions on attorneys who filed a motion that used artificial intelligence and cited legal authorities that do not exist. U.S. District Court Judge Anna M. Manasco told attorneys representing the state in the lawsuit — claiming corrections officers failed to protect an inmate — that lawyers continue to use artificial intelligence even after other courts have imposed corrective measures throughout the country. “Generally, this has occurred in other cases where the courts have imposed sanctions and standing orders,” Manasco said during the hearing. “This incident is proof-positive that those sanctions were insufficient....
  • EXCLUSIVE The 'bad hombre' migrants Trump is deporting to South Sudan revealed as Biden judge calls emergency hearing

    05/21/2025 11:02:27 AM PDT · by Morgana · 18 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | May 21, 2025 | KATELYN CARALLE
    Migrants deported to South Sudan by Donald Trump include murderers and sexual abusers, the Daily Mail can reveal. The latest deportations come as a federal judge ruled U.S. officials must retain custody and control of the migrants in case he orders in the future that their removals were unlawful. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts issued the ruling late Tuesday after an emergency hearing. Attorneys for the immigrants said the Trump administration appeared to start deporting people from Burma and Vietnam to South Sudan despite a court order restricting removals to third-party countries. The Daily Mail can now...
  • Republicans Sound Alarm: Illegal Aliens Faking Accidents, Injuries to Secure Large Payouts

    05/19/2025 12:15:39 PM PDT · by CFW · 32 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 5/19/25 | John Binder
    Illegal aliens are being recruited to join sophisticated criminal networks in the United States that stage accidents and injuries to get payouts through the nation’s personal injury system, House Republicans told Attorney General Pam Bondi. In a letter led by Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), the group of Republicans warned Bondi that personal injury fraud is a growing industry in the U.S. that requires immediate attention from the Department of Justice (DOJ). “These fraudulent schemes pose serious risks to public safety, increase consumer costs, and raise insurance premiums for the motoring public,” the Republicans wrote. “According to the Coalition Against Insurance...
  • Letitia James’ pro-consumer push could spark ‘legal shakedowns’ and boost greedy lawyers, businesses say

    05/12/2025 9:51:59 PM PDT · by Libloather · 6 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/12/25 | Carl Campanile
    New York business groups are blasting Attorney General Tish James for a pro-consumer push that they fear would be a legislative misfire — boosting greedy lawyers and unleashing “legal shakedowns.” James’ FAIR Business Practices Act looks to tighten up consumer protections to crack down on shady crimes like deed theft, junk fees and hard-to-cancel subscriptions, but critics said it will open up small businesses to frivolous lawsuits and legal threats. “The so-called FAIR Act would be anything but fair to New York’s business community, especially Main Street businesses,” said Tom Stebbins, executive director of the Lawsuit Reform Alliance of NY....
  • UN Security Council to Honduran Authorities: Back off Brazilian Embassy

    09/25/2009 3:11:24 PM PDT · by don-o · 20 replies · 748+ views
    VOA ^ | September 25, 2009 | Margaret Besheer
    The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting on the situation in the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, where ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been sheltering since Monday. The council condemned acts of intimidation and called on the defacto Honduran authorities to stop harassing the embassy. Security Council president for the month of September, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, read a statement from the council, in which it stressed the importance of respecting international law by preserving the inviolability of the embassy and the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations. "They [the council] condemned acts of intimidation against the Brazilian Embassy and...
  • BOOM! Stephen Miller’s America First Legal Drops Bombshell Lawsuit Against Chief Justice John Roberts

    05/06/2025 10:14:20 AM PDT · by george76 · 35 replies
    Gateway Pundit, ^ | May. 6, 2025 | Jim Hᴏft
    Stephen Miller’s America First Legal (AFL) has filed a bombshell lawsuit against Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., in his capacity as Presiding Officer of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and Robert J. Conrad, Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The lawsuit accuses the powerful duo of running what AFL describes as an “unconstitutional shadow agency” and violating federal transparency laws. The lawsuit, filed on April 22, slams the Judicial Conference of the United States and its administrative arm—both overseen by Chief Justice Roberts—as rogue “executive agencies” that have collaborated with far-left lawmakers to wage...
  • 5 Law Firms Make Deals With Trump, Avert WH Sanctions

    04/12/2025 9:03:29 AM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 15 replies
    NewsMax ^ | Friday, 11 April 2025 09:12 PM EDT
    President Donald Trump announced deals Friday with five law firms that will allow them to avoid the prospect of punishing executive orders and require them to together provide hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of free legal services for causes his administration says it supports.The resolutions reflect the Republican president's continued success in bending prominent law firms to his will as they seek to cut deals with his administration to avoid being targeted by White House sanctions like the ones confronting others in the legal community.The White House said that the firms of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Allen Overy Shearman...
  • Meg Whitman’s Nightmare, Marc Van der Hout, a UN Narc

    10/05/2010 5:21:16 PM PDT · by Randy Larsen · 16 replies
    Weaslezippers ^ | Unkown | Unkown
    Meg Whitman’s Nightmare, Marc Van der Hout, a UN Narc Turns out Van der Hout’s the brains behind the Nicandra “Nicky” Diaz Santillan Dream Team. He he was part of yet another Dream Team pairing with David Cole as co-counsel of the “LA 8″ that resulted in the release of illegal Arab nationals. Van der Hout and Cole bought enough time in the courts for their defendants to become permanent residents of these United States.
  • Attacking Law Firms Attacks What Makes America Great | Opinion

    04/10/2025 6:25:08 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 25 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Apr 10, 2025 | Bryan Sullivan
    "The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom," said the great fictional lawyer Atticus Finch, hero of the beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch maintained that: "Our courts have their faults as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal." Our courts are where people can freely exercise their rights by challenging what they believe is government overreach. What makes it work is our adversarial system in which lawyers zealously represent their clients—even if the case...
  • Over 500 law firms sign brief backing Perkins Coie suit against Trump

    04/05/2025 4:46:28 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 79 replies
    ABC News | Disney ^ | April 4, 2025 | By Alexander Mallin
    More than 500 law firms moved to file an amicus brief on Friday in support of Perkins Coie's lawsuit against the Trump administration's executive order that targeted the firm over its representation of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. "The Executive Order at issue in this case, and the others like it, take direct aim at several of the Nation's leading law firms and seek to cow every other firm, large and small, into submission," the amicus brief says. "The looming threat posed by the Executive Order at issue in this case and the others like it is not lost on anyone...
  • Chief Justice Roberts’ Secret Friendship with Trump Prosecutor Ally Norm Eisen Exposed

    04/03/2025 9:07:42 PM PDT · by bitt · 30 replies
    Is the Supreme Court Compromised by Deep State Cronyism? In a bombshell revelation that’s sending shockwaves through conservative circles, it turns out Chief Justice John Roberts has been rubbing elbows with none other than Norm Eisen—the radical leftist operative who’s spent years orchestrating lawfare campaigns against President Donald Trump and his allies. According to a report from Revolver News, Roberts didn’t just bump into Eisen at a D.C. cocktail party. No, these two are apparently such “good pals” that Roberts jetted off to the Czech Republic for a week-long sleepover at Eisen’s lavish 150-room palace. It’s straight from the mouth...
  • Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court

    03/25/2025 7:55:38 PM PDT · by Morgana · 4 replies
    White House.gov ^ | March 22, 2025 | The White House
    MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT: Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers and law firms that engage in actions that violate the laws of the United States or rules governing attorney conduct must be efficiently and effectively held accountable. Accountability is especially important when misconduct by lawyers and law firms threatens our national security, homeland security, public safety, or election integrity. Recent examples of grossly unethical misconduct are far too common. For instance, in 2016, Marc Elias, founder and chair of Elias Law Group LLP, was deeply involved in the...
  • Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block Executive Orders

    03/25/2025 8:25:41 PM PDT · by Morgana · 9 replies
    White House.gov ^ | March 25, 2025 | The White House
    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Background. My Administration is committed to addressing the significant risks associated with law firms, particularly so-called “Big Law” firms, that engage in conduct detrimental to critical American interests. Many firms take actions that threaten public safety and national security, limit constitutional freedoms, degrade the quality of American elections, or undermine bedrock American principles. Moreover, law firms regularly conduct this harmful activity through their powerful pro bono practices, earmarking hundreds of millions of their clients’...
  • The Last Resort

    03/24/2025 3:42:36 PM PDT · by little jeremiah · 1 replies
    ClusterF*** Nation ^ | March 24, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler
    "What is the alternative to presidential oversight and management of the agencies listed in this branch of government? They run themselves? That claim means nothing in practice.” —Jeffrey Tucker Surely you know the old joke: “What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea?” (Answer: “a good start!”). There’s a reason why lawyers are so broadly despised. Law is humanity’s instrument for creating order out of the terror and chaos of nature, where anything goes. The result of law theoretically, is a civil society, where only the good, true, and right things can go. These days,...
  • REVEALED: Chief Justice John Roberts Caught in Elitist Club of Judges and Lawyers That Includes James Boasberg, Beryl Howell, Amit Mehta and Ketanji Brown Jackson

    03/21/2025 8:05:27 AM PDT · by Beave Meister · 3 replies
    The Gateway Pundit.com ^ | 3/21/2025 | Jim Hoft
    Investigative journalist Bad Kitty Unleashed reported on Thursday that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is involved in an invite-only club for elite judges in Washington, DC. The elitist club America Inns of Court also includes the radical America-hating judges James Boasberg, Beryl Howell, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Amit Mehta—all hard-left judges and Trump-haters. John Roberts has been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court since September 2005.