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Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 Boasberg suggested during Monday's hearing that NO deportation flights should have taken off because he had scheduled a hearing for 5pm and the DOJ should have known he would try to order the return of planes already in the air 🙄 He again confirms the inconsistencies between his 2 "orders" The written one was "pithier?" Is that a judicial term lol

Prosecutors asked for jail time — but Brooklyn Federal Judge Frederic Block said placing Katz on the sex offender registry was harsh punishment. “It will impact his ability to find employment and travel,” Block said. “[The] sex offender registry would cause enormous collateral damage.”

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A judge in Connecticut says federal agents violated the rights of four illegal immigrants during a raid in New Haven two years ago and has put a stop to deportation proceedings. Federal Judge Michael Straus ruled recently that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents went into the four men's apartments without warrants, probable cause and without their consent. He says the immigrants' rights were ``egregiously violated.''

A judge dismissed an indecent exposure charge against a woman accused of disrobing in front of a 14-year-old boy, saying the law only applies to men. Superior Court Judge Robert W. Armstrong said earlier in the week that the law only mentions someone who "exposes his person." "It's gender specific," Armstrong said. He dismissed a misdemeanor charge against Alexis Luz Garcia, 40, of Corona, who was cited in May after parents of a neighbor boy said she showed him full-frontal nudity as he played basketball. Prosecutor Alison N. Norton said the decision to throw out the case will be appealed...

NEW YORK -- The federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy of Delta Air Lines rejected a request by the carrier's pilot union that she step down from the case because of comments suggesting that the pilots are paid too much. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Prudence Carter Beatty denied any antipathy toward Delta pilots, who are fighting efforts by the Atlanta-based airline to abandon the current pilot contract and slash their pay by 20%, or about $325 million a year. [snip] Judge Beatty said union officials were misinterpreting remarks she made during hearings since Delta sought bankruptcy-court protection in September. [snip] "I...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a smart man and an excellent writer. He is also a living example of how bad political and philosophical premises can put great talent in the service of an evil cause. In November, while speaking at the University of Missouri, Scalia was asked what he thought about proposals to impose a national ID card on the American people. Scalia said he personally opposes the idea and would vote against it if it were put to a vote. But when a student asked him whether a national ID would violate the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which...