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  • 'Violates the First Amendment': Judge bars Trump admin from imposing sanctions on US human rights advocates who work for International Criminal Court

    08/16/2025 1:15:12 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 19 replies
    lawandcrime.com ^ | July 19, 2025 | Colin Kalmbacher
    A federal judge in Maine on Friday barred the Trump administration from enforcing sanctions on two U.S. citizens and human rights advocates who work with the International Criminal Court (ICC).On April 11, Matthew Smith and Akila Radhakrishnan, a human rights nonprofit leader and lawyer, respectively, filed a 39-page lawsuit against President Donald Trump and several other members of his administration over an executive order that imposes sanctions on the ICC, prohibits certain interactions with designated ICC officials, and threatens both civil and criminal penalties for any such violations.The lawsuit was premised on the idea that the sanctions "violate their First...
  • GOP senators want info on Justice lawyers who defended terror suspects

    02/26/2010 4:36:54 PM PST · by onyx · 30 replies · 608+ views
    THE HILL ^ | 02/26/10 05:02 PM ET | Michael O'Brien
    Senate Republicans pressed Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday afternoon over political appointees who'd previously defended suspects in terrorism cases. All seven members of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote Holder, asking for more details about political appointees within the Department of Justice, who, Republicans say, may have conflicts of interest in the government's prosecution in terrorism cases. The GOP senators wrote Holder to complain that a response to an original request for information on those Justice Department personnel was "at best nonresponsive and, at worst, intentionally evasive." "It appears the Department has chosen to go another direction and refuse to...