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Judge Calls Trump Info On Deportee Flights 'Woefully Insufficient'
A federal judge has instructed the Trump administration on Thursday to explain why its failure to turn around flights carrying deportees...
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7 days ago2 min read
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Congress Looks to Limit Power of Judges Who Rule Against Trump
House Republicans don’t have the votes to impeach federal judges, as President Donald Trump has demanded. So they’re looking at other...
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7 days ago1 min read
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For Mass Deportations, Trump Plans to Invoke 18th-Century Wartime Law, Last Used for World War II Internment Camps
President Trump is set to test the limits of his immigration crackdown by invoking a wartime law to deport immigrants alleged to be...
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Feb 42 min read
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Meta Agrees To Pay $25M Because it Suspended Trump Social-Media Accounts After Jan. 6 Attacks
Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against the company after it suspended his...
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Jan 302 min read
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U.S. Will Put “Worst of The Worst” Immigrants In Guantanamo Bay Prison, Trump Says
President Donald Trump, who made the deportation of immigrants a central part of his campaign and presidency, said Wednesday that the...
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Jan 302 min read
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As Trump files flurry of orders to upend U.S. immigration, what legal routes remain?
Promising the largest deportation effort in U.S. history, President Trump, in his first days in office, has released a dramatic series of...
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Jan 303 min read
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Differences Stark Between the Diversity of Biden and Trump Federal-Judiciary Nominees
During Joe Biden’s four years as president, he and Senate Democrats prioritized diversity at an unprecedented level for nominees to the...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 242 min read
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Faith Leaders Make Plans, Even as Trump Says Churches Not Off-Limits to ICE Enforcement
Numerous faith leaders across the U.S. are pondering ways to resist even in the face of warnings that houses of worship are not...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 241 min read
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Judge Blocks Trump’s 'Unconstitutional' Attempt To End Birthright Citizenship
A federal judge said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship was “blatantly...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 242 min read
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Federal Prisons Must House Transgender Women in Men’s Facilities
Federal inmates who are transgender women must be housed in men’s facilities, President Trump ordered. Any medical treatments related to...
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Jan 242 min read
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Education Leaders and Immigrant Parents Fear ICE Raids at Schools
This week, the Trump administration reversed more than a decade of policy, saying it will no longer direct immigration agents to avoid...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 242 min read
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As Insurrectionist Cases Are Dismissed, Meaning of Jan. 6 Pondered by Critics
Criticism is coming from many corners -- Republicans, Democrats, and the judiciary -- even as courts process the dismissal of roughly...
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Jan 242 min read
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Despite Trump Order, States Unlikely to Re-Try Federal Death Row Inmates in Local Courts
On Donald Trump’s first day in office, he signed an order to reinstate the death penalty for federal death-row inmates, lifting the...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 242 min read
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Former Biden-Harris Officials Launch Legal Center, to Fight Trump’s Impending Policies
Just when it seemed that the Dem resistance was tuned out, former Biden-Harris officials are launching on Inauguration Day a new legal...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 161 min read
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Some Immigrants Opt to ‘Self-Deport’ Before Trump Takes Office
Advocates and immigration experts say that some people’s recent decision to leave the U.S., despite legal immigration status, shows how...
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Jan 162 min read
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Washington Post: Could Trump Could Deport at ‘Light Speed’?
In this Washington Post graphic, each figure represents 10,000 people. "The universe of potential deportees — immigrants living in the...
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Jan 162 min read
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Death Row: What Can Donald Trump Do Now?
Donald Trump cannot reverse Biden's death-row commutations. Yet Trump is ready to put more people on death row, as the BBC reports ....
Crime and Justice News
Dec 24, 20241 min read
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With Massive Backlog of Existing Orders, ICE Agents Have Little Capacity to Ramp Up Deportations
Even as Trump plans mass deportations, there are not enough immigration agents to deal with an existing backload of deportation orders –...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 24, 20242 min read
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Trump’s “Border Czar” Will Need Funding, 100k Beds For Deportation Plans, He Says
Tom Homan , who Donald Trump has tapped as his incoming administration’s “border czar,” said Wednesday night that plans are underway to...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 19, 20242 min read
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Adams Suggests Finding Ways to Change NYC Sanctuary Laws to Comply with Trump Deportations
New York City Mayor Eric Adams suggested Wednesday his administration is looking at ways to craft alterations to sanctuary city laws. The...
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Dec 19, 20241 min read
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