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A #federaljudge #blocked #Trump’s order to end federal funding for #NPR and #PBS, citing #FirstAmendment rights. The judge ruled the order unlawful, stating it targeted viewpoints the President disapproved of. While the decision is a victory for press freedom, the impact remains unclear due to ongoing appeals and previous damage to the public broadcasting system. https://apnews.com/article/trump-npr-pbs-funding-executive-order-fbd9500e5f7400deab84ead188c35694?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
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A #federaljudge granted #Anthropic’s request for a preliminary injunction against the #Trump administration’s #blacklisting of the company. The judge cited “First Amendment retaliation” as the reason for the ruling, which prevents the administration from implementing the directive banning federal agencies from using Anthropic’s AI models. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/anthropic-pentagon-dod-claude-court-ruling.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Federal judge again blocks Noem’s attempt to limit Congress’ access to ICE facilities – Democracy Docket
Federal judge again blocks Noem’s attempt to limit Congress’ access to ICE facilities
By Jacob Knutson, February 2, 2026
Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem at Miami International Airport in January, 2026, in Miami, Florida. (Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty Images)A federal judge again blocked Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s efforts to hamstring congressional oversight of federal immigration detention facilities.
Monday’s ruling marks the second time in as many months that U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb temporarily halted Noem’s attempt to require that members of Congress provide notice seven days before they conduct in-person oversight visits to immigration detention facilities.
Cobb, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, previously ruled in December that Noem couldn’t enforce the Department of Homeland Security’s advanced notice policy because it violated federal appropriations law.
DHS and its sub-agencies are barred from using funds to deny members of Congress access to “any facility operated by or for the Department of Homeland Security used to detain or otherwise house aliens” when they are conducting oversight.
However, Noem responded to the court order with a nearly identical policy, though she ordered agents to carry out the new rule only with funding from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), which she claimed was not subject to traditional appropriations requirements.
Democratic representatives who sued over Noem’s previous rule asked Cobb last month to also strike down DHS’s new notice policy. They argued that it would be impossible for the Trump administration to enforce the new policy solely with OBBB funds.
In her ruling Monday, Cobb said that the representatives, who are represented by Democracy Forward*, will likely succeed in their argument.
“Today’s decision restores Congress’s ability to expose dangerous detention conditions, protect people – including US citizens – who are in government custody, and enforce the law when the administration refuses to do so,” Skye Perryman, the president and CEO of Democracy Forward, said in a statement.
Noem’s second attempt at requiring advanced notice only came to light after three Minnesota Democrats — Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig and Kelly Morrison — were denied entry while attempting to conduct oversight on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility outside of Minneapolis.
The lawmakers attempted to visit the facility after ICE officer Jonathan Ross killed Minneapolis resident Renee Good amid the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the city.
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Tags: Angie Craig, Blocks, Denied Entry, DHS, Federal Judge, ICE Facilites, IIhan Omar, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Kelly Morrison, Limit Congress Access, Minnesota Democrats, Noem's Attempt, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Judge
#AngieCraig #Blocks #DeniedEntry #DHS #FederalJudge #ICEFacilites #IIhanOmar #Immigration #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcementICE #KellyMorrison #LimitCongressAccess #MinnesotaDemocrats #NoemSAttempt #USDepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #USDistrictJudge -
"Minnesota’s top federal judge has summoned the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to appear before him on Friday, warning he may be held in contempt for allegedly defying court orders.
"Chief US district judge Patrick Schiltz demanded ICE lead Todd Lyons explain himself personally in a three-page order issued Monday evening, declaring that “the court’s patience is at an end”.
#Minnesota #FederalJudge #PatrickSchiltz #ICE #ToddLyons
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/ice-director-judge-minnesota -
Why I Am Resigning
A #FederalJudge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
By Mark L. Wolf
#law #judiciary #LegalEthics #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/federal-judge-resignation-trump/684845/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxbhI53LJtZufsllxT-YiTQc -
Alina Habba ‘unlawfully’ working as US attorney in New Jersey, judge rules – POLITICO
Alina Habba ‘unlawfully’ working as US attorney in New Jersey, judge rules
As a result, Habba cannot participate in prosecutions by the office.
Alina Habba, former lawyer for President Donald Trump, is at the center of battle to lead New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney’s Office. | Mary Altaffer/AP
By Ry Rivard and Matt Friedman08/21/2025 03:37 PM EDTUpdated: 08/21/2025 05:36 PM EDT
A federal judge rejected President Donald Trump’s use of a loophole to keep Alina Habba in place as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor.
In a 77-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann said Thursday that Habba “is not lawfully holding the office of United States Attorney” and has been in the position without legal authority since July 1.
Editor’s Note: The PDF ruling document is embedded at the end of this article.
As a result, Habba, who had previously worked as Trump’s personal attorney, cannot run the office the president attempted to keep her in charge of after her 120-day interim appointment expired. The Trump administration employed a series of maneuvers to try to retain Habba’s control of the office after district judges ousted her in July.
“Faced with the question of whether Ms. Habba is lawfully performing the functions and duties of the office of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, I conclude that she is not,” Brann wrote.
Brann put his ruling on hold, pending the Trump administration’s possible appeal, but the fallout could be a staggering mess across the executive branch. Brann said Habba’s actions in New Jersey for the past seven weeks “may be declared void” and Habba must be disqualified from participating in any of the office’s cases as its leader. The office handles thousands of criminal and civil cases at any given time.
The ruling by Brann — a Republican and Obama appointee who sits in Pennsylvania’s Middle District — could also have wider implications for other U.S. attorney’s offices in Los Angeles, Nevada, New Mexico and upstate New York, where the administration has effectively sidestepped or overridden both the Senate confirmation and judicial appointment processes for selecting U.S. attorneys.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department would “immediately appeal.”
She said on social media Habba “is doing incredible work in New Jersey — and we will protect her position from activist judicial attacks.”
A spokesperson for Habba did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Brann’s ruling came in response to legal challenges to Habba’s authority by defense attorneys trying to get charges against their clients thrown out by arguing the Trump administration illegally kept her on and without being confirmed by the Senate.
Those challenges came amid days of confusion over who is leading the office because of complex and contested rules over filling vacancies when there isn’t a Senate-confirmed leader.
The judge declined to throw out the charges against the defendants, Julien Giraud and Cesar Pina, but said anyone who prosecutes them “under the supervision or authority of Ms. Habba” would be subject to disqualification.
Brann’s formal order only applies to the defendants in the case before him, but his opinion is written to broadly apply to everything Habba does.
“I think it would be deeply irresponsible for the department to move forward with Alina Habba as the highest Justice Department official signing indictments or other pleadings,” said James Pearce, an attorney who represents the Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey in the case.
Brann said that allowing stacked interim appointments would effectively void the need for confirmation. “Taken to the extreme, the President could use this method to staff the United States Attorney’s office with individuals of his personal choice for an entire term without seeking the Senate’s advice and consent,” he wrote.
His ruling also has findings that could embolden those who want to check Trump’s moves to strengthen the White House’s grip on government.
“Congress is expected to speak clearly when it rebalances the separation of powers, and courts should be chary of Executive branch interpretations of structural enactments that result in greater arrogation of power to the President,” Brann wrote.https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/21/alina-habba-new-jersey-us-attorney-ruling-00518559
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, has started putting his name on some of the New Jersey office’s work in recent days, an unusual move that appears designed to head off challenges to the authority of those prosecutions if they were signed by Habba alone.
Brann’s ruling also has implications for other agencies, said Anne Joseph O’Connell, a Stanford Law School professor who studies the appointments process. She said modern agencies run on the delegation of authority in the face of a broken Senate confirmation process and that some of the particulars in Brann’s ruling would affect other administration officials, like the current head of FEMA.
“If upheld on appeal, this ruling would upend common practice of acting officials under Democratic and Republican Administrations,” Joseph O’Connell said. Editor’s Note: Below is the judge’s opinion in full, courtesy of Politico.
opinionDownloadContinue/Read Original Article Here: Alina Habba ‘unlawfully’ working as US attorney in New Jersey, judge rules – POLITICO
#2025 #America #DonaldTrump #FederalJudge #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #MatthewBrann #Opinion #Politico #Politics #Resistance #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates
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Kevin Mohatt of Reuters reveals a significant federal court ruling by Judge Melissa DuBose against the Trump administration's HHS restructuring plans. The judge's injunction stops attempts to cut 10,000 jobs and close agencies, which were deemed unlawful by a coalition of Democratic-led states. This decision protects crucial public health functions at a time of potential workforce reductions. Read more about this pivotal ruling [here](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/us-judge-blocks-trump-administration-move-to-overhaul-health-agencies.html). #TrumpAdministration #HHS #FederalJudge #HealthCare #PublicHealth #LegalDecision #WorkforceReduction
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A #federaljudge ruled in favour of #Meta in a lawsuit brought by 13 #bookauthors alleging the company illegally #trained its #AImodels on their copyrighted works: The judge found Meta’s training fell under #fairuse, but emphasised the decision was limited in scope and did not apply universally. https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/federal-judge-sides-with-meta-in-lawsuit-over-training-ai-models-on-copyrighted-books/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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A federal judge in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon from carrying out Trump's executive order calling for the secretary to close the Education Department.
#Education #EducationNews #National #News #Politics #FederalJudge #LindaMcMahon #PresidentTrump #SeparationOfPowers #USEducationDepartment
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A court-ordered deadline passed late Tuesday for the United States government to locate a Venezuelan man who was believed to be deported to El Salvador after he was flagged for his tattoos in a Houston airport.
#Houston #Immigration #International #Local #National #News #Deportation #ElSalvador #FederalJudge #TrumpImmigrationPolicy #Venezuela #WidmerAgelvizSanguino
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The United States government on Tuesday asked a Houston judge for more time to locate a Venezuelan man who attorneys say was deported to El Salvador for his tattoos.
#Court #Houston #Immigration #International #Local #National #News #Deportation #ElSalvador #FederalJudge #HoustonImmigration #ImmigrationAttorneys #TrumpImmigrationPolicy
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https://theintercept.com/2025/05/14/yunseo-chung-ice-search-warrant-columbia-immigrants/
#ICE Duped A #FederalJudge Into Allowing Raid on #ColumbiaStudentDorms
The Intercept helped unseal an affidavit revealing how ICE got a 'judicial fig leaf' to search two #Columbia #students' dorm rooms.
by #ShawnMusgrave 14 May 2025
#AbolishICE #StopAbductionsAndRemovals #DueProcess #USLaw #law
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"#StephenMiller said today the #WhiteHouse is "actively looking at" suspending the #WritofHabeasCorpus "
The entire problem here is that #Trump can just write another #ExecutiveOrder, #CBP and #ICE can just start acting if Habeas Corpus is defunct, and what do people do?
You have to get a lawyer and sue
Meanwhile you've been arrested and shipped off to a Gulag-for-Hire in #ElSavador
Three months later (if you're lucky) you've found a #FederalJudge who hasn't been terrified into silence and #Miller and #Trump get told they're wrong
Again
And suffer no real-world repercussions or consequences for their behavior whatsoever
Again
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Don’t let the arrest of a #FederalJudge distract you from the announcement that #ICE can enter anyone’s home without a #warrant to look for migrants.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGIXaujHW_U
#BrianTylerCohen and #GlennKirschner
Fed up #FederalJudge SHUTS DOWN Trump in court
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#ACLU 18 April 2025
Case: #OrrVsTrump
#FederalJudge Orders Temporary Relief to 6 Plaintiffs in Challenge to Trump Administration Policy Barring Updates to Sex Designation on #USPassports
#TransAndNonbinaryRightsAreHumanRights :heart_trans: :heart_nb:
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Trump-Appointed Federal Judge Restores AP’s Access to the White House https://petapixel.com/2025/04/08/trump-appointed-federal-judge-restores-aps-access-to-the-white-house/ #associatedpress #firstamendment #presidenttrump #federaljudge #court #trump #News #Law #law #ap
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaJP84LzD_o
#BrianTylerCohen and #GlennKirschner
#FederalJudge #Boasberg Finally LOSES ALL PATIENCE with Trump
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMgBvQThiA
#BrianTylerCohen and #GlennKirschner
Fed up #FederalJudge DEFIES Trump in major ruling
#law #USLaw #FascistUSA #FuckTrump #EmilBové #DoJ #FuckEricAdams #NYC #NewYorkCity #NewYork
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A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Texas A&M University System officials from enforcing their recently adopted policy banning drag performances on their public campuses.
#Court #Education #EducationNews #LGBTQ #Local #News #AntiLgbtqPolicies #CampusDragShow #Draggieland #FederalJudge #TexasAM #TexasAMDragShowBan
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Federal judge to Trump: No, you can't ban DEI
motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
For now, the administration can't “impede, block, cancel, or terminate” diversity and inclusion funds and obligations.
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CNN: #Federaljudge expands block on Trump administration effort to cut #publichealth #funding
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OregonLive: #Federaljudge finds city of #Corvallis retaliated against city councilor for exercising #freespeech
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/01/federal-judge-finds-city-of-corvallis-retaliated-against-city-councilor-for-exercising-free-speech.html
