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  1. Ontario's cash bail law is unconstitutional – and Ford knows it. BUT "they deliberately undermine confidence in #courts, plow under the Charter and #civilliberties, and use real human suffering to manufacture a political grievance." canadianlawyermag.com/news/opi

    #onpoli #judiciary

  2. #malta : #journalism / #murder / #judiciary / #impunity

    „Tom Gibson, the deputy advocacy director of the #CommitteetoProtectJournalists, was in the courtroom for the verdict. [H]e said: “This is a heartbreaking verdict for the family after years of waiting for #justice. We will continue to stand by them while they seek #accountability for all of those involved in the murder.”

    theguardian.com/world/2026/sep

    See also:

    „Truth and Justice - The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation“
    daphne.foundation/en/

  3. By late Thursday, the admin informed the court that it wouldn’t proceed with changes at the #KennedyCenter before Oct 8 to allow Judge Cooper more time to consider the case.

    …Cooper ruled in May that Trump’s name was added to the building illegally, ordering it to be removed.

    #Trump & his allies, however, have refused to let that be the final word.

    #law #Judiciary #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #vanity #greed #jealousy #envy #narcissism #UShistory #landmark #preservation #architecture

  4. Mayers responded that the timeline was in accordance with a vote earlier this month by the #Trump aligned board. As he returned to his arguments that renovations at the #KennedyCenter require energy & talent, Cooper interjected again.

    “That’s all fine & good,” the judge said. “What does that have to do with what #Congress intended in these statutes? That’s really what’s before me.”

    #law #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #jealousy #envy #narcissism #UShistory #landmark #preservation #architecture

  5. Just seconds after the Trump admin’s lawyer, Brantley Mayers, began making his case at a nearly 2-hour hearing, US District Court Judge Christopher Cooper interrupted to ask why the center needed to begin inscribing Trump’s name on the institution’s facade as soon as Sept 8.

    “What’s magic about that date?” Cooper asked….

    #law #Judiciary #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #KennedyCenter #Trump #vanity #greed #jealousy #envy #narcissism #UShistory #landmark #preservation #architecture

  6. Uncounted in Life, Unrecorded in Death: Nigeria’s Costly Dignity Deficit By Lawson Akhigbe

    here is an old, bitter administrative joke in Nigeria that you are only formally counted twice: never when you arrive, and certainly not when you leave. In between, your existence is largely an unverified rumor negotiated between your creator, your luck, and whatever age declaration affidavit you paid a court clerk two thousand Naira to stamp.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/24/unco

  7. #ToddBlanche’s confirmation hearing to become the 88th attorney general of the United States began with #Senate #Judiciary Committee #ChuckGrassley, #Republican of Iowa, welcoming him & giving opening remarks, followed by the tanking #Democrat on the committee, #DickDurbin of Illinois.

    Durbin’s remarks were worth hearing, the rest not so much. Grassley’s were prebuttal & defensive, Blanche’s were all lies.

    Sadly Durbin is retiring. He’s very good, but he is advanced in his years.

    #law #Trump

  8. Wednesday, July 1, 2026

    Ukraine signs deal with Sweden to purchase 16 Gripen E fighter jets . . . . . Russia to halt multiple railway checkpoints on borders with Finland, Estonia, Latvia . . . . . How Ukraine's ultimatum changed the equation for Belarus . . . . . Behind the lies of the latest guest on Tucker Carlson's podcast: a criminal Russian arms dealer . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  9. Suspending #HabeasCorpus was one of two radical ideas #StephenMiller had been pushing that alarmed Mr. Scharf. The other was invoking the #InsurrectionAct to deploy the #military to enforce the #law on #US streets as #protests grew against #deportation sweeps.

    Scharf wrote confidential memos to Wiles on both topics….

    [article is long, but I recommend reading it]

    #Trump #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #ExecutivePower #Constitution #democracy #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

  10. The man who outlined his concerns in the memo, Mr. Scharf, was no resistance figure. A trim, balding, Harvard-trained lawyer who had run for office in Missouri, he had bemoaned John McCain as too moderate for the 2008 Republican nomination, & believed #Trump had been vindictively prosecuted after his 2020 election loss.

    #HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #ExecutivePower #democracy #immigration

  11. Scharf’s memo, in its unassuming way, was a blinking red warning light. The 2nd #Trump White House was deliberating an explosive new claim of #PresidentialPower: the suspension of habeas rights for unauthorized #immigrants.

    The suspension of #HabeasCorpus has occurred just a handful of times in US history, & always under the most dire circumstances of #war or #invasion.

    #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #democracy #StephenMiller #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

  12. Dated April 29, 2025, & stamped “confidential,” the memo was careful & lawyerly but amounted to a warning against end-running the rule of #law. The subject line read: “THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.”

    #HabeasCorpus — the centuries-old right to force the government to justify, before a judge, why it has locked a person up — is enshrined in Article I of the #Constitution.

    #Trump #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #democracy #StephenMiller #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

  13. Last spring, Will Scharf, an arch-#conservative lawyer serving as the White House staff secretary, wrote a secret memo to the chief of staff that reflected growing unease in the West Wing about one of the extreme measures being weighed by #StephenMiller, the powerful adviser driving Trump’s #deportation campaign.

    #Trump #HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #democracy #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

  14. #Boasberg has said the #Trump admin may have acted in #BadFaith by trying to rush Venezuelan immigrants out of the country in defiance of his order. He said he gave the admin “ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions” but concluded that “none of their responses has been satisfactory.”

    #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #AbuseOfPower #judiciary #JudgeShopping

  15. The deal is part of a broader #Trump admin campaign to coax countries to accept immigrants who cannot be legally deported from the #US to their home countries because they would likely face persecution. It is also the clearest example to date of the diplomatic horse-trading the US uses to engineer such agreements.

    #law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary

  16. The #Trump admin this winter secured a secret deal with the government of #Cameroon to deport hundreds of immigrants after remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against #protesters there ‘ withholding $30 million from a local #UN office, acc/to officials & US government documents.

    #law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary

  17. JFC

    #StewartRhodes, the founder of the #FarRight #extremist organization the #OathKeepers, was seen on Capitol Hill on Thursday outside of the hearing room where former special counsel #JackSmith is testifying before the #House #Judiciary Committee.

    Rhodes was previously convicted of #SeditiousConspiracy & sentenced to 18 YEARS in #prison for his actions related to the #Jan6, 2021 #insurrection at the US Capitol.

    #law #Trump #propaganda #coup #democracy #Constitution
    cnn.com/politics/live-news/jac

  18. US Dist Judge Georgia Alexakis heard testimony 2 eks ago about what happened after the Oct 4 incident in Brighton Park, which led to a standoff between protesters and federal agents who deployed #PepperSpray balls & #TearGas into the crowd.

    Solicitor General John Sauer has also pointed to it while arguing #SCOTUS should let #Trump deploy #NationalGuard troops to #Chicago [these Trump attys🙄].

    #law #immigration #judiciary #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #Tyranny #ICE #CBP

  19. Trump’s bid to deploy the #military on #US soil over local opposition has triggered a conflict with #BlueState governors. In #Oregon, a judge over the weekend blocked the Guard’s deployment to #Portland.

    The #Trump admin has portrayed the cities as war-ravaged & lawless amid its crackdown on illegal #immigration. Officials in #Illinois & Oregon, however, say military intervention isn’t needed & that federal involvement is inflaming the situation.

    #law #judiciary #PosseComitatusAct #tyranny

  20. Sen #DickDurbin from #Illinois gave a pointed opening statement prior to #PamBondi’s hearing, calling the #DOJ under her leadership a disgrace.

    Bondi just straight up lied in her opening statement saying, “we have never defied a court order.”

    Outrageous.

    I’m old enough to remember the whistleblower who reported #EmilBove literally telling DOJ attorneys that they would need to tell the #judiciary “fuck you”.

    #law #LegalEthics #tyranny #RevengePolitics

  21. Thanks [for real] again #judiciary.
    #HoldTheLine

    Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida's '#AlligatorAlcatraz' #detention center

    A federal judge ordered a temporary halt to construction of an #immigration detention center—built in the middle of the #Florida #Everglades & dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”—as attorneys argue whether it violates #EnvironmentalLaw.

    #Trump #immigration #law #HumanRights #HumanRightsAbuses
    apnews.com/article/florida-det

  22. Cooper: Only have ~30 docs that are relevant vs 500 that have been withheld based in part on #DeliberativeProcess #privilege

    The final factor is harm to the govt, which I think is for the government to show. They haven't filed affidavits or explained why disclosure would harm process, etc

    That's it from Cooper on deliberative process.

    Guynn up to respond.

    #KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigration #law #judiciary #Trump #rendition

  23. Cooper: Only have ~30 docs that are relevant vs 500 that have been withheld based in part on #DeliberativeProcess #privilege

    The final factor is harm to the govt, which I think is for the government to show. They haven't filed affidavits or explained why disclosure would harm process, etc

    That's it from Cooper on deliberative process.

    Guynn up to respond.

    #KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigration #law #judiciary #Trump #rendition

  24. Cooper: Only have ~30 docs that are relevant vs 500 that have been withheld based in part on #DeliberativeProcess #privilege

    The final factor is harm to the govt, which I think is for the government to show. They haven't filed affidavits or explained why disclosure would harm process, etc

    That's it from Cooper on deliberative process.

    Guynn up to respond.

    #KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigration #law #judiciary #Trump #rendition

  25. Cooper: Only have ~30 docs that are relevant vs 500 that have been withheld based in part on #DeliberativeProcess #privilege

    The final factor is harm to the govt, which I think is for the government to show. They haven't filed affidavits or explained why disclosure would harm process, etc

    That's it from Cooper on deliberative process.

    Guynn up to respond.

    #KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigration #law #judiciary #Trump #rendition

  26. Cooper: Only have ~30 docs that are relevant vs 500 that have been withheld based in part on #DeliberativeProcess #privilege

    The final factor is harm to the govt, which I think is for the government to show. They haven't filed affidavits or explained why disclosure would harm process, etc

    That's it from Cooper on deliberative process.

    Guynn up to respond.

    #KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigration #law #judiciary #Trump #rendition

  27. After Cooper argues that #DeliberativeProcess #privilege doesn't apply given #misconduct by the govt, he turns to another exception: the "compelling need" exception.

    That squarely overrides the invocation of the privilege here, he tells Judge #Xinis.

    Cooper: This discovery is relevant & important. Govt hasn't pointed to alternative sources of info. There's been no substance produced of information that's key & critical here.

    #KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigration #law #judiciary #Trump #rendition

  28. After Cooper argues that #DeliberativeProcess #privilege doesn't apply given #misconduct by the govt, he turns to another exception: the "compelling need" exception.

    That squarely overrides the invocation of the privilege here, he tells Judge #Xinis.

    Cooper: This discovery is relevant & important. Govt hasn't pointed to alternative sources of info. There's been no substance produced of information that's key & critical here.

    #KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigration #law #judiciary #Trump #rendition

  29. After Cooper argues that #DeliberativeProcess #privilege doesn't apply given #misconduct by the govt, he turns to another exception: the "compelling need" exception.

    That squarely overrides the invocation of the privilege here, he tells Judge #Xinis.

    Cooper: This discovery is relevant & important. Govt hasn't pointed to alternative sources of info. There's been no substance produced of information that's key & critical here.

    #KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigration #law #judiciary #Trump #rendition