#judicial-rulings

#judicial-rulings

Federal judges granted limited freedom to respond to "illegitimate forms of criticism and attacks." [ ABA Journal] Law firms continue to drive the commercial real estate market, with Linklaters committing to expand office by 50 percent. Maybe Biglaw isn't planning to lay everyone off and switch to AI after all. [ New York Law Journal] Trump administration sued over removing Pride flag from Stonewall monument as if it's a national monument for its drink specials. [ NY Times]

WASHINGTON, DC - A BILL THAT TWO BROOKLYN CONGRESSMEMBERS HAVE COSPONSORED would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to perform an initial health screening on detainees. House Resolution 7335 , which Rep. Raul Rodriguez, Democrat of California, introduced on Tuesday, Feb. 3, and which is now referred to committee, has 73 cosponsors, including eight from New York and two from Brooklyn: Reps. Nydia M. Velazquez, D-07, and Dan Goldman, D-10.

The riders that were originally a part of the spending package would have banned all federal funding from supporting gender-affirming care at any age, banned colleges and universities from letting trans people participate in sports or other activities, and banned K-12 schools from taking measures to support trans kids, like letting them use the restroom of their gender.

Judges have repeatedly ruled that federal law allows the president to make only one interim appointment (lasting 120 days) as U.S. Attorney in any given federal district, after which the position may only be filled by a Senate-confirmed nominee or a judicially installed placeholder. That basic of statutory interpretation has led to the disqualification of New Jersey "U.S. Attorney" Alina Habba, Eastern District of Virginia's Lindsey Halligan (no matter what her signature line currently says), Sigal Chattah in Nevada, and Bill Essayli in Southern California.

No, it's simply a factually accurate statement that when a judge assumes for him or herself the powers that have been delegated by the Constitution to the president, that that is a form of illegal insurrection.

Blackhawk noted this hostile climate as well as Jenkel's role as their fiancé's primary caregiver as reasons to halt the deportation.

The Supreme Court has rolled back the sweeping injunctions that blocked President Donald Trump's executive order targeting birthright citizenship, seen as a win for Trump.