Benjamin Weiss
Congress Reporter at Courthouse News Service
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6 days ago |
courthousenews.com | Benjamin Weiss
WASHINGTON (CN) — The federal judiciary’s policymaking body has warned congressional appropriators that funding for security measures at federal courts isn’t enough to meet rising threats against judges and courthouses. The plea for additional security appropriations, which comes as Congress prepares to draft budget legislation for 2026, also arrives as some federal judges involved in high-profile cases have been personally targeted by Republicans and even President Donald Trump himself.
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1 week ago |
courthousenews.com | Benjamin Weiss
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Senate’s top Democrat and highest-ranking Jewish member of Congress urged Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday to investigate a recent arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as a possible antisemitic hate crime. The move from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer came amid reports that the suspect in Sunday’s attack, which came just after the first night of Passover, had targeted the Keystone State’s governor over his stance on Palestine.
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1 week ago |
courthousenews.com | Benjamin Weiss
WASHINGTON (CN) — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that he would use a procedural tool to block a pair of President Donald Trump’s nominees for U.S. attorney positions in New York. And, amid uncertainty about Congress’ role as a check on the executive branch, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Republican signaled that he would honor the longstanding chamber tradition allowing lawmakers to halt White House judicial nominees in their home states.
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1 week ago |
courthousenews.com | Benjamin Weiss
WASHINGTON (CN) — A group of current and former Seattle police officers have asked the Supreme Court to protect their anonymity as they fight a public records request that would reveal information about their presence at a rally for President Donald Trump right before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
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1 week ago |
tucsonsentinel.com | Benjamin Weiss
Courthouse News Service House Republicans on Wednesday passed a bill that would slap new restrictions on federal courts affecting their ability to issue nationally binding injunctions, which so far have hampered parts of the Trump administration’s ambitious agenda.
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RT @CourthouseNews: Back from El Salvador, Rep. Frost says Trump ‘blatantly’ defying order to return Abrego Garcia @BenjaminSWeiss https://…
.@MaxwellFrostFL, back from a joint trip to El Salvador, told reporters Tues that his experience there demonstrated how the Trump admin had flagrantly violated orders to facilitate the return of a Maryland man courts have ruled was erroneously deported. https://t.co/V9o1A6ghiL
Frost told me he'd support holding the gov in contempt for defying court order. "I can tell you right now they are disobeying it," he said, adding Trump admin officials in El Salvador told pols they've not been told to do "anything" to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return.
On a press call with reporters just now Rep. @MaxwellFrostFL says the U.S. embassy in El Salvador is "pretty much in the dark" on Kilmar Abrego Garcia despite court ruling that the Trump admin facilitate his release. Says now is the time for pols to "draw a line in the sand."
