Ella Lee
Courts and Justice Reporter at The Hill
covering courts @thehill & writing The Gavel, a newsletter at the intersection of politics and legal affairs. ex-@usatoday, @depauljour. 💬 signal: elee.03
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2 days ago |
thehill.com | Zach Schonfeld |Ella Lee
The Gavel is The Hill’s weekly courts newsletter. Sign up here or in the box below:Allies of President Trump are attempting a takeover of the D.C. Bar Association as voting ends Wednesday in the election to lead the prestigious organization. The two-way race for president is between Diane Seltzer and Brad Bondi, the brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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3 days ago |
thehill.com | Ella Lee
The Justice Department on Tuesday agreed to dismiss a lawsuit seeking records from White House senior trade adviser Peter Navarro’s time in the first Trump administration, brought during President Biden’s presidency. In a short notice, government lawyers stipulated to the dismissal of the 2022 lawsuit seeking emails Navarro sent from a personal encrypted account but refused to produce to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
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3 days ago |
thehill.com | Ella Lee
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) on Tuesday sued interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey in her personal capacity over his arrest last moth outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility he was visiting with three Democratic members of Congress.
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4 days ago |
thehill.com | Ella Lee
The man accused of attacking Boulder, Colo., demonstrators calling for the return of Israeli hostages in Gaza has been charged with a federal hate crime after admitting he planned it for a year and singled out the group he described as “Zionist,” the FBI said. An FBI affidavit, made public Monday, revealed that Mohammed Soliman admitted to carrying out the attack Sunday, when he allegedly threw Molotov cocktails into the pro-Israel crowd while yelling “Free Palestine,” injuring eight people.
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4 days ago |
thehill.com | Ella Lee
The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Black dancer’s appeal in her discrimination lawsuit against several Houston clubs, drawing dissent from two of the high court’s liberal justices. Chanel Nicholson filed suit against the clubs in August 2021, claiming they maintained a racist policy which limited the number of Black dancers who could work the same shift, in violation of federal law prohibiting racial discrimination in making and enforcing contracts.
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