Erica Orden

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Erica Orden

NEW YORK — A former terrorism prosecutor has been picked for the No. 2 post at the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, according to two people familiar with the matter. There, he will occupy a role that is expected to be especially influential because the head of the office has no prosecutorial experience.

1 week ago | politico.com | Erica Orden

In four months as a senior Justice Department official, Bove overhauled the department to suit Trump’s demands. Emil Bove sits in Manhattan criminal court during Trump's sentencing in the hush money case in New York, on Jan. 10, 2025. | Pool photo by Jeenah Moon President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Emil Bove, one of his closest and most truculent legal allies, to serve as a judge on a federal appeals court.

1 week ago | politico.com | Erica Orden

For now, the pro-Palestinian activist who organized protests at Columbia will remain in jail. Mahmoud Khalil, a legal U.S. resident and recent Columbia University graduate student, says he is being targeted for his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests. | Ted Shaffrey/AP A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration’s effort to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is likely unconstitutional, but the judge stopped short of freeing him from jail.

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Matt Friedman |Erica Orden |Ry Rivard

Habba initially charged Newark Mayor Ras Baraka with trespass despite his compliance with federal agents’ demands to leave the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility’s fenced-in area. She dropped the misdemeanor charge this week but escalated the May 9 dispute by charging Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver with felony assault on law enforcement in the scuffle that ensued while they arrested Baraka.

1 month ago | politico.com | Erica Orden

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein is the latest judge to rule against Trump’s invocation of the 18th century law. President Donald Trump’s use of a wartime power to deport Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador with little due process has received a scathing rebuke by yet another federal judge.