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SCOTUS likely to reject challenge to preventative care insurance protections

4 days ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to reject an argument pressed by a key conservative lawyer on Monday that would end existing preventative care insurance coverage protections put in motion by the Affordable Care Act. At the same time, however, that outcome in the case would likely empower the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to press for changes in the protections if the secretary so chooses — an area of concern given HHS Secretary Robert F.
Amidst Trump's chaos, SCOTUS conservatives are still moving their agenda

5 days ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

Beginning Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court is starting its last regular argument sitting of the term (aside from the added May 15 argument related to the litigation over President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship). The arguments — and the added May 15 argument, for that matter — are a good reminder of the nature of the current court — ever seeking to push the law rightward, regardless of the existence of the Trump administration.
Breaking: Supreme Court blocks some Alien Enemies Act removals in Texas-based case

6 days ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

A little before 1 a.m. Saturday, the Supreme Court issued an order blocking the Trump administration from removing people from the United States who the administration has claimed or will claim are subject to President Donald Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation and are in custody in the Northern District of Texas. It was an unusual order in an unusual moment.
Federal judge blocks Trump effort to fire more than 1,400 CFPB employees

1 week ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

The Trump administration’s effort to fire more than 1,400 employees from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was put on hold Friday, per an order from U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson following a short hearing.
The pushback against Trump's lawlessness is real - and making a difference

1 week ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

A little before 3 p.m. Thursday, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, an 80-year-old Reagan appointee, explained for a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit how deeply, alarmingly wrong the Trump administration is with its actions regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia. “It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all.
Breaking: SCOTUS sets May 15 arguments in Trump birthright citizenship order request

1 week ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will be hearing arguments on May 15 over the Trump administration’s request to begin implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship in portions of the country while the government’s appeals of losses below are ongoing. In the meantime, the executive order — found to be likely unconstitutional by every court to consider it — remains blocked nationwide.
Judge finds "probable cause" the Trump admin is in contempt over March 15 flights

1 week ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

Chief Judge James Boasberg has found “probable cause” that the Trump administration should be held in contempt because it “willfully disobeyed” his Saturday, March 15 orders that the administration not deport people under President Donald Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation while a case challenging the proclamation could proceed.
DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed

1 week ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department ended a lawsuit it brought months earlier alleging a brazen pattern of racial discrimination against a Black woman, an alarming development that suggests the end of the division as it previously existed.
Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S.

1 week ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

We are approaching one month since the United States illegally sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the CECOT “terrorism” prison in El Salvador on the third March 15 flight that took people to the prison. On Monday, President Donald Trump told us why Abrego Garcia is not back.
Luigi Mangione's lawyers: Bondi's actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty

1 week ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione argued on Friday that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s actions in announcing and promoting the death penalty for Mangione have prejudiced the jury pool, are arbitrary and capricious, and should lead the federal court in New York to step in and bar the Justice Department from seeking the death penalty in his case.