Tag: Law

World

Wisconsin Judge Accused of Obstructing Federal Agents Pleads Not Guilty

Judge Hannah C. Dugan claimed judicial immunity this week after a federal grand jury indicted her.

World

Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents

Judge Hannah C. Dugan was accused of helping an undocumented immigrant elude federal agents who were waiting to arrest him outside her courtroom.

Politics

Newark’s Mayor Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center

Ras J. Baraka and city officials have been trying to close the leased lockup, saying it’s part of President Trump’s unjust deportation campaign.

World

El Salvador Put Trump Deportees Behind Bars. Now Their Families are Suing.

A lawsuit filed with the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights seeks the release of Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States and jailed in a notorious Salvadoran prison.

Politics

Can Elite Lawyers Be Persuaded to ‘Wake Up and Stand Up’?

When the law firm Paul Weiss cut a deal with the Trump administration, a new kind of activist emerged.

World

In Texas Borderland, Trump’s Immigration Push Suffers Its Worst Legal Defeat Yet

Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. is a Trump nominee with conservative credentials. But he found White House claims about a Venezuelan gang “invasion” went too far.

Travel

Microsoft Drops Law Firm That Made a Deal With Trump From a Case

The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president’s executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.

World

Trump’s Maximalist Assertion of Presidential Power Tests the Rule of Law

Nearly every president has pushed the bounds of executive power to try to achieve something specific. And a handful of presidents who took office during a true national crisis, like the Civil War or the depths of the Great Depression, swiftly made a …

Politics

There Are Limits to What the Courts Can Do in the Face of Trump’s Legal Onslaught

For weeks Americans have been debating whether we’re facing a constitutional crisis. My answer, for the record, is that we are. But perhaps more than a constitutional crisis, we’re in a rule of law crisis. And while the courts are caught in the …

Politics

Justice, Louisiana-Style, for Immigrants

Several of the recent high-profile cases of immigrant detention share something in common. The Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, University of Alabama engineering doctoral candidate Alireza Doroudi, Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk …

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