California’s ammunition background check law—once hailed as a pioneering effort to slow the flow of bullets—has just been declared unconstitutional by a sharply divided federal appeals court. The ruling delivers a jolt to the state’s gun control regime and hands a high-powered win to Second Amendment advocates. In a 2-1 decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit …

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The Trump administration has launched a legal missile at New York City, dragging it into federal court over its decades-old status as a sanctuary city. The lawsuit, filed in Brooklyn, accuses the city of systematically undermining federal immigration enforcement and violating the constitutional order by shielding undocumented immigrants from deportation efforts. At the core of …

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In a bold legal strike, the two dominant forces in proxy advisory—Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)—have launched lawsuits against the state of Texas, aiming to halt a new law they argue muzzles financial voices under the guise of ideology. Filed in federal court in Austin, the suits accuse Texas of trampling on First …

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In a rare judicial rebuke with potentially explosive consequences, a top federal judge in Washington hinted Thursday at the possibility of disciplining Justice Department lawyers over a clandestine deportation operation that spiraled into legal chaos earlier this year. The drama centers around the abrupt removal of Venezuelan detainees to a Salvadoran prison in March—an act …

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In Washington’s regulatory halls, signs are emerging that the FCC might be warming up to Skydance Media’s high-stakes merger with Paramount—thanks, in part, to a pledge for a newsroom makeover at CBS. Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr offered measured praise after a commission meeting, saying he was “very pleased” with Skydance’s promise to implement …

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The Trump administration has knocked on the doors of the U.S. Supreme Court once again—this time with a plea to let it slash hundreds of millions in scientific research grants tied to diversity and equity. At the center of this legal clash: the National Institutes of Health and its now-frozen funding streams. In a Thursday …

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In a transatlantic legal strike, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte have filed a defamation lawsuit in Delaware against conservative U.S. commentator Candace Owens, accusing her of orchestrating a “global humiliation campaign” built on one extraordinary falsehood: that France’s First Lady is a man. The lawsuit, rare in both scope and symbolism, charges …

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The U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division—long a sentinel against discrimination and systemic abuse—has seen nearly 370 employees walk out the door since Donald Trump assumed the presidency. What was once a stable bastion of career lawyers and investigators across party lines has now become the epicenter of a dramatic ideological overhaul. A new memo …

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Columbia University is coughing up more than \$200 million to the U.S. government—\$221 million, to be exact—in a sprawling deal meant to end a series of federal investigations and restore the bulk of its frozen federal funding. The costly resolution comes as a direct consequence of the Trump administration’s ongoing war with elite universities over …

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Kilmar Abrego was never supposed to be sent to El Salvador. A legal U.S. resident with a valid work permit, the 29-year-old Salvadoran had already secured a court ruling shielding him from deportation. But in March, he was forcibly removed anyway—thrust into a country where his life was at risk, and tossed into prison like …

Torn Between Two Systems: Wrongly Deported Migrant Wins in Court but Remains Jailed Read More »