The quiet shuffle of bureaucratic halls has given way to a louder battle cry from a onetime senior voice inside the nation’s legal powerhouse. A veteran immigration litigator who once carried the weight of the U.S. government’s courtroom arguments now stands on the other side of the line, joining a group devoted to challenging the …

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A chorus of attorneys general from 35 states and the District of Columbia has stepped forward with a warning that cuts through the political noise: do not tie their hands when it comes to policing artificial intelligence. Their message to Congress lands with the force of a hard-drawn line—leave the states free to act, or …

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The Justice Department is quietly rearranging its internal map, carving out a fresh outpost devoted entirely to guarding the nation’s gun rights. This new enclave — the Second Amendment Rights Section — is set to unfurl its signboard on December 4, nestled inside the civil rights division, an address once synonymous with policing discrimination and …

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The usual hum of UC Berkeley’s campus life briefly dissolved into shouts, flashing lights, and a flurry of raised signs on November 10 — and that single evening has now pulled one of America’s most storied universities into the center of a federal review. The U.S. Department of Education has opened an examination of Berkeley’s …

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A federal courtroom in California became the latest battleground in the long-running clash over immigration enforcement, and this round ended with a sharp rebuke to Washington’s bid to keep thousands of detained migrants locked away without a chance to argue for their freedom. In Riverside, a U.S. district judge drew a bright line through a …

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The legal battleground shifted to Rhode Island this week, where a coalition of states launched a challenge against the Trump administration’s attempt to redraw the map of federal homelessness funding. At stake: more than $3 billion that keeps roofs over heads and entire support networks alive for some of the country’s most vulnerable residents. The …

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The Justice Department’s attempt to turn political grievance into criminal prosecution has begun to look like a stretched rubber band—snapped back by federal judges who aren’t buying the theatrics. It all came to a head when Lindsey Halligan, thrust into the role of interim U.S. attorney in Virginia with barely enough time to find the …

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