A former justice of the state supreme court who questioned the Badger State s2020 election procedures was the target of a disciplinary complaint filed by legal regulatory authorities in Wisconsin on Tuesday. In 2021, Republican Michael Gableman was appointed by Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to head one of several inquiries investigating the 2020...
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‘This secrecy has masked responsibility’: ACLU sues ICE for failing to respond to records requests about Trump’s ‘mass deportation and detention’ plans
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal complaint against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday, alleging that the agency neglected to answer open records requests about what it claims are President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation and detention plans. ACLU officials have requested additional details about the government’s ICE Air Operations program, which is...
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‘Is this a Fourth Amendment violation?’: Judge presses Diddy prosecutor to explain how government obtained defense legal notes
Hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs’ lawyers informed a federal judge in lower Manhattan on Tuesday that they had gathered sufficient proof to claim that their client’s constitutional rights had been violated. An October sweep of the defendant’s jail cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park area caused a commotion that prompted the...
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‘We’ll break you motherf—–!’: Army vet court-martialed for shooting handcuffed Iraqi in the head is going to prison for fighting cops guarding the Capitol on Jan. 6
A Louisiana Army veteran who was sentenced for the murder of an unarmed Iraqi civilian while serving abroad will be sent to jail for attacking Capitol security officers on January 6. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a press release that U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, sentenced Edward Richmond...
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‘He is not going to back off’: Trump holds Federal Vacancies Reform Act, threat of recess appointments, over Senate’s head to get Matt Gaetz in as AG
The president-electAs he attempts to have Matt Gaetz approved as attorney general, Donald Trump is allegedly holding the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, a legislation that permits a legal strategy utilized numerous times during his first presidency, over the heads of U.S. Senate members. During the past week, Trump has been calling Senate members...
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‘Pardon…is almost a certainty’: Lawyer tries to name-drop Trump get-out-of-jail-free card in failed bid to delay Jan. 6 defendant’s case
An accused Jan. 6 rioter fromFloridawho allegedly harbored a member of the Proud Boys extremist group while they were on the run from police has tried and failed to get theDonald Trump treatmentthis week, unsuccessfully filing to postpone his federal trial after claiming a high member of the future president s administration had promised him...
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Trump will be president by the time Steve Bannon faces ‘We Build The Wall’ jury
A state judge inNew Yorkhas postponed the trial of former White House chief strategistSteve Bannonwho is facing charges for allegedly conspiring to hoodwink donors of asupposed charityaimed at privately building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and laundering the loot. Judge April Newbauer on Monday said that jury selection in the case will begin on...
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Kari Lake settles defamation lawsuit brought by election official she claimed ‘sabotaged’ her 2022 race
Failed Republican U.S. Senate candidateKari Lakehas reached a settlement agreement with a localArizonaelection official she falsely claimed rigged the 2022 election and caused her loss in the state s gubernatorial election. The agreement brings an end to thedefamation lawsuitbrought against Lake by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer last year. Two people familiar with the mattertoldThe...
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‘Despicable in their falsity:’ Trump threatens to sue New York Times and Penguin Random House for $10 billion for ‘false and defamatory statements’
President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly sent a $10 billion warning shot across the legal bows of Penguin Random House and the New York Times — threatening to sue the print giants for ten figures — over allegedly “false and defamatory statements” that were published about him in articles before the election, the companies say. “There...
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Obama-appointed judge gives tri-corn hat-wearing Jan. 6 rioter who was ‘dressed for battle’ 3-year prison sentence
A Virginia man wearing a tricorn-style hat, gas mask, and body armor who clashed with officers guarding the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is going to prison. Micaiah Joseph, 34, was sentenced on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras, a Barack Obama appointee, to 37 months — or just over three years — in...