Nneka Jackson, an attorney at the Law Offices of Nneka Jackson, recalled what she felt was an intimidation process as soon as she arrived at 26 Federal Plaza. You go into the courtroom, you see multiple agents with their face covers. You see guns, you see handcuffs It's a very intimidating presence, because there's so many of them, and they're literally waiting outside the courtroom for people to get their cases dismissed, Jackson said.
However, the appeals court ruled that a country encouraging its citizens to enter the U.S. illegally "is not the modern-day equivalent of sending an armed, organized force to occupy, to disrupt, or to otherwise harm" the United States. "There is no finding that this mass immigration was an armed, organized force or forces," added the ruling, written by the George W. Bush-appointed Judge Leslie Southwick.
Attorneys for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook are denying allegations that the key Fed official committed mortgage fraud. In a Tuesday filing, Cook's attorneys submitted additional arguments in support of a request for a temporary restraining order that would block President Donald Trump's attempt to oust a key member of the Federal Reserve. The attorneys said in the 31-page filing that Cook didn't receive proper due process, including an opportunity to address the allegations made against her, and the justification for her firing wouldn't rise to the level of "for cause" removal.
Abrego, a Maryland resident who had never been charged with any crime either in the US or in his native El Salvador, became a symbol of the Trump administration's ambitiously sadistic anti-immigration efforts when he was kidnapped by I agents in March and sent without due process to Cecot, a massive prison in El Salvador from which few detainees are ever released, as a result of what representatives for the Trump immigration authorities called an administrative error.
Appeals court pauses an order that had protected status for Nepalese, Hondurans and Nicaraguans. A United States appeals court has sided with the Trump administration and halted, for now, a lower court's order that had kept in place temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal. In a decision issued on Wednesday, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco granted an emergency stay pending an appeal.
"Whatever interest the public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy in a case where the defendant is alive, her legal options are viable, and her due process rights remain."
Over 40 percent of AmeriCorps grantees were terminated suddenly, with little notice, impacting low-income high school students' transition decisions regarding college funding and choices.
Judge James Boasberg's ruling reflects Kafka's bureaucratic absurdity, upholding the Trump administration's control denial over prisoners despite their direct involvement in their detention.