#FederalJudge Tosses Half Ass #Criminal Charges Filed By #DOJ Against #JamesComey and #LetitiaJames Based On Complaint #Prosecutor Was Unduly Appointed.
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Why I Am Resigning
A #FederalJudge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
By Mark L. Wolf
#law #judiciary #LegalEthics #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState
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Biden Appointee #FederalJudge Berates #Drumpf #DOJ Fave For Amateur Hour #Prosecution Attack On Former #FBI Director #JamesComey...ironically the judge overseeing the case had most recently served as the chief of the financial crimes and public #corruption unit in the very same Eastern Virginia DOJ office that neophyte appointee Lindsey Halligan now leads...
Magistrate Judge Fitzpatrick barely contains disdain for #Drumpf's ham handed handpicked #prosecutor Hallgan; chiding her team for taking an “indict first, investigate second” approach to the oddly construed case.
When it was revealed that federal prosecutors were not sharing key evidence with Comey's defense team, then Judge Fitzpatrick snapped “We’re going to fix that and we’re going to fix that today”.
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Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from firing workers amid government shutdown
A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown,…
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The New Yorker Daily Newsletter – October 10, 2025
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/
Jon Allsop
A contributing writer who covers politics.
Yesterday, April M. Perry, a federal judge, barred the Trump Administration from deploying the National Guard in Illinois, for at least the next fourteen days. “I have seen no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state,” Perry noted from the bench. J. B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, who had been resisting the deployments to Chicago (and who Trump said this week “should be in jail”), celebrated the ruling on social media, writing, “Donald Trump is not a king—and his administration is not above the law.”
President Trump’s dispatching of military personnel to American cities—including Portland, Oregon, where litigation is also pending—could be described in many such authoritarian-esque terms. Certainly, “popular” does not appear to be one of them. Earlier this week, CNN’s Aaron Blake pointed out that clear majorities among the public seem to be against the practice: a recent poll from Quinnipiac University found that fifty-five per cent of respondents disapproved of the deployment of the National Guard, compared with forty-two per cent who approved; on Sunday, CBS News/YouGov reported an even higher rate of disapproval, and the same rate of support—forty-two per cent.
The late science-fiction author Douglas Adams once posited that the number forty-two was the answer to the ultimate question of “life, the universe and everything.” It might, at least, be the answer to the question, How popular is Donald Trump? The aforementioned CBS News/YouGov poll also pegged Trump’s over-all approval rating at forty-two per cent, and several polling averages put him either at that figure, or a point or so to either side. This past Monday night, Jimmy Kimmel, a recent subject of Trump’s ire, crowed that, per another poll, he is more popular than the President. “At this point, finding a toenail in your salad has a seven-point lead over Donald Trump,” Kimmel said.
Trump obviously isn’t buying these figures. On Sunday, he accused Fox News of refusing “to put up Polls that correctly show me at 65% in Popularity, a Republican RECORD.” Whatever he actually thinks, he is behaving as if it’s correct, which is no surprise. What might be surprising is that so many ostensibly powerful people—G.O.P. leadership in Congress, heads of major corporations—seem so eager to accede to the imperial demands of a President who is not racking up imperial numbers.
I have a few theories about why they are bowing to Trump. First, America’s political divides appear so entrenched that when support for a single person or policy manages to break through, it creates a narrative boost that is disproportionate to actual support. Trump could still be bathing in the glow of his election win last year, even though he did not quite get fifty per cent of the popular vote and his approval rating since taking office has steadily declined.
At the same time, if you’re a corporation or university or media outlet considering bowing to one of Trump’s demands, it’s a safe-ish bet that the cost will not be universal public disapprobation. Plus, Trump is the President now, wielding that office in expansively transactional ways: G.O.P. lawmakers clearly do not want to get on his bad side; corporations—especially those with pending regulatory business before the Administration—have reason to be on his good side. Some corporations, in particular, may be taking advantage of this moment to pursue changes they wanted to make anyway—curbing costly diversity initiatives, for example, or disowning thorny content-moderation responsibilities. (Both this and the regulatory angle are potential explanations for CBS News putting Bari Weiss in charge, which I wrote about earlier this week.)
The bleakest theory is that major civil-society actors are betting that the power of Trump’s populism is untethered from his actual popularity, given his anti-democratic impulses and his win-at-all-costs mentality—that, in effect, Trump is no longer accountable to the public. But I don’t think this is true. As Jonathan Schlefer wrote for Politico last month, populist leaders in recent decades who have succeeded in undoing relatively strong democracies had approval ratings above eighty per cent—much higher, even, than the figure Trump accused Fox of suppressing. And the President’s imperial conduct isn’t omnipotent; Kimmel, of course, is still on the air.
Even if Trump’s approval rating were eighty per cent, that wouldn’t justify his authoritarian behavior; the Constitution guarantees minority rights for a reason. Flattering Trump, or caving to his demands, may be a savvy short-term bet, but I’m not sure it’ll prove smart in the long run. On Wednesday, CNN’s Blake noted what he described as “the most underappreciated aspect” of the National Guard story: that most Americans seem to oppose deployments not just as a waste of time and resources but on principle. He pointed to a question from a Times/Siena survey, which asked respondents if they were more worried about crime spiralling out of control in the absence of the Guard, or about Trump using troops to intimidate his political opponents. Concern over abuses of power prevailed: fifty-one to—you guessed it—forty-two per cent.
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Simi Valley resident gets over 8 years in prison for attempt to kill Justice Kavanaugh
GREENBELT, Md. — A California resident who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh at his Maryland home…
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Breaking! It took a #FederalJudge 13 separate orders over the last 24 hrs to ensure that the Trump Administration DID NOT DEPORT 600 CHILDREN WITHOUT ADULT ACCOMPANIMENT, and without #dueprocess, to #Guatemala, violating laws geared to protect children from #HumanTrafficking
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Alina Habba ‘unlawfully’ working as US attorney in New Jersey, judge rules – POLITICO
Alina Habba ‘unlawfully’ working as US attorney in New Jersey, judge rules
As a result, Habba cannot participate in prosecutions by the office.
Alina Habba, former lawyer for President Donald Trump, is at the center of battle to lead New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney’s Office. | Mary Altaffer/AP
By Ry Rivard and Matt Friedman08/21/2025 03:37 PM EDTUpdated: 08/21/2025 05:36 PM EDT
A federal judge rejected President Donald Trump’s use of a loophole to keep Alina Habba in place as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor.
In a 77-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann said Thursday that Habba “is not lawfully holding the office of United States Attorney” and has been in the position without legal authority since July 1.
Editor’s Note: The PDF ruling document is embedded at the end of this article.
As a result, Habba, who had previously worked as Trump’s personal attorney, cannot run the office the president attempted to keep her in charge of after her 120-day interim appointment expired. The Trump administration employed a series of maneuvers to try to retain Habba’s control of the office after district judges ousted her in July.
“Faced with the question of whether Ms. Habba is lawfully performing the functions and duties of the office of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, I conclude that she is not,” Brann wrote.
Brann put his ruling on hold, pending the Trump administration’s possible appeal, but the fallout could be a staggering mess across the executive branch. Brann said Habba’s actions in New Jersey for the past seven weeks “may be declared void” and Habba must be disqualified from participating in any of the office’s cases as its leader. The office handles thousands of criminal and civil cases at any given time.
The ruling by Brann — a Republican and Obama appointee who sits in Pennsylvania’s Middle District — could also have wider implications for other U.S. attorney’s offices in Los Angeles, Nevada, New Mexico and upstate New York, where the administration has effectively sidestepped or overridden both the Senate confirmation and judicial appointment processes for selecting U.S. attorneys.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department would “immediately appeal.”
She said on social media Habba “is doing incredible work in New Jersey — and we will protect her position from activist judicial attacks.”
A spokesperson for Habba did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Brann’s ruling came in response to legal challenges to Habba’s authority by defense attorneys trying to get charges against their clients thrown out by arguing the Trump administration illegally kept her on and without being confirmed by the Senate.
Those challenges came amid days of confusion over who is leading the office because of complex and contested rules over filling vacancies when there isn’t a Senate-confirmed leader.
The judge declined to throw out the charges against the defendants, Julien Giraud and Cesar Pina, but said anyone who prosecutes them “under the supervision or authority of Ms. Habba” would be subject to disqualification.
Brann’s formal order only applies to the defendants in the case before him, but his opinion is written to broadly apply to everything Habba does.
“I think it would be deeply irresponsible for the department to move forward with Alina Habba as the highest Justice Department official signing indictments or other pleadings,” said James Pearce, an attorney who represents the Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey in the case.
Brann said that allowing stacked interim appointments would effectively void the need for confirmation. “Taken to the extreme, the President could use this method to staff the United States Attorney’s office with individuals of his personal choice for an entire term without seeking the Senate’s advice and consent,” he wrote.
His ruling also has findings that could embolden those who want to check Trump’s moves to strengthen the White House’s grip on government.
“Congress is expected to speak clearly when it rebalances the separation of powers, and courts should be chary of Executive branch interpretations of structural enactments that result in greater arrogation of power to the President,” Brann wrote.https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/21/alina-habba-new-jersey-us-attorney-ruling-00518559
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, has started putting his name on some of the New Jersey office’s work in recent days, an unusual move that appears designed to head off challenges to the authority of those prosecutions if they were signed by Habba alone.
Brann’s ruling also has implications for other agencies, said Anne Joseph O’Connell, a Stanford Law School professor who studies the appointments process. She said modern agencies run on the delegation of authority in the face of a broken Senate confirmation process and that some of the particulars in Brann’s ruling would affect other administration officials, like the current head of FEMA.
“If upheld on appeal, this ruling would upend common practice of acting officials under Democratic and Republican Administrations,” Joseph O’Connell said. Editor’s Note: Below is the judge’s opinion in full, courtesy of Politico.
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Could Elon Musk face legal trouble over a $1 million election giveaway? Jim Lo Scalzo reports a federal judge ruled Musk must face a lawsuit claiming his America PAC defrauded voters with false promises of lottery winnings tied to a constitutional petition. Judge Pitman highlighted misleading promotional materials and potential misuse of voters’ personal info. Learn more about this unfolding case and its political implications: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/elon-musk-must-face-lawsuit-claiming-he-ran-illegal-1-million-election-lottery.html #ElonMusk #Lawsuit #Election #Lottery #AmericaPAC #FederalJudge #VoterFraud #USPolitics
Kudos to Jim Lo Scalzo for the detailed coverage.
A federal judge has blocked the FTC’s probe into Media Matters, ruling it violates the free speech rights of the liberal watchdog. Susie Madrak details how the investigation, tied to Elon Musk and the Trump admin, was deemed retaliatory and unconstitutional. Read more on this critical First Amendment defense: https://crooksandliars.com/2025/08/federal-judge-blocks-ftc-investigation #SusieMadrak #FederalJudge #FTCAttack #MediaMatters #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #ElonMusk #X #PoliticalRetaliation
DOJ Targets Federal Judge for Saying Trump Could Cause a “Constitutional Crisis”
Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a misconduct complaint over what she called “improper public comments” about Trump.
Federal Judge Orders Mob Radio’s Milagro Cooper To Pay $5,000 In Legal Fees To Megan Thee Stallion’s Team https://shinemycrown.com/federal-judge-orders-mob-radios-milagro-cooper-to-pay-5000-in-legal-fees-to-megan-thee-stallions-team/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MeganTheeStallion #MilagroCooper #LegalFees #MobRadio #FederalJudge
Border Patrol raids in Sacramento intended to send message: ‘No such thing as a sanctuary state’
Border Patrol agents raided a Home Depot and other locations in Sacramento on Thursday in what appeared…
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A federal judge’s ruling on ICE raids in Los Angeles should be required reading – MSNBC
U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong refused to be deceived by the administration’s smoke and mirrors.
July 14, 2025, 2:47 PM PDT
By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College
Los Angeles is a city under attack. Spurred on by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller’s outrage that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not been deporting enough people, ICE agents have been sweeping through the city, often clad in full military attire like a conquering army. Photographs and videos document ICE’s “arrest first and ask questions later” approach on a daily basis.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong ordered ICE to stop “conducting roving patrols without reasonable suspicion and denying access to lawyers.” She refused to be taken in by the Trump administration’s fog of deception and disinformation. “The federal government agrees: Roving patrols without reasonable suspicion violate the Fourth Amendment and denying access to lawyers violates the Fifth Amendment,” she wrote. “What the federal government would have this Court believe — in the face of a mountain of evidence presented in this case — is that none of this is actually happening.”
Frimpong’s ruling should be required reading for every American. She modeled the kind of resistance that is essential in the face of the administration’s concerted attack on facts, truths and common sense. Her “believe what you see, not what they say” response sets an example for all Americans who wish to resist an authoritarian takeover in this country.
The Courthouse News Service reports that, at a hearing held Thursday, the government wanted the judge to believe “that the ICE raids were sophisticated operations, based on surveillance and information from other law enforcement agencies targeting specific individuals.” According to CNS, lawyers for the Justice Department argued that ICE could “also stop and question other individuals there who they suspected were immigrants without legal status….” That would be acceptable, a DOJ lawyer argued, based on the “totality of the circumstances.”
The government offered these claims against the weight of the evidence and out-of-court statements. In an appearance last week on Fox News, the administration’s border czar Tom Homan included “physical appearance” in the list of things that ICE takes into account during their patrols in Los Angeles. At the Thursday hearing, the American Civil Liberties Union argued that ICE was engaging in racial profiling, targeting members of the Hispanic community and ignoring people of European ancestry who might be in the country illegally. “The evidence is clear that they’re looking at race,” Mohammad Tasjar, an attorney for the ACLU of Southern California, told Frimpong. Even a lawyer for the government acknowledged that “agents can’t put blinders on.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
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Judge blocks Trump from cutting off Planned Parenthood funding under “big, beautiful bill” – CBS News
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Judge blocks Trump from cutting off Planned Parenthood funding under “big, beautiful bill”
By Joe Walsh, Updated on: July 7, 2025 / 7:47 PM EDT / CBS News
A judge on Monday temporarily barred the Trump administration from revoking Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, partially freezing a provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act just days after President Trump signed it into law.
The temporary restraining order by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani lasts 14 days and directs the Department of Health and Human Services to “take all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed” to Planned Parenthood. The ruling, which came after a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood, doesn’t apply to any other health care providers.
The lawsuit takes aim at a portion of Mr. Trump’s signature domestic policy bill that would cut off any federal Medicaid funding to groups “primarily engaged in family planning services, reproductive health, and related medical care” that provide abortions.
The provision doesn’t directly mention Planned Parenthood by name, but the group argues it’s a “naked attempt to leverage the government’s spending power to attack and penalize Planned Parenthood and impermissibly single it out for unfavorable treatment.”
Federal Medicaid dollars already cannot be used to cover abortions except in cases of rape, incest or risk to a mother’s life. But Planned Parenthood argues this new provision would make it harder for patients to access the non-abortion services offered by the group’s local members, like screenings for cancer and sexually transmitted infections.
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Kevin Mohatt of Reuters reveals a significant federal court ruling by Judge Melissa DuBose against the Trump administration's HHS restructuring plans. The judge's injunction stops attempts to cut 10,000 jobs and close agencies, which were deemed unlawful by a coalition of Democratic-led states. This decision protects crucial public health functions at a time of potential workforce reductions. Read more about this pivotal ruling [here](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/us-judge-blocks-trump-administration-move-to-overhaul-health-agencies.html). #TrumpAdministration #HHS #FederalJudge #HealthCare #PublicHealth #LegalDecision #WorkforceReduction
A #federaljudge ruled in favour of #Meta in a lawsuit brought by 13 #bookauthors alleging the company illegally #trained its #AImodels on their copyrighted works: The judge found Meta’s training fell under #fairuse, but emphasised the decision was limited in scope and did not apply universally. https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/federal-judge-sides-with-meta-in-lawsuit-over-training-ai-models-on-copyrighted-books/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
A federal judge on Monday said the administration of President Donald Trump likely broke the law by stripping 50,000 transportation security officers of the ability to unionize and bargain over their working conditions. #us #usa #news #minimarketonlineltd #minimarket #America #AmericaNews #AmericaFirst #SaveAmerica #trump #donaldtrump #federalJudge
A federal judge on Monday said the administration of President Donald Trump likely broke the law by stripping 50,000 transportation security officers of the ability to unionize and bargain over their working conditions. #us #usa #news #minimarketonlineltd #minimarket #America #AmericaNews #AmericaFirst #SaveAmerica #trump #donaldtrump #federalJudge
