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  • US communities spanning from red to blue blast Trump sanctuary list

    US communities spanning from red to blue blast Trump sanctuary list

    Featured Legal News 06/11/2025

    State and local officials blasted the Trump administration’s widely anticipated list of “sanctuary” jurisdictions that are deemed uncooperative with federal immigration enforcement, with some of the most enthusiastic supporters of t...

  • Democrats are drawing closer to the crypto industry despite Trump divisions

    Democrats are drawing closer to the crypto industry despite Trump divisions

    Featured Legal News 06/03/2025

    As President Donald Trump builds a crypto empire ? including hosting a private dinner with top investors at his golf club ? Democrats have united in condemning what they call blatant corruption from the White House.But the Democratic Party’s ow...

  • World financial markets welcome court ruling against Trump's tariffs

    World financial markets welcome court ruling against Trump's tariffs

    Featured Legal News 05/30/2025

    Financial markets welcomed a U.S. court ruling that blocks President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.U.S. futures jumped early Thursday and oil prices rose more than $1. The U.S. dollar rose agains...

  • Appeals court allows Trump’s anti-union order to take effect

    Appeals court allows Trump’s anti-union order to take effect

    Featured Legal News 05/25/2025

    An appeals court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees while a lawsuit plays out.The Friday ruling came after the Trump admin...

  • Justice Dept. moves to cancel police reform settlements reached with Minneapolis

    Justice Dept. moves to cancel police reform settlements reached with Minneapolis

    Featured Legal News 05/21/2025

    The Justice Department moved Wednesday to cancel a settlement with Minneapolis that called for an overhaul of its police department following the murder of George Floyd, as well as a similar agreement with Louisville, Kentucky, saying it doesn’...

  • Arizona prosecutors ordered to send fake elector case back to grand jury

    Arizona prosecutors ordered to send fake elector case back to grand jury

    Featured Legal News 05/18/2025

    Arizona prosecutors pressing the case against Republicans who are accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election results in President Donald Trump’s favor were dealt a setback when a judge ordered the case be sent back to a grand jury.Arizona&...

  • Supreme Court could block Trump’s birthright citizenship order

    Supreme Court could block Trump’s birthright citizenship order

    Featured Legal News 05/15/2025

    The Supreme Court seemed intent Thursday on keeping a block on President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship while looking for a way to scale back nationwide court orders.It was unclear what such a decision might look like, bu...

  • Trump Seeks Supreme Court Approval to End Protections for Venezuelans

    Trump Seeks Supreme Court Approval to End Protections for Venezuelans

    Legal Compliance News 05/11/2025

    The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal...

  • Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas

    Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas

    Featured Legal News 05/07/2025

    A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and said President Donald Trump’s invocation of it was “unlawful.”U.S. District Court Judg...

  • Court allows Trump ban on transgender military members to take effect

    Court allows Trump ban on transgender military members to take effect

    Featured Legal News 05/04/2025

    The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military, while legal challenges proceed.The court acted in the dispute over a policy that presumptively disqualifies tra...

  • Judge to weigh Louisiana AG’s challenge to city jail’s ‘sanctuary’ policy

    Judge to weigh Louisiana AG’s challenge to city jail’s ‘sanctuary’ policy

    Featured Legal News 05/01/2025

    Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is pushing forward with her efforts to force Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson to drop a longtime policy that generally prohibits deputies from directly engaging in federal immigration enforcement within the c...

  • Two major law firms urge judges to permanently block Trump’s executive orders

    Two major law firms urge judges to permanently block Trump’s executive orders

    Legal Compliance News 04/26/2025

    Two major law firms asked separate judges Wednesday to permanently block President Donald Trump’s executive orders that were meant to punish them and harm their business operations.The firms — Perkins Coie and WilmerHale — say the o...