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New York, Federal Government File Dueling Lawsuits Over State’s Ban on Masked Officers

Both sides sued over a new law that bars local, state, and federal officers from concealing their identities and also ends local cooperation with ICE.

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House Passes Major Housing Affordability Bill, Sending It to Trump’s Desk

The bipartisan bill is the first major housing legislation passed by Congress in decades.

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DC Appeals Court rules ICE can fast track deportations nationwide — without immigration judge…

The ruling from the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals allows the Trump administration to cast a wider net over who’s subject to the fast-track deportation procedure known as “expedited removal,” which allows immigration authorities to remove an individual from the country without a hearing before an immigration judge.
A federal appeals court handed President Donald Trump a significant win in his mass deportation efforts with a ruling Tuesday reviving his administration’s move to speed up deportations of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

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SCOTUS: Prison Officials Who Violated Prisoner’s Free Exercise Rights Not Liable for Money Damages

Few Americans would read the facts in Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety without being disturbed. According to Damon Landor and the state of Louisiana, prison officials shaved his dreadlocks against his will and in violation of his religious beliefs as a devout Rastafarian. Even more appalling is the fact that Landor…

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Supreme Court Reinstates Conviction in 1979 Murder of Etan Patz

A federal appeals court previously reversed the conviction, finding fault with the trial judge’s instructions to the jury.

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