Recent Updates
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World financial markets welcome court ruling against Trump's tariffs
Headline Legal News 05/29/2025Financial 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...
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Cuban exiles were shielded from deportation. Now Trump is cracking down
Headline Legal News 05/25/2025Immigration officials said Tomás Hernández worked in high-level posts for Cuba’s foreign intelligence agency for decades before migrating to the United States to pursue the American dream.The 71-year-old was detained by federal ag...
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Justice Dept. moves to cancel police reform settlements reached with Minneapolis
Headline Legal News 05/21/2025The 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’...
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Arizona prosecutors ordered to send fake elector case back to grand jury
Legal Events 05/18/2025Arizona 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&...
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Supreme Court could block Trump’s birthright citizenship order
US Legal News 05/15/2025The 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...
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Trump Seeks Supreme Court Approval to End Protections for Venezuelans
US Legal News 05/12/2025The 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...
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Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas
Headline Legal News 05/07/2025A 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...
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Wall Street falls for a second day ahead of Federal Reserve meeting
Headline Legal News 05/04/2025Wall Street is pointing toward losses Tuesday ahead of a two-day meeting of the Federal Reserve, which is facing the diametrically opposed challenges of potential inflation and a softening employment landscape.Futures for the S&P 500 lost 0.7% an...
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Judge to weigh Louisiana AG’s challenge to city jail’s ‘sanctuary’ policy
US Legal News 04/30/2025Louisiana 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...
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Two major law firms urge judges to permanently block Trump’s executive orders
Legal Events 04/26/2025Two 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...
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Judge to weigh Louisiana AG’s challenge to city jail’s ‘sanctuary’ policy
US Legal News 04/22/2025Louisiana 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...
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Supreme Court sides with the FDA in its dispute over vaping products
Legal Events 04/16/2025The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled for the Food and Drug Administration in its crackdown on sweet-flavored vaping products following a surge in teen electronic cigarette use.But the justices’ unanimous decision throwing out a federal appeals ...