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29.05.2025 - 20:31 [ LawAndCrime.com ]

Judge slams ‘perverse reading’ of Constitution by Trump admin fighting lawsuit challenging DOGE, but puts one less case on the president’s docket

“Defendants appear to sanction unlimited Executive power, free from checks and balances, but the Constitution prohibits unilateral control over ‘official appointments’ by ‘dividing the power to appoint the principal federal offices … between the Executive and Legislative Branches,‘” Chutkan added.

The judge further dispatched the defendants’ argument that a court cannot review the president’s actions in this case.

“The fact that President Trump purports to create a position and assign it powers by Executive Order does not preclude review under the Appointments Clause,” she wrote.

“No branch may aggrandize its own appointment power at the expense of another and no branch may abdicate its Appointments Clause duties,” Chutkan added. “And the Judiciary has a duty to maintain ‘the constitutional plan of separation of powers.’ Consequently, the court will reject Defendants’ perverse reading of the Appointments Clause.”

29.05.2025 - 20:27 [ DemocracyDocket.com ]

Judge Says Musk Must Face Lawsuit Over His Role In DOGE

A federal judge in D.C. Tuesday greenlit lawsuits challenging Elon Musk’s position in the federal government and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as unconstitutional.

Judge Tanya Chutkan, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said 14 states and a group of advocacy organizations plausibly argued that Musk and DOGE’s efforts to slash the government violate the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.

29.05.2025 - 20:25 [ Axios ]

Judge allows 14 states‘ lawsuit against Elon Musk and DOGE to proceed

Driving the news: U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan denied a motion to dismiss the case.

She wrote in a 42-page order: „The Constitution does not permit the Executive to commandeer the entire appointments power by unilaterally creating a federal agency pursuant to Executive Order and insulating its principal officer from the Constitution as an ‚advisor‘ in name only,“ the judge wrote. „This is precisely what Plaintiffs claim the Executive has done.“

16.05.2025 - 23:51 [ theHill.com ]

Supreme Court extends block on some Alien Enemies Act deportation flights

Over the dissents of conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the emergency decision prevents authorities from removing the migrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a legal challenge proceeds, a win for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is suing on the migrants’ behalf.

But the justices declined the ACLU’s additional request to leapfrog the lower courts to immediately take up the issue of whether President Trump can invoke the rarely used law outside of wartime.

16.05.2025 - 23:49 [ CNN ]

Supreme Court blocks Trump from restarting Alien Enemies Act deportations

“Today’s ruling effectively extends the temporary freeze that the justices put on Alien Enemies Act removals from the Northern District of Texas back on April 19,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown Law. “Because lower courts have blocked use of the act in every other district in which the president has sought to invoke it, that means it’s effectively pausing all removals under the act until the 5th Circuit – and, presumably, the Supreme Court itself – conclusively resolves whether they’re legal and how much process is due if so.”

04.05.2025 - 09:09 [ Times of India ]

Israel urged to give media ‚unrestricted‘ Gaza access

The association criticised Israel for an „unprecedented ban preventing foreign journalists from entering Gaza“, calling the decision a „mark of shame for a country that claims to be a beacon of democracy“.
The FPA, which has filed an appeal with the Israeli Supreme Court challenging the ban, said its members „salute our Palestinian colleagues who continue to report the story at great personal risk“.

25.04.2025 - 00:10 [ Hamoked.org ]

HaMoked in habeas corpus petition: surviving paramedic of Israeli attack in Rafah is being held in an unnamed facility and denied access to a lawyer

The amendments to the Unlawful Combatants Law were passed following the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 and currently enable banning a Gaza detainee from meeting with a lawyer for the first 45 days of his detention. During this time, Israeli authorities also refuse to inform family members of the person’s whereabouts. This refusal to provide information on a detainee’s location is contrary to its past practice and to Israel’s legal obligations. A petition against the Law, filed by human rights organizations, including HaMoked, has been pending for over a year now.

24.04.2025 - 23:59 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Israeli Human Rights Organizations Demand Netanyahu Open Gaza’s Crossings

For nearly two months, Israel has deliberately and openly prevented the entry of any humanitarian aid including food, water, fuel, and medical equipment into the Gaza Strip. For more than a year, four Israeli human rights organizations, Gisha, Physicians for Human Rights, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and HaMoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual have led a principled legal petition in the High Court, demanding that Israel meet its legal obligations under Israeli and international law to ensure unfettered and immediate aid access to the civilian population in the Gaza Strip.

While the petition was still under deliberation, Israel announced the closure of all crossings into Gaza imposing a complete blockade since March 2. The state did not even claim that this extreme measure was related to military needs but admitted that it was a “political security” decision.

On March 27, the High Court rejected the petition, displaying disregard for the implications of this latest state policy on the fragile humanitarian situation in Gaza. Nearly everything is scarce in the Strip: since March 18, Israel has bombarded continuously via land, air, and sea, causing thousands of deaths and injuries; issued displacement orders that forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee; and as mentioned above, blocked all entry of goods and equipment to the strip for nearly two months.

Last week, the human rights organizations sent an urgent request demanding the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Defense Minister Israel Katz, open Gaza’s crossings immediately and enable consistent and unfettered aid supply and access.

24.04.2025 - 22:36 [ Avatar Donald J. Trump / Social Truth ]

Harvard is an Anti-Semitic, Far Left Institution, as are numerous others, with students being accepted from all over the World that want to rip our Country apart.

The place is a Liberal mess, allowing a certain group of crazed lunatics to enter and exit the classroom and spew fake ANGER AND HATE. It is truly horrific! Now, since our filings began, they act like they are all “American Apple Pie.” Harvard is a threat to Democracy, with a lawyer, who represents me, who should therefore be forced to resign, immediately, or be fired. He’s not that good, anyway, and I hope that my very big and beautiful company, now run by my sons, gets rid of him ASAP!

24.04.2025 - 22:33 [ New York Times ]

Trump Directs Sons to Fire Trump Org. Lawyer Because of Harvard Ties

In a statement, one of the sons, Eric Trump, confirmed that the Trump Organization intended to cut ties to Mr. Burck over his decision to represent Harvard.

“I view it as a conflict, and I will be moving in a different direction,” he said.

Mr. Burck declined to comment.

24.04.2025 - 22:29 [ Harvard University ]

Harvard files lawsuit against Trump administration

(April 21, 2025)

Harvard filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration, arguing its freeze on research funding is unconstitutional and “flatly unlawful” and calling on the court to restore more than $2.2 billion in research dollars.

The filing, in U.S. District Court in Boston, requests that the court vacate and set aside the funding freeze to allow previously approved funding to flow and halt administration efforts to freeze current or deny future funding without engaging in procedures contained in federal law.

19.04.2025 - 21:57 [ New York Times ]

Trump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Deportations Under Alien Enemies Act

The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration early Saturday from deporting another group of Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members under the expansive powers of a rarely invoked wartime law.

“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court,” the court said in a brief, unsigned order that gave no reasoning, as is typical in emergency cases.

19.04.2025 - 21:53 [ NBC Washington ]

Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime law

The high court acted in an emergency appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union contending that immigration authorities appeared to be moving to restart removals under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The Supreme Court had said earlier in April that deportations could proceed only if those about to be removed had a chance to argue their case in court and were given “a reasonable time” to contest their pending removals.

15.04.2025 - 02:09 [ ABC News ]

Sudan tells top UN court that UAE is breaching genocide convention by funding rebels

(April 10, 2025)

Sudan has told the United Nations’ top court that the United Arab Emirates is breaching the genocide convention by arming and funding the rebel paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces

07.03.2025 - 11:55 [ Computerworld.com ]

Apple appeals UK encryption backdoor demand

(March 5, 2025)

Let’s say that Apple lets the order stand and simply opts out of the UK market, which is essentially what it has already done, he said. That could encourage other governments, especially those in France, Australia, and Canada, to try the same tactic.

“If that happens, then the [UK] government has set a precedent,” Chagnon said. But if Apple succeeds in this appeal, which was reported in various media including The Financial Times, “then Apple will have turned the tables and set their own precedent. It would be saying ‘No, China, no, Germany, no, France, you can’t have a backdoor.’”

28.02.2025 - 12:32 [ Common Dreams ]

Petition to Support a Party of Working People

So here‘s a fresh question: What would you think if a million workers said they would be willing to back a new political effort?

One million names on a petition would show that the effort has a far wider reach than a fringe group or a self-promoter. One million names would signal to the political actors that there is mass support for building a new working-class political home. One million names might even push some Democrats to support pro-worker legislation.

Mobilizing a petition drive would cost relatively little and could start with a few progressive unions circulating one that read: …

11.02.2025 - 10:59 [ Times of Israel ]

Families of captives Matan Zangauker, Nimrod Cohen sue for full text of hostage deal

(February 9, 2025)

The families of hostages Matan Zangauker and Nimrod Cohen on Sunday petitioned the High Court demanding it order the government to publish the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal agreed with Hamas in its entirety.

The agreement has been published only in part.

06.02.2025 - 23:35 [ American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) ]

ADC Announces Its 24/7 Legal Hotline

(January 24, 2025)

With the signing of a new Executive Order that threatens to replicate the discriminatory 2017 “Muslim Ban,” and the swift advancement of IHRA bills at both federal and state levels, the ADC Legal Hotline comes at a pivotal time for Arab and Muslim communities.

For nearly 45 years, ADC has stood at the forefront of defending Arab Americans—particularly during moments of heightened profiling, speech suppression, and persecution. From the post-9/11 era to the original Muslim Ban in 2017, ADC’s legal team has repeatedly exposed and challenged policies designed to silence and intimidate our communities. Today’s increased momentum behind xenophobic Executive Orders and IHRA legislation further underscores the urgent need for robust legal support and community solidarity.

06.02.2025 - 23:22 [ secure.EveryAction.com ]

Emergency Fund to Protect Palestinian and Arab Students on College Campuses

ADC has answered the call of several students for legal support against repression and discrimination by their universities, and more support is needed.

21.01.2025 - 21:12 [ New York Times ]

18 States Sue to Stop Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

The states view Mr. Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship as “extraordinary and extreme,” said New Jersey’s attorney general, Matthew J. Platkin, who led the legal effort along with the attorneys general from California and Massachusetts. “Presidents are powerful, but he is not a king. He cannot rewrite the Constitution with a stroke of the pen.”

21.01.2025 - 19:00 [ American Civil Liberties Union ]

Immigrants’ Rights Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

“Denying citizenship to U.S.-born children is not only unconstitutional — it’s also a reckless and ruthless repudiation of American values. Birthright citizenship is part of what makes the United States the strong and dynamic nation that it is. This order seeks to repeat one of the gravest errors in American history, by creating a permanent subclass of people born in the U.S. who are denied full rights as Americans. We will not let this attack on newborns and future generations of Americans go unchallenged. The Trump administration‘s overreach is so egregious that we are confident we will ultimately prevail,” said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

21.01.2025 - 18:55 [ USA Today ]

ACLU files lawsuit against Trump order that seeks to end birthright citizenship

A collection of advocacy groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit late Monday challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order to halt the automatic granting of citizenship to children born in the United States.

21.01.2025 - 18:44 [ Washington Post ]

Trump’s executive orders already face pushback, legal challenges

The executive orders include some things that scholars and legal experts say may be out of the reach of the president’s pen and could be tied up in courts or legislatures for years, including ending birthright citizenship, a right embedded in the Constitution and bolstered by a Supreme Court ruling that grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

13.01.2025 - 17:58 [ Hessenschau ]

Vater von Hanau-Opfer stellt Strafanzeige gegen Polizeibeamte

January 7, 2025)

Mit der Anzeige möchte Niculescu Păun sie dazu bringen, Verantwortung für den Tod seines Sohnes zu übernehmen. „Sie waren für die Sicherheit von uns allen verantwortlich“, sagt er. Aber die Beschuldigten seien ihrer Verantwortung nicht nachgekommen.

Păun hofft, knapp fünf Jahre nach dem Tod seines Sohnes doch noch so etwas wie Gerechtigkeit zu erfahren. Es ist zeitgleich seine letzte Chance: Am Jahrestag endet die Verjährungsfrist für eventuelle Straftaten rund um den Anschlag.

01.01.2025 - 10:03 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Israel’s Supreme Court Refused to Stop the Deadly Attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza

(December 30, 2024)

Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHR) petitioned last week Israel’s Supreme Court, demanding an end to ongoing attacks on the hospital, the establishment of humanitarian corridors, and the delivery of essential supplies, and issuing an interim order to cease the attacks immediately. However, the court refused to take immediate action, leaving Kamal Adwan, its staff and patients under the deadly attacks.

27.12.2024 - 13:52 [ Korean Broadcasting System ]

Parlament stimmt für Amtsenthebungsverfahren gegen Interimspräsident Han

Der Parlamentschef Woo Won-shik erklärte vor der Abstimmung, dass der Amtsenthebungsantrag gegen Premierminister Han Duck-soo gemäß Artikel 65 Absatz 2 der Verfassung eine einfache Mehrheit der Abgeordneten erfordere.

26.12.2024 - 17:56 [ Korean Broadcasting System ]

Amtsenthebungsantrag gegen Han vor Plenum der Nationalversammlung vorgelegt

Die Demokratische Partei (DP) hat auf der Plenarsitzung der Nationalversammlung am Donnerstag über einen Amtsenthebungsantrag gegen den kommissarischen Präsidenten Han Duck-soo berichtet.

Dies erfolgte unmittelbar, nachdem Han öffentlich angekündigt hatte, die Ernennung neuer Richter am Verfassungsgericht zu verschieben, bis Regierungspartei und Opposition eine Einigung gefunden haben.

20.12.2024 - 22:04 [ Adalah ]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Arab Leadership in Israel Appeals to Supreme Court Against Law Allowing Education Ministry to Dismiss Teachers and Cut Funding to Palestinian Schools Over Alleged “Support of Terrorism”

(December 17, 2024)

In the petition, Adalah Attorney Salam Irsheid argued that the law is clearly racist in intent, especially given the widespread persecution and criminalization of hundreds of Palestinian citizens by Israeli authorities and other entities since the outbreak of the war 7 October 2023, for merely expressing entirely lawful opinions. The law’s deliberate vagueness, and the fact that it only addresses “incitement to terrorism”—which is used almost exclusively to target Palestinians—while excluding incitement to violence or racism, highlights its discriminatory purpose. By granting broad, unchecked powers to political and administrative authorities, the law enables punitive actions to be taken against Palestinian educators for expressing views that fall outside the mainstream consensus, thereby severely undermining their basic right to freedom of expression. Adalah further argued that the law breaches the principle of the separation of powers, as it grants the Education Ministry the authority to infringe on teachers’ rights to freedom of expression and occupation, effectively requiring a determination of whether they have committed a criminal offense, even if no charges have been filed against them.

20.12.2024 - 21:48 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Petition to Supreme Court; Far-Right Govt Consider Bill Banning Left and Arab Campus Groups

Hadash MKs opposed the proposed legislation, calling it “dime-store fascist populism and McCarthyism.” According to Hadash MK Aida Touma-Sliman, “The Knesset is advancing two bills targeting critical students and professors, aimed primarily at Palestinian and leftist voices in academia. These bills seek to silence any remaining voices resisting the government’s policies of occupation and war. This marks another step in the fascist agenda to suppress any real opposition to the extreme right. Heads of universities, professors, and students recognize the danger of such legislation and are voicing their opposition.

On past week, the Knesset plenum, in a preliminary reading, passed a proposed law that would amend the Students Rights Law, allowing most Israeli higher education institutions to implement gender separation. MK Son Har-Melech proposed the law, which 55 members of the Knesset (MKs) supported and 45 MKs opposed.

14.12.2024 - 17:22 [ KBS.co.kr ]

Parlament stimmt für Absetzung von Präsident Yoon

Es gab 204 Fürstimmen, 85 Gegenstimmen und acht ungültige Stimmen bei drei Enthaltungen.

An der Abstimmung haben insgesamt 300 Abgeordnete teilgenommen. Unter der Annahme, dass alle 192 Oppositionsabgeordneten und Parteilosen den Antrag befürwortet haben, müssen mindestens 12 Parlamentarier von der regierenden Partei Macht des Volks (PPP) dem Amtsenthebungsverfahren zugestimmt haben.

13.12.2024 - 19:23 [ CNN ]

South Korea’s ruling party backs impeachment as president refuses to step down over martial law

The People Power Party (PPP) had initially refused to back impeachment, hoping instead Yoon would resign from office. But its leadership said attempts to persuade him had made no progress.

“We tried to find a better way than impeachment, but that other way is invalid,” party leader Han Dong-hoon said. “Suspending the president from his duties through impeachment is the only way for now, to defend democracy and the republic.”

13.12.2024 - 19:15 [ KBS.co.kr ]

Zweiter Amtsenthebungsantrag gegen Yoon im Plenum des Parlaments vorgelegt

Für die Verabschiedung eines Amtsenthebungsantrags gegen einen Staatspräsidenten müssen wenigstens zwei Drittel der Abgeordneten dafür stimmen.

Das Oppositionslager verfügt über 192 der 300 Parlamentssitze. Sollten wenigstens acht PPP-Abgeordnete für den Antrag stimmen, wird der Antrag angenommen.

05.12.2024 - 05:42 [ KBS.co.kr ]

Amtsenthebungsantrag gegen Präsident Yoon ins Plenum der Nationalversammlung eingebracht

Der Schritt erfolgte am Donnerstag um 0.48 Uhr. Daran beteiligten sich alle 191 Abgeordneten der sechs Oppositionsparteien.

Die regierende Partei Macht des Volks (PPP) nahm nicht an der Sitzung teil. Sie hatte sich zuvor gegen eine Amtsenthebung ausgesprochen.

04.12.2024 - 18:58 [ KBS.co.kr ]

Main Opposition Party to File Treason Charges against President Yoon, Defense and Interior Ministers

The main opposition Democratic Party says it will file treason charges against President Yoon Suk Yeol, as well as his defense and interior ministers, and impeach them.

04.12.2024 - 18:49 [ Korean Broadcasting System - KBS.co.kr ]

Oppositionsparteien reichen Amtsenthebungsantrag gegen Präsident Yoon im Parlament ein

Vertreter der Demokratischen Partei, der Partei für den Umbau Koreas und von vier weiteren Parteien reichten den Antrag um 14.43 Uhr am Mittwoch bei der Nationalversammlung ein.

Alle 191 Abgeordneten der sechs Oppositionsparteien beteiligten sich daran.

04.12.2024 - 18:34 [ Korean Broadcasting System - KBS.co.kr ]

Opposition Files Motion to Impeach Pres. Yoon after Martial Law Declaration

The opposition parties submitted an impeachment motion to be put to a plenary vote either on Friday or Saturday.

16.11.2024 - 22:53 [ Reuters ]

LIVE: Press conference to announce filing of lawsuit on behalf of Malcolm X’s family

Streamed live on Nov 15, 2024 #Reuters #News #Live
Civil-rights attorney Ben Crump holds press conference to announce the filing of a lawsuit on behalf of Malcolm X’s family.

16.11.2024 - 22:42 [ APNews.com ]

The daughters of Malcolm X sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader’s assassination

(November 15, 2024)

According to the lawsuit, the NYPD, coordinating with federal law enforcement agencies, arrested the activist’s security detail days before the assassination and intentionally removed their officers from inside the ballroom where Malcolm X was killed. Meanwhile, it adds, federal agencies had personnel, including undercover agents, in the ballroom but failed to protect him.

The lawsuit was not brought sooner because the defendants withheld information from the family, including the identities of undercover “informants, agents and provocateurs” and what they knew about the planning that preceded the attack.

16.11.2024 - 20:50 [ EuropeanConservative.com ]

German Pensioner’s House Raided for Calling Green Minister an “Imbecile”

Stefan Niehoff was woken up by police officers at dawn—together with his wife and daughter, who has Down syndrome, according to news portal Nius.de.

The pensioner’s crime, which Habeck could not tolerate, was that, a few months ago, he had posted a meme on his X social media page, in which beauty care brand Schwarzkopf Professional’s logo was replaced by the words Schwachkopf Professional—which means professional idiot or imbecile—with a picture of a smiling Habeck.