THE PULSE OF THE PLANET
A federal judge warned the Trump administration that the president’s latest executive order targeting sanctuary cities doesn’t sidestep a previous order halting similar executive action. Source link
A federal judge issued a restraining order blocking President Trump’s plans for major personnel cuts across the government, saying he has to ask Congress for permission before he attempts such a broad rewrite of the bureaucracy. Source link
A federal judge in Vermont on Friday morning ordered the release on bail of a Tufts University student arrested in March for her political speech and now held in Louisiana in what she and her lawyers argue is a breach of her constitutional rights. The judge had ordered Rümeysa Öztürk’s return to Vermont, where she…
Attorneys for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who were convicted of killing their parents in 1989, will make their case to a judge Friday that Los Angeles prosecutors should be removed from the brothers’ resentencing case. The brothers were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally shooting their entertainment…
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital after abandoning his first pick for the job. Source link
