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In April, the Utah Court of Appeals heard a case of ChatGPT being used to generate a court petition. The petition had "at least one case that does not appear to exist in any legal database (and could only be found in ChatGPT)” (KSL News). “The law firm admitted…” More ⬇️ youtu.be/YT-8ysFCiok?...

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"Non-lethal" regarding rubber bullets, etc. A British journalist is having emergency surgery on his leg in LA after being hit. Muscle was exposed. He was walking across the street. An Australian journalist was hit on live TV. She was standing in the street reporting, nowhere near anyone.

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Today's "One First" takes a deeper dive into five sets of stories from a very busy (and glitchy) week at #SCOTUS. TL;DR: "Although there’s no one theme that ties all five sets of stories together, the volume—and the sense of a Court that is stretched past its capacity—is perhaps the real takeaway."

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"I think they are brewing for a fight. They want the fight, and they want the chaos,” Kreis said. “To the extent that the facts and the law don’t work for them, I don’t know if they care so long as they get the fight out of it.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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I’m sorry, what??? www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/m...

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Conspiracy to engage in speech critical of the regime bsky.app/profile/empt...

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Supreme Court rules 6-3 that the Founders intended for presidents to have standing armies to suppress free speech, because once upon a time, kings did.

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NEW: In the challenges to Trump's EO "Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media," NPR and PBS, along with DOJ, agree to a joint briefing schedule for expedited summary judgment. In other words, everyone is asking for these cases to move quickly to final judgment. The proposed timeline:

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JUST IN: A federal judge in New York has ruled that the Trump administraiton's rush to send federal employee data to DOGE was a "breach of law and trust" that violated the Privacy Act and cybersecurity protections. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Last week President Trump issued a new travel ban, which has the potential to block upwards of 125,000 people per year from being able to enter the United States, either temporarily or permanently — indefinitely For @immcouncil's blog, I broke down what you need to know. Check it out below.

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NEW: A federal judge blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing federal workers’ personal data at the Office of Personnel Management, stating that the agency violated the Privacy Act by granting the faux-agency access to its systems. Order: www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...

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More than 12,000 Harvard alumni, 21 state attorneys general, and two dozen universities, including five Ivy League schools, filed or plan to file amicus briefs backing Harvard in its court battle with the Trump administration, court records showed.

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The U.S. State Department directed all U.S. missions abroad and consular sections to resume processing Harvard University student and exchange visitor visas after a federal judge in Boston last week temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's ban on foreign students at the Ivy-League institution.

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BREAKING: We filed a brief in support of Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration. It's unconstitutional to freeze Harvard's federal research funding simply because it refused to bend to the president's political agenda.

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The return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US on June 6 after his wrongful deportation to El Salvador in March should not end a judge's investigation into whether Trump administration officials should be held in contempt for violating a court order, Abrego Garcia's lawyers said reut.rs/4kv9DUh

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia will now get his day in court, but this took far too long. President Trump and his Administration repeatedly refused to bring Kilmar back to the United States for weeks, in defiance of the Supreme Court and despite knowing that they had the power to do so all along.

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A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders in grant funding requirements that LGBTQ+ organizations say are unconstitutional.

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BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump's "anti-DEI" and anti-trans funding orders, as applied to organizations that sued in a case led by San Francisco AIDS Foundation and filed in federal court in San Francisco. Judge Jon Tigar (Obama)'s opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NEWS California AG Bonta's lawsuit seeking to block Trump from federalizing the National Guard has been released. "One of the cornerstones of our Nation and our democracy is that our people are governed by civil, not military, rule," it states. Story soon at AllRiseNews.com

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BREAKING: We won a court order blocking Trump admin policies that trap immigrant children in government detention. The gov must begin processing family sponsorships w/o discriminatory paperwork barriers. We’ll continue fighting for a fair system that protects children and upholds the rule of law.

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BREAKING: A fourth court has found that President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was illegal, seeking to stretch the meaning of "invasion" beyond its plain meaning. The ruling blocks AEA deportations in the Western District of Texas. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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UPDATE: The lawsuit, which says Trump's deployment order was unconstitutional, comes as the Department of Defense has mobilized 700 Marines for Los Angeles. via @kqednews.kqed.org

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President Donald Trump has been dealt yet another court blow in his effort to use of a 1700s-era wartime law to deport Venezuelans that his administration has said are part of a violent gang.

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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) sued Alina Habba, U.S. attorney for New Jersey, for false arrest, malicious prosecution and defamation stemming from his arrest for protesting the Trump administration's deportation policies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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🚨BREAKING: California sued President Donald Trump Monday, accusing him of illegally seizing control of the California National Guard to suppress protests in Los Angeles — without the governor’s consent. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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"Israel’s actions in Gaza are broadly understood by international law experts ... as constituting genocide. ... Canada must do everything in its power to stop these atrocities ... This is what our signatures on the 1948 Genocide Convention and the 1998 Rome Statute ... demand."

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Freedom Flotilla organisers have had no contact with activists since they were ‘kidnapped’ by Israel on way to Gaza.

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Israel accused of breaching international law by storming Madleen aid ship - ABC News www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters | US universities | The Guardian

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Let's get this straight: Trump sent Garcia to a concentration camp with no legal process, is forced to bring him back, is filing charges FOR THE FIRST TIME, and obviously is trying to convict him in the public space to influence future juries. Ya think he can't do that to YOU 'cause you're White?

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This seems a wee bit prejudicial

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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

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NEW: In the case over Trump's unconstitutional order targeting the WilmerHale law firm, WilmerHale's lawyers at Clement & Murphy had to go back to court, asking the court to amend its judgment because DOJ is being appallingly intransigent. DOJ's Richard Lawson is really skating on thin ice here.

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The Prosecutor’s Code: Pam Bondi, the DOJ, and the Death of Legal Ethics By Tony Pentimalli There is a line every public attorney is sworn never to cross. For Pam Bondi, that line is now a distant blur in the rearview mirror. More than 70 legal professionals, including .

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If you’re disabled in STEM, the pipeline is a sieve. Can’t wait to graduate to file unemployment. Fucking awesome. So glad I dedicated a decade and a half of my life to this.

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Given disabled students basic access is illegal but pressuring universities to hire conservative faculty through mandates is fine? We’ve sane-washed these people too long and I’m over it. UNHINGED.

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Ms Rachel, the children’s entertainer and educator whose YouTube videos have been watched by millions of families around the world, said she is willing to "risk her career to keep advocating for suffering children in Gaza".

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Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

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I shouldn’t be laughing so hard this is such a dad joke lmao

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