Recent Updates

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  US completes deportation of 8 men to South Sudan after weeks of legal wrangling

  Lawyer Blogs 07/06/2025

  Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have now reached the Trump administration’s intended...

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  International Criminal Court hit with cyber security attack

  Court Alerts 07/02/2025

  The International Criminal Court has been targeted by a “sophisticated” cyberattack and is taking measures to limit any damage, the global tribunal announced Monday.The ICC, which also was hit by a cyberattack in 2023, said the latest inc...

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  ICE raids and their uncertainty scare off workers and baffle businesses

  Court Alerts 06/20/2025

  Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers breathed a sigh of relief last week when President Donald Trump ordered a pause to immigration raids that were disrupting those industries and scaring foreign-born workers off the job.“...

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  Democrats are drawing closer to the crypto industry despite Trump divisions

  Lawyer Blogs 06/05/2025

  As President Donald Trump builds a crypto empire ? including hosting a private dinner with top investors at his golf club ? Democrats have united in condemning what they call blatant corruption from the White House.But the Democratic Party’s ow...

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  Cuban exiles were shielded from deportation. Now Trump is cracking down

  Court Alerts 05/25/2025

  Immigration 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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  Arizona prosecutors ordered to send fake elector case back to grand jury

  Court Alerts 05/18/2025

  Arizona 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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  Trump Seeks Supreme Court Approval to End Protections for Venezuelans

  Court Alerts 05/11/2025

  The 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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  Jury begins deliberating in UK trial of men accused of felling Sycamore Gap tree

  Criminal Law 05/09/2025

  Jurors began deliberating Thursday in the case of two men charged with cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree that once stood along the ancient Hadrian’s Wall in northern England.Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, have pleaded not guilty t...

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  Trump’s tariffs loom over the economy as shipments from China fall

  Headline News 04/29/2025

  American businesses are cancelling orders from China, postponing expansion plans and hunkering down to see what trade policy surprises President Donald Trump plans to spring on them next. The president’s massive and unpredictable taxes on impor...

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  Judge bars Trump from denying federal funds to ‘sanctuary’ cities

  Lawyer Blogs 04/22/2025

  A federal judge in California on Thursday barred the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use of federal funds to “sanctuary” jurisdictions, saying that portions of President Donald Trump’s executive orders were unc...

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  Trump says he’s in ‘no rush’ to end tariffs as he meets with Italy’s Meloni

  Court Alerts 04/18/2025

  President Donald Trump said Thursday he is in “no rush” to reach any trade deals because he views tariffs as making the United States wealthy. But he suggested while meeting with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni that it would be easy to fin...

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  HK defends its immigration procedures after British MP was denied entry

  Lawyer Blogs 04/14/2025

  Hong Kong’s government on Monday defended its immigration procedures after a British member of parliament was denied entry to the Chinese city last week, an incident that has prompted concerns among U.K. officials.Wera Hobhouse, a member of the...