A panel of three federal appeals court judges in Massachusetts have declined to grant Donald Trump’s request to undo the pause previously placed on enforcing the president’s executive order revoking birthright citizenship.
As Law&Crime has previously reported, U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin last month joined several other federal judges — appointed by presidents from both sides of the political aisle — who have issued nationwide preliminary injunctions on the controversial measure that would potentially upend more than a century of legal precedent. In a subsequent three-page order, Sorokin declined to stay his injunction. Lawyers for Trump sought a stay of the injunction pending appeal, arguing that since citizenship is “an individual right,” states have “no ability to assert” individual-rights claims of citizenship of their residents against the federal government.
Appeals Court Keeps Trump's Citizenship Order Block In Place
The Trump administration has been ordered to cough up nearly $2 billion in foreign aid that it owes for existing contracts and grants formed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and authorized by Congress, with a federal judge ruling Monday that it was unconstitutional of Trump to “unlawfully impound funds” earlier this year through a blanket freeze.
“The provision and administration of foreign aid has been a joint enterprise between our two political branches,” U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali said in a 48-page opinion handed down in the District of Columbia. “That partnership is built not out of convenience, but of constitutional necessity,” Ali said. “This case involves a departure from that firmly established constitutional partnership.”
Trump 'Unlawfully' Authorized USAID Funding Freeze: Judge
WASHINGTON (AP) — A union for U.S. Agency for International Development contractors asked a federal judge Tuesday to intervene in any destruction of classified documents after an email ordered staffers to help burn and shred agency records.
Judge Carl Nichols set a Wednesday morning deadline for the plaintiffs and the government to brief him on the issue. A person familiar with the email who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal verified that it was sent to at least some essential personnel.
Court Asked To Intervene After Email Tells USAID Workers To Destroy Classified Documents
Elon Musk has told the White House he plans to give $100 million to President Trump's political operation, according to a person familiar with his plans.
Musk Plans To Give Trump's Political Operation $100 Million
He never provided evidence for either claim. But, in a new report from Wired, security researchers offered a very different view on the attack. Security experts interviewed by the publication said that they had seen little evidence that Ukrainian IP addresses played a significant role in the DDoS attack, with one researcher saying the country wasn’t even in the top 20 countries of origin involved.
Security Researchers Aren't Buying Musk's Spin On The Cyberattack That Took Down X
