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Trump Litigation Updates
Judge Tunheim closes cases of 5 people unlawfully detained in Operation Metro Surge who, after release & weeks or months of waiting, finally got their property back. 3 received unspecified FTCA compensation. Judge Tunheim "regrets the hardship imposed."
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Backdrop: On 6/1 a 23-yo VZ-an construction worker & [asylum?] seeker Morales filed a habeas petition seeking release. He's been in Delaney Hall for more than 2 mos. He cites publicly reported harsh conditions at Delaney, but just seeks relief from “categorical detention” without bond.
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A 3d Circuit judge granted an administrative stay stopping Judge Quraishi from holding an evidentiary hearing today, 6/8, on controversial detention conditions at ICE’s Delaney Hall in Newark. ICE transferred petitioner out of Delaney to moot case, but Quraishi tried to hold hearing anyway. ...
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Trump asks that his cert petition in E. Jean Carroll II ($5 M verdict for sex abuse & defamation) be heard together with cert petition in Carroll I ($83.3M for def), which will be filed soon. SCOTUS has "relisted" (put off) decision on Carroll II cert petition 13x—possibly for this reason.
As for Trump's "last-ditch" claim (filed 5/26) that removing his name from the Kennedy Center would render it "financially nonviable," Judge Cooper drop-kicked it in a footnote: untimely; "zero evidentiary value"; "unsupported opinion" & "contradicted by the record" & 60 yrs of history.
Judge Cooper has rendered mixed decision on Kennedy Center, which I'm still reading. But he finds RENAMING was ILLEGAL, and decision to close it down for 2 years was dereliction of common law duty of prudence.
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NEW: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has AFFIRMED the District Court of Montana's dismissal of Lighthiser v. Trump—the constitutional climate case led by 22 young Americans challenging the Trump administration's fossil fuel orders—for lack of Article III standing.
Full text of the Senate version of Blumenthal/Frost's bicameral Right to Record Act which would add new legal consequences for federal/immigration enforcement officers who prevent recording, observing, or peacefully protesting law enforcement activities (which is already constitutionally protected)
NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:
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Kevin Trudeau—TV personality and author convicted of fraud, larceny, and contempt of court in addition to FTC cases—moved to intervene in DUNN v TRUMP, the police officers suing to block Trump's Anti-Weaponization slush fund, based on his outstanding claim for $10 million from it
