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Feb 07 2024
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Supreme Court will ignore Donald Trump's immunity appeal—attorney
The Supreme Court will decline to hear Donald Trump's latest appeal after a federal appeals panel rejected his claim that he is immune from prosecution, according to an attorney. Tuesday's unanimous opinion from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the former president can face trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the
NewsweekFeb 06 2024
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Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Claim of Absolute Immunity
A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected former President Donald J. Trump’s claim that he was immune from prosecution on charges of plotting to subvert the results of the 2020 election, ruling that he must go to trial on a criminal indictment accusing him of seeking to overturn his loss to President Biden.
The unanimous ruling, by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
New York Times (News)Mar 26 2024
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Federal court rejects Blankenship appeal arguing Donald Trump Jr. defamed him by calling him a ‘felon’
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court rejected a bid Monday from former coal executive Don Blankenship, who argued that Donald Trump Jr. defamed him by calling him a “felon.” The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, left in place a lower court’s ruling in West Virginia against Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy. He served a year in prison on a misdemeanor
WBOY 12Feb 06 2024
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Trump sweeping immunity claim rejected by US appeals court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump does not have immunity from charges that he plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat, bringing the former U.S. president a step closer to an unprecedented criminal trial. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted
Shore News NetworkFeb 06 2024
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Trump sweeping immunity claim rejected by US appeals court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump does not have immunity from charges that he plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat, bringing the former U.S. president a step closer to an unprecedented criminal trial. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted
Colorado Springs GazetteMar 20 2024
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Texas border law back on hold as appeals court doubts states’ power to deport illegal immigrants
A federal appeals court cast doubt Wednesday on Texas’ stiff new immigration law that tries to create a state deportation system, with the judges suggesting it would trample on the federal government’s prerogatives. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put the law on hold late Tuesday, just hours after the Supreme Court had erased its own blockade. Amid that legal whiplash, a three-judge
Washington TimesFeb 27 2024
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Appeals court lets Indiana's gender-affirming care ban go into effect
A federal appeals court has allowed Indiana’s law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth to go into effect — immediately. A U.S. District Court in Indiana had issued a preliminary injunction last June that blocked enforcement of the law, set to go into effect July 1. But Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit placed a stay on that injunction, letting the law be
AdvocateApr 05 2024
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Nayib Bukele’s Authoritarian Appeal
On the afternoon of February 4th, as Salvadorans were voting in Presidential and legislative elections, a fifty-seven-year-old writer named Carlos Bucio Borja walked into a polling place near his home in the capital and began to read the constitution aloud. The sitting President, Nayib Bukele, was seeking a second consecutive mandate, which legal scholars have denounced as a violation of the
The New YorkerFeb 27 2024
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Federal appeals court upholds Iowa law banning school mask mandates
Court: Parents did not show they had been or were likely to be injured by the state law DES MOINES — A group of parents of students with disabilities lacks legal standing to challenge a state law prohibiting mask mandates at public schools, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. In a ruling written by Judge Ralph Erickson, the three-judge panel found that the parents did not show they had been
Cedar Rapids GazetteFeb 27 2024
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Federal appeals court upholds Iowa law banning school mask mandates
A group of parents of students with disabilities lack legal standing to challenge a state law prohibiting mask mandates at public schools, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. In a ruling written by Judge Ralph Erickson, the three-judge panel found that the parents did not show they had been or were likely to be injured by the state law. The ruling reversed a previous court injunction on
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