
#research #survey The Experiences of #Trans and #Non-Binary People with #Family #Law in #England and #Wales https://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/research/centres/hric/project-survey/
#research #survey The Experiences of #Trans and #Non-Binary People with #Family #Law in #England and #Wales https://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/research/centres/hric/project-survey/
#ElonMusk’s #Starlink Expands Across #WhiteHouse Complex
Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by #Musk’s #SpaceX, is now accessible across the White House campus. It is the latest installation of the Wi-Fi network across the govt since Musk joined the #Trump administration as an *unpaid* [if you don’t count all the extra contracts he’s gotten] adviser.
#law #USpol #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #technocracy #broligarchy #kleptocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/elon-musk-starlink-white-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=08504AF5-44B4-4B40-977F-61893CA9733D
Development on this report:
... “The US Institute for #Peace [#USIP] called the DC police on the #Musk team members [#DOGE] in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building & the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter & kicked out the institute's officials.”
#law #democracy #USpol #Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/doge-trump-us-institute-of-peace-03362c3440884c6b29e28ad0d88f5014
And now the admin may have taken its biggest step yet toward outright #defiance—though, as is typical of #Trump presidency, it has done…[it]…so haphazard & confused that it’s difficult to untangle what actually happened. But…[it]…is very clear: Trump’s most dangerous tendencies—hatred of immigrants; disdain for the legal process; willingness to push the boundaries of executive authority; &…appetite for going to war w/the courts—are magnifying one another in a uniquely risky way.
Less than a month into the 2nd #Trump admin, the White House began publicly toying w/the idea of defying court orders. In the weeks since then, it’s continued to flirt w/the suggestion, not ignoring a judge outright but pushing the boundaries of #compliance by searching for loopholes in judicial demands & skirting orders for ofcls to testify.
#law #Constitution #judiciary #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #authoritarianism #dictatorship #USpol #democracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-alien-enemies-act/682068/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxRJhEI8sBgVFjwr5EhjHJtw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
A behind-the-scenes legal effort to force #Congress to call a convention to amend the #Constitution could end up helping #Trump …expand #PresidentialPower.
While the convention effort is focused on the national debt, #legal experts say it could open the door to other changes, such as limiting who can be a US citizen, allowing POTUS to overrule Congress’ spending decisions or even making it legal for Trump to run for a 3rd term.
#law #USpol #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
https://www.propublica.org/article/constitutional-convention-congress-donald-trump-power
#Trump has pulled the #SecretService details of Hunter & Ashley Biden "effective immediately."
The Bulwark’s Sam Stein interviewed #immigration atty Lindsay Toczylowski to discuss her client, a #LGBTQ #Venezuelan #asylum seeker, who disappeared after being detained by #ICE.
After the interview, Toczylowski received confirmation from the US government that her client was deported to El Salvador as part of the #AlienEnemiesAct sweep. Toczylowski says her client is not a Tren deAragua member & that ICE misidentified his tatoos.
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly6YEkHHcX0
“This is, as far as I know, the first allegation that someone in a ban state is providing an abortion in direct violation of abortion laws,” said Marc Hearron of the Center for #ReproductiveRights.
In a handful of cases, charges have been brought against people who provided #abortion pills to relatives, either with their knowledge or without.
…The bans on abortions around the country have largely relied on the threat of prosecution, w/few instances in which #criminal cases have actually been filed. #Abortion providers in #Texas & other states w/ abortion bans ceased operations after the decision. #Women seeking abortions have instead had to travel to states where the procedure remains legal or have received abortion medication through the mail.
The stmnt said that she had been “charged with the illegal performance of an abortion,” which has been a second-degree #felony since the state’s near-total #AbortionBan took effect in 2022. She was also charged w/practicing #medicine without a license.
Court records released late Monday indicated that a person who worked w/Ms. Rojas, Jose Ley, 29, was also arrested & charged w/the same offenses.
The Intercept: If Protesting Tesla Is Domestic Terrorism, Then What Demonstration Against Musk Isn’t
"..It’s obvious, both legally and from a common sense perspective, that First Amendment-protected peaceful protest is not domestic terrorism..."
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/13/trump-musk-tesla-protest-domestic-terrorism/
#KenPaxton, the #Texas AG, said in a statement that the #midwife, Maria Margarita Rojas, operated clinics in several towns around Houston, including 2 in Harris County, the state’s most populous county, & one in Waller County, a more rural & conservative jurisdiction where the charges were brought.
A #midwife & an associate have been arrested & charged w/illegally performing abortions in greater #Houston, acc/to court records & the #Texas AG, apparently the first #criminal arrests of #abortion providers since #SCOTUS overturned #RoeVWade in 2022.
#law #ReproductiveRights #health #WomensHealth #MaleSupremacy #BackAlleyAbortions
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/abortion-arrest.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=69B9A807-AD57-4712-B295-54FF457D615B
Euro-Med Monitor is offering a three-day training course in Beirut for investigative #journalists, focusing on the legal frameworks for preventing and limiting corruption, money laundering, and the financing of terrorism.
The course will take place from on three days, 8-10 April 2025, at Euro-Med Monitor’s office in #beirut. #media #humanrights #law
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#Boasberg did in fact mention #contempt as an aside earlier that I didn’t include.
Here’s the exact quote:
“Two more questions for Mr. Kambli (for the US govt) that don't relate to CONTEMPT / disobeying court orders. 1) Was Trump's Tren de Aragua proclamation signed in secret on Friday? Or on Saturday? Need to know timing & when US thinks it went into effect.”
#law #Constitution #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #AlienEnemiesAct #Trump
With that, the hearing is over. The govt will file more information tomorrow, & it may again refuse to provide specific the information #Boasberg requested (but must explain why). There is a further hearing on the #TRO on Fri, & action in the DC Circuit Court where briefing ends Wed.
#law #Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration #Venezuela #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #AlienEnemiesAct #Trump
#Boasberg with a sarcastic aside: "What I will hear from you by noon tomorrow — & I will memorialize in written form since apparently my oral orders don't carry much weight — is a written declaration" about the third flight & also the information he's previously ordered them to provide.
#law #Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration #Venezuela #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #AlienEnemiesAct #Trump
Lee then says they're going to argue that the government should be required to give anyone subject to the #AEA a hearing before finding that they're covered, & they'll be seeking that later.
Boasberg orders #DOJ to say how many people are designated under AEA. DOJ says again they may refuse.
#law #Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration #Venezuela #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #AlienEnemiesAct #Trump
#Boasberg then asks how many people are subject to the proclamation & how many people are currently in #ICE custody.
#DOJ says they don't have it. #ACLU also says they don't have it, & points out that the proclamation is vague enough that it's hard for anyone to figure out who is subject.
#law #Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration #Venezuela #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #AlienEnemiesAct #Trump