US Politics
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The Eleventh Circuit on Monday upheld a Florida federal court’s dismissal of a suit by Democratic Party donors who accused the Democratic National Committee and its then-head Debbie Wasserman Schultz of rigging the 2016 presidential primary contest in favor of Hillary Clinton… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A group of federal watchdogs has criticized the U.S. Department of Justice for determining that a whistleblower’s report about allegedly inappropriate White House interaction with Ukraine wasn’t an “urgent concern,” thereby blocking the complaint from being sent to Congress… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal judge held U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her department in contempt Thursday and fined them $100,000 for their “minimal efforts” to comply with the court’s order to halt collection of student loan debt from former Corinthian Colleges enrollees… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The county of El Paso in Texas and a local immigrant-rights nonprofit asked a Texas federal judge on Monday to block the entirety of the Trump administration’s planned diversion of $6.1 billion in defense funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Texas federal judge who vacated the Affordable Care Act last year tossed an Obama-era regulation banning federally funded health insurance plans from discriminating on the basis of gender identity, saying the rule violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 