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Two senior Democratic lawmakers on the congressional judiciary committees have formally referred Kristi Noem, recently fired Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to the U.S. Department of Justice for a potential criminal investigation over alleged false statements made during congressional testimony. In a March 16 letter, Dick Durbin, ranking member of the…
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A Georgia woman has been charged with murder after authorities allege she used abortion medication and later gave birth to an infant who died hours afterward, a case that could test the boundaries of the state’s abortion and criminal statutes. Alexia Moore, 31, of Kingsland, Georgia, was arrested on March 4 following a months-long investigation…
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Several prominent hip-hop artists are supporting a legal effort to stop the execution of a Texas death row inmate whose rap lyrics were introduced as evidence during his sentencing. Rappers including Fat Joe, Killer Mike, T.I., Young Thug and N.O.R.E. have joined calls for the Supreme Court of the United States to halt the execution…
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A Georgia criminal defense attorney is urging parents to equip teenage drivers with dashboard cameras, citing the growing legal importance of recorded evidence during interactions with law enforcement. Stephanie R. Lindsey, an Atlanta-based lawyer who shares legal insights on social media under the handle @attorneystephanie, raised the issue in an Instagram post following the circulation…
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Legislation introduced by Jasmine Clark is drawing attention from legal scholars, law enforcement officials, and civil liberties advocates as it advances through the Georgia House of Representatives. Known informally as the “Aroma Bill,” House Bill 496 (HB 496) proposes to significantly restrict police authority to conduct searches or arrests based solely on the odor of…
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A federal court filing alleges that U.S. immigration authorities knowingly violated a 2022 consent decree by detaining and deporting dozens—if not hundreds—of immigrants during large-scale enforcement operations in the Chicago area, even after acknowledging some arrests were unlawful. The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), which represents affected individuals, claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) failed…
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In a novel legal challenge targeting artificial intelligence, Nippon Life Insurance Company has filed suit against OpenAI, alleging that its ChatGPT chatbot effectively practiced law without a license, misled an Illinois woman into abandoning her attorney, and generated fabricated case law that prolonged baseless litigation. The dispute stems from a 2019 workplace injury claim by…
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In a significant setback for the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, a divided U.S. appeals court has upheld protections for over 350,000 Haitians living in the United States, ruling that the government cannot revoke their Temporary Protected Status (TPS) amid ongoing crises in Haiti. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in…
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Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that Google and its subsidiary YouTube are facilitating — and profiting from — an international misinformation operation that uses artificial intelligence to defame Black public figures and mislead the public. In a statement and accompanying press remarks, Crump…
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Long before Brown v. Board of Education dismantled legal segregation in American public schools, Black lawyers were already fighting — and losing — in courtrooms across the United States. Those losses were not failures of vision or competence. They were deliberate steps in a long legal campaign that used the judiciary itself to expose the…
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