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New York Attorney General Letitia James is under scrutiny after a formal ethics complaint was filed with the New York State Unified Court System’s Committee on Professional Standards, following a criminal referral issued by Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director William Pulte. The complaint, submitted by conservative legal advocacy group America First Legal (AFL), accuses…
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has opened a preliminary investigation into potential insider trading involving individuals in President Donald Trump’s orbit, expanding her office’s already extensive legal scrutiny of the former president and his administration. According to Business Insider, the inquiry centers on unusual trading activity that occurred shortly before a social media post…
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Rapper Kanye West and his wife, Bianca Censori, have initiated legal action against Beverly Hills-based celebrity dentist Dr. Thomas Connelly, alleging a wide-ranging pattern of medical malpractice, including the improper administration of nitrous oxide, fraudulent billing practices, and the unsupervised use of the sedative propofol, according to a notice of intent to litigate filed by…
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More than 700 partners from top U.S. law firms have joined forces in a legal brief supporting Susman Godfrey LLP in its constitutional challenge against the Trump administration. The unprecedented show of solidarity, submitted Friday by the group Law Firm Partners United (LFPU), argues that a recent executive order targeting Susman Godfrey violates multiple constitutional…
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In 1918, A Young Pregnant Woman Was Lynched By A White Mob For Demanding Justice – This Is Her Story
The brutal 1918 lynching of Mary Turner, a young Black woman in Lowndes County, Georgia, stands as one of the most egregious failures of the American legal system to protect its citizens or enforce justice. More than a century later, her murder remains a powerful symbol of how state and local authorities allowed racial violence…
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A Massachusetts woman is speaking out after a dramatic encounter with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents ended with her and her husband being forcibly removed from their car — despite their attorney advising them to wait for legal counsel. Last Monday, Marilu Mendez and her husband, Juan Mendez, were driving along Tallman Street…
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The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is sounding the alarm over a series of new executive orders issued by the Trump administration. The respected organization is calling the new EOs a direct attack on decades of hard-fought civil rights protections. Legal experts from the organization have sharply criticized the measures, which they say…
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A family of four undocumented immigrants who attempted to seek asylum in Canada is now facing deportation proceedings in the United States. They have been detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Rainbow Bridge crossing in Niagara Falls, New York. Aracely, a mother from El Salvador who asked to be identified…
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Former U.S. Representative George Santos, once a rising figure in Republican politics, was sentenced Friday to 87 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to multiple fraud charges tied to his 2022 congressional campaign. The ruling marks a dramatic fall for the ex-lawmaker, who was expelled from Congress in 2023 amid growing legal and ethical…
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A Nigerian doctoral student at the University of South Carolina is suing the federal government after his F1 student visa was abruptly revoked earlier this month, a move he alleges violates his constitutional right to due process. Matthew Ariwoola, a PhD candidate in chemistry who has been in the U.S. since 2021, was just months…
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