“There was a perfectly good reason nobody saw [Trump’s victory] coming: because a three-point lead for Harris in deep-red Iowa was not reality,” Trump’s lawsuit alleges. “It was election-interfering fiction.”
Although U.S. law gives the federal government the authority to make determinations about immigrants’ legal presence, U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor said that it does not “[allow] the agency to circumvent congressional authority and redefine the term ‘lawfully present.’”
“We’ve been preparing for a mass detention and deportation agenda for the last nine months,” said A.C.L.U. senior staff attorney Kyle Virgien. “Now that Trump is the president-elect, it’s become apparent that this is a fight that we’re going to need to have.”
Former wrestling announcer Melvin Phillips, Jr., the lawsuit says, never stopped abusing children—yet was never subjected to further discipline by Linda and Vince McMahon, who allegedly knew, or should have known, that Phillips was continuing to prey on young boys.
“The harms that the State of Missouri anticipates are speculative,” federal Judge Sarah Pitlyk wrote, rejecting the state’s request to bar Department of Justice monitors from visiting Missouri election sites.
“Congress adopted the National Voter Registration Act’s quiet period restriction to prevent error-prone, eleventh-hour efforts that all too often disenfranchise qualified voters,” Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kristen Clarke said in a statement. “The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy and the Justice Department will continue to ensure that the rights of qualified voters are protected.”
“As Election Day approaches, it is critical that Alabama redress voter confusion resulting from its list maintenance mailings sent in violation of federal law,” the Justice Department said in a statement. “Officials across the country should take heed of the National Voter Registration Act’s clear and unequivocal restrictions on systematic list maintenance efforts that fall within 90 days of an election.”
A woman has filed a lawsuit against California state Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil, claiming that the senator ordered her out of a Stanislaus County press conference earlier this June. According to CBS News, the complaint was filed on behalf of plaintiff Kelly Coelho, who is seeking an estimated $5 million in damages. Attorneys for Coelho say
“The Department of Justice has entirely blocked our path to trial,” said 20-year-old plaintiff Sahara Valentine. “It’s really important to us that we get a fair say in court.”
“We successfully halted their first two illegal student loan cancellation schemes,” Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said in a statement. “I have no doubt we will secure yet another win to block the third one.”