#federal-judiciary

#federal-judiciary

In response to an inquiry from a complainant, The Florida Bar wrote a letter to the complainant erroneously stating that there is a pending Bar investigation of member Lindsay Halligan. There is no such pending Bar investigation of Lindsay Halligan. In this case, The Florida Bar received a complaint against Lindsay Halligan and, consistent with standard practice, the Bar is monitoring the ongoing legal proceedings underlying the complaint.

After Coughenour ruled Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship to be blatantly unconstitutional, the judge said the threats started pouring in. Coughenour told a story about being confronted by five sheriff's deputies with long rifles who were called to his home on a tip he had murdered his wife. It was a cruel hoax, Whitaker said, adding that the next day, Coughenour received a bomb threat.

If there's one figure in American history who would not stand for any of the present nonsense, it'd be Thomas Paine. The revolutionary pamphleteer hated the idea of monarchs trampling on people behind the veil of absolute immunity so much that he followed up the American Revolution by rolling over to France and getting elected to the revolutionary government without knowing how to speak French.

A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from laying off more government employees, after the administration had already pushed to cut thousands of workers during the U.S. government shutdown. Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. district court's northern district in California made the ruling. The judge's ruling comes after a number of unions argued the firings would be illegal and motivated by political retribution, according to The New York Times.