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Trump threatens trouble for Argentina if Milei loses midterms www.courthousenews.com/trump-threat...

Trump threatens trouble for Argentina if Milei loses midterms

One week after a $20 billion bailout, the Trump administration warned it would stop supporting Argentina if President Javier Milei's party loses the upcoming midterm elections.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 5h

News: Trump declares Oct 14 “National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk,” calling him a Christian martyr

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 5h

Embattled San Mateo County sheriff ousted by Board of Supervisors @mhattridge.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/embattled-sa...

Embattled San Mateo County sheriff ousted by Board of Supervisors

This is the first time a California Board of Supervisors has voted to remove a sheriff.

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 6h

More than six years after pitcher Tyler Skaggs died alone from a drug overdose, attorneys for his family finally got the chance to tell a jury the Los Angeles Angels are to blame for allowing a drug-dealing employee to remain in his job. www.courthousenews.com/jury-hears-f...

Jury hears family of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs blame team for OD death

Attorneys for Skaggs' family say Angels officials knew of their drug-dealing communication director's opioid problem because he begged them for help following a 2013 incident in the Yankee Stadium pre...

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 6h

Maine Governor Janet Mills enters Senate race, tees up intraparty battle www.courthousenews.com/maine-govern...

Maine Governor Janet Mills enters Senate race, tees up intraparty battle

In a must-win state for Democrats’ hopes of flipping the Senate, a 77-year-old recruited by Chuck Schumer faces a primary battle against a much younger progressive rival.

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 6h

Two weeks on, Congress remains at a shutdown standstill @benjaminweiss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/two-weeks-on...

Two weeks on, Congress remains at a shutdown standstill

Democratic and Republican leaders both appeared largely unwilling to moderate their demands to reopen the government, even as services contract and the White House liquidates the federal workforce.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 7h

“Whenever lower courts are deciding issues of federal law and this court cannot step in, then this court ceases to be the Supreme Court,” said Andrew Adler, a Florida public defender. "The courts of appeals then become their own mini supreme courts." www.courthousenews.com/relief-for-f...

Relief for federal prisoners has justices asking if they’re always supreme

A complex jurisdictional fight was further complicated as the high court considered if Congress could prevent the justices from reviewing lower court decisions.

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Relief for federal prisoners has justices asking if they’re always supreme

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Relief for federal prisoners has justices asking if they’re always supreme

A complex jurisdictional fight was further complicated as the high court considered if Congress could prevent the justices from reviewing lower court decisions.

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 7h

Immigration detainees make up one-fifth of arrests in Memphis surge www.courthousenews.com/immigration-...

Immigration detainees make up one-fifth of arrests in Memphis surge

A multiagency task force is focused on hard crime but has also swept up immigrants for minor infractions.

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 7h

A Florida man convicted under a defunct statute warned the Supreme Court on Tuesday that foreclosing his appeal would also limit the justices’ authority to rein supreme over federal law. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/relief-for-f...

Relief for federal prisoners has justices asking if they’re always supreme

A complex jurisdictional fight was further complicated as the high court considered if Congress could prevent the justices from reviewing lower court decisions.

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 7h

@benjaminweiss.bsky.social told @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social that, despite claims otherwise, Judge Boasberg has been assigned Trump cases at a similar rate as other jurists on the D.C. federal bench.

@sidebarcns.bsky.social on SCOTUS' shadow docket and more: open.spotify.com/show/0hP2TEY...

The Shadow Docket

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 7h

"The Trump Roller Coaster is still taking us for a ride, almost every day," Editor Bill Girdner writes. www.courthousenews.com/agent-of-cha...

Agent of chaos

The Chinese flex, the U.S. tacos, Danes buy warplanes, Afghans kill Pakistanis, and the U.S. secretly helps Ukraine blow up Russian oil depots and refineries. Chaos cometh.

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 7h

“Most recently, the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told @benjaminweiss.bsky.social. www.courthousenews.com/speaker-john...

Speaker Johnson dismisses congressional scrutiny as federal agents crack down on protesters

Though federal agents in Chicago and Portland have been filmed shooting faith leaders with pepper balls, tear gassing local law enforcement and arresting journalists, the top House Republican blamed “...

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 8h

DC Circuit debates remedy for Trump termination of immigrant legal aid @ryanknappy.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-d...

DC Circuit debates remedy for Trump termination of immigrant legal aid

Tuesday's arguments centered on the January termination of the Legal Orientation Program, which provided legal advice to detained, non-detained and unaccompanied minor immigrants during their court pr...

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 8h

Kaiser health care workers strike for better wages www.courthousenews.com/kaiser-healt...

Kaiser health care workers strike for better wages

Thousands of Kaiser employees in California, Oregon and Hawaii organized a four-day work stoppage after negotiations for higher pay and other demands stagnated.

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The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to take on a suit from a group of parents who say a Colorado school district discouraged staff from disclosing student struggles with gender dysphoria to their parents. www.courthousenews.com/parents-who-...

Parents who claim school LGBTQ club turned their kids trans denied Supreme Court redo

Three conservative justices warned that federal courts will no longer be able to avoid confronting a growing amount of parent concerns.

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 8h

Travel nurses secure $4.4M settlement over unpaid wage claims www.courthousenews.com/travel-nurse...

Travel nurses secure $4.4M settlement over unpaid wage claims

A three-year legal battle has ended with payouts to more than 2,300 travel nurses.

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 9h

Billions in frozen EU funds for Hungary are back in the spotlight, as lawyers and bloc officials clashed Tuesday before Europe’s top court over whether Brussels moved too fast to unlock the money despite lingering concerns about judicial independence. www.courthousenews.com/billions-han...

Billions hang in balance as EU court tests Hungary’s judicial reforms

Judges at Europe’s top court heard a tense showdown between EU lawmakers and the European Commission over whether Brussels moved too soon in unfreezing billions in aid for Hungary, as both sides clash...

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 10h

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review cases concerning a juror’s pretrial lies in a death penalty case and the Seventh Amendment’s enforceability against states. www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Supreme Court punts on questions involving juries

Two very different questions involving juries won't be answered by the U.S. Supreme Court this term.

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Benjamin S. Weiss @benjaminweiss.bsky.social · 10h

Republican leaders in Congress have not seen enough evidence to justify an investigation into how federal law enforcement is treating protesters amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, Speaker Johnson told me Tuesday. @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/speaker-john...