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NEW: The administration is defying Congress on foreign aid that Trump himself agreed to spend.

“It is a huge grab of power from the president, taking powers away from Congress,” said David Super, a leading scholar on administrative and constitutional law.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defying-congress-foreign-aid-usaid-vought-rubio-constitutional-crisis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Law #Congress #Trump #USPolitics #MarcoRubio #Constitution #PublicHealth

NEW on our “Paper Trail” podcast:
From behind bars, April Wilkens successfully advocated for a new law offering domestic violence survivors like herself a chance at freedom if they could prove abuse contributed to their crimes. But that wasn’t the end of the story.

Listen to the full episode: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/oklahoma-domestic-violence-survivors-april-wilkens?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Podcast #News #DomesticViolence #Abuse #Women #Prison #Crime #Law #Oklahoma #CriminalJustice

NEW: Court Inquiry Denounces “Disturbing Pattern” of Violations at Arizona’s Largest Sheriff’s Office

A court inquiry alleges that top leaders at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office undermined efforts to comply with mandated reforms brought on by a long-running racial profiling lawsuit and settlement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-arizona-sheriff-deputy-misconduct-reforms-undermined?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Arizona #MaricopaCounty #Phoenix #Police #Law #Racism #AZ

Guys, they sentenced one of the Prairieland protestors to a HUNDRED YEARS in federal prison. Others got 50-70 YEARS.

The longest J6 sentence was 22 years, by comparison. This is a huge threat to everyone’s ‘freedom of speech.’ What a fucking nightmare. #antifa #prairieland #law

Support people on the ground: @dfwsupportcommittee

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced

NEW: A Minnesota home seller has been found liable for violating state laws in a "contract-for-deed" home financing scheme that targeted East African Muslims in Minneapolis with deceptive real estate deals marketed as “sharia compliant.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-jury-predatory-home-financing-chadwick-banken-contract-for-deed?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Minnesota #Minneapolis #Muslim #Home #Housing #Law

This admin is a damn joke

The #FBI Director Is MIA

#KashPatel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking & unexplained absences.

#GiftArticle

#Trump #law #NationalSecurity
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxRj40bt5Tcdpsjr9rTdgd3Q

NEW: Oregon Leaders Are Trying to Save the Deschutes River. Here’s Why That’s So Hard.

By law, one irrigation district has rights to most of the water from the Deschutes, forcing farmers to fallow their land in times of scarcity. Oregon has pushed three main solutions to deliver water more efficiently and sustainably.
https://www.propublica.org/article/deschutes-river-oregon-solutions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oregon #River #Water #Farming #Agriculture #Law #Government

NEW: OPB and ProPublica found that water from one of Oregon’s most iconic rivers, the Deschutes, is largely given away to wealthy landowners who are turning the high desert green with lush pastures and landscaping.

https://www.propublica.org/article/deschutes-river-oregon-water-rights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oregon #Farming #Agriculture #Water #River #Drought #Law

美國推「電腦系統年齡驗證」新法案 安裝 Windows, macOS 都要查用家年齡
美國眾議院在 2026 年 4 月 13 日正式提交《家長決定法案》（Parents Decide Act，H […]
#流動電腦 #Linux #Parents Decide Act #windows
https://unwire.hk/2026/04/19/parents-decide-act-os-age-verification/notebook/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=parents-decide-act-os-age-verification

NEW: Former Louisiana death row inmate Jimmie “Chris” Duncan, convicted based in part on forensic evidence now widely regarded as junk science, is officially a free man.

“I am flooded with relief,” one of his lawyers said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-death-row-prisoner-freed-jimmie-duncan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Louisiana #CriminalJustice #Prison #Law #Justice #Crime

NEW: Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty

Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight decades.
https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-death-penalty-executions-ron-desantis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Florida #Law #Prison #DeathPenalty #RonDeSantis #CriminalJustice #Legal

NEW - “That Guy Is Still Out There”: Alice Sebold, the Wrong Man and Syracuse’s Buried Rape Crisis

Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alice-sebold-anthony-broadwater-rape-exoneration-syracuse?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #AliceSebold #Rape #SexualAssault #Syracuse #Crime #Law

Adrian Carrasquillo: #tRump Lost on #Birthright Citizenship. But He’s Winning the #Immigration Wars. #SCOTUS rejected his brazen constitutional gambit—but cleared the way for potentially the largest revocation of legal immigration status in #American history.

#law
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-lost-on-birthright-citizenship-but-winning-immigration-wars

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NEW: Following reporting by WBUR and ProPublica, Gov. Maura Healey has pledged to sign a bill into law ensuring that Massachusetts will no longer have one of the strictest rape prosecution deadlines in the country.

https://www.propublica.org/article/rape-statute-limitations-dna-evidence-massachusetts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Massachusetts #SexualAssault #Rape #Law #Crime #Women #DNA

“A Punch in the Gut”: After Years of Waiting, Many Opioid Victims Will Be Shut Out of Purdue Settlement
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Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against the company for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/purdue-settlement-leaves-opioid-victims-behind?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Health #Medicine #Drugs #Law #Legal #Pain #ChronicPain

Critics claim large solar farms are a public health threat.

Despite little reputable evidence for this, their fears have helped undercut efforts across the U.S. to broaden energy sources, slowing installations even as customer costs are rising.
https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-solar-farms-health-concerns-st-clair-county?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Solar #Energy #Health #Michigan #Local #Law #PublicHealth

NEW - A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification

ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/supreme-court-shadow-docket-rulings-milestone?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #SCOTUS #Law #SupremeCourt #Legal #Trump #Data #Research

#Iran foreign minister left Islamabad without meeting #US envoys, Pakistan officials say. Can you blame him? The US “envoys” were Steve #Witkoff & Jared #Kushner ffs.

#IranWar #TrumpsWar #Trump #MafiaState #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-04-25-2026

Following our reporting, Connecticut legislators overhauled the state’s towing law last year to make it more fair for low-income residents who couldn’t afford the fees to get their cars back.

But we found that some towing companies aren’t following the new rules.
https://www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-towing-companies-ignore-new-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Connecticut #Towing #Cars #Law #Poverty #Housing #Landlords

A limited-government advocate in Texas persuaded five small towns to incorporate as “liberty cities,” which feature lean governments, little to no taxation and scant regulation.

At least two of them struggle to provide basic services.
https://www.propublica.org/article/art-martinez-de-vara-dallas-hero-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Dallas #Police #Law #Government #USPolitics

NEW: These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.

A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the first Trump presidency.
https://www.propublica.org/article/unaccompanied-minors-deportations-elder-chavez?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Immigration #ICE #Immigrants #Trump #Children #USPolitics #Law

Brian Tracey died of pneumonia while being held at a Florida jail.

The jail’s healthcare provider is affiliated with Armor Health companies, which have a history of delaying or denying care to inmates across the country, lawsuits allege.
https://www.propublica.org/article/armor-health-florida-jail-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Florida #Healthcare #Prison #Law #Health #CriminalJustice

NEW: Last year, the Trump DOJ dropped its oversight of troubled police departments in several cities, claiming the reform efforts were “factually unjustified.”

But officers continued to engage in the same abuses, per a new ACLU report.
https://www.propublica.org/article/aclu-trump-police-reform-doj-minneapolis-louisville-phoenix-memphis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DOJ #Trump #Law #Police #Reform #Oversight #ACLU

Complaints of immigration scams have doubled in Trump's second term, and countless victims don't report that they've been conned.

Sophisticated predators now use AI and targeted ads to profit off of immigrants' anxieties about mass deportations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-scams-complaints-doubled-ice?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Immigration #Trump #Immigrant #Deportation #Scam #Law

NEW: Authorities say former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime hired Tren de Aragua to kidnap a dissident who had taken refuge in Chile.

The suspected mastermind, Diosdado Cabello, remains powerful in the new U.S.-backed government in Caracas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chile-suspects-venezuela-cabello-killing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Venezuela #Chile #Law #Crime #Politics #Geopolitics #Trump #Maduro