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Federal judge halts Trump’s firings, but can’t mandate back pay
October 29, 2025President can’t arbitrarily fire federal workers during shutdown, judge rules
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Judge bans use of National Guard in Chicago for two weeks
October 10, 2025Court agrees that there is no sign of insurrection in the city as claimed by the Trump administration
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What one man’s 45-year-old case tells us about the ‘Jim Crow Juries’ haunting Louisiana
September 12, 2025Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in the 1980s Louisiana, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life, despite two Black jurors voting not guilty.
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New York City court system faces shutdown as legal aid attorneys OK strike
July 1, 2025“After decades of wages that don’t keep up with inflation, we’re done being priced out of the job we love.”
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Labor and community unite behind N.J. lawmaker charged by ICE
June 30, 2025They demand that the Trump administration drop false charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver, who they note is guilty of nothing more than exercising her right to oversee an ICE facility.
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