All posts tagged "Judiciary"

Senate Republicans slashed language from the House version of President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that would have given him the powers of a monarch who could simply bypass the courts if they tried to stop him from pursuing his policy ambitions, according to a report in HuffPost.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released his committee's changes to the judicial section late Thursday night. Notably absent was a "jarring, one-sentence provision that House Republicans buried in their 1,116-page bill," according to HuffPost.

The provision in question "would restrict the ability of any court, including the Supreme Court, to enforce compliance with its orders by holding people in contempt."...

President Donald Trump is being warned that he "chose the wrong targets" when he went after the powerful Federalist Society and its co-founder as part of his war on judges who refuse to bend to his will, according to a political science professor writing for MSNBC.

The Federalist Society and co-founder Leonard Leo helped Trump choose Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett during his first term.

But on Truth Social last week, Trump called Leo a “sleazebag” and “a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America," while he blamed the Federalist Society for “the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations.”...

Part of how political activists move their "dark" money is by using public charities and donor-advised funds, according to a recent report.

The subject of the report is Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society leader who has organized or bankrolled conservative efforts to take over the judicial system. Leo—who has also helped former President Donald Trump select judicial nominees—also reportedly arranged for Clarence Thomas' wife Ginni to receive tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work, all while intentionally keeping her name off the paperwork.

But how does Leo's money move? One way is by using an independent 501(c)(3) public charity, such as Schwab Charitable, according to Dan Petegorsky, who works on the Emergency Charity Stimulus project at the Institute for Policy Studies....

Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets against President Jair Bolsonaro's coronavirus policies on Saturday after the Supreme Court allowed investigations to be opened into Bolsonaro over corruption allegations related to vaccine orders. In more than 110 cities in Brazil, demonstrators also called for an accelerated vaccine campaign, the Brazilian news portal G1 reported. The protests were originally planned for July 24, but organizers called for them to take place earlier in light of the allegations. Judge Rosa Weber granted a request by the Attorney General's Office to look into corrupti......

A team of French investigative judges on Monday started questioning former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn in Beirut over suspicions of financial misconduct, a judicial source said. The questioning is taking place at the Lebanese Justice Palace, where most court hearings are held, and is scheduled to take five days, the source said without elaborating. The source added that the interrogation took place in the presence of a Lebanese prosecutor and Ghosn's defence team, which includes French lawyers. According to the source, Ghosn will be also questioned about certain lavish parties that he hel......

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is writing apology letters to the families of victims killed by the British army in Belfast nearly five decades ago. Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, Brandon Lewis, said the government "profoundly regrets" and is "truly sorry" about what happened during the Ballymurphy massacre in August 1971 and "how investigations after these terrible events were handled," in a speech given in British Parliament on Thursday. "The prime minister is writing personally to the families and expressed his deep regret to the first and deputy first Ministers of Northern Irel......