Dhillon’s memo says the #DOJ *respects* the jury’s verdict & that the conviction means Hankison will probably never be able to serve as a police officer or own a firearm. [unless of course #Trump pardons him]

#law#BlackLivesMatter#BLM#WhiteSupremacy #racism

In Nov, a federal #jury found Brett Hankison, the #Louisville #police officer, #guilty of violating #BreonnaTaylor’s #CivilRights during a March 2020 police raid in which she was fatally shot, becoming the first officer directly involved in the case to be convicted on #criminal charges.
Hankison faced a maximum sentence of life in prison.

#law#BlackLivesMatter#BLM#WhiteSupremacy #racism

Breaking with standard protocol, the memo was not signed by any career prosecutors but by Robert J. Keenan, a senior counsel to the #CivilRights division who was not part of the original prosecution team, & Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the division who was appointed under the #Trump admin.

#BreonnaTaylor #law#BlackLivesMatter#BLM#WhiteSupremacy #racism

The #Trump#DOJ requested that a #Louisville police officer #convicted in connection with a raid that resulted in #BreonnaTaylor’s death serve just one day in prison. In an unusual sentencing memo, the #FederalGovernment suggested to a #judge that the #Biden admin should not have prosecuted the officer on #CivilRights charges.

#law#BlackLivesMatter#BLM#WhiteSupremacy #racism

WTAF?!?

#Trump#DOJ seeks ONE-DAY sentence for officer in raid that killed #BreonnaTaylor
In November, a federal jury found officer Brett Hankison #guilty of violating Taylor’s #CivilRights during a March 2020 #police raid in which she was fatally shot.
#law#BlackLivesMatter#BLM#WhiteSupremacy #racism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/17/doj-sentencing-police-officer-breonna-taylor/

Landmark ruling - Latin America’s highest human rights court found countries there are legally obliged to protect people from climate harms. This obligation includes tougher govt regulations for fossil fuel extraction
#climatechange #environment #law
#auspol has no such law

https://theconversation.com/a-top-court-has-urged-nations-to-clamp-down-on-fossil-fuel-production-when-will-australia-finally-start-listening-259996

#RuleOfLaw#TrumpRegime#NationalSecurityThreat#ObstructionOfUSGovernment#14thAmendmentSection3#18USCSection2383#Law#Justice#Accountability#DueProcess#WeThePeople#WeCare#RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity#StrongerTogether

Utah Sen. Mike Lee Says Selling Off Public Lands Will Solve the West’s Housing Crisis. Past Sales Show Otherwise.
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Last month, Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did little to address the challenges of building affordable housing on public land.
https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-mike-lee-public-lands-sell-off?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Utah#Housing#PublicLands#Conservation#Law

Federal #immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as 6 hours notice to countries not their own even if ofcls have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from #persecution or #torture….
#Trump #law #rendition
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/12/immigrants-deportations-trump-ice-memo/

A federal judge blocked the #Trump admin on Friday from making indiscriminate #immigration arrests in the #LosAngeles area & denying detainees the right to consult with a lawyer.…

The California judge granted 2 TROs in response to a lawsuit filed last week by immigrant advocacy groups. A fuller hearing is expected in the coming weeks, but the initial rulings represent a sharp rebuke of the tactics that federal agents have employed in & around #LA….

#law#ICE#Gestapo
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/immigration-raids-judge-injunction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

…Mark Rosenbaum, a lawyer with #PublicCounsel, said, “The order reflects there is something very wrong when the federal government goes to war against an American city & ignores the #Constitution.” He added, “Hopefully this ends the actions of the government rounding up carwash workers & other hardworking people like they were domestic terrorists.”

#law #immigration#DueProcess#CivilRights#Judiciary#Trump#ICE#Gestapo#AbuseOfPower #tyranny

The ruling remains in place for 10 days. A coalition of #CivilRights groups, led by the #ACLU of Southern California & the nonprofit #PublicCounsel, is seeking a more durable order, known as a preliminary #injunction.

…During a hearing Thurs, the judge was skeptical about the govt’s assertions that it was not violating people’s constitutional rights & that agents were stopping #immigrants based on “the totality of circumstances,”rather than relying on race.

#law #immigration#Trump#Gestapo

“What the federal government would have this Court believe — in the face of a mountain of evidence presented in this case — is that none of this is actually happening,” the judge wrote.

She said that “roving patrols” without reasonable suspicion violated the #FourthAmendment of the #Constitution & that denying access to lawyers violated the #FifthAmendment.

#law #immigration#DueProcess#CivilRights#Judiciary#Trump#Gestapo#AbuseOfPower #tyranny

A #California #farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when #US #immigration agents raided a cannabis operation & arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group.

Dozens of #ImmigrantRights activists faced off w/ #federal agents in rural Southern California on Thursday. It was the latest escalation of #Trump's campaign for #MassDeportations of immigrants in the US.

#law#HumanRights#ICE#Gestapo#PoliceBrutality
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/one-california-worker-dead-hundreds-arrested-after-cannabis-farm-raid-2025-07-11/

In the orders, the judge, Maame E. Frimpong of the US District Court for the Central District of #California, directed agents to stop #RacialProfiling in the course of seeking out #immigrants, & mandated that the #federal government, which has deployed hundreds of agents from #ICE & other agencies in #LosAngeles County, ensure detainees have access to legal counsel.

#law#Constitution #immigration#DueProcess#CivilRights#Judiciary#Trump#Gestapo#AbuseOfPower #tyranny

US #citizens were detained during the #raid & some are still unaccounted for, Strater said.

Some citizen workers who were detained reported only being released from custody after deleting photos & videos of the raid from their phones, said #UFW President Teresa Romero in a statement.

#law #immigration#HumanRights#ICE#Trump#Gestapo#PoliceBrutality

The scene at the #farm on Thursday was chaotic, with #federal agents wearing helmets & face #masks using #TearGas & smoke cannisters on #protesters, according to photos & videos of the scene.

Several #farmworkers were injured & one died on Friday from injuries sustained after a 30-foot fall from a building during the #raid, said Elizabeth Strater, national vice president of the #UnitedFarmWorkers.

#law #immigration#HumanRights#ICE#Trump#Gestapo#PoliceBrutality