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New Banksy!
Titled "Royal Courts Of Justice. London.” this one is on the outside of the Royal Courts of Justice, in London. Naturally.
It shows a protester lying on the ground holding a blood-splattered placard while a judge in a traditional wig and black gown beats him with a gavel.
Hands up anyone who can't see a connection to the foolish proscribing of Palestine Action.
Authorities are not amused. Police are investigating the mural as potential “criminal damage” and it will be destroyed, soon.
Sure it's a listed building. But what the people in power hate the most is the fact that it takes the piss out of the judiciary and criticises the misuse of law to define anyone opposing genocide and supporting Palestine Action as terrorists.
New Banksy!
Titled "Royal Courts Of Justice. London.” this one is on the outside of the Royal Courts of Justice, in London. Naturally.
It shows a protester lying on the ground holding a blood-splattered placard while a judge in a traditional wig and black gown beats him with a gavel.
Hands up anyone who can't see a connection to the foolish proscribing of Palestine Action.
Authorities are not amused. Police are investigating the mural as potential “criminal damage” and it will be destroyed, soon.
Sure it's a listed building. But what the people in power hate the most is the fact that it takes the piss out of the judiciary and criticises the misuse of law to define anyone opposing genocide and supporting Palestine Action as terrorists.
The admin deported people it designated as Tren de Aragua members to a notorious prison in #ElSalvador where, it argued, #US #courts could not order them freed.
In a deal announced in July, more than 250 of the deported immigrants returned to #Venezuela.
The #AlienEnemiesAct was only used 3 times before in US history, all during declared #wars — in the War of 1812 & the two World Wars.
#Trump #law#ImmigrationLaw #immigration#5thCircuit#AbuseOfPower#Constitution#DueProcess #rendition
The admin deported people it designated as Tren de Aragua members to a notorious prison in #ElSalvador where, it argued, #US #courts could not order them freed.
In a deal announced in July, more than 250 of the deported immigrants returned to #Venezuela.
The #AlienEnemiesAct was only used 3 times before in US history, all during declared #wars — in the War of 1812 & the two World Wars.
#Trump #law#ImmigrationLaw #immigration#5thCircuit#AbuseOfPower#Constitution#DueProcess #rendition
What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana
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Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the only two Black jurors had voted not guilty.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lloyd-gray-louisiana-split-juries-history?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
As a body, the US Catholic bishops worked feverishly to stack the court with the right-wing Catholic cabal now controlling it, and are very happy with what they have gotten, especially after Roe v. Wade was knocked down. I refuse to take anything seriously that almost any Catholic bishop in the US says now about democracy or human rights.
#SupremeCourt #democracy#VotingRights#CivilRights#JohnRoberts#Texas #gerrymandering#EconomicElites
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"This isn’t justice. It’s a monarchy cloaked in law, where the courts no longer check power but serve as executioners for Trump’s political vengeance — and we’re all witnesses expected to cheer."
~ Michael Cohen
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: #Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
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We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before #Trump took office.
#ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
#News#Government #HumanRights #Police#Courts#Politics
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/
"And that is something no president in 200 years has ever thought. The tariff power goes all the way back to the Revolutionary War &… the protests in the Boston Tea Party & the like," #Katyal said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
"And our #Constitution was very clear in saying…there's one branch that has the #power to tariff & it isn't the president & it isn't the #courts. It's the #Congress of the #UnitedStates," Katyal said.
The case, known as V.O.S. Selections v. Trump, centers on whether #Trump exceeded his #authority by invoking an emergency-powers #law to impose a slew of far-reaching tariff policies.
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: #Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
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We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before #Trump took office.
#ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
#News#Government #HumanRights #Police#Courts#Politics
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/
A U.S. federal judge in Massachusetts has ruled that a nationwide injunction that blocked President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship should remain in place. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/26/world/crime-legal/trump-birthright-citizenship-injunction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #courts #donaldtrump #immigration
Such situations have prompted some former #judges to do something most generally do not—speak out. More than two dozen retired judges appointed by Republican & Democratic presidents have formed the #ArticleIII Coalition to push back on attacks & #disinformation about the #courts.
#Trump #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower
Such situations have prompted some former #judges to do something most generally do not—speak out. More than two dozen retired judges appointed by Republican & Democratic presidents have formed the #ArticleIII Coalition to push back on attacks & #disinformation about the #courts.
#Trump #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower
“This is not the first time the court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last,” #Sotomayor wrote. “Yet each time this court rewards noncompliance with discretionary relief, it further erodes respect for #courts & for the rule of #law.”
#Trump#SCOTUS #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower
The #SCOTUS June decision to scale back the ability of lower #courts to issue #NationwideInjunctions, & the administration’s success at persuading the justices to overturn about a dozen temporary blocks on its agenda in recent months, might only embolden #Trump officials to defy lower courts, several #legal experts said.
#law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower
If the Court of Justice of the European Union is, as is often argued, the most powerful international court the world has seen, why is serious resistance against it not more commonplace?
This is the question I ask in my PhD thesis, which I successfully defended at the #EUI last Friday. Today it has been made available open access through the university repository!
https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/76659
#CJEU #politicalscience #judicialpolitics#law #courts#Europe #EUlaw #ECJ
@politicalscience @law
"The arrest of a sitting state Judge Hannah Dugan outside of her courthouse was a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s two-pronged attack on the judiciary and sanctuary jurisdictions."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump#ICE #immigrants #courts #judges#HannahDugan #sanctuary
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/judges-are-starting-to-catch-on-to
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