“My efforts to protect federal employees generally, & whistleblowers in particular, from #unlawful treatment will continue,” Dellinger added.

…Judge #AmyBermanJackson had previously ordered Dellinger reinstated temporarily while she considered arguments from both sides. An appeals court rejected the #Trump admin’s emergency appeal of that order, prompting the admin to ask #SCOTUS to intervene. The justices delayed ruling on the admin’s request so that Jackson could hold a hearing w/the parties.

#CivilRights advocates & the plaintiffs argue the #law is meant to level the playing field, counter #discrimination & boost opportunity for people who have historically experienced discrimination. Work promoting #diversity, #equity & #inclusion furthers the law’s intent.

But under #Trump’s interpretation, these efforts are seen as #unlawful discrimination themselves because they consider #race. It relies in part on the 2023 #SCOTUS decision outlawing race consideration in college admissions.

“This Letter is an #unlawful attempt by the Department to impose this administration’s particular views of how #schools should operate as if it were the #law,” the suit says.

The letter & the lawsuit represent polar opposite interpretations of the 1964 #CivilRights Act, which bars #discrimination on the basis of #race in federally funded programs.

“But that optimism doesn’t extend to the consequences of removing the #military’s top judge advocates general [#JAG], the senior military professionals who interpret & enforce the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the rules that guide troops in the field. They have the independent #legal authority to tell any military commander or political appointee that an order from the #president or the secretary of #defense is #unlawful, cannot be given & should not be obeyed.”

"#Unlawful": #Experts say #Trump-backed #New #electionboard #rules in #Georgia threaten to "#disrupt" #Vote #count

But #Georgia's #Republican #AttorneyGeneral effectively "provided a #roadmap" to #challenge new #rules in #court.

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/26/unlawful-experts-say-backed-georgia-board-rules-threaten-to-disrupt-count/

That left #ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts in control of the outcome. He LINGERED over the choice…. Ultimately, he sided w/the 4 conservatives in an opinion that he wrote but that was issued unsigned. Justice #AmyConeyBarrett & the 3 #liberals wrote concurrences saying the majority had gone TOO FAR.

#ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts responded by deploying his #authority to STEER RULINGS that BENEFITED #Trump, acc/to a NYT examination that uncovered extensive new info about the court’s decision making.

[#JFC that’s it. #DisbandSCOTUS ]

The #ChiefJustice’s Feb 22 memo, jump-starting the justices’ formal discussion on whether to hear the case, offered a scathing critique of a lower-court decision & a startling preview of how the high court would later rule, acc/to several people from the court who saw the document.

…As special counsel for the #DOJ’s #CivilRights division during the #Obama admin, Emily Gunston led a 13-month probe into alleged abuses w/in the #Chicago PD. The admin had ramped up such “pattern or practice” investigations in the wake of the fatal #police shooting of #MichaelBrown, a #Black man, in Ferguson, MO, in 2014.
Her team’s report concluded that #CPD’s regularly used #unlawful force, including #shooting at fleeing suspects & using #Tasers in nonviolent encounters.

#JDVance’s ‘#Constitutional #Crisis’ in the Making.

Vance’s #parroting #Project2025's #proposal to #gut the #federal #workforce is likely #unlawful and #unworkable. But despite his #bluster about #defying the #SupremeCourt, that might not be necessary.

— Don't believe the #Republican #lies that the #Trump campaign doesn't know anything about #Project2025, they are up to their neck in it.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/12/what-jd-vance-gets-wrong-about-the-supreme-court-00173445

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"Style editors in newsrooms the world over, just so it is clear: it is "Israel's unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory" now, thank you."

#Palestine #Israel #Apartheid #Unlawful #Occupier @palestine

@protonprivacy

#We sit all in ONE #Boat !!!

#Exclusion of #special #Interest- #Groups would look #unlawful to the #Rest, who should be #surveilled. #EU should #unite #People - not #separate them.

#chatcontrol #chatkontrolle
#dataprotection #dataprot #privacyrights

The #gun counts #HunterBiden faces are rarely stand-alone charges. Usually such violations are attached to ≥1 other alleged #crime, e.g. armed robbery.

Oct 2022 - Mar 2023, federal prosecutors filed 3,863 cases in which the #unlawful possession of a #firearm was the lead charge, per Syracuse’s TRAC database.

In 130 of those cases, or ~3%, the lead unlawful possession charge was related to making a false stmnt to acquire the weapon. The amt of false stmnts + drug use is likely even lower.

“The controversy about the decision to fly an #UpsideDown American #flag outside the home of Justice #Alito recalls St. Paul’s admonition that while some things may be lawful, ‘not all things are helpful.’

“I can offer no opinion as to whether the flag display at the justice’s house was #unlawful. I won’t even opine whether my flying the flag upside-down at my house would have constituted a violation of the code of #ethics that binds me & all #FederalJudges — except the justices.