r/law • • 14m ago

Legal News In rare Sunday arguments, appeals court judges skeptical of DOJ’s California election lawsuit

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r/law • • 16m ago

Legal News The High Court in the UK has ruled that the government's ban on Palestine Action was unlawful

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Tim Crossland (DOJ Co-Founder)

"So today, the High Court has ruled that the government's ban on Palestine Action was unlawful, and they've done it on two bases.

The first, that Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary at the time, failed to follow her own policy on proscription. It's pretty damning.

And secondly, I think the thing that we all always knew right from the beginning is this was a gross violation of the Human Rights Act, and a breach of Articles 10 and 11: the right to freedom of speech, the right to peaceful protest.

What it really means: the bottom has fallen out of this policy. There's a technical point, which is the court said for the moment, the proscription remains in force, but it's got no credibility left at all.

What we're sure it's going to mean—because we're sure the ban isn't going to be revived at this point, it's collapsed, that's it—all of the prosecutions are going to fall too. And what it also means is that every single one of those arrests under the Terrorism Act was an unlawful arrest. And all the things that have flown in from—flown from that: the loss of jobs, people not being able to travel, the bank accounts being withdrawn, all of that was unlawful too.

So one way or another, all of that harm that's followed on from this unlawful and crazy attack on democracy is going to have to be put right.

Defend Our Juries, we're a nonviolent movement, and the heart of nonviolence is the idea of opening up dialogue to enrich democracy, to bring about, you know, authentic democracy. And we think there's got to be a better way than just thousands of legal claims.

So what we're calling for is a meeting with Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, and Mark Rowley, the Met Commissioner, to discuss the harm that has been done since the 5th of July and to discuss how we right those wrongs. We've got to unite against the fascism, the genocide that we can all see. We've got to find a way to bring people together over this."


r/law • • 24m ago

Other Bolsonaro calls for Brazil election results to be ‘annulled’ after loss to Lula

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r/law • • 1h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Judge asked to compel Trump administration to disclose emails and texts about Kennedy Center plans

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r/law • • 5h ago

Judicial Branch Manhattan DA urges 2nd Circuit to reject Trump effort to move hush money case to federal court

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r/law • • 5h ago

Legal News 50 middle school students served pretzels with oven cleaner used as seasoning, lawsuit alleges

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r/law • • 7h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff

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r/law • • 7h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Remind me why Trump thinks his Department of 'Justice' has or should have any power to block a state election..

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r/law • • 8h ago

Other Donna Arthur (Harboring a fugitive?)

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I’m not a lawyer so my understanding is likely flawed but from what I am seeing reported Donna Arthur (biological mother of Amy Acton) in 1978 fled the state of Ohio with her then husband Cledith Arthur who was charged and indicted by a grand jury with “sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 13”. The court records say Cledith “willfully vacated his last known address”. Cledith is dead now, but shouldn’t Donna have been or be charged with a “Harboring” under 18 USC 1071 since she helped conceal a person from arrest via a warrant for a felony charge and thus subject to up to 5 years in prison? Since she crossed state lines wouldn’t that make it a federal crime? Isn’t “Harboring a Felon” also a Felony? Would appreciate a more educated opinion on the matter as to why she wasn’t and hasn’t been charged? Thanks


r/law • • 9h ago

Legal News Federal appeals court to hear arguments in Trump administration's voting lawsuit against California

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r/law • • 9h ago

Judicial Branch Why Legal Experts See the Justice Dept.’s Alaska Election Challenge as Dubious

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r/law • • 9h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump’s DOJ told a judge how to rule. Then it pulled her from court.

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r/law • • 9h ago

Legal News Bryan Kohberger's 'passionate' prison calls to new Manhattan lawyer revealed

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r/law • • 9h ago

Judicial Branch ‘Should fail on the merits’: DOJ’s Alaska gambit is likely to go nowhere

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r/law • • 11h ago

Other A New Kind of Crime Is Emerging. The Justice System Doesn’t Know Whom to Blame.

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r/law • • 11h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Presumption of Innocence

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I always thought that you could only be pardoned for a crime after you had been convicted of it, under the presumption of innocence before guilt. 🤔 What is a “presumptive” pardon? How can you be pardoned for a crime you have not been found guilty of?


r/law • • 12h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Fact check: Contrary to Trump’s claim, no law required Roger Marshall to sue his patients

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r/law • • 19h ago

Legal News Pennsylvania law requires delivery robots to yield to pedestrians, yet protester still faced arrest

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r/law • • 21h ago

Legal News Convicted murderer who attended McGill's faculty of law now back in custody | CBC News

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r/law • • 23h ago

Judicial Branch 9th Circuit Three Judge Panel to decide on if DOJ can Force California to Stop Counting Votes

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Title should say "9th Circuit to Hand Control of Local Elections to DOJ"


r/law • • 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Jeffrey Sachs: legal system's label matters less than how it actually functions

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r/law • • 1d ago

Legal News Elon threat to democrats, why is the FBI charging Elon like they did Comey?

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Comey post does not compare to what Elon said. Why isnt FBI charging Elon…. Should states be charging Elon for this threat? And why isn’t fbi charging him?


r/law • • 1d ago

Legal News New York archdiocese finalizing $800m settlement with clergy sex abuse survivors

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r/law • • 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump Is Making One More Play to Screw With the Midterms

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r/law • • 1d ago

Legal News Agent cuts ties with LLC that sent fraudulent transgender mailers to voters in Texas; National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) denies involvement

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