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President Trump has won the second of three lawsuits alleging he violated the Constitution because foreigners and state officials patronize his businesses, such as the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal dismissed the claim by Maryland and the District of Columbia that Trump was violating the Constitution’s domestic and foreign emoluments clauses. The foreign emoluments clause reads:

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh is considering asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the order from the state’s highest court that convicted Beltway sniper Lee Boyd Malvo must be resentenced for his six Montgomery County murders.

The California man accused of planning to kill a Supreme Court justice is asking the court through his ...

A federal judge has agreed that certain retired Maryland employees have a contractual right to prescription drug benefits, but also found in a ruling issued Thursday that current employees have no such right. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte splits state retirees and employees into four groups: active employees; employees who have retired ...

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Two left-wing attorneys general in Maryland and D.C. are misusing their office to sue President Trump, claiming he's violating the Constitution.

County, nonprofit dispute whether private citizens can enforce federal statute May 7, 2021 | 9:24 pm share this A lawsuit claiming Montgomery County’s distribution of COVID-19 relief money to immigrants living in the country illegally was argued in a federal appeals court this week. The federal lawsuit, which the nonprofit group Judicial Watch filed in May 2020, seeks to prevent the county from distributing millions in financial assistance to low-income residents who do not have legal status....

Federal Execution Post-Mortem: The Final Three Carried Out in January 2021 By Jessica Constant, DPRP Intern [Note: This article is an update to our series on the 2020-2021 federal execution spree.]  In the waning days of his term, Donald Trump and his administration carried out three final federal executions. The executions of Lisa Montgomery, Corey Johnson, and Dustin Higgs brought the total number of executions carried out by the Federal Government in the past year to thirteen,...

17 Feb 2021 President Joe Biden’s revocation of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13888 requiring state and local consultation prior to the resettlement of refugees in any community may be an indication his administration plans to ignore a key requirement of The Refugee Act of 1980. Federal courts currently seem unlikely to side with critics of the refugee resettlement program who have long argued that the Refugee Act of 1980 requires state and local consultation prior to the resettl...

refugees Jan 16, 2020 A federal judge on Wednesday halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that gave state and local officials the ability to shut the door on refugees, and ignited a fierce debate in communities about how welcoming the United States should be....... U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte in Maryland said in his ruling that the president’s order “flies in the face of clear... Immigration Dec 29, 2019 By now, the young couple thought th...