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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. The lawsuit argues that doing so would violate federal law because it was not approved by the state...

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, a rate and number of executions unprecedented in modern times. Continuing the trend seen in the pri...

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 resettlement of refugees in a community. The Refugee Act of 1980 states: Section 301 (c) (1) In the conduct...

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 they’d be in the United States. Somewhere, anywhere, in the United States. They thought they’d hav...