Update. It's not enough for #Trump to …

* nominate #climate denialists to run key agencies like the #EPA and #NOAA
* remove climate-related words from govt web sites
* take down whole climate science sites and datasets
* defund climate research and researchers
* layoff scientists and civil servants with climate expertise
* repeal climate regulations
* eliminate 10 regional EPA offices, including the one in DC
* and plan to replace consensus climate findings with ideological cherrypicking as the foundation for policymaking …

… now his #FBI is freezing the assets of nonprofits like Habitat for Humanity, which have received EPA grants, alleging that they might be guilty of “possible criminal violations” including “conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

Google illegally monopolized online advertising markets, US judge rules
Federal judge deals blow to tech giant and paves way for government to break up company’s advertising products https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/17/google-illegal-monopoly-ad-tech #uslaw #uspol #competition

This is a battle we cannot afford to lose. If we allow this to happen, we may never be able to undo the damage. The #ocean has been taken for granted for too long, but we can still act, now.

Thanks to a legal #loophole in #USLaw, deep-sea mining in international waters has just become one step closer to reality, and the consequences for #MarineEcosystems could be catastrophic.

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#DeepSeaMining #SaveOurSeas

More than 60 years ago, New York Times C. v. Sullivan established that, to succeed in defamation cases, public figures must prove that a published statement is false and that publishers acted with "actual malice." "Murder the Truth," a new book by New York Times journalist and editor David Enrich, discusses the movement to overturn Sullivan, accelerated by Trump, his allies and people who are influenced by them. Nieman Lab spoke to Enrich about his investigation, the journalists he spoke to, and more. "The push to overturn Roe was obviously one of the most coordinated assaults on established Supreme Court precedent, probably in history," Enrich says. "This is definitely not like that — but it’s not an accident that these people were getting up and being given platforms on places like Fox News to make these arguments over and over again."

https://flip.it/AVGQcJ

#USLaw #Law #Libel #Defamation #Books @bookstodon #Media #Journalism #MurderTheTruth

New publication - Rimmer, M. Tractor Rage: Intellectual Property, Agriculture, Competition Policy, and the Right to Repair. IIC (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-024-01538-5 #righttorepair #agriculture #farming #uspol #uslaw This piece is part of a larger collection on access to food, expertly curated by Sofia Filgueiras https://link.springer.com/collections/fcchfbdejh

Trump Will Bulldoze Separation of Church & State
https://progressive.org/op-eds/trump-will-bulldoze-church-state-separation-gaylor-20250121

* Trump2 will exploit religion, pander to white evangelical base

#USpol #USlaw #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #OpusDei #theocracy #whiteSupremacism #DominionTheocracy
#antiLGBT #ParentalRightsMovement #transphobia
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#FamilyResearchCouncil #FRC #LibsOfTikTok #MomsForLiberty #AcPEDs
#WomensRights #misogyny
#ACLU #GLAAD #HRC #EgaleCanada #PFLAG

"I don't need to apologize" -- Bishop Mariann Budde
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/22/i-dont-need-to-apologize-bishop-angered-with-sermon-speaks-out
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5270918/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde-trump-interview

#MariannBudde #courage #honor
#USpol #USlaw #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #Project2025
#xenophobia #racism #ChristianRight #Catholicism #whiteSupremacism #hatred
#antiLGBT #TitleIX #transphobia
#Christofascism #transgenocide #theocracy #DominionTheocracy
#sexism #paternalism #HegemonicMasculinity #ToxicMasculinity
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #abortion #SelfDetermination

'Moore also pressed legal claims that the record industry had cheated him out of retirement benefits. Moore and other artists sued multiple record companies and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists in 1993.'https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/11/soul-man-singer-sam-moore-dies-aged-89-from-surgery-complications
'Moore told the Associated Press in 1994 that he joined the legal effort after learning, despite his million-selling records, that his pension amounted to just $2,285, which he could take as a lump sum or in payments of $73 monthly.'

“Two thousand dollars for my lifetime?” Moore said then. “If you’re making a profit off of me, give me some too. Don’t give me cornbread and tell me it’s biscuits.” #uslaw #music #copyright

Pamela Samuelson and the Promotion of Progress https://btlj.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/00_39-3_-Foreword.pdf Special BTLJ issue https://btlj.org/2024/12/volume-39-issue-3/
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/a-national-treasure-colleagues-share-emotional-tributes-to-iconic-professor-pamela-samuelson/
#education #uslaw #uspol #IP #innovation @pamelasamuelson

A bankruptcy judge has rejected The Onion's bid to buy Alex Jones' Infowars site, ruling that the auction process was unfair. "I don't think it's enough money," Judge Christopher Lopez said after a two-day hearing. "I'm not going to approve the sale." It was not immediately clear whether there will be a new auction in which The Onion can participate. Here's more from @NBCNews.

https://flip.it/SLgOWV

#Media #News #TheOnion #Infowars #AlexJones #USLaw #Bankruptcy

Lawsuit over last year’s deadly Maui wildfires settled for $4bn
Global settlement was reached in suit over fire that killed 102 and destroyed downtown Lahaina in August 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/03/maui-wildfire-lawsuit-settled #uslaw #Hawaii #climate #wildfires #Maui

US supreme court reform is now on the table. The election stakes just got higher
Laurence H Tribe and Dennis Aftergut https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/30/supreme-court-reform-kamala-harris
Americans are desperate for the top court to be reformed. Kamala Harris could deliver change if she wins #SCOTUS #uspol #uslaw

Biden reportedly to push for supreme court term limits and new ethics code https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/biden-supreme-court-reforms
President also considering support for constitutional amendment to eliminate immunity for top officeholders #SCOTUS #uslaw #uspol

Trump plots capture of DoJ in renewed assault on US justice system
Ex-president determined to destroy independence of justice department if he regains control of White House https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/07/trump-justice-department #uslaw #uspol

Governor Polis Signs Right to Repair Law, Legislation to Strengthen Colorado’s Economy, Create Jobs & Support Creative Industries
https://www.colorado.gov/governor/news/governor-polis-signs-right-repair-law-legislation-strengthen-colorados-economy-create-jobs
#righttorepair #colorado #uslaw #uspol

Donald Trump found guilty of hush-money plot to influence 2016 election
Trump found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in first criminal trial against a US president https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/30/trump-trial-hush-money-verdict #uslaw #uspol

Documentary Filmmaking Community Files Amicus Brief in Important Fair Use Case Involving Tiger King https://ipat.law.uci.edu/documentary-filmmaking-community-files-amicus-brief-in-important-fair-use-case-involving-tiger-king/ #copyright #Fairuse #documentary #Tigers #uslaw

Ex-Twitter executives sue Elon Musk for $128m in unpaid severance https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/04/former-twitter-execs-sue-elon-musk-severance
Suit by former employees, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, follows a separate legal complaint by other workers seeking $500m. #uslaw #socialmedia

Deny, attack, reverse – Trump has perfected the art of inverted victimhood | Sidney Blumenthal https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/01/trump-victim-political-strategy-manipulation #uslaw #uspol

‘He’d been through the fire’: John Lewis, civil rights giant, remembered https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/15/john-lewis-civil-rights-giant-biography-raymond-arsenault #uslaw #uspol

The supreme court now serves the billionaire donor class – let’s rein it in | Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/maga-supreme-court-billionaire-donor-class #SCOTUS #uslaw #uspol

‘It will be the end of democracy’: Bernie Sanders on what happens if Trump wins – and how to stop him https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/13/end-of-democracy-bernie-sanders-on-if-trump-wins-and-how-to-stop-him #uspol #uslaw

The Federal Circuit’s active judges have suspended Judge Pauline Newman, the court’s eldest member, for one year as punishment for not submitting to medical testing as part of a disability and misconduct investigation. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/96-year-old-judge-suspended-a-year-by-fed-circuit-colleagues #uslaw

Twitter chaos after Elon Musk takeover may have violated privacy order, DoJ alleges https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/13/twitter-elon-musk-takeover-ftc-order-data-security-privacy-doj-case US Department of Justice questions compliance with FTC order on data security and privacy practices. #Uslaw #socialmedia

Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston leads actors’ strike rally in New York: ‘We will not allow you to take away our dignity’ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jul/25/actors-strike-bryan-cranston-rally-new-york Award-winning actor led a starry event with a fiery speech aimed at Disney CEO Bob Iger: ‘We will not be having our jobs taken away and given to robots.’ #film #TV #laborrights #performersrights #uslaw #uspol

PolitiFact - Red light on ‘greenwashing’? US regulatory agency takes fresh look at deceptive climate claims https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jul/17/red-light-on-greenwashing-us-regulatory-agency-tak/ #greenwashing #FTC #uslaw #uspol