This is the U.S. Federal Building & Courthouse in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This building, built in 1960s, is s survivor of the brutal domestic terrorist attack that wrecked the Murrah building that was across from it. A memorial to the victims of that attack is now located there, across from the courthouse.
August 27, 2025
The Trump Administration's moronic lawsuit against Maryland's Federal Bench was tossed out.
There's no surprise to this at all.
On a locally controversial matter:
University of Wyoming sorority free to admit who it wants, including transgender students, judge rules: The 2023 federal complaint against Kappa Kappa Gamma for welcoming a transgender woman was dismissed Friday for the second time.
This puts the Wyoming Federal Court basically at odds with the direction of the Trump Administration as well.
August 30, 2025
Well, there's absolutely no surprise. Trump's illegal tariffs were affirmed to be illegal.
D'uh.
The Court's decision starts:
The Government appeals a decision of the Court of International Trade setting aside five Executive Orders that imposed tariffs of unlimited duration on nearly all goods from nearly every country in the world, holding that the tariffs were not authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 50 U.S.C. § 1701 et seq. Because we agree that IEEPA’s grant of presidential authority to “regulate” imports does not authorize the tariffs imposed by the Executive Orders, we affirm.
Even here, however, the Court granted a stay of thirty days on the implementation of its order, which a private litigant would be unlikely to have received, and the government shouldn't have received here. The order should have gone into effect immediately absent the government posting a bond to cover the damages, which would be all the tariffs collected while the matter was on appeal, and all that it has already collected, which should need to be fully refunded.
But a refund won't happen and the implementation of the ruling is delayed by 30 days, so the government can appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which doesn't actually have to take the appeal.
Whether the S.Ct upholds it, or proves to be a pure political arm of the government, is another matter.
There were three dissents in the en banc decision.
September 3, 2025
A Federal Court has ruled Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles to be illegal.
September 17, 2025
Wyoming Sorority Members Not Giving Up Legal Case Over Transgender Member
September 26, 2025
In an act that's outrageous, former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a grand jury on two out of the three charges the government brought before it.
The Trump administration, and hence the Republican Party, has gone over to outright fascism with acts of this type. The test now is whether the Courts can withstand the onslaught.
October 1, 2025
Judge Says Ousted UW Dean Can Keep Suing For ‘Retaliation’ Demotion
October 13, 2025
In addition to Comey, now Letitia James has been indicted. More such indictments are apparently coming.
Trump's efforts to deploy the National Guard into cities is universally failing in the Courts.
Comey is being prosecuted for lying to Congress, which Pam Bondi just did herself.
October 16, 2025
And now John Bolton has been charged with eight counts of unlawful transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of unlawful retention of national defense information by a grand jury.
The Department of Justice has become a department of persecution for Trump. It'll take years to undo the damage that has been done. Moreover, because of the extent of this, it's my prediction that many who are now involved in these Trump efforts will face bar sanctions, and likely some prosecutions, in the future.
October 17, 2025
An Illinois court ordered ICE agents to wear body cameras.
October 25, 2025
Way milder than it could have been, but at least somebody tried to do something:
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