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The Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizures apply to immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States, and courts have repeatedly held that ICE actions—ra...
Measure 114 is currently active in parallel state- and federal-court tracks: at the state level the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a lower court and lifted a hold in March 2025 and the Oregon Suprem...
State laws and federal law treat viewing, possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) differently; some prosecutions rest on viewing or accessing material even when the user did not...
Accidental viewing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is treated differently across contexts: some courts and state statutes recognize affirmative defenses for prompt, good‑faith actions like destr...
Federal and civil litigation has targeted Twitter/X for hosting and failing to remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM), most prominently survivor lawsuits such as John Doe #1 and John Doe #2 v. Twit...
Federal law and the Constitution contain limits on racial profiling by federal agents: the Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable stops and seizures and requires “specific articulable facts” to justi...
The president can direct executive agencies to identify and try to withhold federal funds from jurisdictions labeled “sanctuary,” and administrations have used executive orders and agency directives t...
ICE’s authority to demand identification has historically operated within a shifting legal and political framework, and recent reporting shows courts and advocacy groups now say ICE may use race, lang...
The USDA’s National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard treats ingredients that no longer contain detectable modified genetic material as not “bioengineered,” which has left many common, highly ref...
The short answer: courts have treated passcodes (and other knowledge-based locks) as testimonial and generally protected by the Fifth Amendment, meaning law enforcement—including ICE—cannot be compell...
The claim "Is it legal to kill immigrants" is false: , and no statute authorizes killing immigrants. Courts and civil suits have held law enforcement accountable for cross‑border and border‑area shoot...
Courts have focused on tangible indicia of who exercised command and control—legal status (Title 10 vs. Title 32), orders issued, chain-of-command communications, funding and mission definitions, and ...
Multiple accusations against Donald Trump led to a wide array of lawsuits — from civil defamation and fraud suits to multistate constitutional challenges to his executive orders and long‑running civil...
Metadata (IP addresses, file hashes, timestamps, geotags) and provider records (cloud backups, preserved account logs, CyberTip/NCMEC reports) routinely form the backbone of probable‑cause affidavits ...
Fruit of the Loom did not use a cornucopia as part of its official logo during its 1990s rebranding, and authoritative examinations of advertising, trademark records and independent fact-checking find...
The Supreme Court’s September 2025 emergency order paused a federal court’s restraining order that had barred ICE and DHS from using apparent race, language, workplace, or location as bases for immigr...
Federal courts have at times constrained ICE practices—finding racial profiling and improper stops—but those limits have been eroded recently by higher-court action and long-standing administrative gu...
Federal and state suits over Trump University were resolved by a $25 million settlement finalized in 2018 and upheld on appeal, splitting payment to a class of former students and New York’s attorney ...
The 2005 criminal trial of Michael Jackson ended in acquittal on all counts after roughly four months of testimony and about 32 hours of jury deliberations; the jury’s initial vote was nine to acquit ...
To secure a CSAM search warrant, prosecutors must show probable cause — a “fair probability” that evidence of child sexual abuse material will be found — supported by an affidavit or other sworn state...