Federal Judge in Texas Demands Justice Dept. Lawyers Take Ethics Class

A federal judge in Texas on Thursday excoriated the Justice Department, demanding ethics classes for the department’s lawyers and ordering other sanctions for those who argued the case involving President Obama’s immigration executive actions.
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Federal judge blocks Obama’s water rule

A federal judge in North Dakota acted late on Thursday to block the Obama administration’s controversial water pollution rule, hours before it was due to take effect.
Judge Ralph Erickson of the District Court for the District of North Dakota found that the 13 states suing to block the rule met the conditions necessary for a preliminary injunction, including that they would likely be harmed if courts didn't act and that they are likely to succeed when their underlying lawsuit against the rule is decided.


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Federal Judge Rules Cops Can Take Over Your Home As They See Fit

The Third Amendment was created to protect your home from being quartered by soldiers without your consent. It has very rarely been a matter of debate or litigation, until now.


Federal district court Judge Andrew Gordon recently ruled that the police are exempt from the 3rd Amendment with a case out of Henderson, Nevada after a family had their home broken into and seized by local law enforcement who stated they needed the home to gain a “tactical advantage” against suspected criminals in a neighboring house.


Police actually forced their way into this family’s home, pepperballed the father and his dog and then incarcerated the man for a day.




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Federal Judge Strikes Down ACA Exchange Subsidies

On Tuesday, Judge Ronald A. White of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma vacated the IRS rule that allows premium subsidies in states that refused to establish an exchange under the Affordable Care Act.  The court holds that the IRS Rule is arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with law, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. §706(2)(A), in excess of statutory jurisdiction, authority, or limitations, or short of statutory right, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. §706(2)(C), or otherwise is an invalid implementation of the ACA, and is hereby vacated.

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Judge: Show me Obama foreign aid order

A federal judge is demanding to see a copy of a government-wide foreign-aid-policy order President Barack Obama issued three years ago which administration lawyers have argued is protected by executive privilege.

The Obama administration acknowledges that the Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development the president signed in 2010 is unclassified, but officials have steadfastly refused to make any portion of it public, even after a watchdog group filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for the document earlier this year. (The White House has released a fact sheet about the order.)

On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle ordered the government to produce a copy of the directive for her review as she considers how to resolve the lawsuit brought by the Center for Effective Government, formerly known as OMB Watch.

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Federal Judge Declares Obamacare Unconstitutional

1/31/2011 - Florida judge, Roger Vinson, rules that health care law is unconstitutional and says the entire act must be declared void, a decision that will likely rest with the U.S. Supreme Court. Read more at FOX News...

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