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In a statement, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin said that the settlement is little more than a slush fund for the president’s “private militia of insurrectionists, rioters, and white supremacists […] and sycophant accomplices to his election-stealing schemes.”
“Regarding the OpenAI case, the judge & jury never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality,” Musk wrote on X. “There is no question to anyone following the case in detail that Altman & Brockman did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity.”
The lawsuit argues that the transfer, if completed, would violate the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits the president from receiving financial benefits other than a public salary.
In one incident, a state investigator recalled creating a Character.AI account and engaging in conversation with a chatbot named “Emilie.” Over the course of their conversations, Emilie described herself as a psychologist who had attended medical school at Imperial College in London.
The lawsuit also takes issue with Albuquerque’s Safer Community Places Ordinance. Among other things, the ordinance’s provisions prohibit ICE from conducting immigration-enforcement operations on city property. It also requires businesses to take certain steps to make it harder for ICE to enter employees-only areas.
“This is very good news for our people, for our plaintiffs, because we’re going to be able to go ahead now with our antitrust claims in both cases,” said Bob Ruyak, an attorney for the homeowners.
“Require biometrics, refuse to collect them, then punish people for the gap you created,” Michelle Mendez of the National Immigration Projectsaid. “That’s not administration; that’s a trap. A deliberately broken process they’re now citing as proof that people eligible for benefits and protections deserve to be deported. We’re asking the court to see this scheme for exactly what it is.”
Earlier this year, the federal government said that it would no longer process immigration applications submitted by citizens of at least 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Russia, and Rwanda. Immigrants from some countries on the list—Iran, Iraq, and Libya, among others—face additional restrictions.
“They portrayed police officers as dirty, they portrayed my clients as dirty,” lawyer Ignacio Alvarez said. “Now their reputations are hurt.”
The U.S. Department of Justice is purportedly holding internal discussions about settling President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. According to The New York Times, one of the options floated between the Justice Department and White House officials includes the possibility of the IRS dropping any audits against Trump, his businesses, and