On Friday, Paxton formally accused Community Capital Partners—a private group that he claims EPIC founded—of failing to register as a securities dealer and committing securities fraud by misrepresenting the proposed settlement’s location, as well as the eventual compensation of its “leader.”
“It is exactly the type of speech and press-restrictive scheme that the Supreme Court and D.C. Circuit have recognized violates the First Amendment,” attorneys for the Times wrote in a legal brief. “The Policy abandons scrutiny by independent news organizations for the public’s benefit.”
“By intentionally distorting district boundaries along racial lines to preserve a specific number of Hispanic majority districts and two Black influence districts, California violated the Fifteenth Amendment and Voting Rights Act,” the lawsuit says.
“Title VII is unquestionably constitutional,” said Nemer’s attorneys, Nathaniel Zelinsky and James Eisenmann. “The government cannot discriminate against its employees. Full stop. We look forward to pursuing Tania’s case in court.”
In court documents, attorneys for Costco indicated that the company is seeking a “full fund” for all duties paid in accordance with Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a co-plaintiff in the lawsuit, said that the Trump administration and Department of Agriculture are clearly circumventing the law.
“Acting under color of state law, the government-official defendants either have directed or authorized the State’s contractor to make devastating changes to the administration of the … program,” the lawsuit claims.
Earlier this year, Nancy M. received a notice stating that she owes the federal government about $1.8 million in overstay-related fines.
“The idea that Governor Abbott’s going to claim that CAIR — an American Muslim civil rights group — is somehow a foreign terrorist group, it’s patently ludicrous,” Mitchell said on Thursday. “And it’s the clearest example of bigotry that you call a Muslim that you disagree with a terrorist.”
The lawsuit says that the rainbow flag Maltinsky had displayed at his desk in Los Angeles had been presented to him after being displayed outside of the Bureau’s federal office complex.