“No presidential administration can rewrite immigration law,” Bonta said during a press conference. “No president can ignore the co-equal branch of government, of Congress, ignore the Constitution, or ignore the law.”
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever—not President Trump, not President Biden, and not anyone else,” the lawsuit alleges. “And no president is legally allowed to construct a ballroom on public property without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in.”
The new designs were announced earlier this year. In November, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum released a video stating that the agency would release passes featuring Trump and George Washington, among other “commemorative new designs.”
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.