The lawsuit itself claims that Trump’s sanctions on the ICC exceed the president’s powers and are predicated almost entirely on a false claim of a “national emergency,” which was itself triggered by the court’s routine work and investigations.
In a press conference, Uthmeier said that the Times’ credibility has been hurt by alleged “anti-Isarel bias” in its coverage of the ongoing conflict between the Israeli state and Gaza-based Hamas.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, characterized the Trump administration’s agreements with Bluepoint Wind and Invenergy as an “unlawful pay-to-play scheme.”
“In all its iterations over the last 33 years it has been maintained, IHSAA’s minority quota has operated a n express, discriminatory racial classification,” the lawsuit alleges. “It categorizes all individuals into two groups—those who are ‘white’ and those who are not—for the sole purpose of allocating seats on IHSAA’s governing Board. It excludes white males and white females from eligibility for the reserved minority seats solely because of their race.”
“Presidents from the earliest days of the Republic have disagreed with and complained about the tenor and content of press coverage of their administrations,” the lawsuit says, but notes that “the Constitution protects the liberty and property interests that news organizations and White House reporters have in their press credentials and the access those credentials afford them to cover the White House for the benefit of the public.”
On paper, the Justice Department has defended the administration’s decision by saying that the three networks have repeatedly failed to meet basic standards of “professionalism and decorum” and have, at other times, published “sensitive or classified information.”
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema didn’t rule on the government’s request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the fund’s formation and operation, but she explicitly rejected the argument that the case cannot proceed because its claims are moot.
“The Department of Justice is relying on faulty databases and attempting to find non-citizen voters and other voters who might be ineligible,” an ACLU attorney said. “And we also know that the Division of Elections has been undertaking non-routine measures in activating voters based on known faulty citizenship information and outside of their authority granted in the Alaska statutes.”
“The Trump administration is weaponizing federal research funding to suppress disfavored views, pressuring scientists to censor their work or risk losing funding for research that might produce results that don’t conform to the administration’s ideology,” ACLU Racial Justice Program attorney Olga Akselrod said.
Judge Randolph Contreras on Tuesday sided with David Streever, a New York resident who accused the Trump administration of violating his First Amendment rights by sending federal agents to his home in June with a “warning notice,” claiming that he had issued a threat against former ICE director Todd Lyons.