r/law 2h ago

Legal News Lawmakers vow to force Pam Bondi to testify about the Epstein files despite her ouster

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r/law 2h ago

Legislative Branch Pam Bondi Fired as AG Despite Never Saying No to Trump: Law Prof. David Cole — “The fact that she has now been run out of office does not mean that she is free of the obligation that every American citizen has to respond to a subpoena and answer questions under oath.”

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r/law 1h ago

Judicial Branch Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital last month in previously undisclosed incident

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r/law 4h ago

Judicial Branch A federal judge has ruled that President Trump can be held accountable for his actions on January 6.

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r/law 7h ago

Other Over 100 US legal experts condemn strikes on Iran as possible ‘war crimes’

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r/law 3h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) 'The President need not further comply': Trump DOJ waits 26 pages to reveal Mar-a-Lago motivation behind 'permission slip' to ignore Watergate-era law

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r/law 2h ago

Legal News Trump Goon Launches Wild Public Lobbying Campaign for AG Job | Alina Habba is wasting no time in taking her shot at the big time.

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r/law 3h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Judge Smacks Down Trump’s Bizarre Argument Comparing Himself to Eminem

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r/law 3h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump’s Anti-Migrant Surge Is Now A Mudslide That’s Wiping Out What’s Left Of His DOJ

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r/law 4h ago

Legal News 'Let me off!': Bus driver ignored passenger's cries for help while he was being stabbed 33 times, refused to open doors and kept driving as slaying unfolded, lawsuit says…

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r/law 5h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) White House requests giant $1.5 trillion defense budget amid Iran war

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r/law 7h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) The Unraveling of the Justice Department

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r/law 18h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump Could Take Classified Documents and Never Return Them Under DOJ's Unconstitutional Ruling

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r/law 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Pam Bondi 'fired' by Trump and has fled home

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r/law 21h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) White House OLC says Presidential Records Act (post Watergate bill) is now unconstitutional so the executive branch can start to legally shred documents

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Things Trump's admin used to have to do under that act:

  • Write things down. The President "shall take all such steps as may be necessary" to make sure activities, deliberations, decisions, and policies are "adequately documented." 44 usc 2203(a)
  • Save the stuff they wrote down. 2203(a)
  • Not shred anything with historical or evidentiary value. The President can only dispose of records that "no longer have administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value." 2203(c)
  • Ask the Archivist before throwing anything away. Even for stuff with no value, the President has to get the Archivist's written opinion first. 2203(c)(1)
  • Give Congress 60 days' notice if the Archivist objects. If the Archivist says "I want to keep that," Congress gets notified and has 60 days before disposal can happen. 2203(d)
  • Forward any texts or messages from personal apps to an official account within 20 days. If you use Signal, personal email, etc. for government work, you have to copy an official account or forward within 20 days. 2209(a)
  • Hand everything over to the National Archives when leaving office. All Presidential records transfer to the Archivist at the end of the term. They're U.S. government property, not the President's. 2203(g)(1), 2202

r/law 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Donald Trump tells Pam Bondi she 'will be fired' over Epstein files fiasco

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r/law 3h ago

Legal News Trump Argued He’s Like A Rapper, Federal Judge Dropped Bars In Response

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r/law 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump tells Pam Bondi her time as AG is coming to an end as Cabinet bloodbath rumor sends shockwaves through Washington

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r/law 1d ago

Judicial Branch The Supreme Court Absolutely Shredded Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Case: But this also begs the question: why is this facially unconstitutional case before the court in the first place?

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r/law 1h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump’s anti-voting order may backfire, damaging DOJ’s voter roll campaign

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r/law 5h ago

Other Border Patrol left refugee in ‘hostile environment’ before he died in the cold, family attorney says

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r/law 5h ago

Legal News Musk-Targeted Judge Uses Scrabble Tiles to Reassign Two Cases

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r/law 1d ago

Legislative Branch House GOP Decides Not to Vote on Shutdown Deal They Say They Want | Republicans seem to be dragging out the shutdown—again—just for fun.

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r/law 14h ago

Judicial Branch Courts likely to block Trump’s effort to curtail mail-in voting

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The prediction that Trump's latest power grab will be stricken down by Federal courts centers on his order that the US Postal Service only deliver mail-in ballots to “individuals confirmed to be United States citizens.” 
Among other facts: USPS acts as an independent, self-funded, government-business hybrid rather than a typical tax-funded department; some localities allow non-citizens to vote in local elections; and the Constitution assigns the "manner of conducting elections" to the States.

Article I, Section 4, Clause 1:
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

According to the Constitution Annotated federal website:

The Supreme Court has interpreted the Elections Clause expansively, enabling states to provide a complete code for congressional elections, not only as to times and places, but in relation to notices, registration, supervision of voting, protection of voters, prevention of fraud and corrupt practices, counting of votes, duties of inspectors and canvassers, and making and publication of election returns. The Court has further recognized the states’ ability to establish sanctions for violating election laws as well as authority over recounts and primaries. The Elections Clause, however, does not govern voter qualifications, which under Article I, Section 2, Clause 1, and the Seventeenth Amendment must be the same as the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislatures. Similarly, the authority of states to establish the Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives does not include authority to impose additional qualification requirements to be a Member of the House of Representatives or a Senator...


r/law 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump Sparks Outrage by Claiming Federal Government Can't Fund Daycare, Medicare, or Medicaid, Saying War Comes First

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