Following President Trump’s banning of MS NOW, Politico, and CNN from the White House, the news organizations are expected to file a joint complaint in federal district court in Washington alleging, in part, the president’s actions are in violation of the outlets’ First Amendment free press rights.

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Yesterday, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights joined a growing list of national and international organizations calling on Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to commute Christa Pike’s death sentence. Pike, who would be the first woman executed by lethal injection in Tennessee, is scheduled for execution on September 30.

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As use of Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses increases, so do privacy concerns, particularly as many women report being covertly recorded in public. But what legal protections exist, and where are their limits?

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Closing arguments will begin today in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mother accused of murder after strangling her three children in 2023.

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A federal judge in Virginia has temporarily jammed the Trump administration’s plans to payout of its Anti-Weaponization Fund until at least June 12; plaintiffs are alleging, among other things, that the fund violates theFirst Amendment, a claim we can expect the judge to take seriously given that the language of the fund specifically refers to Democrats, say Cornell Law School professor G.S. Hans. 

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Whistleblowers have shared an internal ICE memo showing that immigration agents have been sanctioned to enter homes and make arrests using administrative warrants instead of using warrants signed by a judge, an attempt to circumvent the Fourth Amendment says Cornell Law School professor Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer. 

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The Trump administration has frozen immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries. The following Cornell experts are available to discuss developments. 

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The Department of Justice is conducting an investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony last summer about the central bank’s building-renovation project, but this investigation is a criminal misuse of office by the president says Cornell Law School professor Robert Hockett.  

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The Trump administration is expected to announce an executive order that would direct the Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating artificial intelligence. 

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Today the Supreme Court decided it would hear oral arguments early next year in the challenge to President Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, but the Court will likely rule that Trump’s efforts to restrict birthright citizenship are illegal says retired Cornell Law School professor Stephen Yale-Loehr. 

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