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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The Trump administration in attempting to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, but the president's actions have not legal reality says Cornell Law School professor Robert Hockett. 

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Robert Hockett, is a professor of law and public finance at Cornell Law School, where he focuses on financial and monetary law and economics. He says Trump’s scheme to push out Cook is precisely the kind of political meddling Fed policy was designed to guard against.

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Heather Murray, the associate director of the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic and the managing attorney of the Clinic’s Local Journalism Project, comments on a temporary restraining order requiring a local newspaper, The Clarksdale Press Register, to delete an editorial critical of city officials. 

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The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted a lower court injunction that prohibited the Trump administration from deporting people to third countries without first giving them due process, negating a fundamental right says immigration attorney and scholar at Cornell Law School Stephen Yale-Loehr. 

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