#Arkansas social media age verification law blocked by federal Judge
An Arkansas law requiring social media companies to verify the ages of their users has been struck down by a federal judge who ruled that it was #unconstitutional. The decision is a significant victory for the social media companies and digital #rights groups that have opposed the law and others like it
#socialmedia #ageverification
The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Massachusetts, takes a broader approach than a flurry of other recent lawsuits challenging the federal govt’s #deportation policies on college campuses. Those suits, including 2 involving a #ColumbiaUniversity student & a recent grad who are #GreenCard holders, aim to stop individual deportation proceedings.
The lawsuit filed Tues challenges the #Trump admin’s overall approach to deportation, saying it is #unconstitutional.
"This is nothing less than government compelled speech – a textbook #FirstAmendment violation. The #government is explicitly forcing a private entity to dedicate resources to supporting specific #political initiatives. That a major #law firm would accept such an obviously #unconstitutional demand, rather than challenge it as #PerkinsCoie did, represents a complete abdication of their professional responsibilities"
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/paul-weisss-shameful-surrender-makes-every-lawyer-there-complicit-in-trumpian-constitutional-desecration/
Amazon wants a product safety regulator declared unconstitutional
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/21/amazon-product-safety-regulators-trump/
The #Trump admin is appealing a judge’s order requiring #ElonMusk & #DOGE to comply w/evidence demands from Democratic state ofcls who claim the #billionaire is exercising #unconstitutional #power across the US govt.
The #DOJ is arguing the lower court judge’s “unusual & highly invasive” order “raises grievous separation-of-powers concerns” by requiring a presidential adviser & the WH to turn over info about their activities….
#law #USpol #transparency #TrumpPurge
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-19/trump-administration-fights-order-to-turn-over-doge-information
2 Officials Who Helped Dismantle #US #Aid Agency Are Named as Its New Leaders
Secretary of #State #MarcoRubio said he had canceled 83% of #USAID’s programs. A federal judge found that efforts to shutter the agency were likely #unconstitutional.
#law #USpol #Trump #Musk #DOGE #ForeignPolicy #SoftPower #TrumpPurge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/usaid-doge-leadership.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1B3ACA71-70A6-4630-8DE3-5A77E2B20013
Analysis: A Strike at the Heart of DOGE and Musk...
...With a Surprising Star Witness
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/analysis-a-strike-at-the-heart-of
"the surprising star witness...
Musk himself! With assists from #Trump & his press secretary.
It turns out, with their non-stop tweeting & trash-talking about what they’ve been doing... quotes from them turn out to be the best #evidence negating the DOJ’s desperate defense of DOGE’s #unconstitutional actions."
Trump and Musk are building a new spoils system
When ideological targeting becomes cronyism
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-musk-are-building-a-new
"Trump, via #Musk, is engaged in #impoundment, which is #illegal & #unconstitutional. It also vastly weakens #Congress. & yet, the #Trump pitch to get Congress to pass appropriations is that he will ignore what they actually pass! Impoundment is a feature, not a bug, in their model for governing."
The 15-wk #AbortionBan had already been paused since Dec, when Reuss & other providers filed suit, which argued that the ballot measure, which adds constitutional protections for #abortion until about 24 wks, meant the ban was now #unconstitutional. #Arizona’s AG, Kris Mayes, had agreed not to enforce the ban while litigation played out.
The short ruling, from Judge Frank Moskowitz of #MaricopaCounty superior court, agreed the 15-wk ban was unconstitutional & forbade AZ ofcls from enforcing it.
The suit asks a federal district court in Maryland to ban the #Education dept from acting on these #threats, saying the letter is an #unconstitutional infringement on #FreeSpeech & a twisting of long-standing anti-#discrimination #law. It was filed by the American Federation of #Teachers, its MD affiliate & the American Sociological Association, working w/Democracy Forward, which has filed several suits challenging #Trump admin actions.
The #AssociatedPress sued 3 #Trump admin ofcls Fri over #access to presidential events, citing #FreedomOfSpeech in asking a federal judge to stop the 10-day blocking of its #journalists.
The lawsuit was filed Fri afternoon in US Dist Court in Washington, DC.
#AP says its case is about an #unconstitutional effort by the #WhiteHouse to control #speech — in this case refusing to change its style from the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”
#law #FreePress #autocracy
https://apnews.com/article/ap-lawsuit-trump-administration-officials-0352075501b779b8b187667f3427e0e8
#Trump on Thurs again raised the prospect of serving for an #unconstitutional 3rd term asking a crowd at a WH event whether he should run again & receiving audience chants of “4 more years!”
Trump’s escalating rhetoric stoked further alarm among critics who say he is governing w/an #authoritarian playbook & fear he could attempt to seize #power undemocratically, as he attempted to do after losing the 2020 election. The #Constitution’s 22nd Amendment limits presidents from holding the office >2X.
#Trump again raises idea of running for an #unconstitutional third term
The suggestion followed a stretch of days in which Trump referred to himself as a #king & quoted a #dictator in suggesting that he was #immune from following laws
#USpol #Constitution #law #authoritarianism #democracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-third-term-king-unconstitutional/
The unions had asked the court to block #Trump’s dismantlement of the #aid agency, calling it “#unconstitutional & #illegal” & saying it had “generated a global #HumanitarianCrisis” & threatened American strategic interests.
“Not a single one of defendants’ actions to dismantle #USAID were taken pursuant to congressional authorization,” the lawsuit said. “And pursuant to federal #statute, #Congress is the only entity that may lawfully dismantle the agency.”
Federal judge in #Maryland issues #injunction on #Trump’s #BirthrightCitizenship order
US District Judge Deborah Boardman issued the injunction at court hearing on a lawsuit brought by #CivilRights groups arguing that Trump’s order is #unconstitutional.
#immigration #law #14thAmendment #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteNationalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/02/05/birthright-citizenship-injunction-trump-immigration/
#ExecutiveOrder to the #StateDepartment Sideswipes #Freedom Tools, Threatens #Censorship Resistance, #Privacy , and #Anonymity of Millions
In the first weeks of the #Trump Administration, we have witnessed a spate of sweeping, confusing, and likely #unconstitutional executive orders, including some that have already had devastating human consequences.
#constitution #rights #security
The TN Senate committee realizes that the Dear Leader is wise, strong, beautiful and good. His wisdom shall save us all. Anyone who denies that deserves prison, damnation and destruction. Dear Leader deserves to take anything he wants from you because he is Dear Leader. /s
@campbell4tn.bsky.social
"This move from the Trump administration is blatantly #unconstitutional."
Trump promised voters he would act like a dictator on day one; and he honored that promise, in spades.
Trump tried to nullify the Constitution with an executive order directing agencies to no longer honor the 14th Amendment’s declaration of #birthright #citizenship.Trump closed the week late on Friday by daring Congress to stem his corruption. He attempted to #fire more than a dozen independent #inspectors #general (IG) without providing Congress with the required 30 day notice or details on cause for dismissal.
The courts, responding to an appeal from multiple secretaries of state, fulfilled their role on Thursday.
Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, appointed by President Reagan, was unequivocal in his dismissal of that executive order:
“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a #blatantly #unconstitutional order… I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order. It just boggles my mind.”
https://themoderatevoice.com/dictator-on-day-one-trump-goes-after-birthright-citizenship-and-independent-inspectors-general/
