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February 14, 2026
ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say
Protesters in Minneapolis and St. Paul said in sworn statements that they were singled out by agents who demonstrated that they knew where they lived.
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February 12, 2026
U.S. Attorney Chosen to Replace Trump Pick Is Quickly Fired by White House
Federal judges had appointed Donald Kinsella, a veteran litigator, as top prosecutor in the Northern District of New York after the Trump administration’s nominee was found to be serving unlawfully.
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February 10, 2026
Immigration Judge Says Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Cannot Be Deported
The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, who is from Turkey, was detained by immigration agents last year after she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian opinion article for her student newspaper.
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January 15, 2026
Appeals Court Opens the Door to Mahmoud Khalil’s Rearrest
Any new detention would not come immediately, and Mr. Khalil’s lawyers plan to appeal. But the ruling is a major blow to Mr. Khalil, a Columbia graduate and prominent figure in the pro-Palestinian ...
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January 8, 2026
Judge Bars U.S. Attorney in Albany From Inquiry Into Letitia James
Ms. James, New York’s attorney general, had been seeking to block a Justice Department investigation into her office by challenging the legitimacy of the U.S. attorney, John A. Sarcone III.
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January 4, 2026
A Pardon and a Prosecution in New York Show Trump’s Personal Geopolitics
The facts in the cases of Nicolás Maduro and Juan Orlando Hernández are strikingly similar. The men’s fates are not.
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December 31, 2025
One Lawyer’s Standoff With Trump’s Deportation Machine
Mahsa Khanbabai’s client, a graduate student, had been whisked away by masked agents and held in lockup for weeks. Would a court free her — and would the government let her go?
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December 9, 2025
Legal Groups Sue Justice Dept. for Secret Memo Justifying Boat Strikes
“The public deserves to know how the Trump administration has justified the outright murder of civilians as lawful,” the organizations said in their lawsuit.
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December 3, 2025
Pardon Undoes a Climactic Win in Drug Prosecutions Led by a Trump Ally
Emil Bove III’s work as a prosecutor, before he was a Trump lawyer and official, helped lead to the conviction of the Honduran ex-leader whom President Trump freed this week.
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