A federal judge has issued an order forbidding immigration officials from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia,
a Maryland father who was illegally deported to a super-prison in El Salvador earlier this year.
Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant and U.S. legal resident, was deported in March, when the Trump administration wrongly alleged, without evidence, that he was associated with the MS-13 gang. When it became clear that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was improper, the administrati…
Judge furious as he rules Trump blatantly ignored order: 'Ham-handed attempt to bully' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fema-judge-ignores/
Judges Neomi Rao and Justin Walker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday night
blocked D.C. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg from beginning his scheduled Alien Enemies Act case contempt proceedings next week.
Judge J. Michelle Childs, a Biden appointee, would not have granted the stay.
The “administrative stay” issued by two Trump appointees on the appeals court after the close of business on Friday blocking Boasberg’s contempt proceedings <…
A US judge rules that Apple and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by X and xAI accusing them of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in AI (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
MLLM as a UI Judge: Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs for Predicting Human Perception of User Interfaces
Reuben A. Luera, Ryan Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Samyadeep Basu, Sungchul Kim, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Puneet Mathur, Ruiyi Zhang, Jihyung Kil, Nedim Lipka, Seunghyun Yoon, Jiuxiang Gu, Zichao Wang, Cindy Xiong Bearfield, Branislav Kveton
https://
A Mighty Wind: Judge Blows Down Trump's Dumb Executive Order Against Wind Energy
https://www.wonkette.com/p/a-mighty-wind-judge-blows-down-trumps
Tibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…
Very happy to see Trump’s illegal block on wind farm development thrown out by a judge, along with the Orwellian justification given for it—a classic inversion of the truth. Every accusation is a confession, etc. (“The government argued that the states’ claims amount to nothing more than a policy disagreement over preferences for wind versus fossil fuel energy development that is outside the federal court’s jurisdiction.”)
NEWS: Dan Richman
— key figure in now-dismissed Comey case
— wins motion for return of materials seized from his devices.
Judge finds his rights were violated,
orders that DOJ can only access data pursuant to lawful warrant.
Order could complicate efforts to re-indict Comey.
https://
Interpreting LLM-as-a-Judge Policies via Verifiable Global Explanations
Jasmina Gajcin, Erik Miehling, Rahul Nair, Elizabeth Daly, Radu Marinescu, Seshu Tirupathi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08120
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
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- Judge Before Answer: Can MLLM Discern the False Premise in Question?
Jidong Li, Lingyong Fang, Haodong Zhao, Sufeng Duan, Gongshen Liu
Uncertainty-Aware, Risk-Adaptive Access Control for Agentic Systems using an LLM-Judged TBAC Model
Charles Fleming, Ashish Kundu, Ramana Kompella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11414
A federal judge on Monday
struck down Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects,
saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was
“arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.
Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
vacated Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order blocking wind energy projects and declared it unlawful.
Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of…
DyKnow-RAG: Dynamic Knowledge Utilization Reinforcement Framework for Noisy Retrieval-Augmented Generation in E-commerce Search Relevance
Tingqiao Xu, Shaowei Yao, Chenhe Dong, Yiming Jin, Zerui Huang, Dan Ou, Haihong Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11122
DyKnow-RAG: Dynamic Knowledge Utilization Reinforcement Framework for Noisy Retrieval-Augmented Generation in E-commerce Search Relevance
Accurately modeling query-item relevance drives e-commerce ranking, yet long-tail, knowledge-heavy, and fast-evolving queries exceed parametric LLM coverage. External context (reviews, attribute encyclopedias, UGC) can help but is noisy, and single-pass latency and cost forbid any clean-then-summarize step. The model must, per query, judge relevance and decide whether to use, partially use, or ignore the context. DyKnow-RAG is a dynamic noisy-RAG framework built on Group Relative Policy Optimiz…
A UK judge jails a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K bitcoin (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Federal judge deals 'major blow' to Trump's agenda in ruling with nationwide implications - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/judge-major-blow-trump/
Active Model Selection for Large Language Models
Yavuz Durmazkeser, Patrik Okanovic, Andreas Kirsch, Torsten Hoefler, Nezihe Merve G\"urel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09418 …
A federal judge in Illinois has ordered the Trump administration to stop beating, shooting at, and generally using violence against journalists and peaceful protesters.
The Thursday ruling comes as ICE and the National Guard tear through the streets of Chicago,
shooting at and arresting journalists, protesters, and immigrants alike.
Judge Sara Ellis, an Obama appointee overseeing this case,
has suspended federal agents from
“using riot control weapons,”
…
State Bar reams GOP for threats to impeach judge who smacked down election-rigging scheme - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/utah-judge/
Judge Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in part bc ICE could not produce a final “order of removal” to deport him.
So last night, they went out and got an immigration judge to issue one.
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention.
https://
A US judge sentences Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison; Kwon pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud charges in August (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/12/10/terraform-s-do-kwon-s…
Judge shoots down Trump lawyers' effort to keep evidence hidden from James Comey - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/james-comey-discovery/
Judge *schooled* him: 'Defendants are not entitled to “deference” on the issue of what constitutes a rebellion for purposes of the Act, nor what it means to be “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws.” **Those are matters of statutory interpretation, a function committed to the courts**. … Defendants must support their position by pointing the Court to some of the facts upon which it bases its conclusions'
It Turns Out, Americans Don't Want a Police State
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/it-turns-out-americans-dont-want
Jeremy Corbyn says the UK government is endangering pro-Palestine hunger strikers
Former UK Labour leader Cornyn has issued a statement in solidarity with Amu Gib, who is accused of participating in the Palestine Action break-in of RAF Brize Norton airbase this summer.
The action,
carried out in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the UK government’s participation in it,
led to the proscription of the group under “anti-terrorism” laws.
Dozens of protesters h…
Governor JB Pritzker:
"You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP.
It's a bit shocking.
And you heard over & over him just making things up.
There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility
and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."
The national guard troops Donald Trump sent to Illinois can remain in the state and under federal control
but can’t be deployed, an appeals court ruled on Saturday.
The appeals court granted a pause in the case until it can hear further arguments.
The decision to prevent the troops from protecting federal property or going on patrol comes after federal judge April Perry ruled on Thursday to temporarily block the national guard deployment for at least two weeks,
findin…
Judge James E. Boasberg said he wants to hear from former Justice Dept. attorney Erez Reuveni
in an inquiry over whether Trump administration officials should be referred for prosecution
for disobeying a court order that temporarily barred two airplanes carrying Venezuelan detainees from proceeding to El Salvador.
In a confrontation between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary,
revived after a months-long delay for appeals,
Chief U.S. District Jud…
Over the weekend, federal judge Karen Immergut blocked Trump from deploying the National Guard in Portland.
The ruling cited Trump’s own tweet, which described Portland as “war ravaged,”
in determining that he does not have unlimited authority to wildly invent facts on the ground wholesale as a pretext to justify any use of the military he wants.
“The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts,”
this Trump-appointed judge declared.
“This is…
Last month, Judge Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice,
a decision that was openly criticized by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon
and later reversed by the state Supreme Court.
The DOJ had sought the information, including names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and social security numbers,
of over three million registered voters as part of Trump’s M…
Judge: USDA inspectors must report pet breeder violations they uncover • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/12/12/repub/usda-animal-inspectors/
Police are investigating after the home of Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein, 69, roared in flames on Edisto Beach.
On Sept 3 Judge Diane Goodstein had put a hold on DOJ's request to deliver South Carolina voter lists to the federal government.
Goodstein's four-bedroom, four bath home went up in smoke at around 11.30am on Saturday, Oct 4
Her family, including her ex-senator husband Arnold Goodstein, was rushed to hospital.
South Carolina Chief Justice John K…
Back in April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers delivered a scathing judgment
finding that Apple was in “willful violation” of her 2021 injunction
intended to open up iOS App Store payments.
That contempt of court finding has now been almost entirely upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
a development that Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney tells Ars he hopes will
“do a lot of good for developers and start to really change the App Store situation worldwi…
**U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut issued a second temporary restraining order late Sunday night blocking the administration from deploying any states National Guard to Oregon**
Trump-appointed judge blocks president's plan to send California National Guard to Oregon for second time - The Mirror US
https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/breaking-trump-appointed-judge-blocks-1429168
Preston Damsky was a student at the University of Florida’s law school that made the most of a Trump-appointed judge teaching a class by rehashing Klan constitutionalism.
And while the paper he wrote about killing Mexicans and disenfranchising non-whites got him some notoriety,
he wasn’t in trouble over it per se.
He got in trouble after he took to Twitter to announce that
“Jews should be abolished by any means.”
That tweet was read as a threat by the univers…
A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to pay the full amount of November Snap food aid benefits to states within 24 hours
The Trump administration
‘failed to consider the harms’
in not supporting Snap, judge says in ruling that demands funds by Friday
The order was in response to a challenge from cities and nonprofits complaining that the administration was only offering to cover 65% of the maximum benefit,
a decision that would have …
A federal judge on Wednesday shredded the Trump administration’s shallow defense for bragging about its rampant, warrantless immigration arrests.
In an 88-page ruling, U.S. Judge Beryl Howell wrote that the Trump administration had illegally lowered the standard for making immigration arrests
when it instituted a policy of “arrest now, ask questions later” as part of the federal takeover of Washington, D.C.
Howell documented how the Department of Homeland Security and Trump …
Top Trump administration adviser Stephen Miller was accused of spreading dangerous “propaganda” Saturday night
regarding the federal judge who ruled that the White House could not deploy 200 National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
The White House deputy chief of staff accused U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut,
who was appointed by Trump during his first term, of “legal insurrection”
after she found that the president’s claims about violent protests at a U.S. Immig…
Judge Immergut, an appointee of President Trump, called an emergency hearing Sunday,
then broadened her restraining order to cover “the relocation, federalization or deployment of members of the National Guard of any state or the District of Columbia in the state of Oregon,”
telling Justice Department lawyers that the president was ”in direct contravention” of her order.
The blizzard of moves by the Trump administration,
from Texas to California, Illinois to Oregon,
Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., sided with Democratic and civil rights groups that sued the Trump administration over his executive order to overhaul U.S. elections.
No She ruled that the proof-of-citizenship directive is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers, dealing a b…
A federal judge in Chicago on Wednesday ordered authorities to improve conditions at an immigration detention facility
after detainees sued,
alleging they were held in “inhumane” conditions.
The temporary order,
which applies to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview,
a suburb west of Chicago,
will remain in effect for 14 days.
It requires officials to provide detainees with clean bedding and adequate sleeping space,
Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges,
including the only count for which he could face the death penalty,
from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive.
In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, the lawyers said prosecutors should also be prevented from using at trial his statements to law enforcement officers and his backpack where a gun and …
A federal judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration initiative that would have kept immigrant children in custody after their 18th birthdays, preventing their transfer to adult detention centers that advocates said were planned for this weekend.
Under federal law, unaccompanied minors are housed in facilities overseen by the office of refugee resettlement,
which operates under the Department of Health and Human Services, not Ice.
On Saturday, US district judge Rud…
A federal court in Maryland has ordered the release of
Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE custody on Thursday,
and he will be advised on his release conditions in his separate Tennessee criminal case.
The case of Ábrego, a Salvadorian national who was a construction worker in Maryland,
has become a proxy for the partisan struggle over Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration policy and mass deportation agenda.
Trump administration officials have waged a relentless public …
South Carolina authorities are investigating a fire that engulfed the home of state circuit court judge (Cindy Von Quednow/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/us/judge-diane-goodstein-home-fire-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p90#a251006p90
On Friday, Judge Boasberg ordered the administration to submit declarations by December 5
from all officials involved in the decision not to return the flights to the U.S.
He said he will then decide whether to seek testimony from witnesses.
The declarations should detail the officials’ roles in the decision, the judge said in the brief order.
Justice Department attorneys had urged him to abandon the probe,
but Boasberg said he must determine whether Homeland S…
Judicial Ethics -- Yesterday, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove attended an event where Donald Trump spoke. (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/judicial-ethics
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p16#a251211p16
A judge has ruled that, for now,
asylum seekers are not required to pay an annual fee for each year their application is pending.
The ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP.)
The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, which became law on July 4, 2025,
instituted a new fee system for people in the immigration system,
including asylum seekers.
The legislation requires that they pay a $100 filing fee and an Annual A…
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