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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sšnchez’s embattled Socialists
suffered a heavy defeat in Sunday’s regional election in Extremadura,
slumping to their worst-ever result
as the far-right Vox made strong gains,
dealing another blow to the party amid mounting corruption and misconduct allegations.

Spain's ruling Socialists suffer historic defeat in regional election
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s embattled Socialists suffered a heavy defeat in Sunday’s regional election in Extremadura, slumping to their worst-ever result as the far-right Vox made strong gains, dealing another blow to the party amid mounting corruption and misconduct allegations.

Abortion illegal in North Dakota again after state Supreme Court ruling (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5620932-abortion-ban-north-dakota/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p108#a251124p108

I found this an interesting view on the AI scraping and Hoovering everything disease.
This view focuses on the overhead and costs that such hoovering places on our packet carrying infrastructure.
"The hiQ Decision Legalized Infrastructure Theft - We Need a Federal Fix"
https://

The hiQ Decision Legalized Infrastructure Theft - We Need a Federal Fix
The hiQ ruling erased legal protections against commercial scraping, leaving infrastructure providers to absorb escalating costs. Without federal action defining data misappropriation, a free-rider AI economy could undermine open networks, investment, and long-term data integrity.

Trump-appointed judge: DHS must restore disaster grants to Democratic states
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/24/trump-ice-dhs-fema-grants-states-sanctuary-city-ruling

That ruling is just not supportable. To me, it looks like the ball is certainly inside the box but the contact is just outside. To upgrade it all to a penalty while in the same damn game saying Gakpo wasn’t clipped in the box? Bananas.
#LFC

🏙️ Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
#politics

Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
From 2005 to 2016, against the wishes of both the country’s ruling and opposition parties, the small Venezuelan municipality of Torres underwent a radical experiment in democracy, giving residents direct power over the budget. It worked.

FIFA said quit being so fuckin gay
no🫵🏼

Katherine Rich gives Uber far too much credit. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2019013122/what-uber-ruling-could-mean-for-gig-economy They didn't do any of it to 'make the world be…

A US judge says Meta lawyers told staff to block or remove parts of internal teen mental health research to limit liability; Meta says no findings were removed (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and

Meta Lawyers Advised Blocking Teen Harm Research to Avoid Suits
Meta Platforms Inc.'s lawyers advised employees to block or remove portions of internal research on teen mental health harm in order to reduce legal liability, a Washington, DC, court determined Thursday in a ruling that could ripple into the multi-district litigation faced by the tech company in California.

No Universal Purification in Quantum Mechanics
Zhenhuan Liu, Zhenyu Du, Zhenyu Cai, Zi-Wen Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21111 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

No Universal Purification in Quantum Mechanics
We prove that the linearity and positivity of quantum mechanics impose general restrictions on quantum purification, unveiling a new fundamental limitation of quantum information processing. In particular, no quantum operation can transform a finite number of copies of an unknown quantum state or channel into a pure state or channel that depends on the input, thereby ruling out an important form of universal purification in both static and dynamical settings. Relaxing the requirement of exact p…

As a reminder of the contempt that the ruling class has for us, "pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" specifically references something that's literally impossible, and "tightening one's belt" comes from a euphemism for starvation.

Federal judge Mary McElroy has blocked the Trump administration’s
attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling on Monday solidified a win for the coalition of 12 attorneys general
that sued the administration earlier this year after being alerted that their states would receive drastically reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary…

Federal judge blocks Trump administration's homeland security funding cut to Democratic states
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to cut Homeland Security funding from states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy ruled Monday in favor of 12 attorneys general who sued after their states faced reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary” status. The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA had cut over $233 million from several states. McElroy found the funding cuts arbitrary and ordered their rest…

How a Scholar Nudged the Supreme Court Toward Its Troop Deployment Ruling (Adam Liptak/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/us/politics/georgetown-scholar-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1._E8.reU8.kx9eLhtH13R4&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p48#a251224p48

""The judge in this case is saying that James and Comey ... cannot face these charges because the prosecutor was invalid and is basing that largely upon the Trump case," she added."
'Nail in the coffin': Judge uses pro-Trump ruling to throw out Comey and James prosecutions - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/msn-uk/lindsey-halligan-comey-james/

Judge sides with Trump over his $100K visa fee (Nick Niedzwiadek/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/23/judge-ruling-trump-h1b-visa-fee-00705670
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p28#a251224p28

"South Africa court halts natural gas power plant project, cites climate commitments"
#SouthAfrica #FossilFuels #Energy

Austria’s high court orders Meta to change its personalized ad practices https://therecord.media/austria-court-meta-ruling

Meta's win over the US FTC may mean Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others can resume buying startups to stay ahead of the pack, after a slowdown under Lina Khan (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/meta-ruling-silicon-valley…

Meta’s Victory Opens the Way for Silicon Valley to Go Deal Shopping
To avoid regulatory scrutiny, big tech companies had steered clear of buying start-ups outright. Meta’s antitrust win may change that thinking.

Trump-appointed judge: DHS must restore disaster grants to Democratic states (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/24/trump-ice-dhs-fema-grants-states-sanctuary-city-ruling
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p3#a251224p3

'Whether it’s left Labour MPs worried about retaliation from the whips, “Your Party” organisers arguing over the finances and structures of a new left vehicle, or Greens whose leaders still view a rapidly militarising EU as some kind of progressive force, we need more seriousness and urgency over the deadly threat to us all posed by the ruling-class drive to war.'
Confront the war fever sweeping the continent
| Morning Star

Before you head out for the weekend (and if you're lucky for a long Thanksgiving break), check out today's Metacurity for a ton of top infosec developments you should know, including
--SEC drops ill-fated cyberattack lawsuit against SolarWinds, CISO,
--FCC gets rid of Biden-era reporting rules addressing Salt Typhoon intrusions,
--Cybercrime money laundering network active in the UK bought a bank,
--Russian intel services funded former Wirecard exec's spy r…

SEC drops ill-fated cyberattack lawsuit against SolarWinds, CISO
FCC gets rid of Biden-era reporting rules addressing Salt Typhoon intrusions, Cybercrime money laundering network active in the UK bought a bank, Russian intel services funded former Wirecard exec's spy ring, Salesforce probes another third-party cyber incident, NSO appeals judge's ruling, much more

A US appeals court panel orders the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to restore striking journalists' benefits from 2017, ruling the paper bargained in bad faith (Megan Swift/TribLIVE.com)
https://triblive.com/local/regional/appellate-court-…

Appellate court panel sides with striking Post-Gazette workers; PG will appeal decision
A federal appeals court panel on Monday ruled in favor of striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, possibly heralding an end to a long and bitter labor dispute that led newspaper staffers to walk the picket line for more than three years. The decision by three judges on the U.S.

"The victims of war-time atrocities on all sides also have something in common. They are cut out of the top-down deal. Civilians were bombed, children were starved, and prisoners were tortured, yet the perpetrators escape punishment. War criminals continue ruling and enjoying the perks of power. Survivors and their families are denied justice" -- @…

Justice vs Peace
As the world watches the shaky ceasefire in Gaza, the issues of peace and justice intermingle, strain, and collide. For those who work on conflicts, these are familiar tensions, but the underlying debates rarely get wider attention. The basic issue is this: to get any kind of peace deal in

Ruling party claims victory in Georgian elections amid major protests: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/ruling-party-claims-victory-in.html

Rams' Davante Adams listed as doubtful vs. Seahawks, but Sean McVay not ruling him out https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6892575/2025/12/17/rams-davante-adams-hamstring-injury/

Japan Ruling Party Proposes Cutting Subsidies for Solar Projects | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/japan-ruling-party-proposes-cutting-subsidies-for-solar-projects

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/google-searches-police-access…

Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant
In a decision that only affects Pennsylvanians but could have privacy implications elsewhere, the state's Supreme Court ruled that police did not need a warrant to access a rape suspect's Google searches.

Nevada high court ruling brings Gruden case one step closer to trial https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/civil-courts/nevada-high-court-ruling-brings-gruden-case-one-step-closer-to-trial-3477110/

Judge orders Trump admin to offer relief to men deported under Alien Enemies Act (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/22/alien-enemies-act-james-boasberg-ruling-00704244
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p120#a251222p120

So what's a good alternative to Firefox (I'm using it when I'm not on my Mac). I don't want their new "AI Window" stuff and I don't want to support it.
It has to work on Windows and an iOS version as well, and can sync passwords between those.
Please only suggest things you personally use and like.
I'm ruling out Chrome (spyware) and Brave (homophobic owner).
(Wish Apple would still make Safari for Windows.)

The Ruling Class is your enemy, unless you are part of the Ruling Class, then everyone else is your enemy.

Washington state cities turn off license plate reader cameras amid ruling on data access – GeekWire
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/washington-state-cities-turn-off-license-plate-reader-cameras-amid-ruling-on-data-access/

"France’s birds start to show signs of recovery after bee-harming pesticide ban"
#France #Pesticides #Bees

At least some good news:
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-50eb4ad421911696e742d8c4fb4962fd

Supreme Court rejects appeal to overturn its same-sex marriage ruling
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The justices on Monday turned away an appeal from a former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling. Clerk Kim Davis had been trying to get the justices to overturn a lower-court order that she pay $360,000 in damages and attorney’s fees. Justice Clarence Thomas has urged his colleagues to overturn t…

At least some good news:
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-50eb4ad421911696e742d8c4fb4962fd

Supreme Court rejects appeal to overturn its same-sex marriage ruling
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The justices on Monday turned away an appeal from a former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling. Clerk Kim Davis had been trying to get the justices to overturn a lower-court order that she pay $360,000 in damages and attorney’s fees. Justice Clarence Thomas has urged his colleagues to overturn t…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas' 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Trump likely discriminates on the basis of race.
The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito will remain in place at least for the next few days while the court considers whether to allow the new map favorable to Republicans to be used in the midterm elections.

“She also appears to have made another astonishing error, Judge Fitzpatrick said. In his ruling, he pointed out that she told grand jurors that they did not have to rely solely “on the record before them” to return an indictment against Mr. Comey, but instead “could be assured the government had more evidence — perhaps better evidence — that would be presented at trial.”
Wow. I’ve served as a grand juror. That’s misconduct.

Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed Misconduct in Comey Case
The magistrate judge raised the question of whether “government misconduct” in the case might require dismissing the charges against the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, altogether.

Reagan-appointed judge torches colleagues in Texas map fight, calls ruling 'fiction,' 'judicial activism' (Ashley Oliver/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reagan-appointed-judge-torches-colleagues-texas-map-fight-calls-ruling-fiction-judicial-activism
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p75#a251120p75

Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant https://therecord.media/google-searches-police-access-without-warrant-pennsylvania-court-ruling

Rams coach Sean McVay not ruling Davante Adams out vs. Seahawks despite missing practice https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6892575/2025/12/16/rams-davante-adams-hamstring-injury/

Capitalism incentivizes those who are willing to sell out, those born with sociopathic tendencies. Those willing and eager to trample everyone around them and purge their own humanity, are rewarded. Endless greed, endless thirst for power, the total absence of values — the dominant world system rewards these traits and behaviors.

Epstein Implicates Everyone
The entire ruling class and the capitalist system are guilty

Colombia’s Constitutional Court Not Only Upholds Bullfighting Ban, But Bans More Animal Spectacles https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/09/12/colombias-constitutional-court-not-only-uphold…

Colombia’s Constitutional Court Not Only Upholds Bullfighting Ban, But Bans More Animal Spectacles
On the 4th September 2025, Colombia’s Constitutional Court issued a final ruling banning bullfighting nationwide and ordering the total restriction of other violent practices against animals used in…

I was really having trouble giving a shit about either of the two candidates in the Labour Deputy Leadership election, and I had to scroll quite a long way down the wikipedia page, but I found something in the end.

Indefensible ruling by Oliver on that foul. My god that’s terrible.
#LFC

The Court has issued a final ruling on the postponement of stricter emission standards for vehicles in Brussels: the region should not have reversed previously announced measures that would have improved the environment for Brussels citizens.
In other words: the zone is becoming stricter.
https…

Bruxelles : le report de la LEZ définitivement annulé
La Cour constitutionnelle a annulé l’ordonnance bruxelloise qui reportait l’agenda de la zone de basses émissions à 2027. Les véhicules concernés, les diesel Euro 5 et les essence Euro 2, seront bien interdits dans la Région dès le 1er janvier 2026.

The night America's doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos-dinner-trump-bin-salman-20251123.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p62#a251123p62

A US appeals court upholds a contempt ruling in Epic v. Apple but says Apple can charge commissions on external links, with the rate to be set by a lower court (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-11/appl…

Nevada high court ruling brings Gruden case one step closer to trial https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/civil-courts/nevada-high-court-ruling-brings-gruden-case-one-step-closer-to-trial-3477110/

"Fossil fuel projects face stricter scrutiny after Europe’s top human rights court ruling"
#Europe #FossilFuels #Energy

Norway oil projects face stricter climate scrutiny after court ruling
The case worked its way through European legal systems for nearly a decade before the ruling.

NFL news roundup: Rams not yet ruling out Davante Adams (hamstring) for 'TNF' vs. Seahawks https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-tuesday-dec-16

Texas A&M Was Wrong to Fire Professor Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules (Alan Blinder/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/texas-am-professor-gender-lesson-panel-ruling.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p31#a251122p31

The UK CAT refuses Apple permission to appeal a ruling that it abused its dominance by charging unfairly high App Store fees; a lawyer calculates damages at £1B (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/apple-refused-permissio…

This is abominable.
By law, immigration detention is not supposed to be about meting out punishment or retribution.
It’s supposed to be about facilitating people’s removal.
Yet as the ruling details, the administration,
by refusing to send Ábrego García to Costa Rica despite having that option,
did “not appear to have held him to fulfill that purpose.”
That’s polite legalese for a bombshell:
Trump officials held Ábrego García in detention for mont…

Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Ábrego García Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Ábrego García from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.

A US judge rules that Meta's Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions don't violate antitrust law as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-wins-ftc-antitru…

Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals (4)
Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don’t violate US antitrust law, a blow to the federal government which has sought to break up the company for the past five years.

Trump not ruling out war with Venezuela (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-not-ruling-war-venezuela-rcna250012
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p10#a251219p10

A US appeals court upholds a contempt ruling in Epic v. Apple but says Apple can charge commissions on external links, with the rate to be set by a lower court (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-11/appl…

A Trump-appointed judge was so upset with the living conditions in which ICE detained an immigrant in Long Island, New York, that he
threatened to hold the government in contempt.
U.S. District Judge Gary Brown,
who was appointed by Trump in 2019,
issued a 24-page ruling Thursday
vehemently castigating the Department of Homeland Security
for refusing to provide photos of a holding room
that illegally held a noncitizen for multiple nights,
calli…

Trump Judge Threatens to Hold Government in Contempt Over ICE
“I have never encountered anything like this,” wrote a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump.

Court ruling allows Medicare to negotiate prices for larger number of drugs
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/07/appeals-court-ruling-medicare-price-negotiations-novo-nordisk/?utm_campaign=rss

NSO seeks to overturn WhatsApp case, saying it is ‘catastrophic’ for the spyware maker https://therecord.media/nso-seeks-to-overturn-whatsapp-case

Jon Gruden's lawsuit against NFL moves closer to trial after Nevada Supreme Court ruling https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/jon-grudens-lawsuit-against-nfl-moves-closer-to-trial-after-nevada-supreme-court-ruling…

Tim Sweeney: the Ninth Circuit's decision on Epic v. Apple contempt ruling appeal "completely shuts down" App Store rules allowing Apple to collect "junk fees" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/843265/apple-epic-games-tim…

Tim Sweeney on the future of Fortnite after another win over Apple
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discusses what’s next for Fortnite after a big appeals court ruling in its legal dispute against Apple’s App Store policies.

Appeals court denies Trump administration appeal of National Guard deployment ruling in Illinois (WLS/ABC7)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/7th-circuit-court-appeals-judges-deny-trump-administration-appeal-national-guard-ruling-illinois/18020390/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p162#a251016p162

25 years ago today,
five GOP justices who claimed fealty to states’ rights,
and who were skeptical of a broad equal protection clause,
told Florida it could not finish counting ballots
despite the Florida Supreme Court ruling to the contrary
because of an equal protection principle never used before or since.
-- Eric Segall

Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social)
25 years ago today, five GOP justices who claimed fealty to states’ rights, and who were skeptical of a broad equal protection clause, told Florida it could not finish counting ballots despite the Florida SCT ruling to the contrary b/c of an equal protection principle never used before or since.

A US judge rules Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp don't violate antitrust law, as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-wins-ftc-antitrus…

Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals (4)
Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don’t violate US antitrust law, a blow to the federal government which has sought to break up the company for the past five years.

Disaster for Alex Jones and Infowars as Supreme Court rejects last-ditch bid to avoid paying $1.4B to Sandy Hook families | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alex-jones-supreme-court-infowars-sandy-hook-ruling-b2845169.html

Prosecutors not ruling out state charges for commuted ex-Rep. George Santos (Aaron Katersky/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/state-charges-commuted-rep-george-santos/story?id=126721722
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p83#a251021p83

A US judge bars NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users and cuts the ~$168M damages verdict awarded to Meta by a jury in May to $4M, ruling it was excessive (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News Service)
https://courthousenews.com/israeli-spyware-company-blocked-from-whatsap…

FCC plans vote to remove cyber regulations installed after theft of Trump info from telecoms https://therecord.media/fcc-plans-vote-rescind-biden-era-ruling-telecoms-cyber

Judge lifts Trump administration limits on lawmaker visits to ICE jails (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/ice-lawmaker-visits-policy-ruling-00695801
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p115#a251217p115

Appeals court clears way for Trump to keep National Guard on DC streets (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/trump-national-guard-washington-dc-court-ruling-00694754
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p72#a251217p72

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…

FCC To Rescind Ruling That Said ISPs Are Required To Secure Their Networks - Slashdot
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/31/237241/fcc-to-rescind-ruling-that-said-isps-are-required-to-secure-their-networks

Bhutan unveils a pledge of up to 10,000 bitcoin to develop Gelephu Mindfulness City; Arkham says Bhutan holds 5,984 bitcoin, ranking 7th among sovereign holders (Vismaya V/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/352685/bhutan-pledges-10000-bitcoin-worth-1b-fund-mind…

Bhutan Pledges 10,000 Bitcoin Worth $1B to Fund Mindfulness City
The 10,000 BTC will generate yields for GMC's growth while being held long-term, with Bhutan ruling out selling the reserves.

A federal judge in Denver on Tuesday
ordered federal immigration officers to stop making arrests in Colorado without a warrant,
unless the detainee posed a flight risk.
The ruling by Judge R. Brooke Jackson could be put on hold once the administration appeals,
just as earlier rulings in Los Angeles and Illinois limiting immigration agents’ powers were quickly blocked by higher courts.

Colorado Judge Tells Immigration Agents to Stop Arrests Without Warrants
The ruling that immigration agents are acting illegally is the latest to rebuke the Trump administration’s tactics, but earlier orders have been blocked on appeal.

Group tries forcing Judge Cannon ruling on Mar-a-Lago report
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/group-urges-11th-circuit-to-force-judge-cannons-hand-and-issue-ruling-on-bid-to-release-jack-smiths-mar-a-lago-report-on-trump/

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…

Trump’s Own Tweet on Portland Backfires as Judge Deals Him Harsh Loss
As a judge’s blunt ruling blocks Trump from deploying troops in Portland, Oregon’s attorney general tells us in an interview that Trump’s lawless threats are working against him—and discusses what comes next.

Media groups hail ruling to unseal AG Ken Paxton's divorce records (Dallas Morning News)
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/12/19/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-wife-divorce-hearing-judge-collin-county/?sailthru_id=63e05a053049ef033a04daa9
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p85#a251219p85

A federal judge could soon decide whether tens of thousands of so-called “Dreamers” in Texas could lose their ability to work in the US legally under the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) immigration program
– prompting fears of upheaval and heartbreak.
As part of the years-long legal battle over Daca,
US district court judge Andrew Hanen is set to rule on competing proposals for the future of the Obama-era program.
One of those proposals, submitted …

Trump administration’s shutdown layoffs remain on hold, following court ruling
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/trump-administrations-shutdown-layoffs-remain-on-hold-following-court-ruling/

Judge accuses Homeland Security of bullying states into accepting conditions to get FEMA money (Michael Casey/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/fema-immigration-trump-lawsuit-disaster-aid-ruling-93bedd862e4f240c7cc1d50907e3e95c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p112#a251014p112

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 …

New York Gov. Hochul: Indian Point won't reopen despite ruling on Hudson River
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5555190-new-york-hochul-indian-point-hudson-river/

Judges appointed by Trump keep ruling against him. He's not happy about it. (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/trump-judges-ruling-against-him-00595511
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p153#a251006p153

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees on Friday issued an order
allowing President Donald Trump to unilaterally hold back $4 billion in foreign aid funding
— overturning the decision of Congress that was previously signed into law.
It was a ruling that required a willful disregard for some of the most fundamental understandings of America’s federal government
— and prompted a sharp dissent from the Democratic appointees.
The shadow docket ruling addre…

SCOTUS Republican appointees let Trump ignore Congress, cut foreign aid
As Justice Kagan wrote for the dissenting Dem appointees, the majority's "preliminary" ruling means $4 billion in aid allotted by Congress will be blocked "for all time.“

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees on Friday issued an order
allowing President Donald Trump to unilaterally hold back $4 billion in foreign aid funding
— overturning the decision of Congress that was previously signed into law.
It was a ruling that required a willful disregard for some of the most fundamental understandings of America’s federal government
— and prompted a sharp dissent from the Democratic appointees.
The shadow docket ruling addre…

SCOTUS Republican appointees let Trump ignore Congress, cut foreign aid
As Justice Kagan wrote for the dissenting Dem appointees, the majority's "preliminary" ruling means $4 billion in aid allotted by Congress will be blocked "for all time.“

Justice Samuel Alito says he is not calling for same-sex marriage ruling to be overturned (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/justice-samuel-alito-says-not-calling-sex-marriage-ruling-overturned-rcna235535
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p52#a251004p52

Half, not all:
Trump team will partially fund SNAP benefits after judge’s order, USDA tells court | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-snap-benefits-funding-court-ruling-b2857692.html

The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court
has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections
that a lower court found racially discriminatory.
The 6-3 ruling is another political win for Donald Trump and his allies,
who have gotten a number of favorable rulings from the justices after being stymied by lower courts.
Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their maps
in order to preserv…

Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage
The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections that a lower court found racially discriminatory. The 6-3 ruling is another political win for President Donald Trump and his allies, who have gotten a number of favorable rulings from the justices after being stymied by lower courts. Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their maps in order to preserve the narrow GOP majority in …

Federal judge deals 'major blow' to Trump's agenda in ruling with nationwide implications - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/judge-major-blow-trump/

A federal judge in Washington permanently barred the Trump administration on Friday from requiring proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms,
a change dictated in an executive order Donald Trump signed in March.
The ruling definitively halted the effort to compel the Elections Assistance Commission,
an independent body,
to adopt nationwide changes to voting procedures
at a time when the president has also called for requiring voter identification …

Judge Permanently Bars Trump From Requiring Proof of Citizenship for Voter Registration
The ruling on Friday found that Trump had usurped the power vested in Congress and the states to administer and oversee elections protocols.

Judge calls for Justice Dept. whistleblower to testify in migrant planes case (Steve Thompson/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/08/boasberg-ruling-whistleblower-testify/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p131#a251208p131

A federal judge in Washington permanently barred the Trump administration on Friday from requiring proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms,
a change dictated in an executive order Donald Trump signed in March.
The ruling definitively halted the effort to compel the Elections Assistance Commission,
an independent body,
to adopt nationwide changes to voting procedures
at a time when the president has also called for requiring voter identification …

Judge Permanently Bars Trump From Requiring Proof of Citizenship for Voter Registration
The ruling on Friday found that Trump had usurped the power vested in Congress and the states to administer and oversee elections protocols.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to pause order requiring full SNAP payments (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5596074-trump-doj-appeals-snap-ruling-supreme-court/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p7#a251109p7

A federal appellate court ruled that
the Trump administration must remove California National Guard troops from Los Angeles by Monday.
The decision upheld a lower court order that halted the mobilization that had roiled the nation’s second-largest city for six months.
The ruling late Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit substantially upheld a district court decision from earlier this week
that found the federal government had illegally prolonged t…

Appeals Court Says Trump Must End Los Angeles Deployment by Monday
While the decision did not remove the National Guard troops from the president’s control, it blocked him from using them in the nation’s second-largest city.

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…

Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case
But Sweeney warns iOS devs are still afraid of “totally illegal” retaliation by Apple.

Judge orders Trump administration to release full SNAP benefits by Friday (Mariana Alfaro/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/06/snap-judge-full-payment-ruling/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p127#a251106p127

Supreme Court OKs Trump's passport policy limiting options for transgender people (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/06/supreme-court-transgender-case-passports-ruling-00640503
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p128#a251106p128

Judge Rules Trump Exceeded Authority by Holding Deportees at Guantšnamo (Carol Rosenberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/politics/guantanamo-migrants-deportation-ruling.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p142#a251205p142

Judge orders White House to restore sign language interpreters at briefings by Trump, Leavitt (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/04/sign-language-interpretation-white-house-briefings-ruling-00636782
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p153#a251104p153