CA Appeals Court Slaps Down Radical LA District Attorney George Gascon
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redstate.com ^
| June 3, 2022 | Bob Hoge
A California court sharply rebuked soft-on-crime LA County District Attorney George Gascon Thursday, ruling that he must comply with the law instead of just making his own. “The
district attorney overstates his authority,” the ruling said. “He (Gascon) is an elected official who must comply with the law, not a sovereign with absolute, unreviewable discretion.” Their legalese might be a little better than mine, but basically what the judges are saying is, “Who the heck do you think you are?!” The three-justice panel of the Appeals Court said in its ruling that Gascon cannot order prosecutors to refuse to charge...
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Appeals court slaps Biden administration for contact with social media companies
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NPR ^
| September 8, 2023 | Shannon Bond and Natalie Escobar
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an injunction restricting how the government can communicate with social media companies, which the Biden administration warns will stymie efforts to counter false and misleading claims about elections, public health and other important topics. The
panel of judges, all GOP nominees, say that the administration's efforts to flag what it considered to be false and harmful content about COVID, the 2020 election and other topics that violated the social media companies' policies likely amount to a violation of the First Amendment. The court found that Biden Administration officials coerced and threatened...
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State, Local Cops May Not Make Immigration Arrests, NY Appeals Court Rules
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New York Law Journal ^
| 11/14/18 | Andrew Denney
Nothing in New York law gives state and local law enforcement agencies the authority to detain inmates for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on immigration charges, a state appeals court said in a ruling aimed at a policy initiated by Suffolk County officials. The
unanimous ruling by the Appellate Division, Second Department rejected the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department’s policy of keeping inmates who are the subjects of ICE detention or deportation orders for up to 48 hours after the time that they normally would have been released and immediately notifying immigration authorities. While inmates are under the 48-hour immigration hold,...
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Federal appeals court agrees Grants Pass ordinances violated constitutional rights of homeless (9th circus)
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Oregon Public Broadcasting ^
| 09/28/2022 | Conrad Wilson
Wednesday’s decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals builds on a 2018 ruling involving the city of Boise, which found a person cannot be punished for sleeping in public if there’s nowhere else for them to go. A
federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a ruling that found the city of Grants Pass in southern Oregon violated the constitutional rights of people experiencing homelessness through a series of ordinances designed to prevent sleeping outside on public property.In a 2-1 decision, judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals largely upheld a 2020 injunction issued by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Clarke,...
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Tale of two cities: Homeless shelter to open smack-bang in the middle of NYC’s ‘Billionaires’ Row,’ Court of Appeals rules
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NY Daily News ^
| 5/28/2021 | Molly Crane-Newman
Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row will soon feature a men’s homeless shelter smack-bang in the middle of it despite a three-year offensive to halt its creation by members of the city’s elite, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled. Residents
of the city’s priciest street fought tooth and nail to halt Mayor de Blasio’s $60.8 million plan to open a 150-bed men’s shelter in the closed Park Savoy Hotel at 158 W. 58th St., arguing the location would be a dangerous “firetrap” and that crime would inevitably ensue on the ritzy block.(snip) The now defunct Park Savoy Hotel will house a...
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BREAKING: Georgia Court of Appeals Appeals Agrees to Review President Trump’s Appeal to Disqualify Disgraced Fulton County DA Fani Willis from RICO Case
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^
| 5/8/2024 | JIM HOFT
Good news for the rule of law. The
Georgia Court of Appeals agreed to review the President Donald Trump’s appeal to disqualify disgraced Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the sham RICO case against him. Via Phil Holloway.
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HPD arrests suspect in connection with setting a homeless man on fire
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Hawaii News Now ^
| May 15, 2021 | HNN Staff
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu police arrested a man Friday night for second-degree attempted murder for allegedly setting a homeless man on fire in Downtown Honolulu. The Honolulu Police Department arrested William Woods in connection to Wednesday’s attack on a homeless man https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/05/13 , who was intentionally set on fire. The
incident happened early Wednesday, when sources said the 45-year-old suspect used an accelerant and blowtorch to set the victim ablaze while he was sleeping near the See Dai Doo Society Building near Downtown. At last check, the victim was hospitalized in critical condition.
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Seattle: Homeless Man Arrested For String Of Arsons Had A Long History Of Arrests
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Hot Air ^
| March 1, 2019 | John Sexton
Earlier this week I wrote about a new report commissioned by Seattle business leaders which found that 100 homeless people in the city were responsible for more than 3,500 criminal cases. These
so-called “prolific offenders” all had drug habits and about a third of them also had mental problems. But because they were homeless and their crimes were usually petty burglaries or theft, they were cycled through the justice system and released back onto the streets time and time again. The problem with that approach was put in stark relief this week by the arrest of Matthew Hooper, a 38-year-old...
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Homeless man with 40 prior arrests captured after punching woman, 55, in the face in unprovoked attack
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Law Enforcement Today ^
| June 3, 2021 | Scott A. Davis
NEW YORK CITY, NY – A homeless man with multiple prior arrests was charged Tuesday for punching an Asian woman in Chinatown, and NYPD’s Commissioner is fed up with the justice system’s revolving door. Alexander
Wright, 48, was arrested shortly after the unprovoked attack, which took place in broad daylight on Monday afternoon. He has been arrested a total of 40 times, including five within the past year.
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White House Said to Be Vetting Appeals Court Judge for Supreme Court Seat
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NY Times ^
| 03/02/2016 | Julie Hirschfield Davis
The White House is vetting Jane L. Kelly, a career public defender turned federal appellate judge, as a potential nominee for the Supreme Court, as President Obama closes in on a decision that could reshape the court for decades and create an election-year showdown with Republicans. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has
been conducting background interviews on Judge Kelly, 51, according to a person with knowledge of the process, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the White House is closely guarding details about Mr. Obama's search to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia....
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Hospital Misleads Appeals Court: We Never Said Alfie Evans Would Die Soon. Told Court in February...
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LIFE NEWS ^
| April 25, 2018 | Steven Ertelt
FULL TITLE: Hospital Misleads Appeals Court: We Never Said Alfie Evans Would Die Soon. Told Court in February He’d Die “in Minutes” Testifying at the appeals court today in the battle over Alfie Evans, doctors representing Alder Hey Children’s Hospital appear to have mislead the court. According
to a tweet from a journalist in the courtroom today, hospital doctors say they never told Alfie Evans’ family that he would die soon after removal of his life support. However representatives of the hospital told the court back in February that Alfie would die within minutes and that he probably would “suddenly”...
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Bowe Bergdahl court martial delayed pending appeals court ruling
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The Washington Times ^
| February 9, 2016 | Victor Morton
A dispute over classified information has put on hold the court-martial of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on charges of desertion and cowardice. Col.
Jeffrey Nance, the judge in the case, issued a stay in the proceedings while an appeals court rules on what classified information the Bergdahl defense team can receive from the prosecution. The military requested the delay, claiming an "abundance of caution" because some of the information sought hadn't been cleared with federal classification authorities.
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Trump picks 2 Florida Supreme Court justices for federal appeals court
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Orlandosentinel.com ^
| 9/12/19 | Gray Rohrer
Florida Supreme Court justices Barbara Lagoa and Robert Luck, who’ve only served on the bench for eight months, could be headed to the federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals after President Trump nominated them to that powerful court Thursday. The move is the latest of the president’s efforts to remake the federal
court system with conservatives, such as U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. It also highlights Trump’s close ties with Gov. Ron DeSantis, who narrowly won the governor’s race last fall with the support of the president. If Lagoa and Luck are confirmed by the Republican-controlled...
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Abrahamson asks appeals court to speed up its ruling in war for Supreme Court
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The Wisconsin Reporter -- Watchdog ^
| 6-4-15 | M. D. Kittle
MADISON, Wis. – It’s been a busy few weeks around the Wisconsin Supreme Court, if not actually inside the state’s top court. On
Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson asked a federal appeals court to, at least temporarily, give her back the job of chief justice, a position she lost in an April vote of her fellow justices. The next day, hoping to expedite her appeals case, Abrahamson asked U.S. District Court Judge James Peterson to hit the pause button on her underlying federal claim – that her civil rights were violated when Wisconsin voters changed the state constitution, which...
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Supreme Court returns Texas abortion case to appeals court
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The Associated Press ^
| December 16, 2021 | By MARK SHERMAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has formally returned a lawsuit over Texas’ six-week abortion ban to a federal appeals court that has twice allowed the law to stay in effect, rather than to a district judge who sought to block it. Justice
Neil Gorsuch on Thursday signed the court’s order that granted the request of abortion clinics for the court to act speedily. But the clinics wanted the case sent directly to U.S. Judge Robert Pitman, who had previously though briefly blocked enforcement of the Texas abortion ban known as S.B. 8. When Pitman ordered the law blocked in...
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Appeals Court OKs Trump Ohio Poll Monitors, Overturns Lower Court Order
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International Business Times ^
| 11/6/2016 | MARCY KREITER
A federal appeals court in Cincinnati overturned a court order Sunday that would have prevented Republican Donald Trump’s supporters from monitoring election activities outside polling places. The
decision by the three-judge 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel overturned Friday’s decision by U.S. District Judge James Gwin, whose order would have applied to both Democrats and Republicans equally. But unlike Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton has not exhorted her supporters to stand outside polling places to monitor voting. The decision was in response to a suit filed by Democrats last Sunday, arguing the presence of Trump supporters outside polling places could...
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Appeals Court Denies D.C.’s Request for Full Court Hearing on Gun-Carry Law Struck Down in July
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Free Beacon ^
| 9/29/17 | Gutowski
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday denied a petition for a hearing from the full court after a three-judge panel declared portions of Washington, D.C.'s gun-carry law unconstitutional in July.
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Supreme Court sends case of racist juror back to Atlanta appeals court
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AJC ^
| 1/8/2017 | Bill Rankin
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday put a halt to Georgia’s plans to execute condemned killer Keith Tharpe, directing the federal appeals court in Atlanta to take a closer look at claims that one of Tharpe’s jurors voted for the death sentence because Tharpe was black. By
a 6-3 vote, the high court questioned a decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals not even to consider Tharpe’s latest appeal involving claims of racial bias on the part of the juror. Death-row inmate Keith Tharpe. (Georgia Department of Corrections) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “It may be that, at the end...
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Trump taps federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court
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msn ^
| July 9, 2018
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge in Washington, to succeed Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Trump made the announcement at the White House. NBC News broke the story shortly before the president's made his choice public. Kavanaugh
serves on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which often rules on major challenges to federal laws and policies. If confirmed, he would make the Supreme Court solidly conservative, joining Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch — providing a five-vote majority.
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Appeals court rejects Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania lawsuit, setting up Supreme Court next
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Just the News ^
| November 27, 2020 | Sophie Mann
The president's campaign will continue pushing their legal fight toward the Supreme Court The Trump 2020 campaign's legal team suffered another blow in court on Friday, as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia rejected the attorneys' effort to contest the results of the presidential election in Pennsylvania. Judge Stephanos Bibas wrote on
behalf of the three-judge panel that reviewed the appeal, "Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here." Trump's attorneys have vowed...
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