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Justices allow depositions of Texas lawmakers in Voting Rights Act lawsuit

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Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning rejected a request from three Texas lawmakers to put off their depositions in lawsuits seeking to block redistricting legislation in that state. The order came in a dispute that arose after the Texas legislature’s October 2021 adoption of new maps for congressional and state elections.

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US Supreme Court rules Texas legislators must give depositions in redistricting suit

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The US Supreme Court Tuesday rejected three Texas legislators’ emergency application to stay depositions that they are scheduled to give in redistricting lawsuits filed by multiple plaintiffs, including the US Department of Justice. Solicitor General Elizabeth B.

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“Anti-abortion lawyers target those funding the procedure for potential lawsuits under new Texas law; Attorneys who helped design Texas’ novel abortion ban have asked a judge to allow them to depose the leaders of two abortion funds, seeking information about anyone who may have ‘aided or abetted’ in a prohibited procedure”

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“Anti-abortion lawyers target those funding the procedure for potential lawsuits under new Texas law; Attorneys who helped design Texas’ novel abortion ban have asked a judge to allow them to depose the leaders of two abortion funds, seeking information about anyone who may have ‘aided or abetted’ in a prohibited procedure”: (..)

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Sheriff’s Office Has Been Destroying Records Of Alleged Officer Misconduct For Years

The Crime Report

When attorneys for the family deposed Deputy Nick Vega, one of two deputies accused in the lawsuit of sitting on Parsa prior to his death, they asked him about his disciplinary history. One of the deputies, who weighed more than 300 pounds, sat on him for at least nine minutes, according to the lawsuit.

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Texas and Louisiana lack right to challenge Biden immigration policy, court rules

SCOTUSBlog

In a major victory for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Texas and Louisiana do not have a legal right, known as standing, to challenge a Biden administration policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation. The policy at the center of the case, United States v.

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Biden’s Canned Hunt: The Punishment of the Border Agents is about Protecting a President, not Migrants

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Hill on the punishment of four mounted Border Patrol agents in Texas and what is says about us as a country. The verdict on these agents was decided ten months ago, after the media went into a frenzy over a false story accusing mounted officers of whipping undocumented migrants near Del Rio, Texas, on Sept.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. Vermont Court Said Former Attorney General Could Be Deposed on Use of Private Email Account. The court addressed three narrow issues that remained in one or more of the cases.

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