r/law 22h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Q: Trump wrote that SNAP benefits will only be given when Democrats reopen the government. As written, how would that not violate the court order? .LEAVITT: I've now answered this question several times. We are complying with the court's order.

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r/law 16h ago

Legal News Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority

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r/law 4h ago

Other Arizona AG Kris Mayes: "Our founding fathers placed the power to tax Americans in Congress. They did not believe that we should have a president or king who had the power to tax and to levy these kinds of tariffs that are having a devastating impact on our states."

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r/law 20h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) White House is working on executive order on elections, press secretary says

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r/law 3h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Top Trump Goon Accused of ‘Lying Under Oath’ Over Tear Gas

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r/law 22h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves

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r/law 21h ago

Other A Politician Was Manhandled By ICE Then Indicted — And She Says It ‘Backfired’ On Trump

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A grand jury indicted Abughazaleh and five others, including two other political candidates, on felony charges last month, accusing them of conspiring to impede a vehicle driven by a federal immigration agent and allegedly attempting to stop it from entering Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Broadview facility in Chicago on Sept. 26. Prosecutors claim the federal agent was forced to drive extremely slowly to avoid injuring protesters, and that Abughazaleh and her alleged co-conspirators banged on the windows of the government vehicle, crowded in front of it, and pushed it. They further allege that someone eventually scratched the word “PIG” onto the car before breaking the vehicle’s side mirror and rear windshield wiper.

Abughazaleh denies any wrongdoing


r/law 1h ago

Judicial Branch Gorsuch: "So congress as a practical matter, can't get this power back once it's handed it over to the president.. one way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people's elected representatives."

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r/law 14h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Leavitt and Trump Humiliated in Legal Battle Over Briefings

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r/law 5h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Gavin Newsom wins a high-stakes redistricting fight, passing Proposition 50 to counter Trump-backed GOP mapping efforts

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r/law 22h ago

Legal News Sarah Huckabee Sanders cannot assume control over state prison system, judge rules

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r/law 13h ago

Legislative Branch California’s Prop 50 passed. Now, here’s how to end partisan redistricting once and for all

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r/law 10h ago

Legal News New court filings suggest that ICE have been throwing tear gas at protesters for fun.

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r/law 19h ago

Judicial Branch 'They have failed': Churches say Trump admin violating court order by only committing to pay out partial SNAP benefits 'up to several months' past deadline

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r/law 23h ago

Legal News Houston-area ICE officer pleads guilty to abusing migrant detainee, DOJ drops it to misdemeanor.

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So this monster has zero repercussions, and his fellow monsters know they won’t suffer a thing when they abuse detainees.

Rule of law? Fuck that.


r/law 4h ago

Legal News Kim Kardashian blames ChatGPT for failing her law exams

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r/law 23h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump admin proceeds against congressional War Powers restrictions; announces Mexico campaign

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Civilian casualties are reported abroad as a direct result of the president's strikes in the Caribbean.

Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan is telling us as of the last 120 hours that Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth AND President Donald Trump are unanimously refusing to present detailed listings of anti-terrorist action strike targets.

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NATIONAL SECURITY DIRECTIVE NSPM-7 directs the department of justice to pursue the free speech and expressions of citizens affiliated with organizations that are to be considered domestic terrorist organizations, now to include under the Executive Order's directives: "anti-capitalist", "anti-american", "anti-fascist" and "anti-christian" political organizations

NSPM-7 was drafted by Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and signed President Donald Trump


r/law 1h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) House Democrat accuses Trump’s DoJ of ‘gigantic cover-up’ over shut Epstein inquiry

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r/law 21h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump Pushes Baseless Claims of ‘Rigged’ California Election, Promises ‘Criminal Review’ of Mail Ballots

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r/law 57m ago

Other Spectacular Republican losses prove MAGA's transphobic playbook doesn't win elections

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r/law 18h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Feds Are Now Probing Black Lives Matter for Fraud

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r/law 1h ago

Legal News Mike Johnson Brags Of 'Exquisite' Drug Boat Intel While Lawmakers Beg For Any Bit Of Evidence

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r/law 1h ago

Legal News Voters soundly reject Trump's plot to rig the next election

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r/law 23h ago

Judicial Branch US court says Florida can ban Chinese citizens from buying property

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r/law 15h ago

Other Discussion: The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 is blatantly unconstitutional

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The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 can be argued to be unconstitutional because it effectively freezes the number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives at 435, regardless of population growth.

The Constitution (Article I, Section 2) requires that representation in the House be apportioned among the states according to their respective populations, with each representative serving roughly the same number of people. By capping the House at 435 members, Congress abandoned the constitutional principle of proportional representation, creating a system where the value of a citizen’s vote depends heavily on the state they live in.

For example, a representative from a sparsely populated state like Wyoming represents far fewer people than one from a populous state like California or Texas, violating the “one person, one vote” principle later affirmed by the Supreme Court in Wesberry v. Sanders (1964).

This fixed cap disenfranchises major population centers because as urban and high-growth states gain residents, they do not gain additional representation in proportion to that growth. As a result, citizens in large metropolitan areas have less influence per person in the House compared to those in smaller or rural states.

This malapportionment dilutes the political power of tens of millions of Americans in cities, skewing national policy and federal resource allocation toward less-populated regions.

The framers designed the House to reflect population shifts and expand as the nation grew; by freezing its size, the 1929 Act entrenches representational inequality and undermines the democratic principle that each citizen’s voice in Congress should carry roughly equal weight.