The Riverside County sheriff has seized 650,000 ballots. Here's what we know

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

A Vermont police officer who used a restraint technique known to be painful to remove a protester from the state capitol in 2015 is protected from a civil rights lawsuit under qualified immunity, the US Supreme Court said.

Great piece in @nytimes.com: He Spent Five Years in Solitary. He Came Out a Jailhouse Lawyer. Obsessed with proving his innocence, Quentin Lewis devoted years in isolation to learning the law. Now he is taking on his captors in prison tribunals. | www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/n...

BREAKING: Robert Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, died Friday at 81, according to two people familiar with the matter. www.ms.now/news/former-...

Trump jokingly referred to the initial strikes on Iran to the attack on Pearl Harbor while seated next to Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by a group of parents who claimed the city of Boston's admissions system for its three elite high schools unlawfully discriminated against white student applicants @nateraymond.bsky.social reut.rs/4lY33HP

Lawsuit says rescission of endangerment finding – which ruled greenhouse gases threaten public health – was illegal

ICE has long had guidelines for detained immigrant parents. However, a new report reveals that agents are blatantly disregarding these rules, not asking parents if they have children or ensuring the kids have someone to care for them.

The University of California, Berkeley agreed to tighten protections against antisemitism on campus to settle a lawsuit accusing the school of tolerating an "unrelenting" stream of harassment toward Jewish students and faculty, lawyers for the plaintiffs said on Thursday.

Pleased to share my new piece for @policypress.bsky.social's Transforming Society Blog: 'ICE’s ‘warrior’ policing leaves Minneapolis community in shock' | www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2026/03/17/i...

A union representing TSA officers warned of a "breaking point," as more airports feel the strain of the partial DHS shutdown.

A new bill would require ICE to get a judge-signed warrant before entering homes, even for immigration cases.

Under Kristi Noem, ICE purchased 11 large warehouses around the country that it plans to convert into megajails, Nick Miroff reports. But senior DHS officials tell him they expect that effort to slow down and perhaps even pause.

‘No clear goal’: lack of Iran war plan has unleashed chaos and could stymie US military for decades, say critics. White House contends with reality of shoddy preparations for war and unclear conditions for victory | www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US #ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and #surveillance app in rare court testimony. Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special #tech to help choose ‘targets’ | www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#Ireland’s #BasicIncome for #artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck. A pilot scheme offering some artists €300-plus a week for three years is being made permanent. But should something so fundamental be run like a lottery? | #arts #law www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Six Arkansas school districts are now permanently barred from enforcing a state law requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in elementary and secondary school classrooms and libraries, a district court ruled Monday.

SCOOP: DOJ has waived policy requiring newly hired prosecutors to have least a year (more often 3 years) experience practicing law. As DOJ struggles to replace mass departures w/ qualified applicants, this move allows hiring straight out of law school. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked federal health officials from cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every child, and said U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likely violated federal procedures in revamping a key vaccine advisory committee. https://to.pbs.org/476gwHc

Some US states are reviving a push to #TaxTheRich | #inequality #WealthTax #law | apnews.com/article/mill...

Professors across the U.S. have been censoring themselves, avoiding provocative topics and rewriting grants as President Trump pursues a seismic reimagining of higher education.

Of roughly 1,200 scientists who responded, 46% said they have or had a side hustle during their PhD to make ends meet go.nature.com/4lwkz5F

A coalition including politicians, advocacy organizations, and religious leaders wants a special prosecutor to investigate alleged crimes by federal immigration agents in the Chicago area.

Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, is the first Muslim mayor of New York City. Some congressional Republicans have backed the rhetoric.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

@nytimes.com Editorial Board: The Death Penalty Is Even More Horrifying Than You Think | www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men. | newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Big Law attorneys are squaring up against a new, costly courtroom opponent: everyday people filing lawsuits and legal briefs with the help of generative artificial intelligence.

Anonymous sources told The Washington Post that Hegseth and his staff called photos of him taken by photographers from large outlets like Reuters, the Associated Press, and Getty Images at a March 2 briefing “unflattering.” trib.al/da9deA3

Since the United States and Israel launched an unprovoked war on Iran at the end of February, more than 1,100 youth have been killed or injured in related violence across the Middle East, the United Nations Children’s Fund has said.

Raise Taxes on the Rich? These Rich New Yorkers Are All for It. | #TaxTheRich #inequality #law | www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/n...

US House Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to condemn anti-Muslim comments by Republican lawmakers | #Islamophobia #politics #law | www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW: Even the strongest anti-abortion advocates don't want to punish people for pregnancy loss. Police and prosecutors are finding ways to do it anyway. Here's what happens when miscarriage is recast as murder:

More than 3,200 lawyers including 300 top barristers and retired judges have called on the UK government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials. | #juries #CriminalLaw #law #courts #AccessToJustice | www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Black people up to 48 times more likely to be stopped and searched in richest areas of London. Research found extreme disproportion in use of #police power in districts such as Richmond-upon-Thames | #race #legitimacy #law www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...

Anthropic sues Trump administration over Pentagon blacklisting. The firm alleges the US government retaliated against Anthropic for refusing to let its Claude AI model be used for autonomous lethal warfare and mass surveillance of Americans u.afp.com/SuCi

Pleased to share my new piece for @uk.theconversation.com: ‘Can police reforms improve trust in UK forces?’ | theconversation.com/can-police-r...

Judge orders US Customs to process refunds on illegal Trump tariffs reut.rs/4saiwH3

BREAKING: The U.S. government must refund all tariffs charged under President Donald Trump's now struck-down IEEPA tariff regime, regardless of whether they filed a suit at the U.S. Court of International Trade seeking a refund, a CIT judge ordered Wednesday. www.law360.com/artic...

Breaking News: Scientists have been using methods that underestimated how high sea levels already are, a new study found. One result is that hundreds of millions more people are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated.

Half of Americans now support abolishing ICE, a new poll found.

US Supreme Court appears likely to strike down a law banning drug abusers from owning firearms u.afp.com/SugQ

Customs and Border Protection accused of trying to coerce unaccompanied minors in government custody to self-deport through ‘threats and fear’ trib.al/n9uf6bS

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Breaking news: Anthropic said that it will not concede to the Pentagon’s terms for full access to its AI tool Claude, saying it cannot loosen its restrictions against use in fully autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance.

In a call with top state voting officials, a Department of Homeland Security official stated unequivocally that immigration agents would not be patrolling polling places during this year's midterms. n.pr/3ZYTPkh

US military leaders pressure Anthropic to bend Claude safeguards. Anthropic presents itself as most safety-forward AI firm and Pentagon has threatened penalties if it does not yield | www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

UK Police AI chief admits crime-fighting tech will have bias but vows to tackle it. NCA’s Alex Murray says he hopes new £115m police AI centre can limit unfairness found in tools | www.theguardian.com/technology/2...