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Efforts to shut down pro-Palestinian speech face series of setbacks in court

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“The courts have said, ‘We agree, this is first amendment protected speech,” said Radhika Sainath, an attorney with Palestine Legal, which filed briefs in many of the cases. That, she continued, has resulted in “wins for Palestinian rights because they are starting to create a body of law”.

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The Guardian

Judge indicates he might shut down Trump’s $400m White House ballroom plan

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A federal judge has slammed Donald Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing and plan to build a $400m ballroom where it once stood as “brazen”, and has indicated he might terminate the project later this month.

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The Guardian

Judge temporarily blocks key parts of RFK, Jr.’s effort to overhaul U.S. childhood vaccines

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A federal judge on Monday blocked major parts of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s broad overhaul of U.S. vaccine policy in a decision that sides with six medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which had challenged Kennedy’s rule changes in court.

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Scientific American

Justice department moves to drop charges against men accused of hitting ICE officer in Minnesota

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In a filing on Thursday, the US attorney’s office for the district of Minnesota said “newly discovered evidence” in the criminal case against Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis “is materially inconsistent with the allegations against them” made in a criminal complaint and a court hearing last month.

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The Guardian

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