Category «Legal Research»

People’s Guide to the US Supreme Court: 2025-2026 Term

Democracy Forward: “The United States is in an existential fight for democracy. With so much on the line for millions of people, the Supreme Court remains a decisive arena. The new term begins on Monday, October 6, and will determine the role of this Court on attempts at unchecked power. The authoritarian threats from the Trump-Vance …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Courts, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

The New York Times Gift Article: “The White House on [October 1, 2025] sent letters to nine of the nation’s top public and private universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for President Trump’s political agenda to help ensure access to federal research funds. The letters came attached to a 10-page “compact” that serves as …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Financial System, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

The Wall Street Firms That Kept Ties With Jeffrey Epstein Until the End

Follow up to Oversight Democrats Release Third Batch of Documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate see The Daily Beast: “From TD Bank to Honeycomb Partners, several hedge funds and banks were linked to the wealthy sex offender – Fresh documents from the estate of late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how the convicted sex trafficker carried on …

Subjects: Congress, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

Trump Publishes Enemies List To White House Website

TechDirt: “…Here’s how the administration leads into its hit list of Democratic politicians (emphasis in the original): The carnage in Dallas, Texas — where a maniac with “ANTI-ICE” ammo gunned down an ICE field office in an attack clearly targeted at ICE personnel — lays bare the deadly consequences of Democrats’ unhinged crusade against our border …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Head of Eisenhower library resigns after refusing Trump directive

CBS News: “The head of a presidential library resigned this week after a tug-of-war with the Trump administration over gift selection and a sword for King Charles III, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Todd Arrington, a career historian who previously held posts with the National Park Service and National Archives and Records Administration, …

Subjects: Censorship, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It

404 Media: “Earlier this month, an appeals court in California issued a blistering decision and record $10,000 fine against a lawyer who submitted a brief in which “nearly all of the legal quotations in plaintiff’s opening brief, and many of the quotations in plaintiff’s reply brief, are fabricated” through the use of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE

AP – “Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press. The information will give ICE …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Disarming Disinformation Research: United States Case Study

“In the second country case study published under the Disarming Disinformation project, we examine the critical role played by the ethnic and Indigenous press in countering disinformation in the U.S. We highlight unique challenges ethnic and Indigenous outlets face related to disinformation during the 2024 U.S. presidential election.The findings come from a far-reaching, mixed methods …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Education, Internet, Legal Research

Nazi Looted Art Identified in Ohio

JTA: Ohio auction house halts sale of paintings looted during the Holocaust and billed as ‘unclaimed property. “The Monuments Men and Women Foundation linked the 17th-century works to Adolphe Schloss, a German Jew whose collection was seized by the Nazis. Two 17th-century paintings have been taken off the auction block after a Holocaust art restitution …

Subjects: Legal Research

ADL deletes Glossary of Extremism under pressure from conservatives over Charlie Kirk entry

Jewish Insider: “The organization stands by a separate resource that describes Kirk’s Turning Point USA’s ties to ‘extremists’. Under pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Anti-Defamation League is removing from its website the Glossary of Extremism and Hate, one of …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

404 Media: Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples’ phones. “The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of …

Subjects: E-Records, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media