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As Los Angeles deals with wildfires, law schools offer support

As the wildfires around Los Angeles cause significant chaos for residents, Southern California law schools are mobilizing—with students and faculty offering assistance to those who’ve lost their homes.



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Death row inmate can pursue due process appeal over sex-life evidence admitted at trial, Supreme Court says

A death row inmate can pursue a claim that her Oklahoma trial was prejudiced by the introduction of evidence about her sex life, provocative clothing and thong underwear, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.



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DOJ says it will prosecute local officials over immigration enforcement

The Trump administration has directed federal prosecutors nationwide to investigate and potentially bring criminal charges against state and local officials who don’t cooperate with the president’s plans to carry out mass deportations.



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Elephants don't have standing to sue to leave the zoo, top Colorado court rules

Colorado’s highest court on Tuesday ruled that five elderly elephants don’t have legal standing to sue to leave a local zoo because they’re not human.



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States, civil rights groups sue to stop Trump's birthright citizenship order

President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship faced a flurry of legal challenges Tuesday from a bevy of states and civil rights groups, signaling that the effort could be tied up in court and unlikely to take effect next month as planned.



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Trump's executive orders already face pushback, legal challenges

Two hours after being sworn in, President Donald Trump sat down in the President’s Room at the U.S. Capitol to sign the first of nearly 100 promised executive orders. But his pen strokes also kicked off a round of objections from opponents, scholars and other groups that said he’d exceeded the limits of his presidential power.



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Trump pardons almost all involved in Jan. 6 riot, commutes remaining 14 sentences



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Here are the executive actions and orders Trump signed on Day 1

Donald Trump began issuing executive actions Monday after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, kicking off his second term in office at a signing desk inside Washington’s Capital One Arena with family members and allies behind him onstage and a crowd of supporters in the audience. Many of Trump’s orders are expected to be challenged in court.



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Biden reaffirms belief that the Equal Rights Amendment is the law

President Joe Biden declared that the Equal Rights Amendment is the law of the land Friday morning, using his bully pulpit to try to push forward the amendment, first proposed more than a century ago, that would enshrine sex equality in the U.S. Constitution.



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Biden commutes sentences of nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders

President Joe Biden plans Friday to commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, making good on a promise to reduce the federal prison population before handing over the White House to President-elect Donald Trump.



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