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Federal Drug Agents Seize Millions from Passengers at Atlanta Airport While Posing as Regular Travelers In Plainclothes In ‘Cold Consent Encounters’

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Catching many travelers off guard is a new practice being stealthily carried out by drug agents dressed as plainclothes passengers at the Atlanta airport who are randomly searching people they suspect are transporting drug money. Atlanta News First Investigates reporters tailed Drug and Enforcement Administration (DEA) task force officers at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport as … Read more

Federal Judge Pokes Holes in Montana’s TikTok Ban

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A federal judge responsible for deciding the fate of Montana’s unprecedented TikTok ban poked holes in the state’s argument during a hearing Thursday and questioned why the government should prevent users and creators from willfully handing over data to the app. Donald Molloy, the judge overseeing the hearing, said Montana’s efforts to supposedly safeguard users’ … Read more

Federal judge throws out $32.5 million win for Sonos against Google

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A California judge has thrown out a $32.5 million verdict win for Sonos against Google after two of Sonos’ patents were deemed unenforceable and invalid. As a result, Google has started to re-introduce software features it had removed due to Sonos’ lawsuit. In a decision dated October 6, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said that … Read more

Brothers involved in fake iPhone swapping at Apple Stores were sentenced to federal prison

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It’s normally pretty easy to get your broken iPhone replaced at Apple’s Genius Bar under your AppleCare plan, but a (criminally) enterprising sibling duo found a way to trick the system by swapping counterfeit devices with real ones. Unfortunately for them, they got caught in 2019 attempting to exchange 10,000 fake Apple products over the … Read more

Fuller picture emerges of the 13 federal executions at the end of Trump’s presidency

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CHICAGO (AP) — A day before the federal government executed a Texas man for the killing of an Iowa couple when he was 18, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz pleaded with then-President Donald Trump — a former client — to call the execution off. During a Dec. 9, 2020, call to the White House, Dershowitz told … Read more

Trump’s war on federal agencies — fueled by his judges — reaches the Supreme Court

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WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s top lawyer put it bluntly when speaking at a conservative conference five years ago: The goal was to name judges who would help further the administration’s deregulation agenda. “There is a coherent plan here where actually the judicial selection and the deregulatory effort are really the flip side of … Read more

Judge Chutkan denies Trump’s request to recuse herself in federal election subversion case

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said Wednesday she won’t recuse herself from Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington, rejecting the former president’s claims that her past comments raise doubts about whether she can be fair. Chutkan, who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama and was randomly assigned … Read more

Federal judge again strikes down California law banning high capacity gun magazines

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California cannot ban gun owners from having detachable magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, a federal judge ruled Friday. The decision from U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez won’t take effect immediately. Democratic U.S. Attorney General Rob Bonta has already promised to appeal the ruling. The ban is likely to remain … Read more

Jim Jordan makes false claims about Trump, Hunter Biden to start listening to on dealing with of the federal circumstances in opposition to them

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Home Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan made false claims in his opening remarks at a Wednesday listening to at which Jordan and different Republicans pressed Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland concerning the Justice Division’s dealing with of investigations into former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Here’s a truth verify of … Read more

Mark Meadows fails in bid to maneuver Georgia election case to federal court docket

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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Fees towards Donald Trump’s onetime chief of employees Mark Meadows over efforts to reverse the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election won’t be heard in federal court docket, an indication that comparable bids by the previous U.S. president and his co-defendants to maneuver the prison case to a extra favorable venue … Read more