Muslim student Yasir Afifi and the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit against the FBI after Afifi discovered a global positioning system device on his car’s undercarriage.
The push to tweak the 14th Amendment ominously coincides with a mainstreaming of pro-Confederacy revisionismâpointing to the emergence of a homegrown American fascism.
A 16-state coalition filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, requesting the court to issue a judicial determination that Trump's national emergency declaration over the southern border wall is unconstitutional. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the lawsuit, stating: "Unlawful southern border entries are at their lowest point in 20 years, immigrants are less likely than native-born citizens to commit crimes, and illegal drugs are more likely to come through official ports of entry. There is no credible evidence to suggest that a border wall would decrease crime rates." (Photo via Jurist)
For the second year in a row, a federal court in Columbus, Georgia, has sentenced activists to six-month prison terms for trespassing on the US Army’s Fort Benning base.
The right-wing chattering and blogging classes are squealing with unanimous denial that Jared Loughner was influenced by their recent effluence of militaristic thunder.
A Homeland Security memo states that Jared Loughnerâprimary suspect in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffordsâis “possibly linked” to the white supremacist American Renaissance.
Jewish organizations are protesting the 27-year sentence handed down to Sholom Rubashkin, the kosher slaughterhouse CEO whose plant was raided for undocumented workers.
The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed suit challenging the constitutionality of State Question 755, which bans the use of Islamic law in state court decisions.
A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down a portion of an Arizona law, Proposition 200, requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration.
A protest was held in Albuquerque, NM, demanding police intensify their search for a culprit in the mass grave discovered at West Mesa on the outskirts of the city last year.
Federal agents searched homes of anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis in an investigation of possible links with the FARC and PFLP “terrorist organizations.”
The Los Angeles Times sees communist agitators behind the uprising by Central American immigrants in Los Angeles’ Westlake district following the police shooting of a Guatemalan day-laborer.
