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The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency called it its largest workplace raid in recent history. More than 100 people were arrested in other roundups of undocumented immigrants in Ohio and Tennessee.
Critics say a growing backlog of asylum seekers at the Mexican border is not the result of a significant increase in the number of families asking for asylum but rather a slowdown by the Trump administration in processing them.
Piscataway, a suburb of New Brunswick, enacts the first late in the state barring gun stores near schools, parks, health care facilities and other sensitive locations. California has 24 localities with similar restrictions.
Antwon Rose, 17, was unarmed when he was killed but police found two guns on the floor of the vehicle he had been riding. The cellphone video of a traffic stop turned fatal — punctuated by gunshots and the outcry of the woman filming as an officer fired at two fleeing young men — prompted local and national outrage.
A federal investigation started when West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry brought his concerns about Supreme Court spending to federal investigators has culminated with Loughry himself being indicted on 22 federal charges.
A judge signed a July 11 execution warrant for murdered Scott Dozier. The state says it has the necessary drugs for a lethal injection.
Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, says he will keep open the option of a sit-down interview with Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller. On Tuesday night, Giuiliani said he doubted there would be such a session, saying, “You don’t put your client in a kangaroo court.”
In his first term on the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch is voting more often in favor of federal criminal defendants than against them. He may prove to be a more “gettable” vote than the man he replaced, Antonin Scalia, says commentator Douglas Berman.
The costs of police misconduct lawsuits are alarming cities. New York City paid a record $302 million last year; Chicago paid $20 million in the first eight weeks of this year. Cities in six states have had to disband their police departments after losing insurance coverage.
It appears to be the first lawsuit filed by a parent separated from a child under a zero-tolerance border policy that the Trump administration defends as necessary to deter illegal immigration despite an explosion of criticism. The American Civil Liberties Union has sued challenging the overall policy.