'A new database of sworn affidavits filed by the ACLU shows masked agents detaining citizens based on race without warrants, ignoring IDs, and pointing weapons at them.'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/minneapolis-ice-violations-database
'A new database of sworn affidavits filed by the ACLU shows masked agents detaining citizens based on race without warrants, ignoring IDs, and pointing weapons at them.'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/minneapolis-ice-violations-database
💼 Vacant position: #IT-Project Manager #Legal #Tech
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Find all important information about this position here 👉 https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2025-12/Onepager_job-IT-Project%20Manager%20Legal%20Tech.pdf
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#Trump will have the power to select which government positions will lose their #JobProtections, according to the statement.
‼️The Trump admin is also changing how long-standing #legal #protections that prohibit #US #government agencies from retaliating against #whistleblowers will be enforced, according to the statement.
#law #labor #ScheduleF #democracy #Constitution #Congress #ChecksAndBalances #independence #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MafiaState
"“Many of the court’s decisions are being made out of the public eye in a way that makes it difficult to assess or criticize them..."
it also allows the #court to conceal weaknesses in its processes, including the justices’ reliance on clerks for #legal reasoning and writing.
“If the #public were aware of how much of the 👉 deliberations affecting millions of people are made by 27-year-olds after happy hour,👈 they’d be shocked,” he said."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/supreme-court-nondisclosure-agreements.html
The overhaul, released by the Office of Personnel Management [ #OPM], fulfills a campaign promise for #Trump to strip #JobProtections from #FederalWorkers that his team deems to be "influencing" #government policy. It is the biggest change to the rules governing the #CivilService in more than a century. Trump called the overhaul " #ScheduleF" during his first administration.
#law #democracy #Congress #ChecksAndBalances #independence #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MafiaState
#Trump will have the power to select which government positions will lose their #JobProtections, according to the statement.
‼️The Trump admin is also changing how long-standing #legal #protections that prohibit #US #government agencies from retaliating against #whistleblowers will be enforced, according to the statement.
#law #labor #ScheduleF #democracy #Constitution #Congress #ChecksAndBalances #independence #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MafiaState
Reuters: Greece to Soon Announce Social Media Ban for Children Under 15, Government Source Says. “Greece is ‘very close’ to announcing a social media ban for children aged under 15, a senior government source told Reuters on Tuesday.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/05/reuters-greece-to-soon-announce-social-media-ban-for-children-under-15-government-source-says/Reuters: Greece to Soon Announce Social Media Ban for Children Under 15, Government Source Says. “Greece is ‘very close’ to announcing a social media ban for children aged under 15, a senior government source told Reuters on Tuesday.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/05/reuters-greece-to-soon-announce-social-media-ban-for-children-under-15-government-source-says/"Le normally doesn’t work for the #US Attorney’s Office. She used to work as an attorney for ICE in #immigration court, and last month volunteered to help prosecutors in the US Attorney’s Office deal with the many habeas petitions from #immigrants in ICE detention seeking their release. But Le admitted to Blackwell that ICE is out of its depth, and was not prepared to argue cases in federal court."
https://newrepublic.com/post/206115/this-job-sucks-doj-attorney-judge-contempt-ice-court-orders
#ICE #DHS #CBP #Law #News #Minnesota #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
"Trump’s #Minnesota crackdown has proceeded with little regard for the #law, drawing a backlash from local residents who have scrambled to #protest against the massive deployment of federal agents & their violent tactics. Since the deaths of #Good and #Pretti, those #protests have only intensified, and Trump’s response has been to double down. The US attorneys who haven’t quit in protest now have to deal with the #legal fallout."
https://newrepublic.com/post/206115/this-job-sucks-doj-attorney-judge-contempt-ice-court-orders
The problem with "AI" in legal --- all ethical problems aside --- is that legal is heavily reliant on language in addition to logic. Determining the "correct" use of legal language is a difficult and ill-posed problem with multiple viable solutions and no means to safely choose between them without authoritative case law coming to the rescue.
Verifying legal solutions is a problem with a high human verification burden, so producing mass "AI" solutions mostly increases human workload, instead of reducing it.
The problem with "AI" in legal --- all ethical problems aside --- is that legal is heavily reliant on language in addition to logic. Determining the "correct" use of legal language is a difficult and ill-posed problem with multiple viable solutions and no means to safely choose between them without authoritative case law coming to the rescue.
Verifying legal solutions is a problem with a high human verification burden, so producing mass "AI" solutions mostly increases human workload, instead of reducing it.
Associated Press: Spain looks to ban social media for under-16s, joining others in Europe. “Spain plans to ban social media access for children under 16, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Tuesday, in a move designed to shield young people from the harms of online content.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/04/associated-press-spain-looks-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-joining-others-in-europe/Associated Press: Spain looks to ban social media for under-16s, joining others in Europe. “Spain plans to ban social media access for children under 16, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Tuesday, in a move designed to shield young people from the harms of online content.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/04/associated-press-spain-looks-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-joining-others-in-europe/Via #LLRX All In: #Embedding #AI in #Law School #Classroom – What is irreducibly human element in #legal #education when AI can pass the #bar #exam, generate effective lectures, provide personalized #learning & #academic support? This article by law prof Gregory M. Duhl confronts that ? head-on by documenting planning, design of a comprehensive transformation of a required doctrinal law school course for 1st yr #Contracts w AI fully embedded throughout the course design. https://www.llrx.com/2026/01/all-in-embedding-ai-in-the-law-school-classroom/
"An employee alleging wrongdoing is allowed to share the complaint directly with congressional intelligence committees as long as the director of national intelligence provides instructions on how to securely transmit it."
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/classified-whistleblower-complaint-about-tulsi-gabbard-stalls-within-her-agency-027f5331?st=SYNN9K&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
[The Dir of National Intelligence is #TulsiGabbard. The complaint is about #Gabbard.
Do you really expect her to provide instructions on transmitting the complaint?]
"Bakaj, the whistleblower’s lawyer, previously advised a #CIA officer who in 2019 filed a complaint that sparked Trump’s first #impeachment.
“From my experience, it is confounding for [Gabbard’s office] to take weeks—let alone 8 months—to transmit a disclosure to #Congress,” Bakaj, who is chief #legal counsel at the nonprofit WhistleblowerAid.org, said in a statement.
Amid the limbo, the #Gabbard complaint has been locked in a safe"
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/classified-whistleblower-complaint-about-tulsi-gabbard-stalls-within-her-agency-027f5331?st=SYNN9K&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Associated Press: Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of investigation into child abuse images and deepfakes. “French prosecutors searched the offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into a range of alleged offences, including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/03/associated-press-paris-prosecutors-raid-x-offices-as-part-of-investigation-into-child-abuse-images-and-deepfakes/Associated Press: Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of investigation into child abuse images and deepfakes. “French prosecutors searched the offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into a range of alleged offences, including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/03/associated-press-paris-prosecutors-raid-x-offices-as-part-of-investigation-into-child-abuse-images-and-deepfakes/As part of this push for relevance, #xAI embraced making sexualized material, publicly releasing sexy #AI companions, rolling back #guardrails on sexual material & ignoring internal warnings about the serious #legal & #ethical risks of producing such #content, acc/to interviews with more than a half-dozen former employees of #X & xAI, as well as multiple people familiar with #Musk’s thinking—some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional retribution—& documents….
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Bakaj, the whistleblower’s lawyer, previously advised a Central Intelligence Agency officer who in 2019 filed a complaint that sparked Trump’s first impeachment.
“From my experience, it is confounding for [Gabbard’s office] to take weeks—let alone eight months—to transmit a disclosure to Congress,” Bakaj, who is chief legal counsel at the nonprofit WhistleblowerAid.org, said in a statement.
Amid the limbo, the Gabbard complaint has been locked in a safe in the office, a person familiar with the matter said. Asked about the safe, the inspector-general representative said: “Some complaints involve exceptionally sensitive materials necessitating special handling and storage requirements. This case is one of them.”
Some of the material in the complaint is also “marked as ‘attorney-client privileged,’ ” and could be subject to “executive privilege,” which generally refers to the power of the president to withhold confidential information or private discussions from Congress or the judicial branch, the inspector general’s office said.](https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/116/008/313/853/563/518/original/ea95948ce3ccac46.png)