By Glynn Wilson – A prominent Congressman from Mississippi and the NAACP filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday under a historic law known as the Ku Klux Klan Act charging the 45th president and his lawyer with conspiring to incite the violent Capitol insurrection to prevent the official certification of election results. The…
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Attorneys General Support Legal Challenge of Permit for Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline
By Glynn Wilson – A coalition of 12 attorneys general around the country have filed friend of the court briefs in support of a federal lawsuit by environmental groups challenging the legality of the Trump administration’s permit for the Keystone XL pipeline transporting Canadian tar sands oil into the United States and across the American…
FTC and Bipartisan Coalition of 48 Attorneys General Sue Facebook for Violating Consumer Privacy and Crushing Competition
By Glynn Wilson – The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general in 48 of 50 states launched a major legal broadside across the bow of social media giant Facebook on Wednesday, escalating the battles in Washington and across the country against the largest technology companies in a way that “could remake the social media industry,”…
The Trump Administration’s Blatant Disregard for Protecting the Environment Lands in Court Again
By Glynn Wilson – The Trump administration’s blatant disregard for protecting the environment has landed in court again. Attorneys general for Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, asserting the executive branch federal agency neglected to enforce a decade-old agreement to reduce water pollution…
States Sue Trump Administration to Save Food Stamp Program
By Glynn Wilson – A group of 15 attorneys general in states across the country filed a lawsuit this week to stop the Trump administration from eliminating food stamp assistance for nearly 700,000 Americans. The lawsuit challenges a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) rule that would limit states’ ability to extend benefits from the…
States Sue to Hold Oil Companies Accountable for Costs of Climate Change
By Glynn Wilson – Maryland just joined 13 states in potentially groundbreaking legal action to hold the big oil companies accountable for their actions and products which scientists agree contribute to climate change and results in damage to the infrastructure of cities and states from rising sea levels, changes to the hydrologic cycle and increased…
Appeals Court Judges Reinstate Emoluments Lawsuit Against President Trump
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A three judge panel of federal appeals court judges has overruled a lower court and allowed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump to go forward for violations of the Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution by Trump hotels and restaurants for illegally profiting from business with foreign…
Subpoenas Issued in Emoluments Clause Case Against Trump and D.C. Hotel
By Glynn Wilson – In the federal case that charges President Donald J. Trump with violating the emoluments clauses of the Constitution by doing business with foreign governments at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. just down the street from the White House, a slew of new subpoenas went out Tuesday from attorneys general…
Maryland Attorney General Challenges Trump Appointment of Whitaker as Acting Attorney General
By Glynn Wilson – President Trump’s appointment of political loyalist Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general to replace Jeff Sessions of Alabama was illegal and is unconstitutional, and a federal judge in Maryland has been asked to rule on that question in a lawsuit defending a the pre-existing condition provision in the Affordable Care Act,…
Discovery of Slave Ship Clotilda Gives Polluted Africatown Publicity Boost
Historically Black Town Fights Toxic Waste – By D. Amari Jackson – In the spring of 1860, a year before the Civil War, a wealthy Alabama shipbuilder and plantation owner named Timothy Meaher chose to toy with the escalating tensions between North and South by making a despicable wager. Despite strict laws forbidding the import…
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Declares War on News: The Press Should Declare War on Facebook
So far the reaction has been ho hum from the press and media, when it should have been a legal declaration of war in retaliation. By Glynn Wilson – After spending the past decade sucking much of the world into its universe like a black hole swallowing up surrounding stars, and convincing 2 billion people…
Bentley Administration Stalls Federal Court in Gulf State Park Convention Center Lawsuit
Environmental Group Pushes for Expedited Oral Arguments – By Glynn Wilson – The Bentley administration is stalling in federal court by opposing expedited oral arguments in a lawsuit filed against the proposed use of $58 million in BP oil settlement money — designated to restore the Gulf eco-system — to build a hotel and convention…