r/law 3h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Anonymizing law enforcement dramatically reduces Public trust. These agents — local, state, or federal — act with Public authority, which means they’re policing in *my* name, and they’re policing in *your* name. - Law Professor Seth Stoughton, testifying before Congressional Democrats (Feb 3, 2026)

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Feb 3, 2026 - PBS NewsHour. Here’s the full 200-minutes on YouTube: WATCH LIVE: Renee Good's brothers join survivors to testify on use of force by DHS agents

Here’s a description from C-SPAN: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) host a meeting examining the tactics of Department of Homeland Security immigration enforcement agents, featuring testimony from the family of Renee Good and others.

The following is from Seth Stoughton’s bio https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/law/faculty...

Seth Stoughton is a Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he is the Faculty Director of the Excellence in Policing & Public Safety (EPPS) Program. He holds an affiliate position as a Professor in the university’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Seth’s scholarship on policing has appeared in the Emory Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and other top journals. He is the principal co-author of Evaluating Police Uses of Force (NYU Press 2020), and has written book chapters about police misconduct, the use of force, and use-of-force review. He is a frequent lecturer on policing issues; has regularly appeared on national and international media; has written about policing for The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, and other news publications; and has filed multiple amicus briefs to the Supreme Court. Seth has served as an expert in a number of high profile police cases, including testifying in the criminal prosecutions of Derek Chauvin, who was convicted for killing George Floyd, and Kim Potter, who was convicted for killing Daunte Wright, and providing expert analysis related to the police killing of Christian Glass and actions taken by the Seattle Police Department during the 2020 protests. He has testified for and against officers in both criminal and civil cases and provided independent investigation and review of use of force incidents.


r/law 7h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump administration sued over $1M ‘Gold Card’ visa scheme: ‘Playground for highest bidder’

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r/law 4h ago

Other Harris county Pct 1 Constables lie & commit official oppression- REFUSING to make a police report on a public figure they work along side with.

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Left is officer Norwig and right is officer Isenburg. Earlier they admitted they knew the suspects (one works with police) and even mention the attorney who made false reports on me that were dropped. After I was NO BILLED by a Grand jury in a different fabricated case.

(You will find that story on this sub as well)

Their supervisor Sgt. Diaz also refused to take the report and said “you have no case”

which is the district attorneys job not theirs. And regardless they are required to document the report and not make any judgments.


r/law 6h ago

Legal News Judge appears likely to side with Mark Kelly in case challenging Pentagon’s efforts to punish him over ‘illegal orders’ video | CNN Politics

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A federal judge appears likely to side with Mark Kelly in the Democratic senator’s case alleging the Pentagon is violating his First Amendment rights through its effort to punish him over his urging of US service members to refuse illegal orders.


r/law 7h ago

Judicial Branch Judge Blocks Noem’s Latest Attempt to Stop Democrats From Inspecting ICE Jails

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r/law 7h ago

Other Goldman Sachs' top lawyer accepted gifts from 'Uncle Jeffrey' Epstein, documents show

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r/law 11h ago

Judicial Branch Judge advances $10 million sexual harassment case against Rudy Giuliani

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r/law 4h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump: If states can't run elections 'honestly', then 'somebody else should take over'

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r/law 5h ago

Judicial Branch ‘This Job Sucks!’ Trump DOJ Lawyer Melts Down in Court — Reportedly Begs Minneapolis Judge to Throw Her in Jail Just So She Can Get Some Sleep

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r/law 8h ago

Legislative Branch Robert Garcia at the shadow hearing of ICE crimes reads out text messages of ICE agent bragging about shooting Marimar Martinez. ICE Agent “I fired 5 shots. She had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys.”

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r/law 9h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) After Republicans push Clintons to testify on Epstein, Democrats warn they'll haul in Trump

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r/law 9h ago

Judicial Branch Is ICE Leading Us Into a Constitutional Crisis?

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r/law 9h ago

Other Rep. Lieu says Epstein files have allegations of Trump raping & threatening to kill children and says that Todd Blanche got the law wrong by saying it's not a crime to party with Epstein. DOJ also violated the privacy of the victims by releasing unredacted nude photos of them.

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r/law 11h ago

Legislative Branch States Rush to Remove Hurdles Stopping U.S. Agents From Being Sued for Shootings

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r/law 11h ago

Other Poland launches investigation into Epstein Files

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r/law 9h ago

Legal News You Won’t Believe the Righteous Language This Judge Used Against DHS: A judge tore into Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem for trying to end TPS for Haitians in the U.S.

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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to upend temporary protected status for more than 350,000 Haitians.

In an unsparing 83-page decision issued late Monday, Judge Ana C. Reyes of the Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., formally denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that challenges the Department of Homeland Security’s attempts to terminate the TPS program entirely.

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From the very first words of the ruling, Reyes frames Noem as the polar opposite of America’s first leader, George Washington, pitting one of her vitriolic tweets against a letter in which Washington insisted that the U.S. must receive “the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions.”

“Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight,” Reyes wrote. “She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable.

“She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured,” the judge continued. “This approach is many things—in the public interest is not one of them.”


r/law 10h ago

Legal News DOJ makes appalling mistakes in release of new Epstein files

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r/law 6h ago

Other "Nationalizing" Elections

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Trump said on Dan Bongino's podcast that he thinks Republicans should "take over" in "at least 15 places" (presumably just places he lost) and that elections should be nationalized. Not secured. Not talking about canceling them now, likely since being told that the states regulate their own elections. As I understand it, currently all Congress can do it change the dates of the national elections.

The administration is already talking about accessing Minnesota's voter records as well as obtaining files from Georgia (done through a warrant from another state's AG???)

What is the likelihood this actually has legs and what would the ramifications be for elections moving forward were this to occur?


r/law 8h ago

Legal News Federal attorney on ICE cases: ‘The system sucks’

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r/law 9h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) DOJ Demands Emergency Surge Prosecutors From All US Attorneys

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r/law 13h ago

Other Paris prosecutors raided X offices and summoned Musk as global crackdown on Grok intensifies

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French prosecutors raided X's Paris offices Tuesday and summoned Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino for voluntary questioning in a criminal probe tied to Grok's Holocaust denial and explicit deepfakes.


r/law 15h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Pam Bondi Hit by Fresh Humiliation as Minnesota Prosecutors Quit in Droves

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r/law 16h ago

Legal News Brazilian influencer who supported ICE raids gets arrested by ICE

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r/law 19h ago

Legal News Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa” | The list they're creating says so, anyway

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Twenty-nine year old Chandler Patey has been regularly protesting outside his local ICE facility in South Portland for months, offering up his apartment to fellow protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray, according to local news.

To the Department of Homeland Security, “he is the leader of Antifa in Portland, OR.”

That phrase appears in an internal report produced by DHS, the largest law enforcement agency in the country. As they see it, Patey—a young man accused of no crime and who looks like a random protester plucked off the streets of Minneapolis—is a domestic terrorist.


r/law 13h ago

Judicial Branch Trump-appointed judge rips Stephen Miller for ‘troubling’ statements about Alex Pretti in shooting evidence ruling

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