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A Republican lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced an article of impeachment against a federal judge in Atlanta who was reprimanded for having sex with a high-ranking police officer in her chambers and lying about it.
U.S. Representative Clay Fuller of Georgia on June 8 filed the resolution accusing U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross in Atlanta of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Fuller is the first member of Congress to formally seek Ross’ removal after she was revealed to be the unnamed judge disciplined by a U.S. judicial panel last month. Text of the impeachment resolution was not immediately available on Congress.gov, the online database of legislation.
The resolution has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee, whose chairman, Jim Jordan, helped to prepare it, according to Fuller.
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The Trump administration on June 8 denied unlawfully retaliating against Anthropic, while acknowledging that U.S. agencies moved to cut off the AI company’s products after it resisted Pentagon demands over military uses of its Claude chatbot, according to a court filing in a lawsuit.
The filing marked the government’s latest response to Anthropic’s March 9 lawsuit, which accuses President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of blacklisting the company for protected speech.
The DOJ also challenged Anthropic’s lawsuit on procedural grounds, saying in a filing in San Francisco federal court that the ban is not subject to court review because the company is not challenging a “final agency action.”
Anthropic in March asked a federal court in California to bar the government from placing it on a national security blacklist and to block federal agencies from enforcing the ban, saying the designation was unlawful and violated its free speech and due process rights.
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President Trump on June 8 formally nominated Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, moving to install his former personal lawyer as the top U.S. law enforcement official.
Trump submitted Blanche’s name to the U.S. Senate, the White House said, days after committing to nominating him. He has been serving as acting attorney general since April.
Blanche’s nomination sets up a test of Trump’s sway over Senate Republicans, who have shown an increasing willingness to resist parts of the president’s agenda after months of largely acceding to his demands. Blanche would need near-unanimous Republican support in the Senate, which Republicans control by a narrow 53-47 margin.
The nomination is a vote of confidence in Blanche after the Justice Department was forced to scrap a plan to create a nearly $1.8 billion fund for victims of what Trump has called government “weaponization.” The plan drew fierce backlash, much of it directed at Blanche, from Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
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A federal judge on June 8 struck down a $100,000 fee President Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, concluding that it constituted an unlawful tax Congress never authorized.
U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging a fee Trump announced in September that dramatically raised the cost of obtaining H-1B visas, which tech companies in particular rely heavily on to bring on foreign workers.
The administration argued the fee constituted a lawful monetary penalty that the president was authorized to impose under federal immigration law, which gives him the power to restrict the entry of certain foreign nationals when he deems it “detrimental to the interests of the United States.”
But Sorokin concluded that the fee was not a penalty but a tax that the Republican president lacked any authorization from Congress to issue and that the U.S. State Department and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services could not implement.
The judge cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s February ruling striking down Trump’s sweeping tariffs he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies.
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