ICE Raids Target Sanctuary Cities, DOJ Seeks Facebook Info on Anti-Trump Activists, Cop Can't Sue Black Lives Matter: A.M. Links
(Pa Wire/ZUMA Press/Newscom)
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Pa Wire/ZUMA Press/Newscom Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 167 people around Los Angeles yesterday as part of an effort to target sanctuary cities and counties. Around 500 people were arrested in the efforts this week.
- A Baton Rouge police officer cannot sue Black Lives Matter over his injury at a 2016 protest against police brutality. "Although many entities have utilized the phrase 'black lives matter' in their titles or business designations, 'black lives matter' itself is not an entity of any sort," wrote U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson.
- The Department of Justice is demanding Facebook turn over information on three users who were active in anti-Trump "resistance" groups off and online. "What is particularly chilling about these warrants is that anti-administration political activists are going to have their political associations and views scrutinized by the very administration they are protesting," said ACLU attorney Scott Michelman.
- "Was Hugh Hefner good for the ladies?"
- A federal appeals court ruling on D.C. gun laws could send the matter to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- HHS Secretary Tom Price is promising to pay back the cost of private charter planes he took.
