Law/Crime Archives - Attention to the Unseen

Ehud Olmert: Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity in the West Bank

From elsewhere — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:54:11 +0000

Israel’s former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, writes: The fight against Jewish terrorism in the West Bank must advance to the next stage and be waged with greater determination. The daily terrorism that is managed, directed, encouraged and supported by the Israeli government can no longer be tolerated. What is happening across the West Bank today is not the work of “70 kids … from broken homes,” as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once tried to claim, disingenuously. Nor are these the...

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Israel’s former defence minister compares settler ideology to Nazism

From elsewhere — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:53:39 +0000

Middle East Eye reports: Israel’s former defence minister has compared settler ideology to Nazism, and accused authorities of failing to investigate Israelis responsible for killing Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank. In a wide-ranging interview with the Israeli news site Ynet on Sunday, Moshe Ya’alon said that factions within the religious Zionist movement, which is closely aligned with Israeli settlers, hold a “Jewish supremacy ideology”. “What is Jewish supremacy? Eighty years after the Holocaust, it’s Mein Kampf in reverse....

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DOJ officials refuse to follow judge’s demand to swear on oath that anti-weaponization fund is dead

From elsewhere — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:53:12 +0000

The Hill reports: The Justice Department (DOJ) on Friday snubbed a federal judge’s demand to swear that a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is dead, arguing the request raises “serious separation of powers concerns.” Judge Leonie Brinkema indefinitely blocked the fund last Friday and issued a seven-day deadline for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward to declare under penalty of perjury that it would not move forward “to avoid any further...

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Human Rights Watch: Federal government terrorized Minnesota communities

From elsewhere — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:14:13 +0000

The Trump administration’s deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents to Minnesota between December 2025 and March 2026 led to widespread human rights violations, terrorized residents with long-lasting effects, and spotlighted the deeply abusive patterns in US immigration enforcement, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 180-page report, “‘A Manufactured Crisis’: Minnesota Communities Terrorized by the Federal Government,” comprehensively documents how the US government’s “Operation Metro Surge” caused a human rights crisis in Minnesota, particularly in and...

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The criminal tendencies of AI

From elsewhere — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:31:38 +0000

Science reports: In an infamous thought experiment known as the paperclip problem, an artificial intelligence (AI) program is tasked with making paperclips. Because it single-mindedly optimizes for the literal objective rather than the intent, the AI ends up consuming all the resources on Earth and judging any collateral damage—for example, killing all humans who get in its way—as irrelevant. This problematic logic is already simmering in today’s AI systems, a new study suggests. When researchers presented a large language model...

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MN U.S. Attorney won’t say whether officers were harmed as he charges ICE protesters with felonies

From elsewhere — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:03:10 +0000

TPM reports: Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen announced an eight-count felony indictment against 15 anti-ICE protesters Tuesday, centered on a broad “antifa”-inflected conspiracy. During a Tuesday press conference, Rosen would not say whether any federal officers were actually harmed, despite one of the counts being conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer and two of the counts being assault on a federal officer. “Whether or not they actually at the end of the day caused bodily harm is not...

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Frustrated by courts, Trump weighed suspending a fundamental constitutional right: habeas corpus

From elsewhere — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:52:39 +0000

The New York Times reports: Last spring, Will Scharf, an arch-conservative lawyer serving as the White House staff secretary, wrote a secret memo to the chief of staff that reflected growing unease in the West Wing about one of the extreme measures being weighed by Stephen Miller, the powerful adviser driving President Trump’s deportation campaign. Dated April 29, 2025, and stamped “confidential,” the memo was careful and lawyerly but amounted to a warning against end-running the rule of law. The...

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The Constitution promises an interpreter for fair trials – U.S. courts often can’t deliver

From elsewhere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:12:48 +0000

A court interpreter checks the day’s schedule of assignments. AP Photo/Brennan Linsley By Carol Rose Little, University of Oklahoma In northern Oregon, just before dawn in October 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested and shackled two farmworkers on their way to work. The man and woman were Guatemalan citizens who spoke no English and very little Spanish. They spoke Mam, an Indigenous Mayan language. Despite the man trying to tell an ICE officer as much, he was not provided...

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Stalled Anti-Weaponization Fund workaround: Quietly invite claimants to sue the government, then settle

From elsewhere — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:49:03 +0000

Sarah Fitzpatrick writes: Shortly after Trump took office for the second time, the White House asked the Justice Department and Trump’s legal advisers to find a way to reimburse him and those close to him for the millions of dollars in legal expenses he has incurred, including over the Mueller probe into his campaign’s relationship with Russia as well as multiple impeachments and criminal investigations. That effort was later combined with a separate but related push by Trump supporters to...

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Women who fled Iran will be sent by the U.S. to one of the most dangerous countries in Africa

From elsewhere — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:48:47 +0000

The New York Times reports: The Trump administration is preparing to deport nearly two dozen people to the Central African Republic on Thursday, including at least two Iranian women who had sought refuge in the United States, according to lawyers and a government official. The flight, which is also expected to include migrants from Afghanistan and Syria, would mark the first such deportation to the Central African Republic, a deeply impoverished country that has been plagued by conflict. The country...

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