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Another Whirlwind Week of Legal News

Another Whirlwind Week of Legal News

7/12/2025

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Welcome to another weekend edition of Amicus: A Law Review with your host Jim Santelle. Dive into the weekend's whirlwind of legal drama with Santelle taking a closer looks as Wisconsin's Supreme Court bolsters gubernatorial rulemaking, striking a blow against conversion therapy bans and redefining legislative power. It has been a busy week in the state when it comes to legal news.

Taking a look beyond Wisconsin, a federal judge in California clamped down on ICE racial profiling, demanding due process for detainees. And in New Hampshire, another judge pushes back against Trump's birthright citizenship order, leveraging class action to skirt SCOTUS's recent national injunction ban.

However, event with those set backs around the country, the U.S. Supreme Court greenlights Trump's sweeping federal workforce cuts, controversy brews at the State Department and DOJ, where mass firings threaten America's diplomatic and prosecutorial prowess. Let Jim Santelle walk you through all the legal news of the past seven days.

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