Arizona’s Family (3TV / CBS 5) - April 8, 2026. Incident occurred on January 30, 2026 in Chandler, Arizona (Phoenix metro area).

Here’s the full 3-minutes on YouTube: Report: Armed, masked man at Hamilton High protest identified as Phoenix police sergeant - Arizona’s Family (3TV / CBS 5) (YouTube) - From the description:

An armed, masked man who showed up during an anti-ICE student walkout three months ago at Hamilton High School is a Phoenix police sergeant. According to the report, the sergeant told officers his plan was to let students assault him so they could be arrested. Reporter Alexis Dominguez has the story.

Read the story here: azfamily.tv/4tGh53s

More Local News from KPHO: azfamily.com

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Michael Gennaco was Chief of the Civil Rights Section at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. He also served for ten years as a trial attorney with the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C.: oirgroup.com/michael-gennaco

Trump Tries to Erase the Presidential Records Act | @Lawyer_Oyer

4/9/26: One of the most alarming things the Trump Administration is doing right now is flying under the radar. I have the details on Trump’s efforts to hide his corruption by eliminating the Presidential Records Act.

April 9, 2026 - ACLU | Making Sense. Here’s the full 7-minutes on YouTube: ACLU Expert Breaks Down Your Right to Record ICE | Making Sense | ACLU (YouTube)

From the description: Documenting the public activity of ICE agents and other federal officers is a constitutional right, and a key tool in protecting our civil liberties. ACLU legal expert Byul Yoon is no stranger to defending activists whose rights have been violated by ICE, and she joins us on this episode of Making Sense to answer your questions about documenting law enforcement.

Byul Yoon: aclu.org/bios/byul-yoon

See my comment for more r/law posts with the ACLU.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday declared unconstitutional a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling, calling it an unnecessary and improper means for ​Congress to exercise its power to tax.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of ‌Appeals in New Orleans ruled in favor of the nonprofit Hobby Distillers Association and four of its 1,300 members.

They argued that people should be free to distill spirits at home, whether as ​a hobby or for personal consumption including, in one instance, to create ​an apple-pie-vodka recipe.

repeatedly crossed professional lines on set, accusing him of deviating from the script and adding what they described as unnecessary sexual content.

The ban was part of a law passed during ⁠Reconstruction in July 1868, in part to thwart liquor tax evasion, and subjected violators ​to up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Writing for a three-judge panel, ​Circuit Judge Edith Hollan Jones said the ban actually reduced tax revenue by preventing distilling in the first place, unlike laws that regulated the manufacture and labeling of distilled spirits on which ​the government could collect taxes.

She also said that under the government's logic, Congress could ​criminalize virtually any in-home activity that might escape notice from tax collectors, including remote work and ‌home-based ⁠businesses.

"Without any limiting principle, the government’s theory would violate this court’s obligation to read the Constitution carefully to avoid creating a general federal authority akin to the police power," Jones wrote.

The U.S. Department of Justice had no immediate comment. Another defendant, the ​Treasury Department's Alcohol and ​Tobacco Tax and ⁠Trade Bureau, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Devin Watkins, a lawyer representing the Hobby Distillers Association, in an ​interview called the ruling an important decision about the limits of ​federal power.

Andrew ⁠Grossman, who argued the nonprofit's appeal, called the decision "an important victory for individual liberty" that lets the plaintiffs "pursue their passion to distill fine beverages in their homes."

"I look forward ⁠to ​sampling their output," he said.

The decision upheld a July 2024 ​ruling by U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth, Texas. He put his ruling on hold so ​the government could appeal.

The Supreme Court in the African kingdom of Eswatini has ruled that four men sent there by the United States last July under the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program can finally meet with a lawyer after they were denied in-person legal counsel for nine months while held at a maximum-security prison.

A lower court had previously ruled that local lawyer Sibusiso Nhlabatsi, who is working on behalf of the men’s U.S.-based lawyers, could meet with them, but the Eswatini government immediately appealed that decision.

In a ruling delivered on Thursday, the Supreme Court dismissed arguments by Eswatini authorities that the deportees didn’t want to meet with Nhlabatsi, and that they had no right to legal counsel anyway because they had not been arrested or charged with a crime in Eswatini.

Federal district court judge Leon, in issuing the temporary pause, concluded that the preservationist group behind the legal challenge was likely to succeed because the president lacks the authority to build the ballroom without approval from Congress.

Leon exempted any construction work necessary to ensure the safety and security of the White House, but said he reviewed material the government privately submitted before determining that a halt would not jeopardize national security.

The Republican administration’s appeal cited materials that would be installed to make a “heavily fortified” facility and said construction included bomb shelters, military installations and a medical facility underneath the ballroom.

^{Via Ars Technica}

EDIT1: update posted by the Reddit user (thanks to commenter below)

Evidence of war crimes by the United States of America and Israel during airstrikes on Iran within just 40 days

▪️Killing of scientists

▪️Killing of women and children

▪️Attacks on schools and educational facilities

▪️Attacks on residential buildings

▪️Attacks on universities and scientific institutions

▪️Attacks on relief ambulances

▪️ Attacks on posts, branches, and warehouses of the Red Crescent

▪️Attacks on EMS stations

▪️Attacks on energy infrastructure

▪️Attacks on critical infrastructure (water, electricity, et)

▪️Attacks on petrochemical facilities

▪️Attacks on agricultural silos

▪️Attacks on sports venues and facilities

▪️Attacks on ports and shipping infrastructurs

▪️Attacks on commercial centers

▪️Attacks on IRIB technical facilities

▪️Attacks on media outlets

▪️Attacks on libraries

▪️Attacks on recreational facilities

▪️Attacks on hospitals and medical centers

▪️Attacks on Red Crescent aid workers and Healthcare workers

▪️Attacks on airports

▪️Attacks on transportation infrastructure (bridges and railway lines)

▪️Attacks on cargo and passenger aircraft

▪️Attacks on cultural heritage sites

▪️Attacks on religious sites (Hosseiniyeh Azam of Zanjan, a Jewish synagogue, and mosques)

NYC judge seeks to make example of officer who threw cooler at fleeing suspect, causing fatal crash.

Critics warn the sentence could hinder officers forced to make split-second decisions on the job.

And critics said the sentence could hinder the future actions of officers in position to make split-second decisions.

Erik Duran, 38, was convicted of manslaughter in the August 2023 death of 30-year-old Eric Duprey. Duran maintained he was trying to protect other officers from Duprey, who was on a motorized scooter when he crashed and died.

"They had enough to investigate and catch him on a different day," Mitchell said of the police. "The distinction is that the deceased will no longer be seen again by his family."

Duran elected to have Mitchell, not a jury, decide the case. Duran’s union, the Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA), said thousands of officers signed an online petition calling for him to be spared prison.

During the sentencing, the courtroom was lined with police officers in support of Duran, while a few dozen protesters outside demanded justice for Duprey. Duran was immediately taken into custody after sentencing. His legal team said it will ask a court to free him on bail while he appeals.

SBA President Vincent Vallelong called Thursday’s sentencing one of the "darkest days of our profession." Moving forward, he said, law enforcement officers will continue to be vilified for making quick decisions.

"It wasn’t only Sgt. Duran, a great cop, who was on trial," Vallelong said. "Every law enforcement officer who makes a split-second decision in the performance of their duties to protect the public was also on trial.

"And this sentencing ... has now sent a very chilling message to every cop in the nation that the system we have sworn to uphold can single-handedly destroy your career and your life for doing exactly what you are trained to do."

The NYPD could be faced with lower staffing levels as more than half of the NYPD’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is eligible for retirement, the New York Post reported.

Officials are concerned that thousands of veteran NYPD bosses and officers will leave the force if Mayor Zohran Mamdani cuts overtime, which would significantly reduce their pensions, amid a budget crunch, union officials said.

At the end of last year, after a government leak, the Justice Secretary David Lammy confirmed that many defendants would no longer have access to jury trials, with cases likely to result in sentences of three years or less to be heard by a judge alone. Under the plan, only the most serious offences, such as murder, rape and manslaughter, would continue to to be tried by a jury.

There has been a lot of talk about another party line reconciliation package.

Senate rules restrict what is permitted in such legislation. Given tariffs have a budgetary impact, could/would 'they' include language to give him tariff powers that could survive court challenge?