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Republicans privately acknowledge Trump’s legal woes are serious this time

15/11/2025despair

It’s long been Republican orthodoxy that no matter what Donald Trump says, the GOP base will stick with him. After his last indictment in New York, the party rallied around him.

But this time, privately, Republicans aren’t so sure.

An operative in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ orbit, who requested anonymity to speak candidly without approval from higher-ups, said that “from an objective standpoint,” the federal charges Trump faces for his post-presidency handling of classified documents are far more serious than the earlier ones around hush money payments before the 2016 election.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen in Georgia,”

Punjab to give legal assistance to 700 students facing deportation in Canada: Dhaliwal

04/11/2025despair

HANDIGARH: Punjab NRI affairs minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Thursday said that the state government will provide free legal assistance to 700 students facing deportation in Canada.

Punjab NRI affairs minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said he met the state's advocate general to figure how Indian students could be helped (Twitter/KuldeepSinghAAP) — Punjab NRI affairs minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said he met the state’s advocate general to figure how Indian students could be helped (Twitter/KuldeepSinghAAP)

Most of these students belong to Punjab and they will be assisted by lawyers who are experts in immigration laws in Canada, he said.

Dhaliwal said he has also written to all MPs of Punjab origin in Canada to step in so that the future of these children can

Months of distrust inside Trump legal team led to top lawyer’s departure | Donald Trump

02/10/2025despair

Donald Trump’s legal team for months has weathered deep distrust and interpersonal conflict that could undermine its defense of the former president as the criminal investigation into his handling of classified documents and obstruction of justice at Mar-a-Lago nears its conclusion.

The turmoil inside the legal team only exploded into public view when one of the top lawyers, Tim Parlatore, abruptly resigned two weeks ago from the representation citing irreconcilable differences with Trump’s senior adviser and in-house counsel Boris Epshteyn.

But the departure of Parlatore was the culmination of months of simmering tensions that continue to threaten the effectiveness of

Macao further restricts political freedoms with revisions to national security law

27/09/2025despair

BEIJING — Echoing the crackdown on freedoms in neighboring Hong Kong, the former Portuguese colony of Macao has revised its legal system to face “new adverse challenges in terms of national security.”

The government of the tiny enclave, heavily dependent on its gambling industry, said changes to the Law on Safeguarding National Security were needed as an upgrade to legislation first enacted in 2009, a decade after Macao’s handover to Chinese rule.

“As the country now faces new adverse challenges in terms of national security, the revision of Macao’s Law on Safeguarding National Security is a compulsory step to respond

News stories from the Star you should know about on Tuesday, May 9, 2023

22/08/2025despair

Good morning. This is the Tuesday, May 9 edition of First Up, the Star’s daily morning digest. Sign up to get it earlier each day, in your inbox.

Here’s the latest on Ottawa’s national security efforts, a new Ontario health care law and online sales of sodium nitrite.

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Canada is set to name foreign labs and universities that pose a risk to national security

The federal government is in the “advanced stages” of creating a list of entities that threaten national security, the Star has learned. According to documents reviewed by the Star, the list will include foreign-state-connected

The group of law students in Montreal is committed to animal welfare

17/04/2025despair

University de Montreal (UdeM) law students campaigning for animal welfare have collected more than 4,000 signatures on a petition in less than three months and caused a major retail chain to change course.

Founded in 2012, the UdeM’s Fonds étudiant pour la défense juridique des animaux (FEJDA) is campaigning to protect animals and to have their rights recognized in society through conferences and activities. Composed of volunteers who are law students at the Université de Montréal, FEDJA is financed by the Animal Justice organization.

Initially, FEDJA was a body designed to raise awareness in the university community, but it expanded

DHS Released a Notice on the Addition of Entities to the UFLPA Entity List

05/09/2024despair

On August 4, 2022, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as the Chair of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), formally published the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List. The Entity list is a consolidated register of the four lists required to be developed and maintained pursuant to Section 2(d)(2)(B) of the UFLPA. DHS also released details on seeking changes to the UFLPA Entity List, including requests for removal from the list.

For our previous blog entries on the UFLPA and its implementation, see posts here, here, here, here, here and here.

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