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Prosecutors have appealed last year’s acquittal against Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini over his blocking of an NGO boat from dumping illegals into the country in 2019.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) condemned a Biden-appointed U.S district judge this week for ordering the release of a transgender Mexican illegal alien — a man who identifies as a woman — from a male-only detention facility.

The European Court of Human Rights shut down a request from French populist leader Marine Le Pen to overturn the “political death sentence” ban against her running for office for the next five years.

The headquarters of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party in Paris were raided in the early hours of Wednesday morning, with police seizing documents and computers, prompting accusations of politically inspired lawfare.

French populist leader Marine Le Pen faces more legal troubles as European prosecutors have opened up an investigation into her party finances.

An Israeli court agreed to postpone Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing petty corruption trial for a week Sunday after U.S. President Donald Trump repeated demands, though it was unclear if there was a link.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday in the controversial “birthright citizenship” case that lower courts cannot simply issue nationwide injunctions, and that doing so is an abuse of their judicial power.

Former Czech Prime Minister and current frontrunner in the upcoming elections, Andrej Babiš, has claimed a decision by the High Court in Prague this week to overturn an acquittal over alleged EU subsidy fraud was politically motivated.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday evening that the State of Israel should drop corruption charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, especially given his role in leading Israel in the recent war.

A governor from Mexico’s ruling party is accused of using the judicial system to shut down a small, local news outlet that had operated for nearly 50 years.

Washington Times Legal Affairs reporter Alex Swoyer joined Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday to discuss her new book, Lawless Lawfare: Tipping the Scales of Justice to Get Trump and Destroy MAGA which explores the various civil and criminal cases brought against Trump. 

A former BfV chief warned that the German intelligence community has been “weaponised” to target right-wing movements in the country.

The judges on the U.S. Court of International Trade who ruled that President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs are illegal have a history of Democrat Party activism.

English activist and citizen journalist Tommy Robinson was released from prison on Tuesday, but faces a potential return to incarceration after fresh criminal charges were levied against him this month.

Unnamed sources in the Department of Justice (DOJ) are claiming the Trump administration is planning to gut safeguards that prevent politically motivated prosecutions.

CBS News’ 60 Minutes portrayed Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias as a victim of President Donald Trump’s supposed retaliation against law firms — without once mentioning Elias’s sordid background.

“We’ll get through” the lawfare waged against the Trump administration, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is the tip of the Congressional spear in fighting weaponized lawfare, and he discussed what a Republican Congress can do to rein in rogue liberal activist judges Thursday on “The Alex Marlow Show.”

The left “always wants to empower those individuals” —  speaking of rogue activist judges — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said on Breitbart News Daily.

Taxpayers must fund attorneys for Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) facing deportation, District Judge Araceli Martinez Olguin has ruled. 

Rogue, unelected judges appointed by Democrats are weaponizing our court system to overturn the results of the 2024 presidential election.

President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack Wednesday on Judge Beryl Howell as “a highly biased and unfair disaster.” Howell’s actions in and out of the courtroom support Trump’s claims.

Democrats are trying to prevent immigration enforcement via “an extraordinary amount of individualized adjudication” at a level that “no American citizen” receives, according to Stephen Miller.

The only tool Democrats have left is to run down the clock — using the courts — to try to slow President Donald Trump down.

In the latest act of immigration-related lawfare against the Trump administration, a federal judge blocked the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants with temporary protected status (TPS) after it was revoked.

Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety is dedicating $10 million to elect Democrat attorneys general who will fight Donald Trump. 

Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s (D) husband, Doug Emhoff, reportedly criticized his own law firm Thursday for its recent dealings with President Donald Trump.

Thousands of people gathered in Paris on Sunday to protest against the court decision effectively banning National Rally leader Marine Le Pen from running in the 2027 presidential election, in which she stands as the undisputed frontrunner.

Norm Eisen, a Democrat operative who is one of the main architects of the “lawfare” campaign against President Donald Trump and other conservatives, and who recently lost his security clearance, claimed in a recently resurfaced podcast that Chief Justice John Roberts stayed with him for a week in Prague and worked with him on legal matters.

Activist judges are “trying to stop policies at the heart” of President Donald Trump’s America First agenda, Sen. Marsha Blackburn said.

Éric Zemmour has been sentenced to pay a 10,000 euro fine after being convicted over comments he made concerning the Holocaust.

In his first comments since the controversial court ruling to ban longstanding rival Marine Le Pen from the next presidential election, French President Emmanuel Macron rejected accusations that the country’s judicial system is biased.

The controversial move to ban National Rally leader Marine Le Pen from standing in the French presidential election has been accused of demonstrating double standards, with reports claiming that over a hundred other European politicians violated the same rules without facing prosecution.

National Rally leader Marine Le Pen’s prospect of continuing her bid to become the next president of France in 2027 was given a boost as the Paris Court of Appeal said it will look to decide whether to uphold or scrap the ban on her from elections by next year.

About 92 percent of judges who blocked President Donald Trump’s first-term agenda were appointed by Democrats, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) says. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich calls it a “judicial coup d’état.”