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lordrakim · 7 months ago

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Federal judge orders EPA further regulate fluoride in drinking water due to concerns over lowered IQ in kids

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#california #children #EPA #flouride #fluorosis #food and water watch #IQ #judge edward chen #osteosclerosis #public health #toxic substances control act #water #WHO

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saywhat-politics · 27 days ago

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May 31, 2025, 2:11 PM MST

By Alexandra Marquez and Lindsay Good

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from revoking the temporary protected status of roughly 5,000 Venezuelans who are in the U.S., despite Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s February decision to terminate a Biden-era extension of the program.

U.S. District Judge Edward E. Chen in San Francisco ruled Friday that thousands of Venezuelans who received paperwork extending their protected status during a brief period earlier this year could keep it. That period began when then-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas extended protected status for Venezuelans in January and ended when Noem terminated it in February.

Chen wrote that if their paperwork has their protected status ending in October 2026, those Venezuelans should not be eligible for deportation while the case is ongoing.

#donald trump #second term #mass deportations #u.s. district judge #federal judge #temporary protected status #venezuelans

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follow-up-news · 3 months ago

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A federal judge on Monday paused plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, a week before they were scheduled to expire. The order by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco is a relief for 350,000 Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status was set to expire April 7 after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reversed protections granted by the Biden administration. Chen said in his ruling that the action by Noem “threatens to: inflict irreparable harm on hundreds of thousands of persons whose lives, families, and livelihoods will be severely disrupted, cost the United States billions in economic activity, and injure public health and safety in communities throughout the United States.” He said the government had failed to identify any “real countervailing harm in continuing TPS for Venezuelan beneficiaries” and said plaintiffs will likely succeed in showing that Noem’s actions “are unauthorized by law, arbitrary and capricious, and motivated by unconstitutional animus.”

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darkmaga-returns · 6 months ago

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As undeniable evidence mounts that fluoride harms children’s brains, a historic ruling by a federal judge—and a report the government tried desperately to bury—may finally end the practice of adding this toxin to America’s drinking water.

For over two decades, scientists have warned about the harmful effects of fluoride exposure on the developing brain. Since 63% of the U.S. has fluoride in its drinking water, this is a critical issue affecting millions of Americans! Unfortunately, government agencies like CDC—along with the American Dental Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics—dismissed concerns and stubbornly continued to champion water fluoridation.

This all changed last month with a pivotal court ruling. But, first, some background: In 2016, the NIH’s National Toxicology Program (NTP) was charged with analyzing the large volume of studies on fluoride’s neurotoxicity. Shortly after, an advocacy group sued the EPA in a bid to force it to remove fluoride from drinking water. Knowing that a report from NTP was forthcoming, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen stayed the case until the report’s release. Little did he know how long he would have to wait.

Not only did it take NTP six years to complete the report, but when it was ready to publish in May 2022, officials at CDC and HHS betrayed their duty to the American people by trying to suppress the report! Ultimately, it took another year and a court order from Judge Chen for the report to be released. As HighWire viewers may have suspected, the report did not bode well for water fluoridation.

This September, with the NTP report finally in hand, Judge Chen made his historic ruling: “[T]he Court finds that fluoridation of water at 0.7 milligrams per liter (‘mg/L’) – the level presently considered ‘optimal’ in the United States – poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children.” He concluded:

[T]here is substantial and scientifically credible evidence establishing that fluoride poses a risk to human health; it is associated with a reduction in the IQ of children and is hazardous at dosages that are far too close to fluoride levels in the drinking water of the United States. And this risk is unreasonable under Amended TSCA.

The court then ordered the EPA to “to engage with a regulatory response,” but the even better news is that many townships aren’t waiting to protect their kids from this toxic exposure. Abilene (TX), Hillsboro (OR), Lebanon (OR), Yorktown (NY), and Winter Haven (FL) have already decided to end, or forego starting, fluoridation in the wake of the Court’s ruling, and many other communities, including Lyndon (WA), Monroe (WI), Naples (FL) and Tampa Bay (FL), are considering the same. Visit the Fluoride Action Network for materials you can use to demand action in your city.

Congratulations to the legal team, with a special kudos to current Siri & Glimstad partner Michael Connett who has focused on fighting the fluoride issue, and the plaintiffs, for this landmark win that will have a lasting impact on the health of all American children! For more details, watch The HighWire interview with Connett.

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mariacallous · 2 months ago

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.

The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month.

The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.

A federal appeals court had earlier rejected the administration’s request.

President Donald Trump’s administration has moved aggressively to withdraw various protections that have allowed immigrants to remain in the country, including ending TPS for a total of 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians. TPS is granted in 18-month increments.

The emergency appeal to the high court came the same day a federal judge in Texas ruled illegal the administration’s efforts to deport Venezuelans under an 18th-century wartime law. The cases are not related.

The protections had been set to expire April 7, but U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ordered a pause on those plans. He found that the expiration threatened to severely disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and could cost billions in lost economic activity.

Chen, who was appointed to the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, found the government hadn’t shown any harm caused by keeping the program alive.

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justinspoliticalcorner · 1 month ago

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Chris Geidner at Law Dork:

President Donald Trump is seeking to implement a lawless, heartless, process-free anti-immigration system with racist underpinnings — guided by Stephen Miller and helped along by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and others. The Republican congressional leadership has essentially acceded to Trump on this front. Within our constitutional structure, then, that leaves the courts. On Monday, we saw — for better or worse — the current judicial system in action. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has drawn some lines around the edges to set forth what is acceptable, particularly as to Trump’s desire to use the wartime power of the Alien Enemies Act while providing little to no real process to those people the administration is seeking to deport under the law, the question of what it will do outside of that narrow area is more in question. The Supreme Court has generally shown significant deference to the president when it comes to areas involving foreign policy — including immigration — and the military, and it’s not clear this court is prepared to change that much despite Trump’s extreme anti-immigrant actions. Monday provided one alarming piece of evidence when, with no reasoning provided, the Supreme Court allowed Noem’s decision to vacate Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the U.S. to take effect as litigation proceeds. This decision — which ends TPS for approximately 350,000 people immediately — was issued with no reasoning and in the face of a 78-page district court ruling that found Noem’s rationale for her action to be “entirely lacking in evidentiary support.” Specifically, of Noem’s purported rationale for ending TPS for approximately 600,000 Venezuelans — vacating Biden administration DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas’s Jan 17 action extending the Venezuela TPS for 18 months, through October 2026 — U.S. District Judge Edward Chen wrote, “Generalization of criminality to the Venezuelan TPS population as a whole is baseless and smacks of racism predicated on generalized false stereotypes.” (TPS for the remaining Venezuelans is set to end September 10.) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had refused to block Chen’s ruling, but, on Monday, the Supreme Court did so — and only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson noted her dissent.

Although we don’t know the vote on a shadow docket matter like this, the second paragraph of the order does suggest that at least one of the other Democratic appointees — Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — likely joined the order. (It is also possible that Justice Amy Coney Barrett pushed for that language.)

What a disgraceful ruling by SCOTUS: The right-wing MAGA Majority permits the Trump Regime to remove up to 600,000 Venezuelans from TPS.