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Unions won a major victory against the Trump administration’s attempts to weaken protections that apply to many federal workers when Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columnbia invalidated provisions in three executive orders Trump's administration issued back in May.

On Friday, the law firm representing the Democratic National Committee (DNC) served WikiLeaks with a lawsuit via Twitter. Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll set up a Twitter account this month and has so far delivered this single tweet with service of process to WikiLeaks.

On Monday, August 6, 2018, YouTube removed Alex Jones's YouTube channel citing violations of YouTube's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.

On Tuesday, June 26, 2018, United States District Judge Dana M. Sabraw of the Southern District of California granted the American Civil Liberties Union's request for a preliminary injunction seeking to reunite children affected by the Trump Administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy.

Liuba Grechen Shirley is currently running for Congress in the Second District of New York. Last month, she asked the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for permission to use funds generated by her campaign to cover the cost of a babysitter for her two toddler-aged children.

The civil lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has been tossed by a federal judge in Washington.

The Democratic National Committee has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Russian Government, numerous top officials in the Trump Campaign, and the WikiLeaks organization. The lawsuit alleges that Trump campaign officials conspired with the Russian government to help Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election by hacking the computer networks of the Democratic Party and releasing the information found.