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Immigrants wait to be processed after they crossed the border into the US in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Dec. 22. Eleven states and DC offer taxpayer-funded health insurance to some immigrants without legal status.

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A growing number of states are opening taxpayer-funded health insurance programs to immigrants, including those living in the US without authorization, even as Republicans assail President Joe Biden over a dramatic increase in illegal crossings of the southern border.

Eleven states and Washington, DC, together provide full health insurance coverage to more than 1 million low-income immigrants regardless of their legal status, according to state data compiled by KFF Health News. Most aren’t authorized to live in the US, state officials say.

Enrollment in these programs could nearly double by 2025 as at least seven states initiate or expand coverage. In January, Republican-controlled Utah will start covering children regardless of immigration status, while

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Law News

Move to expand CT’s sick day law gets committee approval

02/12/2025

Connecticut lawmakers have advanced legislation seeking to expand the state’s paid sick day law to include all employees in the state.

The move would require workplaces to offer employees 40 hours of paid sick time per year. Current law only mandates this for workplaces with 50 or more employees.

Sick days can be used for time needed to tend to illness, injury and mental health. The time can also be used toward recovery from family violence or sexual assault. Improving the statute is an issue of gender and racial equity, said Janée Woods Weber, executive director of She Leads Justice, a nonprofit that advocates for women in Connecticut.

“Workers who lack access to paid sick days, also tend to work jobs that don’t pay livable wages, or have predictable schedules,” Woods Weber said. “So not being forced to choose between their paychecks and taking off a day or two to recover from an illness also helps to protect their economic security.”

Connecticut’s largest business organization, CBIA, said the high number of open jobs is already making private companies seriously examine employee pay and benefits.

“Companies that can’t offer paid time off are at a significant disadvantage,” Ashley Zane, senior public

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Attorney

What happens if Trump can’t secure a bond for his $464 million civil fraud judgment?

01/12/2025

Donald Trump has boasted that his assets include the “Mona Lisas” of real estate, but the former president risks losing some of those properties and unraveling his personal finances if he can’t satisfy the judgment in his $464 million civil fraud case by next week .

New York Attorney General Letitia James could ask the court to freeze Trump’s bank accounts, begin collecting rent from the tenants of his buildings, subpoena the former president for his personal financial information including tax returns, and request that the New York City Sheriff auction his trophy properties within months, according to several experts in the judgment collection industry who spoke with ABC News.

In a filing this week, Trump’s lawyers told the court that securing a bond for the full judgment was a “practical impossibility” after more than 30 insurance companies declined to accept Trump’s cash and properties as collateral.

“If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets,” James said in an exclusive interview with ABC News last month.

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Attorney

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s securities fraud charges could be dropped under deal, according to report

30/11/2025

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Lawyers in Ken Paxton’s felony securities fraud case are in talks about a deal to drop the charges facing the Republican attorney general if he performs community service and pays restitution, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Paxton could also have to take advanced legal education courses under a “draft agreement” that would allow him to skirt next month’s trial, the Statesman reported.

Paxton, who has been under indictment on two first-degree fraud charges and a third-degree charge since 2015, was scheduled for a final pretrial hearing on Tuesday ahead of an April 15 trial in Houston. He is accused of soliciting investors in a McKinney technology company more than a decade ago without disclosing that the firm was paying him to promote its stock. He is also charged with steering clients to a friend’s investment advising business without registering with the state securities board.

The case has been delayed by a number of disputes between Paxton’s attorneys and the special prosecutors handling the case, including over how much the prosecutors should be paid. The sides have also sparred

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Legal Update

Trump’s political action committee spent nearly $50 million on legal bills in 2023, filings show

29/11/2025

Washington — Former President Donald Trump’s political apparatus spent more than it raised last year, thanks in part to about $50 million in legal bills spent for his numerous ongoing legal defenses across 2023, campaign finance reports filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission show.

Ace Trump’s legal and political calendars have collided in recent weeks, bounced him between Iowa, New Hampshire and courts in New York City and Washington, DC, related to three different cases, the financial burden of his legal challenges has taken its toll on his fundraising and advertising capabilities.

Trump’s campaign and the primary super PAC supporting him, MAGA Inc., are well-positioned heading into the new year, with over $56 million in cash between the two committees. But Trump’s leadership PAC — Save America PAC, which paid his lawyers — has just over $5 million cash on hand, and the political action committees working on his behalf spent more than what they were raising.

The former president is facing former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the race for the GOP presidential nomination and has been the front-runner throughout the campaign.

Save America PAC and Make America Great Again PAC, the two political

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Attorney

New York attorney general disputes Trump’s claim that he can’t secure $464 million to post bonds

28/11/2025

A lawyer for New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday disputed former President Donald Trump’s claim that he can’t secure more than $460 million needed to post bond and appeal the civil fraud ruling against him, writing in a filing that the court should deny Trump’s “extraordinary request” to appeal without posting the full amount.

On Monday, Trump’s lawyers told the court handling the appeal that it was a “practical impossibility” that he and other defendants could obtain the bond by March 25.

In his response on Wednesday, Dennis Fan, a senior assistant solicitor general for the state, called Trump’s filing “procedurally improper” and said the court should ignore it. He wrote that Trump’s issues should have been raised in an earlier filing, and could have been, since “their efforts to obtain that bond began before their stay motion was filed and indeed before judgment was even entered.”

In February, a New York judge ordered Trump and his co-defendants to pay more than $450 million in penalties and interest for a decade-long fraud scheme, one of the largest corporate sanctions in New York history. Trump must secure a bond for the full amount of the judgment, which continues to

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Attorney

Georgia DA plans to press ahead in effort to put Trump on trial before election

27/11/2025

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Fani Willis, the embattled Fulton County District Attorney, plans to press ahead with her goal of putting Donald Trump on trial before the November election, and intends to ask the judge presiding over the Georgia criminal case to schedule a trial date as soon as this summer , according to three people familiar with her thinking.

It’s a bold move considering the hurdles Willis faces in getting the case back on track after a two-month detour revealed embarrassing details of her personal life, damaging her credibility in the eyes of Judge Scott McAfee and leaving her politically vulnerable ahead of her own reelection bid in November.

Willis narrowly avoided being disqualified over her romantic relationship with lead prosecutor, Nathan Wade, who resigned last Friday following a blistering rebuke from McAfee, publicly questioning both Wade and Willis’s decision-making. On Wednesday McAfee granted requests from Trump and his co-defendants to seek an appeal, meaning the threat of disqualification still hangs over Willis.

Georgia Republicans continue to investigate allegations that Willis benefited financially from her relationship with Wade. A state Senate committee could use its subpoena power to uncover new information and plans to meet several more times to hear from

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Attorney

GOP state attorneys push back on Biden’s proposed diversity rules for apprenticeship programs

26/11/2025

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Biden administration plan to promote diversity and equity in workplace apprenticeship programs is facing pushback from Republican attorneys general in two dozen states who assert it amounts to race-based discrimination.

The US Department of Labor contends its proposed rewrite of the National Apprenticeship System rules — the first since 2008 — would modernize and diversify on-the-job-training programs while improving their quality and protecting new workers.

But the proposed rule change has become the latest example of political divisions over perceived fairness and opportunity in educational institutions and workplaces. While President Joe Biden and many Democratic-led states seek to require greater consideration of diversity, equity and inclusion, many Republican elected officials are seeking to eliminate such initiatives.

AP correspondent Donna Warder reports that Republican attorneys general in some two dozen states say a Biden administration’s plan to promote diversity for some jobs amounts to race-based discrimination.

“We should not let race-obsessed ideology interfere with an important and successful apprenticeship program,” Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said in a statement on behalf of 24 states that submitted comments opposing the proposal by a Monday deadline.

The proposal drew a variety of other objections, including from

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Legal Update

Biden immigration policy giving temporary legal status to thousands of faces court challenge

25/11/2025

Sype, who welcomed his friend to the US earlier this month, said the man is here to work hard on his cousin’s farm in order to provide for his family.

“It would just be such a shame for this program to be ended, as it just seems like a kind of bright light in a much larger broken immigration system,” he said.

The humanitarian parole measure is part of the Biden administration’s expansion of legal immigration pathways that temporarily allows people fleeing political and economic instability to come to the US, including after Russia invaded Ukraine.

More than 100,000 Ukrainians have been granted entry under the Biden administration’s “Uniting for Ukraine” parole program.

That program is not part of the challenge by Republican states in the Texas lawsuit.

“We have overseen the most significant expansion in legal pathways for people to come to the United States in many decades as a result of our efforts to try to incentivize intending migrants to use safe, orderly, and legal pathways to come to the United States, ” Blas Nuñez-Neto, DHS’ assistant secretary for border and immigration policy, said in May. The administration has credited these policies with helping to decrease the number

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Law Firm

Xponential Fitness, Inc. Securities Fraud Class Action Lawsuit Pending: Contact The Gross Law Firm Before April 9, 2024 to Discuss Your Rights

24/11/2025

NEW YORK, March 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Xponential Fitness, Inc..

Shareholders who purchased shares of XPOF during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to take part in any recovery.

Xponential Fitness Loss Submission Form

CLASS PERIOD: July 26, 2021 to December 7, 2023

ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) Xponential had permanently closed at least 30 stores; (b) Xponential’s reported same-store sales (“SSS”) and average unit volume metrics had been misstated by excluding underperforming stores; (c) 8 out of 10 Xponential brands were losing money monthly; (d) over 50% of Xponential studios did not make a positive financial return; (e) over 60% of Xponential’s revenue was one-time and non-recurring; (f) more than 100 of the Company’s franchises were for sale at a price that was at least 75% less than their initial cost; (g) Xponential had misled many of its franchisees into opening franchises by misrepresenting the financial profile and profitability of its

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