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LIVE: Will Legal Fights Disrupt 2024 Election? News Updates on Court Cases - Bloomberg

Thank you all for joining us on the Election Case Tracker. We’ll be back on Wednesday Nov. 6 with the latest on legal challenges and the 2024 election.

CNN Legal Analyst Predicts Musk Will Go 'Crazy' Running 'Government Efficiency' Effort

The bureaucratic hoops Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will have to jump through as the heads of President-elect Donald Trump’s planned Department of Government Efficiency will drive them both “crazy,” predicted CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. The legal analyst added that “you have to go through all these steps” to eliminate even one small “part” of a government department, let alone “the structure” of the Department of Education or any other federal entity that has existed for decades.Jeffrey Toobin noted Tuesday that “there is a very boring” but “very important law” that could hamper Donald Trump's plans.Trump went on to compare the effort, which is not an official government agency, to the Manhattan Project, which compartmentalized the secret development of the first atomic bomb during World War II.“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump said on social media when announcing the new entity, nicknamed DOGE, Tuesday.

Opinion | Russell Vought violated the law for Trump before. He'll do it again.

The Supreme Court has never had to weigh in on the Impoundment Control Act’s limits on the president. But William Rehnquist, then an assistant attorney general under Nixon at the Office of Legal Counsel, didn’t agree with Nixon that impoundment is constitutional. Russell Vought is reportedly the president-elect Donald Trump's choice to again become the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.Amid the flurry of names being tapped to join President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration, I’ve been dreading one in particular: Russell Vought. He is the president-elect’s choice to again become the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.Vought served as deputy OMB director for most of Trump’s term and as director in its final year. The Government Accountability Office determined while Vought was there that OMB violated federal law by following Trump’s orders to withhold money Congress had appropriated.Russell Vought, then-Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget, during a press briefing at the White House in 2019.

Legal challenge to Rosebank oil and Jackdaw gas fields begins

These, he said, amounted to the companies arguing that they were “an innocent third party” who had reasonably relied on what appeared to be a “stable legal landscape” when making multi-million pound investment decisions. A legal challenge over the decision to give consent to the UK’s largest untapped oil field is taking place in Edinburgh.Both governments said it would not be appropriate to comment on live legal proceedings.The significant case could clarify governments' legal responsibilities in relation to climate change.On the contrary, argued Mr Duncan, the legal landscape had been far from stable and Rosebank’s developers Equinor and Ithaca were now “the beneficiaries of an unlawful decision,” who wanted the court “to allow them to continue to be the beneficiaries of an unlawful decision.”

Federal judge blocks Louisiana Ten Commandments law

A Louisiana law that mandated every public school classroom in the state display a poster of the Ten Commandments has been halted by a federal judge following legal challenges. The law requires public schools to display a poster of the Ten Commandments in every classroom.A group of parents trying to block the state law from going into effect by next year won their case, US district judge John deGravelles ruled Tuesday.The ruling means Louisiana cannot begin promoting or creating rules surrounding the law while the litigation continues.Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said her team had shown in multiple ways that "the law is constitutional", adding that she would "immediately appeal".

South Korea Live News: Opposition Seeks to Impeach Yoon After Martial Law Lifted - Bloomberg

Follow the latest updates on market reactions, political moves and protests. Protesters hold placards that read "arrest the treasonous criminal Yoon Suk Yeol!" during a rally in Seoul on Dec.Thanks for joining us.Here are the key takeaways after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s sudden imposition of martial law and his abrupt reversal in the face of massive protests.The move ignited a fierce public and political backlash, prompting lawmakers to race to parliament to reverse the order and protesters to gather in the streets.

South Korea’s Whirlwind Stint in Martial Law Jolts Markets - Bloomberg

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s surprise decision to impose martial law in South Korea for the first time in more than 40 years — and then just as swiftly reverse course — sparked whiplash in the country’s foreign-traded assets and caught global markets off guard, at one point ... South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s surprise decision to impose martial law in South Korea for the first time in more than 40 years — and then just as swiftly reverse course — sparked whiplash in the country’s foreign-traded assets and caught global markets off guard, at one point sending US Treasury yields lower as traders sought a haven from potential instability.In an emergency address delivered live to the nation, Yoon stunned voters, lawmakers and investors alike by declaring martial law on Tuesday after accusing the opposition of trying to paralyze his administration.Have a confidential tip for our reporters?Get in Touch

‘My mother-in-law is now requesting we pay her to watch our daughter’: Minnesota couple earning $230K struggles with child care costs, Ramsey Show hosts weigh in

The rising costs of child care have hit young families in both the pocketbook and time from work. When Kyle from Minnesota asked his mother-in-law to look after his child, he wasn’t expecting her to hand him an invoice.After agreeing to assist with free child care for their five-month-old, Grandma had a change of heart, leaving Kyle and his wife in a precarious position.Car insurance premiums in America are through the roof — and only getting worse.Lock in juicy quarterly income through this $1B private real estate fund — even if you’re not a millionaire.

South Korea martial law: What happens next?

"Yoon’s declaration of martial law appeared to be both legal overreach and a political miscalculation, unnecessarily risking South Korea’s economy and security," one expert, Leif-Eric Easley at Ewha University in Seoul said. Yoon Suk Yeol's move was spurred not by external threats but by his own desperate political troubles.South Korea's president shocked the country on Tuesday night when, out of the blue, he declared martial law in the Asian democracy for the first time in nearly 50 years.Yoon Suk Yeol's drastic decision - announced in a late-night TV broadcast - mentioned "anti-state forces" and the threat from North Korea.But it soon became clear that it not been spurred by external threats but by his own desperate political troubles.

Assisted dying bill: What is in the proposed law?

MPs have voted in favour of proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. The bill - called the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - would make it legal for over-18s who are terminally ill to be given assistance to end their own life.The person seeking assisted dying would be advised to consider telling their family and GP, but would not legally have to.The proposed law would allow some terminally ill adults to end their own lives. But there are requirements.The bill will now face many more months of debate and scrutiny by MPs and peers, who could choose to amend it, with the approval of both Houses of Parliament needed for it to become law.