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Top CNS stories for today including a coalition of 20 states asked a federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border; A federal judge in Maryland became the third to block the Trump administration’s decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census; Chicago said it will sue “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett to recover over $130,000 it spent investigating the alleged hate crime against him that the city maintains was a hoax, and more.

Your Friday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top CNS stories for today including a coalition of 20 states asked a federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border; A federal judge in Maryland became the third to block the Trump administration’s decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census; Chicago said it will sue “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett to recover over $130,000 it spent investigating the alleged hate crime against him that the city maintains was a hoax, and more.

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A trio of javelina blocked from entering Mexico by an existing portion of border wall. (Matt Clark)

1.) Calling President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border a “threat to our democratic institutions,” a coalition of 20 states asked a federal judge on Friday to block the action as unconstitutional.

Chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda waits for alleged jihadist leader Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud to enter the courtroom at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 4, 2018. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says she has had her U.S. visa revoked, in the first implementation of an American crackdown on the global tribunal. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

2.) More than two years have passed since International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda first found “reasonable basis to believe” that U.S. military forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan and at CIA black sites. Bensouda confirmed Friday that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo retaliated against her by revoking her visa.

3.) Less than three weeks before the Supreme Court weighs the issue, a federal judge in Maryland on Friday became the third to block the Trump administration’s decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.

A California condor, tagged and equipped with a radio tracking device.

4.) California condors will soon glide through the skies in Oregon, Nevada and Northern California, if a government plan to expand the birds’ range into their original territory becomes reality. 

FILE- In this March 7, 2019, file photo visitors to the Pittsburgh veterans job fair meet with recruiters at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. On Friday, April 5, the U.S. government issues the March jobs report. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

5.) American employers added 196,000 new jobs in March, dwarfing the paltry gains from the month before and showing that businesses are still hiring despite worries about an economic slowdown.

Regional

6.) Chicago said it will sue “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett to recover over $130,000 it spent investigating the alleged hate crime against him that the city maintains was a hoax.

7.) An Iowa judge ordered state prison officials to stop barring inmates’ access to materials that contain non-sexually explicit depictions of nudity while a lawsuit brought by 13 inmates is heard by the trial court.

8.) A Russian bank owned by a former North Carolina congressman had its license stripped Friday by regulators in that country based on claims that it regularly violated anti-money laundering rules.

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