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Inside The Fight To Return The Other Men Trump Sent To CECOT 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 853
How Sam Alito Inadvertently Revealed His Own Homophobia From the Bench 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1418
Once again, Project 2025 gets it wrong, and its hood ornament, Donald Trump. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 923
Trump's Road to Constitutional Perdition 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 905
Feds blame U.S. citizen for his arrest under suspended immigration law 1 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 951
Alleged ICE arrest outside Douglas County courthouse captured on video - Douglas County News Press 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1181
A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 803
DOJ asks Supreme Court to reject ACLU request to pause deportations 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 1018
The Supreme Court could be poised to hobble the Trump resistance 5 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 1610
No university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1275
Over the next two weeks, SCOTUS is hearing three religious supremacy cases 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 902
The thrust of Alito's dissent is: Sure, maybe the Trump administration was going to defy our unambiguous ruling ... 19 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 57 5469
DOGE Visits National Gallery of Art to Discuss Museum's Legal Status 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1092
A prince and knight fall in love and the Supreme Court is asked to intervene 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 1298
"A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I've ever read." 15 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 78 5150
Elon Musk is accessing his private network via a Starlink transceiver at GSA headquarters. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 18 1732
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, assails the Trump admin's behavior in the Abrego Garcia case. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 931
Trump Is Talking About Finding Ways to Send U.S. Citizens to Salvadoran Prison 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1091
2022 statute could force disclosure of U.S.-El Salvador agreements connected to the facility where Garcia is detained. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 961
The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 830
NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1820
Associated Press moves to enforce Judge McFadden's injunction 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 922
DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 1000
DOGE attempted to assign team to US nonprofit group Vera Institute of Justice 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 13 942
Ice deports Venezuelan teen (Merwil Gutierrez) despite reportedly knowing he was not a target 5 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 1367
Status conference in Abrego Garcia et al v. Noem et al, 4:00 p.m. Tuesday 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 1209
Washington Post Exclusive: DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 850
Woman says she was detained by Houston police and turned over to ICE after her car caught fire 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 1285
The Trump administration trapped a wrongly deported man in a catch-22 3 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 1144
Trump administration says it will decline to make SSA admin Dudek available for hearing 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 935

Civil Liberties Continued...

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'Homegrowns are next': Trump provokes fears for Black US citizens with legally dubious deportation proposal 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1257
ACLU brings third Alien Enemies Act lawsuit after Supreme Court ruling 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 811
BREAKING: D.C. Circuit panel allows Judge McFadden's injunction in the Associated Press access case to go into effect. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1412
New -- The court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the removal of Mohsen Mahdawi from the US or Vermont. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1021
We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history ... 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 1183
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview -- Then Arrested by ICE 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 1596
Rumeysa Ozturk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 698
Sunday's declaration regarding Abrego Garcia 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1356
Los Angeles Schools on Alert Amid Rise of ICE Agent Impersonators Throughout the District 2 ck4829 Feb 2025 Apr 2025 5 1228
Trump Directive Calls to Turn Border Land Into 'Military Installation' 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 1498
Martial Law question 1 Sun-Moon Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 1068
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1262
Top Pro Bono Leader Resigns from Paul Weiss, a Firm Hit in Trump's Crackdown on Big Law 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 37 1621
Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs 9 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1791
ICE: Stop ideas from crossing the U.S. border. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1134
Scoop: The White House is choosing to censor some White House pool reports. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 873
NEW: CAIR asks a judge to order Columbia to delay its planned response today to a Senate committee ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 909
Any law student interviewing with these firms should know that this is what you're signing up for: 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 857
DHS to Begin Screening Aliens' Social Media Activity for Antisemitism 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1424
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 16 1350
Houston police are now arresting people with "ICE warrants," which now appear when they run checks at traffic stops. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 965
JUST IN: The federal appeals court in DC has upheld the White House's decision to outsource press credentialing 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1342
In final filing to SCOTUS, the Trump administration takes a swing at the DOJ line attorney suspended for his arguments. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 924
Yeah. I pegged this as the exchange that most likely led to him being put on administrative leave. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 1539
Chinese woman detained by US border patrol in Arizona dies by suicide 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 9 1337
D.C. Appeals Court Reverses Trump Firing 2 Independent Federal Board Members 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1195
Judge says deportation of Maryland man to an El Salvador prison was 'wholly lawless' 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1149
UPDATE: Abrego Garcia's lawyers have now filed their opposition to DOJ's Fourth Circuit stay request. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 1014
The First Book Banned In America -- and other thoughts 3 SorellaLaBefana Apr 2025 Apr 2025 18 1484
This message was self-deleted by its author 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1569

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Top Prosecutor Spoke at Event Attended by January 6 Seditionists Who Are Appealing Their Convictions 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 997
Abrego Garcia, Constructive Custody, and Federal Judicial Power 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 950
Rally and court hearing set for Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1213
Very odd and questionably lawful prior restraint order out of Texas. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 990
The "Hands Off!" protest info for Sat. 4/5 should be at the top of every page here at D.U. ! 3 Exp Apr 2025 Apr 2025 13 1542
TWSJ. Exclusive: Law Firm Kirkland & Ellis in Talks With White House to Avoid Executive Order 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 956
Social Security faces thousands more job cuts even with service in tailspin 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 925
Adam Klasfeld and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick are covering Judge Boasberg's hearing. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1683
Feds move to dismiss Gtown scholar Badar Suri's habeas petition/oppose moving him from TX to VA. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 829
Chief Judge James E. Boasberg will hear arguments in J.G.G. et al v. TRUMP et al Thursday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1295
Federal judge in NY rejects Trump admin effort to dismiss lawsuit alleging DOGE directed a massive breach of OPM data 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 739
Judge Denise Casper is beginning her hearing over the habeas petition brought on behalf of Rumeysa Ozturk 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 731
Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 14 2139
Tufts files a declaration in support of Rumeysa Ozturk. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 895
Trump Intends to Nominate Individuals to Key Posts at the Department of Justice 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 829
Stephen Miller Attacks Dems for Demanding Due Process for Deportees: 'How About Hell No' 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 1080
Quite the quote from the lawyer for the Salvadoran man who was deported in "error": 8 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 105 4462
Hands Off! Protests throughout the USA! See the link and be there! Sat. April 5th. 0 Exp Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 847
NEW: Perkins Coie files its motion for summary judgment -- arguing they win on the law. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 1062
Milbank has been representing Cathy Harris in her suit over her firing from the MSPB. Will they continue doing so? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 786
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