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"Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 15 Aug 15 16 736
IRS has officially passed over taxpayer information to ICE, per court filing 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 14 Aug 14 9 688
Trump Allies Were Told to Stop Saying They'll Put Migrants in 'Camps' 5 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 14 Aug 14 7 825
Will the Supreme Court revisit its ruling on same-sex marriage? 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 13 Aug 13 7 743
Florida Officials Won't Say If COVID Is Spreading at Everglades Concentration Camp 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 13 Aug 13 15 900
Army Secretary forces West Point to rescind appointment given to Easterly 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Aug 10 10 861
"Do Legal Checks on a President's Power 'Diminish the Votes of the Citizens Who Elected Him'?" 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 8 Aug 10 8 668
New: Harvard patents targeted by Trump administration 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 8 Aug 8 2 639
DOJ manufactures another lawsuit to block in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 7 Aug 7 1 568
Immigration Trump's plan to hold migrants at military bases begins taking shape 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 7 Aug 7 3 528
body cameras/dash cameras 2 RussBLib Aug 5 Aug 5 3 672
"Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error ..." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 5 Aug 5 11 821
VOA director fired after declining reassignment to low-level post 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 5 Aug 5 7 659
Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 3 Aug 3 14 709
Two sisters in DCF custody since mother was detained by ICE in May in Worcester are missing, officials say 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 3 Aug 3 26 869
"The guy Trump picked to lead the office that's now investigating Jack Smith:" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 3 Aug 3 7 856
Alabama Notifying Adult Sites of New Tax Set to Take Effect Sept. 1 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 695
🧊🖕✈️ ICE HATES BEING WATCHED 👉 So what are you gonna do? 🤨 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 794
Justice Department fired official whose husband operated controversial ICEBlock app 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 550
Judge rips Noem's latest termination of immigrant protections: 'Color is neither a poison nor a crime' 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 17 623
Florida AG demands names of guests and performers who attended a drag show 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 656
Brown University Makes a Deal With the White House to Restore Funding 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 590
"Three DOJ attorneys challenged their removals in the U.S. District Court for D.C." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 548
The Quickest Route to a Plum Judicial Appointment 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 623
Chokeholds, bikers and 'roving patrols': Are Trump's ICE tactics legal? 2 Eugene Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 735
Why we need a right not to be manipulated 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 666
"DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding the officers provide a warrant" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 20 872
"The Trump admin has formally unveiled a program to illegally use money Congress passed for sheltering migrants ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 785
His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He's Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 536
Quebec man warning Canadian boaters after he was detained by U.S. Coast guard, put in jail cell 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 970

Civil Liberties Continued...

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"Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask Judge Crenshaw to bring DHS back in line after its tweets and comments ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 585
Columbia punishes students involved in pro-Palestinian protest 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 661
Trump Awards $1.26 Billion Contract to Build Biggest Immigrant Detention Center in US 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 969
The Pentagon Won't Track Troops Deployed on U.S. Soil. So We Will. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 605
Beware of SHOCK EXHAUSTION 2 brakester Jul 2025 Jul 2025 13 779
"... Chief Judge James Boasberg--hearing the "CECOT class" AEA case--scheduled a status hearing for 11a Thursday, July 24." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 547
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask judge to delay release from jail over deportation fears 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 561
Nine Ways To Suppress African American Votes--the Republican Playbook Opinion (Newsweek) 2 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 726
Iowa mom falsely accused of cocaine use during pregnancy sues drug testing lab 0 ck4829 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 14 915
Allentown grandfather's family was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he's alive, in a hospital in Guatemala 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 866
"Trump to TRY to fire Powell, although doing so may be illegal" is the headline. 9 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1135
NEW: The State Department has quietly declassified and posted the diplomatic notes exchanged between US and El Salvador 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 15 2181
Group challenges ruling that potentially weakens the Voting Rights Act 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 534
Trump appointee argues in dissent that noncitizens are not protected by the First Amendment. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 778
"Time to start paying attention to Florida attorney general James Uthmeier, the brains behind Alligator Auschwitz." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 751
NYT Opinion: 'Egregious.' 'Brazen.' 'Lawless.' How 48 Judges Describe Trump's Actions, in Their Own Words 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 872
Concentration camp jobs posted on Indeed. I wonder if they'll advertise that the uniforms are made by Hugo Boss. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1200
"DC Circuit rules that Pentagon can unravel plea deals with 9/11 plotters that would have precluded death penalty." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 785
"Judge restrains LAPD from using nonlethal munitions against journalists, detaining or assaulting journalists ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 691
"Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 803
Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be deported to Mexico or South Sudan, ICE official tells judge 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 565
U.S. Botched a Deal to Swap Venezuelans Held in El Salvador for Americans 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 593
US judge rules Abrego's challenge to wrongful deportation can proceed 1 Eugene Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 624
Trump admin now again calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation "a one off mistake...an administrative error." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 13 917
Breaking: Judge issues administrative stay stopping South Sudan deportations 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 736
'Fidelity' to Trump policies now part of criteria for Foreign Service promotions 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 690
"The '60 Minutes' team is aghast after Shari Redstone's payout to Donald Trump ..." 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 988
"Kilmar Abrego Garcia asks the Tennessee criminal court to order the govt to stop making extrajudicial statements ..." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 15 789
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 763
7th CIr.: no 1A violation for school district to fire counselor who gave a profanity-laden speech at an anti-trans rally 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 708

Civil Liberties Continued...

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DOJ memo pushes for broader effort to revoke naturalized US citizenship 3 Eugene Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 674
"When future historians grapple with how Trump managed to so quickly and so thoroughly dismantle American democracy, ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 998
DOJ files court-required notice ... re: Executive Order 14160 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 886
"... 4th Circuit rejects the Trump administration to put Badar Khan Suri back in detention ..." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 663
NOW: Emergency conference before Judge Paula Xinis on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's motion to be returned to MD from TN 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 861
"DOJ asks appeals panel that stayed Judge Boasberg's criminal contempt proceedings against DOJ to disregard ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 803
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego Garcia was due to be deported. Now he's being freed. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 15 892
The ICE List: Tracking Deportation Agents Across America 1 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 2089
Senate Democrats Are Letting Trump's Judicial Nominees Off the Hook 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 624
The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: 'A police state' 2 Eugene Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 1183
" Never seen this before -- the Justice Department is suing ... the entire federal district court bench in Maryland ..." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 27 1809
National Archives College Park MD facility to remain open to general public 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 1227
"Congratulations to John Roberts, who will now surely displace Taney as the most ... hated Chief Justice in history" 14 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 78 3222
California National Guard troops under federal control sent to LA are 130 miles east of the city doing drug busts 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1181
"Judge William Young ... [denies] DOJ's request for a stay pending appeal in the NIH grants case." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 676
"A federal appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return a Salvadoran man ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 670
Judge chastises Trump administration in Voice of America hearing 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1035
The Big Billionaire Benefit Bill could slam the door on Justice!! 0 Ranting Randy Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 656
Appeals Court to Consider on Tuesday if Trump Can Control National Guard in L.A. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 0 672
"It looks like Palantir is helping Trump build a mega-database of Americans' private information" 14 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 39 2293
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