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BREAKING: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from cutting off funds for "direct legal representation services 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 671
Did the New England Patriots team plane just fly to Guantanamo? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 609
"This line is going to stick with me for a very long time." 20 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 188 7765
ACLU Asks Court To Make Trump Bring All Migrants Labeled 'Alien Enemies' From El Salvador Prison 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 610
Trump's deportations may face challenge as prison punishment without a trial 4 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 863
I was working from home at around 11:30 when I got a notice that my VPN had gone down 13 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 42 2444
If you're attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke ... 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 763
Trump administration appears to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 871
DHS expands on its defiant middle finger to the Supreme Court ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 645
Trump administration moved Venezuelan (A.S.R.) to Texas for possible deportation despite judge's order 3 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 9 759
Inside The Fight To Return The Other Men Trump Sent To CECOT 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 565
How Sam Alito Inadvertently Revealed His Own Homophobia From the Bench 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1064
Once again, Project 2025 gets it wrong, and its hood ornament, Donald Trump. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 684
Trump's Road to Constitutional Perdition 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 664
Feds blame U.S. citizen for his arrest under suspended immigration law 1 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 680
Alleged ICE arrest outside Douglas County courthouse captured on video - Douglas County News Press 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 908
A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 567
DOJ asks Supreme Court to reject ACLU request to pause deportations 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 644
The Supreme Court could be poised to hobble the Trump resistance 5 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 1175
No university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 889
Over the next two weeks, SCOTUS is hearing three religious supremacy cases 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 659
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 3982
DOGE Visits National Gallery of Art to Discuss Museum's Legal Status 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 797
A prince and knight fall in love and the Supreme Court is asked to intervene 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 964
"A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I've ever read." 15 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 78 3799
Elon Musk is accessing his private network via a Starlink transceiver at GSA headquarters. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 18 1241
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, assails the Trump admin's behavior in the Abrego Garcia case. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 634
Trump Is Talking About Finding Ways to Send U.S. Citizens to Salvadoran Prison 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 785
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 5 686
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 3 580

Civil Liberties Continued...

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NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1166
Associated Press moves to enforce Judge McFadden's injunction 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 688
DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 695
DOGE attempted to assign team to US nonprofit group Vera Institute of Justice 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 13 671
Ice deports Venezuelan teen (Merwil Gutierrez) despite reportedly knowing he was not a target 5 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 844
Status conference in Abrego Garcia et al v. Noem et al, 4:00 p.m. Tuesday 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 746
Washington Post Exclusive: DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 598
Woman says she was detained by Houston police and turned over to ICE after her car caught fire 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 977
The Trump administration trapped a wrongly deported man in a catch-22 3 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 761
Trump administration says it will decline to make SSA admin Dudek available for hearing 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 665
'Homegrowns are next': Trump provokes fears for Black US citizens with legally dubious deportation proposal 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 866
ACLU brings third Alien Enemies Act lawsuit after Supreme Court ruling 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 537
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 1006
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 3 690
We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history ... 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 868
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview -- Then Arrested by ICE 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 1055
Rumeysa Ozturk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 466
Sunday's declaration regarding Abrego Garcia 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 887
Los Angeles Schools on Alert Amid Rise of ICE Agent Impersonators Throughout the District 2 ck4829 Feb 2025 Apr 2025 5 841
Trump Directive Calls to Turn Border Land Into 'Military Installation' 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 939
Martial Law question 1 Sun-Moon Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 793
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 884
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 1318
Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs 9 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1106
ICE: Stop ideas from crossing the U.S. border. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 770
Scoop: The White House is choosing to censor some White House pool reports. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 600
NEW: CAIR asks a judge to order Columbia to delay its planned response today to a Senate committee ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 608
Any law student interviewing with these firms should know that this is what you're signing up for: 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 555
DHS to Begin Screening Aliens' Social Media Activity for Antisemitism 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 950
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 16 1010

Civil Liberties Continued...

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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 6 680
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 8 960
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 3 605
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 1110
Chinese woman detained by US border patrol in Arizona dies by suicide 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 9 902
D.C. Appeals Court Reverses Trump Firing 2 Independent Federal Board Members 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 681
Judge says deportation of Maryland man to an El Salvador prison was 'wholly lawless' 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 778
UPDATE: Abrego Garcia's lawyers have now filed their opposition to DOJ's Fourth Circuit stay request. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 701
The First Book Banned In America -- and other thoughts 3 SorellaLaBefana Apr 2025 Apr 2025 18 1063
This message was self-deleted by its author 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1097
Top Prosecutor Spoke at Event Attended by January 6 Seditionists Who Are Appealing Their Convictions 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 655
Abrego Garcia, Constructive Custody, and Federal Judicial Power 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 559
Rally and court hearing set for Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 766
Very odd and questionably lawful prior restraint order out of Texas. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 664
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 13 971
TWSJ. Exclusive: Law Firm Kirkland & Ellis in Talks With White House to Avoid Executive Order 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 653
Social Security faces thousands more job cuts even with service in tailspin 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 588
Adam Klasfeld and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick are covering Judge Boasberg's hearing. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1035
Feds move to dismiss Gtown scholar Badar Suri's habeas petition/oppose moving him from TX to VA. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 532
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 5 833
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