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Former criminal law judge, Texas lawyer, world traveler, & mom of 3 YA. I post about #criminallaw and #politics
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Say you are a clueless out-of-touch millionaire without saying so. “Maybe the children will have 2 dolls instead of 30 dolls” for Xmas. (Trump) thehill.com/homenews/adm...

It was never about saving money—or rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. Musk bought himself a presidency, and in exchange, Trump handed him the keys to our government so he could tear down anything in his way, siphon off our data w/his hackers, and line his pockets w/more fat government contracts.

#GVerse #Attention 😡

A Texas lawyer gave some informal advice to undocumented immigrants. He later had unidentified agents from ICE show up at his door. A tech oddity: His Wifi went down right before the officers' visit and came back soon after, meaning their visit wasn't recorded. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

In this first 100 days, Trump has passed no legislation to help the American people, alienated our allies, cozied up to dictators, fired federal employees and then rehired many, attacked our schools, illegally deported immigrants and introduced chaos into the economy…

The world is on Zelensky’s side. Zelensky applauded by world leaders upon entering church.

Saturday erupted into a second day of protest to denounce the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan. Protesters gathered in support of Judge Dugan, demanding that prosecutors drop the charges being brought against her. Marching through the streets of St. Francis, Wisconsin, the protesters converged…

Bombshell...

TouchĂŠ

A case like this should have been heard by a grand jury & only then a warrant would have issued if they decided she did anything wrong criminally. While #ICE agents watched her, #JudgeDugan opened a door in her own courtroom during the course of conducting proceedings on cases.

Republicans may end #immigration to America & then they will have to find someone else to blame for the hate & rot in their own hearts.

I doubt a grand jury will indict. The #Wisconsin #judge merely let a person walk out her courtroom while #ICE watched. Her arrest was to intimidate judges.

Trump campaigned on lowering the cost of #groceries. I don’t shop in bulk at home, but recently when I visited my kids in Austin, I got sticker shock. $41 - 8 small pieces of salmon. $9 -16 ounces of ground beef. Ground turkey was not too bad at $7 for 16 ounces. In total, 6 packages for over $70.

The propaganda and outright lies by this administration is truly out of control.

Sleazy weasel.

Ah - Trump said that their letter allowing them to take over Harvard was sent in error. That is some pretty furious backpeddling. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

But, but, he was going to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours after taking office. Could that possibly have been another lie from a lying liar?🙄

Ooops! Ooopsie! Did we do that? We didn't mean to do that. Definitely don't blame us for doing that. Oops! Day one funding freeze Oops! Ebola Oops! Nuclear security workers Oops! Bird flu Oops! PEPFAR Oops! HHS firings And on and on and on... Now this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

At the White House yesterday, a reporter asked Trump if he would return #Abrego Garcia to the U.S. He said, “Well, I’m not involved.” What?!&$ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

The League of Women Voters declares a constitutional crisis - and we're doing something about it. If there's a cardinal rule of protecting American democracy, it's that you do not eff with the LWV.

Absurd

Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, tried and failed on Wednesday to secure a meeting in El Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an immigrant and Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration and remains imprisoned. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

Quick point. Congress can use the spending fight in September (remember Chuck Schumer surrendered till then) to prevent a single dollar from being used to house prisoners in El Salvador.

Perhaps, when the President discusses sending U.S. citizens to other countries’ prisons/concentration camps, it’s time to call him a dictator.

The only thing missing from the reporting is what Trump said to the heads of these law firms: "Some day, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me."

If nothing else, Judge Boasberg‘s finding helps make a record that Judge Xinis will have available, suggesting that the government may have intentionally & purposefully engaged in contempt on more than one occasion.

Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue: "Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT." She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”

Get yourself a senator willing to rescue you in a foreign country after your messy president wrongfully deports you… …seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are. Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The should stop going. It’s all propaganda nonsense from the idiot talking head

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

This is something we can all do.👇🏼 File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.

The tough man who wrote the “Art of the Deal” wants us to believe he can’t get a single man wrongly imprisoned in El Salvador! SMH

no criminal record no gang ties no tattoos active pending asylum case **19 years old** sent by trump to prison (forever?) in el salvador www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: Judge Loren AliKhan is issuing the temporary restraining order Susman Godfrey sought blocking the Trump admin from enforcing parts 1, 3, & 5 of the executive order Trump signed last week targeting the law firm. AliKhan is the 4th judge to grant a TRO against Trump's law-firm EOs.

No thanks!😬

National protests this weekend! We know the drill fiftyfifty.one Mobilize.us #LFG

“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.

Who else SUPPORTS Senator Van Hollen?! 🤚

We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

This lady just makes crap up as she goes along. Judges get to make decisions about what the evidence proves, not bobble heads like Leavitt.

the govt is so clearly just grabbing at stereotypes of "latin american gang" (mostly derived from MS13, as far as I can tell?) and pasting them onto tren de aragua, even though there's no actual connection

When I see photos of the #ElSalvador prison, I remember standing in Auschwitz & Birkenau a couple of years ago. I saw where prisoners had laid back to back to sleep on hay on the ground. These men look just like that positioned back to back. Heads shaved. Barely clothed. No privacy. No dignity.

It’s the evil laugh at the end for us 😕