Anna Bower & Katie Phang are live posting the Boasberg/Venezuela/Trump hearing. I'm combining their posts here 1/.. HAPPENING NOW: Judge Boasberg is presiding over hearing regarding whether the Trump admin violated court order temp barring removal of Venezuelan migrants. He kicks off by […] - ThreadSky

GottaLaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy • 6 days ago

Anna Bower & Katie Phang are live posting the Boasberg/Venezuela/Trump hearing. I'm combining their posts here

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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Boasberg is presiding over hearing regarding whether the Trump admin violated court order temp barring removal of Venezuelan migrants.

He kicks off by […]

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GottaLaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

2/ Atty Gabriel Malor, too. More:

Gov't attorney then waffles, says he doesn't have authorization to disclose the information even to the judge.

Now gov't attorney Kambli claims the information is classified.

Judge Boasberg is not having it, points out he reviews classified information all […]

GottaLaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

3/ Emptywheel:

One other wrinkle of the conflict over the AEA deportations: Two members of the ACLU team, Ashley Gorski and Patrick Toomey, are the two lawyers most persistently challenging FISA shenanigans in the last 10 years--recently got a big 702 win.

They've butted heads w/ and over […]

GottaLaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

4/ And here on Mastodon, Joshua Friedman is live posting.

Follow his posts. That way I don't have to live post others.

Here you go:

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/post/3lkm2wkcs7227

GottaLaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

5/ And @Nonilex too!

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114179840622384028

#Boasberg gets the #DOJ to confirm the 5 individual named plaintiffs, which were the subject of his first TRO, are still here.

Boasberg asks "How many planes departed the US at any point on Saturday carrying any people being […]

GottaLaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

6/ DOJ says it's all classified.

Boasberg: Let me tell you the questions I wish you to answer:

mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

@GottaLaff I don't envy the government lawyers at that hearing. A tightrope between sanctions and being fired, possibly both.

GottaLaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

7/ US: I would direct the court to page 42 of the transcript. The big issue is that this is a fast-moving case where there's a lot of operational natsec etc. at stake. "Oral statements are not injunctions." We do believe this is a good-faith interpretation of the court's written order.

darwinwoodka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

@GottaLaff

are they sending child lawyers who don’t know the law or just idiots?

GottaLaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

@darwinwoodka Trump loyalists.

darwinwoodka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

@GottaLaff like i said, idiots

GhostOnTheHalfShell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

@GottaLaff

I wonder if we’re gone so far or too far that if Ed feel like a teenage boy, some blonde hair, blue eye kid being logged off by these thugs later to show up in El Salvador without any due process will even cause a ripple.

We have to call this war please call this war. It is a war.

CassandraVert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @GottaLaff
You know they're coming for any kids in public custody.

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