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Is Majority Leader Thune demanding an apology from the Secretary? If not, I'd accept the alternative of taking it out in actual oversight by the subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Security or by the entire Judiciary Committee. Not too late for the Senate to reduce her budget.
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Then ask it in the context of a Senate hearing. That is appropriate “oversight”
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What's going on right now are *preventive* strikes, which are usually NOT permissable in law or tradition. This is striking an enemy far in advance, because you believe time and situation is favorable to you. That, for example, is Japan striking the US in 1941. /3
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In tradition and international law, a "preemptive" attack is a spoiling attack, meant to strike an enemy who is *imminently* going to strike you. This is what Israel did in 1967, getting the jump on Arab armies that were about to attack. That's usually permissable. /2
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In over 99.5 percent of protest events in April and May, we recorded no injuries, arrests, or property damage — an unprecedentedly tiny fraction for a movement of this size and geographic dispersion.
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3/ For now it's an injunction, but a strong ruling, suggesting what's to come. The gov't argued there was no irreparable harm because this is about the 2026 election. The court writes that voting is a fundamental American right & interfering with registration today matters.
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2/ A little slap at GOP members of Congress here for those here are following insertions into the ugly budget bill. No bond required.
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Shame on the GOP for sending the military to effect regime change in California. Shame on Secretary Noem for (allegedly) failing to recognize the ranking member of her oversight subcommittee. Shame on the Speaker and the Secretary for abusing their platforms to spout unconvincing propaganda.
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“I have not heard abt a protest”
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Note: This is a winding path. Although Boasberg finds it is a close question, he does not find — for now — that the plaintiffs proved that the U.S. maintains "constructive custody" over the people in CECOT. He does, though, find there is a due-process claim b/c they were not able to seek habeas.