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submitted 6 hours ago • 78 comments

The principle at stake here is so fundamental it predates even Magna Carta in English law, and before that stretching all the way back to Rome, and has its similarly ancient equivalents in every legal system in the world, because it's the inherent bedrock foundation of what courts and laws are for.

submitted 6 hours ago • 22 comments

People missing the flip side of this: Of course Bukele will refuse to repatriate someone if he knows Trump doesn’t want him to.

submitted 5 hours ago • 14 comments

Some of us said after the first Trump admin. And Dems agreed until the precise moment they took power whereupon they immediately decided it would be a lot easier to simply do nothing

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

We have a winner, ladies and gentlemen.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

submitted 9 hours ago • 385 comments

BREAKING: Trump administation attests that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and secure but is under the "sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 9 hours ago • 485 comments

So all the White House political reporters are spending the weekend getting up to speed on the Abrego Garcia case and litigation related to the gulag in El Salvador so that they can prep good questions for Bukele’s visit on Monday, right? Right????????

submitted 12 hours ago • 203 comments

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

submitted 15 hours ago • 202 comments

Guys, this is the WSJ opinion section right now.

submitted 14 hours ago • 18 comments

At this point, Trump admin is just relaying Ru demands rather than behaving as a mediator or a leader. “The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, in a move described as a colonial shakedown. apple.news/AfogjxQp3Sfm...

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

Mr. Last's recommendation should be more than enough, but for whatever it is worth I read it and highly recommend it too.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

This is absolutely essential from @benjaminwittes.bsky.social

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

I think my favorite part is how a cargo ship takes at least 10 days to cross the Atlantic and at least 15 days to cross the Pacific, so if your cargo ship left somewhere on April 1 headed for the U.S. then you've gone through multiple wildly different tariff regimes while still at sea.

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

Trump exempting computers & phones from the tariffs today means that Chinese-made laptops now have lower tariffs than European Cars, Mexican Steel, & Canadian Lumber. Also means Vietnamese-made laptops have a lower tariff than Ethiopian coffee, Indian tea, & Guatemalan bananas

submitted 15 hours ago • 94 comments

No exemptions though for the things poor people buy: inexpensive shoes, clothes, bedding, tableware.

submitted 15 hours ago • 97 comments

If an administration can get away with falsifying social security records to target individuals, then there is no bottom. There's also no such thing as a "citizen" because that can be changed with a couple button presses too. Mark your SSN and passport as dead then ship you to El Salvador.

submitted 15 hours ago • 17 comments

Ukraine commander in chief Syrskyi says Russia has begun a new offensive, this time in the north east of Ukraine. here are key points: 0/

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

This is what its like to work in the Trump administration now. When a career official objected to declaring that living immigrants were dead on legal and ethical grounds, security guards went to his office and told him to leave. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 18 hours ago • 60 comments

Tale as old as time. Big businesses who make friends with the kleptocrats get special exemptions from the regulatory burdens so they can lock in their market position, rather than removing the regulatory burdens across the board.

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

Thanks to @aaup.bsky.social, which is filing the lawsuits that universities should be filing but aren’t.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

They’re going to accidentally deport a U.S. citizen aren’t they

submitted 1 day ago • 330 comments

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 1 day ago • 2247 comments

"If the Supreme Court said" Who gets a unanimous adverse ruling from a court panel he largely appointed and doesn't read it?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

New: Trump says he will comply with Supreme Court compelling the govt to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador — “If the Supreme Court said bring somebody back I would do that. I respect the Supreme Court,” Trump said per pool

submitted 1 day ago • 172 comments

I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 1 day ago • 147 comments

Welp, I guess the bare-bones letter from Rubio was determined to be “facially reasonable and bona fide.” Note that this was largely expected; the standard is exceptionally deferential. This decision will be appealable up to the Board of Immigration Appeals, and then again to the circuit courts.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

submitted 1 day ago • 687 comments

Longtime Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr has been fired by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Carr told reporters in an email.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

submitted 1 day ago • 488 comments

The @lawfare.bsky.social team will discuss live at 4 pm ET this afternoon. Join us then! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

What is astounding here is that the Trump administration doesn't just say, okay, we made an error in deporting this one fellow and here he is back. Minimize the barbarous act and the affront to the rule of law. Nah. The denigration of all legal authority and the rank cruelty are the point. Fascism.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Is this fool of a lawyer saying the judge can’t rule except with the executive branch’s permission??

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Jesus wept.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments