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Seeing claims about the judge "hiding" the defendant. Read the complaint, folks (written by DOJ). The guy was literally in the public area where the agents were. I guess he got on an elevator before they could get to him. The complaint says after letting the defendant exit she came back to the bench

submitted 12 hours ago • 241 comments

To read the Criminal Complaint and attached FBI Affidavit that gave rise to Wisconsin State Judge Hannah Dugan’s federal criminal arrest today for obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the United States and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest

submitted 11 hours ago • 112 comments

Reuters poll: Trump approval 37% approve 57% disapprove U.S. adults

submitted 1 day ago • 333 comments

The nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice says staff from Elon’s Department of Government Efficiency contacted them to assign a team to the organization and told them they planned to similarly install teams with all nonprofits receiving funds appropriated by Congress. apnews.com/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Both accurate and absurd.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Amen - this isn't hard. DOGE has no legal authority to access independent non-profit organizations. Period, full stop.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

👇🏽🎯

submitted 4 days ago • 238 comments

🔥 “I don’t think it’s ever wrong to stand up for the constitution.” Senator Van Hollen responds to Governor Gavin Newsom calling standing up for #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s due process a “distraction”

submitted 5 days ago • 121 comments

Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

submitted 5 days ago • 1363 comments

Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.

submitted 6 days ago • 694 comments

An absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning: “Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”

submitted 6 days ago • 690 comments

Wow, this is the first time we've heard this number. Previous reporting suggested it was $6 million. So now it's $15 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars to imprison people in El Salvador without trial.

submitted 7 days ago • 188 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 7 days ago • 1750 comments

In case you were wondering about the quality of DOJ's briefing in the birthright citizenship cases, my colleague John Mikhail has actually read the "authorities" cited and discovered--fancy that!--they're not quite what they're cracked up to be. www.justsecurity.org/110212/birth...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

On left: Fifth Circuit rejects ACLU Alien Enemies Act emergency motion citing that Government promised district court it would not remove the 2 named plaintiffs On right: ACLU motion replete with references to Government unwilling to make any such promise for rest of the class of detainees!

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

As you read about SCOTUS blocking some deportations, make sure you read this piece on how the IC debunked Trump's claim that Venezuela is behind Tren de Aragua. That undermines the entire premise of Trump's AEA invocation (even before the "invasion" claim). www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

“Van Hollen said that the administration’s efforts to demonize Abrego Garcia were an attempt to distract from its refusal to adhere to the rule of law, and from the principle that everyone living in the United States…should have constitutional rights.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Supreme Court blocks some Alien Enemies Act removals in Texas-based case. The late-night order from the Supreme Court came amidst fears the Trump administration was preparing for more flights to El Salvador as soon as Saturday. New, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Obviously, a huge victory for the migrants here and a major defeat for Trump’s lawless effort to rush out a rendition flight before the courts could act. But also—potentially a massive signal from the Supreme Court that it is finally prepared to go toe to toe with Trump to halt AEA deportations.

submitted 6 days ago • 44 comments

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...

submitted 7 days ago • 663 comments

It is just a shockingly incompetent, inhumane and unlawful administration. Like an evil clown show. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

submitted 7 days ago • 1054 comments

Come. On.

submitted 8 days ago • 59 comments

“The government is not a car company.”

submitted 8 days ago • 377 comments

Read the whole thread. Authoritarian creep without any grounding in the law.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE wanted to assign a team to… the Vera Institute of Justice, a completely independent nonprofit that is in no way part of the government… www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador

submitted 11 days ago • 671 comments

Forget about the legal case. A man was wrongly deported and placed in a notorious prison with leaders of a gang out to get him. Anyone with an ounce of basic human decency would fix the mistake and return that man to the United States

submitted 12 days ago • 899 comments

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

submitted 15 days ago • 1232 comments

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

submitted 15 days ago • 312 comments

In fact, it is offensively ridiculous to think that any but a handful of people disappeared by ICE will be able to file habeas corpus, because it relies on them having informed families with connections to available knowledgeable lawyers with time and resources to act instantly.

submitted 18 days ago • 166 comments

This Senate bill to slap limits on the president’s tariff power now has SEVEN Republican sponsors: • Grassley • Moran • Murkowski • McConnell • Tillis • Young • Collins

submitted 18 days ago • 220 comments

“It is not clear…why Trump has been raising money so aggressively.” Wait, I know! Because the super pac will spend all its money at Trump properties. When in doubt, the answer is that it’s a grift. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

DOJ lawyer fired because he engaged in conduct detrimental to his “client”, while seeking to avoid a grave injustice. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Mark Carney says Trump's tariffs will make the US weaker just as Brexit has made the UK weaker

submitted 19 days ago • 44 comments

I taught a US citizenship class to South Sudanese refugees in Nebraska, 2006-2007. Fleeing civil war, they worked arduous jobs at a meat packing plant. Many had no literacy in any language. But they studied hard for a citizenship exam which many native-born Americans would not be able to pass.

submitted 20 days ago • 615 comments

I agree and think it can be extremely meaningful if we all agree to give it that meaning. It’s a form of civic disobedience, like a sit in, but where he’s communicated so effectively about the authoritarian risk.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

@booker.senate.gov made history yesterday. He made genuinely “good trouble.” During his brilliant record-breaking filibuster, he asked “Where does the Constitution live, on paper or in our hearts?” All of us are called in our own way to answer that question by our actions, not just our words.

submitted 23 days ago • 144 comments

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

submitted 24 days ago • 1349 comments

There it is: 7:19 pm — Cory Booker has buried the odious arch segregationist Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history — and Booker is acknowledging him as “the man who tried to stop the rights on which I stand… I’m here despite his speech." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

submitted 24 days ago • 14 comments

Bravo Senator Booker. I mean fricking huge bravo! I sure hope other political leaders step up like he is doing.

submitted 24 days ago • 19 comments