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Lawyer. Former director, UGALaw Land Use Clinic. Buddhist practitioner. Coloradan, my people are Montanan. No one is free unless all are free. Fighting fascism in my spare time.
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Judge Xinis is following exact procedure used in previous cases where cabinet officials held in contempt. See esp. Cobell v. Babbitt, 37 F.Supp.2d 6 (1999).

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

One difference between a press conference and a deposition is the latter is under oath with the penalty of perjury.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

NEW: Judge Xinis authorizes up to 15 interrogatories, 15 document requests, depositions from all govt declarants (Cerna, Katz, Kozak, and Mazzara) and up to two others to assess what the govt has done to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 13 hours ago • 57 comments

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.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 274 comments

Didn’t get a chance to post this earlier, but there was a huge turnout in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the federal courthouse. From my seat in the jury room, I heard the supporters outside chanting throughout the hearing.

submitted 12 hours ago • 165 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 22 hours ago • 112 comments

I was just reminded that this administration had no problem facilitating Andrew Tate's release from custody in Romania.

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

What was that line of about 30 closely-spaced satellites that passed over our house about an hour ago? Elon, or something else? Is there #astronomysky #satellitesky?

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

“At this time, we believe they were unjustly arrested,” said Essence Johnson, chair of the Cobb County Dems. “People are passionate now. They’re upset. They’re frustrated. They believe democracy is being taken away from them.” #gapol ajc.com/politics/pro...

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

This is the second video of ICE agents shattering a window in the last week rather than have some patience. And in this case, they're allegedly detaining someone who already has asylum through his wife, with no reason given at all! www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...

submitted 10 hours ago • 125 comments

This is positively Soviet. Vera is a nonprofit organization that funds lawyers for indigent people. The government sought to embed people there like political commissars, and only pulled back when they found out Vera's federal grants had already been cut. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 10 hours ago • 25 comments

Then y'all shouldn't have him out there as a witness. This is basic stuff. Goodness.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

"Why bother putting us to the point of returning him and meeting the burden of proving the allegations we've made against him, we're just going to violate his rights a different way," todays Justice Department, folks.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

"If he manages"

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1192 comments

the immigration court's determination that Mahmoud Khalil *can be deported doesn't necessarily mean he *will be but it still greenlit political retribution against legal residents who exercise their free speech rights and *that means all Americans are in danger ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

🚨 This is good. Both @vanhollen.senate.gov and @booker.senate.gov are getting ready to go down to El Salvador. Now @[email protected] have asked House Oversight chair James Comer to authorize Cong delegation to El Salvador. Keep the pressure on Ds. Be relentless.

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

submitted 15 hours ago • 1075 comments

It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers *how* lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

submitted 19 hours ago • 125 comments

He is a union apprentice and raising three special needs kids, two of them from his wife's previous relationships so yes he is certainly in the running.

submitted 18 hours ago • 46 comments

SCOOP --> The cop who initially attested to Abrego Garcia's alleged MS-13 membership was subsequently suspended and indicted for serious professional misconduct: Sharing case info with a sex worker. This undermines Trumpworld's smears. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1940...

submitted 18 hours ago • 107 comments

Exclusive: One of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's top advisors, Dan Caldwell, was escorted out of the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense, an official told Reuters reut.rs/44qHRmN

submitted 16 hours ago • 43 comments