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Judge Xinis DENIES an additional request by the government to further stay discovery in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 30 Apr 30 10 543
Stephen Miller mentor David Horowitz dies of cancer, age 89 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 30 Apr 30 5 925
Supreme Court to consider bid for first religious charter school 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 30 Apr 30 3 516
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from cutting off funds for "direct legal representation services 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 29 Apr 29 4 515
Did the New England Patriots team plane just fly to Guantanamo? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 29 Apr 29 5 484
"This line is going to stick with me for a very long time." 20 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 27 Apr 28 188 7056
ACLU Asks Court To Make Trump Bring All Migrants Labeled 'Alien Enemies' From El Salvador Prison 0 Eugene Apr 26 Apr 26 2 469
Trump's deportations may face challenge as prison punishment without a trial 4 Eugene Apr 26 Apr 26 3 589
I was working from home at around 11:30 when I got a notice that my VPN had gone down 13 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 26 42 1937
If you're attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke ... 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 26 Apr 26 4 591
Trump administration appears to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 Apr 25 10 675
DHS expands on its defiant middle finger to the Supreme Court ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 4 516
Trump administration moved Venezuelan (A.S.R.) to Texas for possible deportation despite judge's order 3 Eugene Apr 24 Apr 24 9 535
Inside The Fight To Return The Other Men Trump Sent To CECOT 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 10 420
How Sam Alito Inadvertently Revealed His Own Homophobia From the Bench 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 5 786
Once again, Project 2025 gets it wrong, and its hood ornament, Donald Trump. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 5 547
Trump's Road to Constitutional Perdition 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 7 481
Feds blame U.S. citizen for his arrest under suspended immigration law 1 Eugene Apr 22 Apr 22 1 517
Alleged ICE arrest outside Douglas County courthouse captured on video - Douglas County News Press 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 6 729
A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 4 442
DOJ asks Supreme Court to reject ACLU request to pause deportations 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 20 Apr 22 0 447
The Supreme Court could be poised to hobble the Trump resistance 5 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 7 918
No university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 6 634
Over the next two weeks, SCOTUS is hearing three religious supremacy cases 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 3 499
The thrust of Alito's dissent is: Sure, maybe the Trump administration was going to defy our unambiguous ruling ... 19 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 20 Apr 20 57 3334
DOGE Visits National Gallery of Art to Discuss Museum's Legal Status 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 20 Apr 20 4 566
A prince and knight fall in love and the Supreme Court is asked to intervene 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 19 Apr 19 10 773
"A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I've ever read." 15 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 18 Apr 18 78 3221
Elon Musk is accessing his private network via a Starlink transceiver at GSA headquarters. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 17 Apr 18 18 924
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, assails the Trump admin's behavior in the Abrego Garcia case. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 17 Apr 18 1 464

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Trump Is Talking About Finding Ways to Send U.S. Citizens to Salvadoran Prison 2 Eugene Apr 17 Apr 18 5 622
2022 statute could force disclosure of U.S.-El Salvador agreements connected to the facility where Garcia is detained. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 17 Apr 17 5 503
The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 17 Apr 17 3 431
NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 16 Apr 16 8 774
Associated Press moves to enforce Judge McFadden's injunction 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 16 Apr 16 7 549
DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 16 Apr 16 7 497
DOGE attempted to assign team to US nonprofit group Vera Institute of Justice 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 16 Apr 16 13 504
Ice deports Venezuelan teen (Merwil Gutierrez) despite reportedly knowing he was not a target 5 Eugene Apr 15 Apr 15 12 570
Status conference in Abrego Garcia et al v. Noem et al, 4:00 p.m. Tuesday 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 15 Apr 15 1 505
Washington Post Exclusive: DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 15 Apr 15 4 417
Woman says she was detained by Houston police and turned over to ICE after her car caught fire 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 15 Apr 15 12 778
The Trump administration trapped a wrongly deported man in a catch-22 3 Eugene Apr 15 Apr 15 2 551
Trump administration says it will decline to make SSA admin Dudek available for hearing 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 15 Apr 15 6 490
'Homegrowns are next': Trump provokes fears for Black US citizens with legally dubious deportation proposal 2 Eugene Apr 14 Apr 14 4 616
ACLU brings third Alien Enemies Act lawsuit after Supreme Court ruling 0 Eugene Apr 14 Apr 14 5 390
BREAKING: D.C. Circuit panel allows Judge McFadden's injunction in the Associated Press access case to go into effect. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 14 Apr 14 8 763
New -- The court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the removal of Mohsen Mahdawi from the US or Vermont. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 14 Apr 14 3 491
We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history ... 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 14 Apr 14 12 667
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview -- Then Arrested by ICE 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 14 Apr 14 7 762
Rumeysa Ozturk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 14 Apr 14 4 331
Sunday's declaration regarding Abrego Garcia 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 13 Apr 14 5 651
Los Angeles Schools on Alert Amid Rise of ICE Agent Impersonators Throughout the District 2 ck4829 Feb 2025 Apr 13 5 633
Trump Directive Calls to Turn Border Land Into 'Military Installation' 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 12 Apr 13 1 663
Martial Law question 1 Sun-Moon Apr 12 Apr 12 1 624
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 12 Apr 12 6 655
Top Pro Bono Leader Resigns from Paul Weiss, a Firm Hit in Trump's Crackdown on Big Law 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 37 1068
Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs 9 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 8 760
ICE: Stop ideas from crossing the U.S. border. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 6 557
Scoop: The White House is choosing to censor some White House pool reports. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 2 446
NEW: CAIR asks a judge to order Columbia to delay its planned response today to a Senate committee ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 1 450

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Any law student interviewing with these firms should know that this is what you're signing up for: 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 6 404
DHS to Begin Screening Aliens' Social Media Activity for Antisemitism 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 8 687
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 16 800
Houston police are now arresting people with "ICE warrants," which now appear when they run checks at traffic stops. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 6 515
JUST IN: The federal appeals court in DC has upheld the White House's decision to outsource press credentialing 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 8 762
In final filing to SCOTUS, the Trump administration takes a swing at the DOJ line attorney suspended for his arguments. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 3 454
Yeah. I pegged this as the exchange that most likely led to him being put on administrative leave. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 6 Apr 7 12 865
Chinese woman detained by US border patrol in Arizona dies by suicide 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 7 Apr 7 9 612
D.C. Appeals Court Reverses Trump Firing 2 Independent Federal Board Members 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 7 Apr 7 8 430
Judge says deportation of Maryland man to an El Salvador prison was 'wholly lawless' 2 Eugene Apr 7 Apr 7 8 521
UPDATE: Abrego Garcia's lawyers have now filed their opposition to DOJ's Fourth Circuit stay request. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 6 Apr 6 12 519
The First Book Banned In America -- and other thoughts 3 SorellaLaBefana Apr 6 Apr 6 18 812
This message was self-deleted by its author 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 5 Apr 5 3 860
Top Prosecutor Spoke at Event Attended by January 6 Seditionists Who Are Appealing Their Convictions 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 5 Apr 5 4 479
Abrego Garcia, Constructive Custody, and Federal Judicial Power 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 5 Apr 5 2 362
Rally and court hearing set for Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 4 Apr 5 5 498
Very odd and questionably lawful prior restraint order out of Texas. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 4 Apr 4 4 504
The "Hands Off!" protest info for Sat. 4/5 should be at the top of every page here at D.U. ! 3 Exp Apr 3 Apr 4 13 685
TWSJ. Exclusive: Law Firm Kirkland & Ellis in Talks With White House to Avoid Executive Order 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 4 Apr 4 4 477
Social Security faces thousands more job cuts even with service in tailspin 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 4 Apr 4 3 399
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