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Judges have a warning about Trump's rapid deportations: Americans could be next 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 7 824
Why Trump's demand that protests at the World Cup are 'reasonable' is alarming 1 Eugene May 2025 May 2025 4 825
Lawfare: Our Reporters' Notes on the May 7 Hearing in the J.G.G. Case 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 2 583
In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 ... 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 13 1348
We should understand this for what it is: an effort to build public consent for Trump to ignore the Supreme Court 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 5 899
Big things are happening this week in Garcia v. Noem. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 7 939
NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night. 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 10 1141
We Hold These Truths... 3 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 958
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution? TRUMP: I don't know 5 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 6 1100
How Trump's America Is Normalizing Violence Against Women (trigger warning) 4 niyad May 2025 May 2025 12 1028
The Story of the 'Mistakenly Deported Maryland Man' 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 4 785
No such thing as low-key fascism. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 3 726
In Suits and Ties, Lawyers Protest Trump's Attacks on the Legal System 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 3 661
Orders to Investigate Columbia Protesters Raised Alarms in Justice Dept. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 2 677
Wheelchair-using UNC student activist doxxed, criminally charged; loses scholarship. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 10 1036
2006: Charlie Swift's War: Detainees' Military Lawyer Forced Out of Service 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 2 569
Federal judge says local police must follow order to halt enforcement of Florida immigration law 1 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 643
Iowa immigrant group is alarmed by a state lawmaker's demand for confidential information 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 586
Trump administration forced to reveal its ham-handed operation to terminate immigration records of thousands of students 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 555
Judge Xinis DENIES an additional request by the government to further stay discovery in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 687
Stephen Miller mentor David Horowitz dies of cancer, age 89 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1235
Supreme Court to consider bid for first religious charter school 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 690
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from cutting off funds for "direct legal representation services 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 692
Did the New England Patriots team plane just fly to Guantanamo? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 627
"This line is going to stick with me for a very long time." 20 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 188 7867
ACLU Asks Court To Make Trump Bring All Migrants Labeled 'Alien Enemies' From El Salvador Prison 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 627
Trump's deportations may face challenge as prison punishment without a trial 4 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 884
I was working from home at around 11:30 when I got a notice that my VPN had gone down 13 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 42 2504
If you're attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke ... 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 795
Trump administration appears to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 895

Civil Liberties Continued...

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DHS expands on its defiant middle finger to the Supreme Court ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 672
Trump administration moved Venezuelan (A.S.R.) to Texas for possible deportation despite judge's order 3 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 9 784
Inside The Fight To Return The Other Men Trump Sent To CECOT 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 594
How Sam Alito Inadvertently Revealed His Own Homophobia From the Bench 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1091
Once again, Project 2025 gets it wrong, and its hood ornament, Donald Trump. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 706
Trump's Road to Constitutional Perdition 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 701
Feds blame U.S. citizen for his arrest under suspended immigration law 1 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 705
Alleged ICE arrest outside Douglas County courthouse captured on video - Douglas County News Press 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 928
A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 588
DOJ asks Supreme Court to reject ACLU request to pause deportations 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 681
The Supreme Court could be poised to hobble the Trump resistance 5 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 1201
No university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 931
Over the next two weeks, SCOTUS is hearing three religious supremacy cases 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 685
The thrust of Alito's dissent is: Sure, maybe the Trump administration was going to defy our unambiguous ruling ... 19 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 57 4029
DOGE Visits National Gallery of Art to Discuss Museum's Legal Status 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 821
A prince and knight fall in love and the Supreme Court is asked to intervene 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 1005
"A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I've ever read." 15 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 78 3890
Elon Musk is accessing his private network via a Starlink transceiver at GSA headquarters. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 18 1279
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, assails the Trump admin's behavior in the Abrego Garcia case. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 665
Trump Is Talking About Finding Ways to Send U.S. Citizens to Salvadoran Prison 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 809
2022 statute could force disclosure of U.S.-El Salvador agreements connected to the facility where Garcia is detained. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 709
The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 612
NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1217
Associated Press moves to enforce Judge McFadden's injunction 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 713
DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 734
DOGE attempted to assign team to US nonprofit group Vera Institute of Justice 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 13 706
Ice deports Venezuelan teen (Merwil Gutierrez) despite reportedly knowing he was not a target 5 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 889
Status conference in Abrego Garcia et al v. Noem et al, 4:00 p.m. Tuesday 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 782
Washington Post Exclusive: DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 622
Woman says she was detained by Houston police and turned over to ICE after her car caught fire 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 1008

Civil Liberties Continued...

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The Trump administration trapped a wrongly deported man in a catch-22 3 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 795
Trump administration says it will decline to make SSA admin Dudek available for hearing 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 695
'Homegrowns are next': Trump provokes fears for Black US citizens with legally dubious deportation proposal 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 909
ACLU brings third Alien Enemies Act lawsuit after Supreme Court ruling 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 570
BREAKING: D.C. Circuit panel allows Judge McFadden's injunction in the Associated Press access case to go into effect. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1033
New -- The court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the removal of Mohsen Mahdawi from the US or Vermont. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 727
We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history ... 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 896
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview -- Then Arrested by ICE 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 1102
Rumeysa Ozturk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 506
Sunday's declaration regarding Abrego Garcia 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 922
Los Angeles Schools on Alert Amid Rise of ICE Agent Impersonators Throughout the District 2 ck4829 Feb 2025 Apr 2025 5 873
Trump Directive Calls to Turn Border Land Into 'Military Installation' 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 1001
Martial Law question 1 Sun-Moon Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 829
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 923
Top Pro Bono Leader Resigns from Paul Weiss, a Firm Hit in Trump's Crackdown on Big Law 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 37 1350
Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs 9 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1185
ICE: Stop ideas from crossing the U.S. border. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 802
Scoop: The White House is choosing to censor some White House pool reports. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 637
NEW: CAIR asks a judge to order Columbia to delay its planned response today to a Senate committee ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 664
Any law student interviewing with these firms should know that this is what you're signing up for: 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 587
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