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NEWS: Paul Clement tells the court that two WilmerHale attorneys had their security clearances pulled under the Trump EO 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 1 631
Regent University School of Law FTW 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 7 907
Montana court strikes down ban on health care for trans youth, finds it unconstitutional 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 4 557
(Over 100) deported Venezuelans believed held at El Salvador mega-prison, UN says. (Fate of 275 deportees unclear) 0 Eugene May 2025 May 2025 4 478
BREAKING: Trump-appointee Fed judge in PA finds that Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation is properly invoked, but ... 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 2 962
Trump uses Supreme Court birthright citizenship case in bid to limit judges' power 0 Eugene May 2025 May 2025 5 5055
Judges have a warning about Trump's rapid deportations: Americans could be next 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 7 731
Why Trump's demand that protests at the World Cup are 'reasonable' is alarming 1 Eugene May 2025 May 2025 4 719
Lawfare: Our Reporters' Notes on the May 7 Hearing in the J.G.G. Case 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 2 499
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 1220
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 5 796
Big things are happening this week in Garcia v. Noem. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 7 824
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 10 995
We Hold These Truths... 3 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 850
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution? TRUMP: I don't know 5 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 6 981
How Trump's America Is Normalizing Violence Against Women (trigger warning) 4 niyad May 2025 May 2025 12 890
The Story of the 'Mistakenly Deported Maryland Man' 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 4 677
No such thing as low-key fascism. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 3 620
In Suits and Ties, Lawyers Protest Trump's Attacks on the Legal System 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 3 576
Orders to Investigate Columbia Protesters Raised Alarms in Justice Dept. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 2 592
Wheelchair-using UNC student activist doxxed, criminally charged; loses scholarship. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 10 936
2006: Charlie Swift's War: Detainees' Military Lawyer Forced Out of Service 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 2 477
Federal judge says local police must follow order to halt enforcement of Florida immigration law 1 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 539
Iowa immigrant group is alarmed by a state lawmaker's demand for confidential information 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 495
Trump administration forced to reveal its ham-handed operation to terminate immigration records of thousands of students 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 463
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 10 598
Stephen Miller mentor David Horowitz dies of cancer, age 89 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1096
Supreme Court to consider bid for first religious charter school 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 598
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from cutting off funds for "direct legal representation services 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 597
Did the New England Patriots team plane just fly to Guantanamo? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 540

Civil Liberties Continued...

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"This line is going to stick with me for a very long time." 20 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 188 7511
ACLU Asks Court To Make Trump Bring All Migrants Labeled 'Alien Enemies' From El Salvador Prison 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 540
Trump's deportations may face challenge as prison punishment without a trial 4 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 761
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 2238
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 4 685
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 10 793
DHS expands on its defiant middle finger to the Supreme Court ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 580
Trump administration moved Venezuelan (A.S.R.) to Texas for possible deportation despite judge's order 3 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 9 673
Inside The Fight To Return The Other Men Trump Sent To CECOT 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 494
How Sam Alito Inadvertently Revealed His Own Homophobia From the Bench 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 978
Once again, Project 2025 gets it wrong, and its hood ornament, Donald Trump. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 620
Trump's Road to Constitutional Perdition 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 597
Feds blame U.S. citizen for his arrest under suspended immigration law 1 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 609
Alleged ICE arrest outside Douglas County courthouse captured on video - Douglas County News Press 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 830
A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 498
DOJ asks Supreme Court to reject ACLU request to pause deportations 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 559
The Supreme Court could be poised to hobble the Trump resistance 5 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 1080
No university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 776
Over the next two weeks, SCOTUS is hearing three religious supremacy cases 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 586
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 3712
DOGE Visits National Gallery of Art to Discuss Museum's Legal Status 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 713
A prince and knight fall in love and the Supreme Court is asked to intervene 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 880
"A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I've ever read." 15 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 78 3578
Elon Musk is accessing his private network via a Starlink transceiver at GSA headquarters. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 18 1126
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, assails the Trump admin's behavior in the Abrego Garcia case. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 560
Trump Is Talking About Finding Ways to Send U.S. Citizens to Salvadoran Prison 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 715
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 5 607
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 3 507
NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1037
Associated Press moves to enforce Judge McFadden's injunction 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 610

Civil Liberties Continued...

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DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 607
DOGE attempted to assign team to US nonprofit group Vera Institute of Justice 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 13 595
Ice deports Venezuelan teen (Merwil Gutierrez) despite reportedly knowing he was not a target 5 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 736
Status conference in Abrego Garcia et al v. Noem et al, 4:00 p.m. Tuesday 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 643
Washington Post Exclusive: DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 520
Woman says she was detained by Houston police and turned over to ICE after her car caught fire 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 879
The Trump administration trapped a wrongly deported man in a catch-22 3 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 665
Trump administration says it will decline to make SSA admin Dudek available for hearing 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 577
'Homegrowns are next': Trump provokes fears for Black US citizens with legally dubious deportation proposal 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 762
ACLU brings third Alien Enemies Act lawsuit after Supreme Court ruling 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 461
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 8 907
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 3 605
We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history ... 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 788
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview -- Then Arrested by ICE 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 925
Rumeysa Ozturk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 395
Sunday's declaration regarding Abrego Garcia 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 785
Los Angeles Schools on Alert Amid Rise of ICE Agent Impersonators Throughout the District 2 ck4829 Feb 2025 Apr 2025 5 743
Trump Directive Calls to Turn Border Land Into 'Military Installation' 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 807
Martial Law question 1 Sun-Moon Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 728
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 784
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