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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJUST IN: A federal judge rules the Trump admin must reinstate a policy to provide lawyers to people who are deemed
JUST IN: A federal judge rules that the Trump administration must reinstate a policy to provide lawyers to people who are deemed mentally incompetent in deportation proceedings.
It was terminated without a legally persuasive reason, Judge Ali finds. https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/doc1/045111516055?caseid=280289&de_seq_num=209&magic_num=

It was terminated without a legally persuasive reason, Judge Ali finds. https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/doc1/045111516055?caseid=280289&de_seq_num=209&magic_num=

Another excellent, meticulously reasoned decision by Judge Ali, one of Bidenâs very best judicial appointees. Denying representation to mentally incompetent individuals in immigration proceedings is both cruel and plainly unlawful. www.scribd.com/document/891...
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-07-21T16:05:39.822Z
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JUST IN: A federal judge rules the Trump admin must reinstate a policy to provide lawyers to people who are deemed (Original Post)
In It to Win It
19 hrs ago
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angrychair
(10,896 posts)1. Holy shit
The fucking overt discrimination, cruelty and hints of eugenics, should make everyone nervous and concerned.
This was a crime and someone should go to jail.
malaise
(286,776 posts)2. Important
Rec
ananda
(32,600 posts)3. Irony is dead. So, who exactly is any more or less ...
mentally incompetent than Trump and cohorts?
Response to In It to Win It (Original post)
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Old Crank
(5,930 posts)5. Another emergency trip
To the Supine Court.
progressoid
(51,624 posts)6. Well that should do it!
Done and done.
IbogaProject
(4,663 posts)7. Does this now include childeren?
That is an extra outrageous part of this whole saga.