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Judge Halts U.S. Effort to Deport Guatemalan Children as Planes Sit on Tarmac 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 1 Sep 1 4 554
The Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 1 Sep 1 15 1090
How ICE Spies On American Citizens 0 struggle4progress Aug 30 Aug 30 8 759
Trump's National Guard plans are 'basis of civil war' - Malcolm Nance - Times Radio 2 TexasTowelie Aug 27 Aug 28 14 1016
Trump no longer expected to sign executive order to punish those who burn American flags 5 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 25 2 879
Dystopian definition 0 brakester Aug 24 Aug 24 7 688
Judge Orders That 'Alligator Alcatraz' Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 899
Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be released from jail Friday. Here's what to know 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 755
Judge orders DOJ to give more info on subpoenas targeting trans minors' medical care 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 673
"Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 46 1911
DC and civil liberties 0 Be Leave On Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 636
"Our leading papers failed to stand up to Trump's criminal justice authoritarianism" 10 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 25 1316
Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE's breakneck expansion 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 740
"Declaring a fake emergency as an excuse to deploy the military to police civilians is ..." 12 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 73 2484
"NYT keeps publishing stories sourced entirely to Susie Wiles and White House staffers ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 768
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 692
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton's 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I'd like these days 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 756
"Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 16 772
IRS has officially passed over taxpayer information to ICE, per court filing 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 722
Trump Allies Were Told to Stop Saying They'll Put Migrants in 'Camps' 5 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 865
Will the Supreme Court revisit its ruling on same-sex marriage? 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 786
Florida Officials Won't Say If COVID Is Spreading at Everglades Concentration Camp 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 942
Army Secretary forces West Point to rescind appointment given to Easterly 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Aug 2025 10 884
"Do Legal Checks on a President's Power 'Diminish the Votes of the Citizens Who Elected Him'?" 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 715
New: Harvard patents targeted by Trump administration 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 665
DOJ manufactures another lawsuit to block in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 595
Immigration Trump's plan to hold migrants at military bases begins taking shape 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 552
body cameras/dash cameras 2 RussBLib Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 706
"Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error ..." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 840
VOA director fired after declining reassignment to low-level post 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 677

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 729
Two sisters in DCF custody since mother was detained by ICE in May in Worcester are missing, officials say 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 26 888
"The guy Trump picked to lead the office that's now investigating Jack Smith:" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 881
Alabama Notifying Adult Sites of New Tax Set to Take Effect Sept. 1 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 732
🧊🖕✈️ ICE HATES BEING WATCHED 👉 So what are you gonna do? 🤨 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 815
Justice Department fired official whose husband operated controversial ICEBlock app 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 570
Judge rips Noem's latest termination of immigrant protections: 'Color is neither a poison nor a crime' 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 17 639
Florida AG demands names of guests and performers who attended a drag show 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 673
Brown University Makes a Deal With the White House to Restore Funding 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 604
"Three DOJ attorneys challenged their removals in the U.S. District Court for D.C." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 565
The Quickest Route to a Plum Judicial Appointment 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 640
Chokeholds, bikers and 'roving patrols': Are Trump's ICE tactics legal? 2 Eugene Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 757
Why we need a right not to be manipulated 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 690
"DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding the officers provide a warrant" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 20 893
"The Trump admin has formally unveiled a program to illegally use money Congress passed for sheltering migrants ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 803
His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He's Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 552
Quebec man warning Canadian boaters after he was detained by U.S. Coast guard, put in jail cell 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1000
"Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask Judge Crenshaw to bring DHS back in line after its tweets and comments ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 603
Columbia punishes students involved in pro-Palestinian protest 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 680
Trump Awards $1.26 Billion Contract to Build Biggest Immigrant Detention Center in US 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 1016
The Pentagon Won't Track Troops Deployed on U.S. Soil. So We Will. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 623
Beware of SHOCK EXHAUSTION 2 brakester Jul 2025 Jul 2025 13 806
"... Chief Judge James Boasberg--hearing the "CECOT class" AEA case--scheduled a status hearing for 11a Thursday, July 24." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 561
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask judge to delay release from jail over deportation fears 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 582
Nine Ways To Suppress African American Votes--the Republican Playbook Opinion (Newsweek) 2 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 750
Iowa mom falsely accused of cocaine use during pregnancy sues drug testing lab 0 ck4829 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 14 930
Allentown grandfather's family was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he's alive, in a hospital in Guatemala 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 891
"Trump to TRY to fire Powell, although doing so may be illegal" is the headline. 9 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1191
NEW: The State Department has quietly declassified and posted the diplomatic notes exchanged between US and El Salvador 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 15 2217
Group challenges ruling that potentially weakens the Voting Rights Act 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 552

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Trump appointee argues in dissent that noncitizens are not protected by the First Amendment. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 806
"Time to start paying attention to Florida attorney general James Uthmeier, the brains behind Alligator Auschwitz." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 777
NYT Opinion: 'Egregious.' 'Brazen.' 'Lawless.' How 48 Judges Describe Trump's Actions, in Their Own Words 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 909
Concentration camp jobs posted on Indeed. I wonder if they'll advertise that the uniforms are made by Hugo Boss. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1246
"DC Circuit rules that Pentagon can unravel plea deals with 9/11 plotters that would have precluded death penalty." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 809
"Judge restrains LAPD from using nonlethal munitions against journalists, detaining or assaulting journalists ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 708
"Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 826
Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be deported to Mexico or South Sudan, ICE official tells judge 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 584
U.S. Botched a Deal to Swap Venezuelans Held in El Salvador for Americans 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 613
US judge rules Abrego's challenge to wrongful deportation can proceed 1 Eugene Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 642
Trump admin now again calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation "a one off mistake...an administrative error." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 13 960
Breaking: Judge issues administrative stay stopping South Sudan deportations 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 760
'Fidelity' to Trump policies now part of criteria for Foreign Service promotions 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 711
"The '60 Minutes' team is aghast after Shari Redstone's payout to Donald Trump ..." 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1017
"Kilmar Abrego Garcia asks the Tennessee criminal court to order the govt to stop making extrajudicial statements ..." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 15 810
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 794
7th CIr.: no 1A violation for school district to fire counselor who gave a profanity-laden speech at an anti-trans rally 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 734
DOJ memo pushes for broader effort to revoke naturalized US citizenship 3 Eugene Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 701
"When future historians grapple with how Trump managed to so quickly and so thoroughly dismantle American democracy, ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1034
DOJ files court-required notice ... re: Executive Order 14160 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 916
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