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D.C. Appeals Court Reverses Trump Firing 2 Independent Federal Board Members 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 733
Judge says deportation of Maryland man to an El Salvador prison was 'wholly lawless' 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 801
UPDATE: Abrego Garcia's lawyers have now filed their opposition to DOJ's Fourth Circuit stay request. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 726
The First Book Banned In America -- and other thoughts 3 SorellaLaBefana Apr 2025 Apr 2025 18 1094
This message was self-deleted by its author 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1132
Top Prosecutor Spoke at Event Attended by January 6 Seditionists Who Are Appealing Their Convictions 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 678
Abrego Garcia, Constructive Custody, and Federal Judicial Power 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 589
Rally and court hearing set for Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 796
Very odd and questionably lawful prior restraint order out of Texas. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 692
The "Hands Off!" protest info for Sat. 4/5 should be at the top of every page here at D.U. ! 3 Exp Apr 2025 Apr 2025 13 1002
TWSJ. Exclusive: Law Firm Kirkland & Ellis in Talks With White House to Avoid Executive Order 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 673
Social Security faces thousands more job cuts even with service in tailspin 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 619
Adam Klasfeld and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick are covering Judge Boasberg's hearing. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1079
Feds move to dismiss Gtown scholar Badar Suri's habeas petition/oppose moving him from TX to VA. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 551
Chief Judge James E. Boasberg will hear arguments in J.G.G. et al v. TRUMP et al Thursday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 865
Federal judge in NY rejects Trump admin effort to dismiss lawsuit alleging DOGE directed a massive breach of OPM data 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 510
Judge Denise Casper is beginning her hearing over the habeas petition brought on behalf of Rumeysa Ozturk 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 503
Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 14 1693
Tufts files a declaration in support of Rumeysa Ozturk. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 624
Trump Intends to Nominate Individuals to Key Posts at the Department of Justice 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 565
Stephen Miller Attacks Dems for Demanding Due Process for Deportees: 'How About Hell No' 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 731
Quite the quote from the lawyer for the Salvadoran man who was deported in "error": 8 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 105 3616
Hands Off! Protests throughout the USA! See the link and be there! Sat. April 5th. 0 Exp Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 597
NEW: Perkins Coie files its motion for summary judgment -- arguing they win on the law. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 786
Milbank has been representing Cathy Harris in her suit over her firing from the MSPB. Will they continue doing so? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 560
Judge holds ICE agent in contempt after he detained suspect during a trial 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 44 1290
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said the US had revoked his visa to enter the country 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 11 634
How the Trump administration is using tattoos to lock up immigrants in El Salvador 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 331
Another Skadden attorney has resigned in protest, citing the law firm's decision to strike a deal with Trump. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1850
Federal judge rules Monday that Alabama AG Steve Marshall acted unconstitutionally when he threatened to prosecute ... 5 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 11 974

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is being decimated right now. Mass layoffs happening across agencies. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 794
Judge blocks Trump administration attempt to end TPS (Temporary Protected Status) for Venezuelans in U.S. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 520
Monday ruling blocks DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's effort to end Temporary Protected Status for thousands of Venezuelans in US 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 513
DOGE is trying to gift itself a building worth $500 million, court filings show. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 718
NEW: ACLU tells Judge Boasberg that he should reject the government's invocation of the state-secrets privilege. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 509
Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless ... 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 1019
Rightwing groups across US push new bans to limit 'obscene' books in libraries 2 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 666
BREAKING: Appeals court rejects the Trump administration's request to immediately enforce its anti-trans military ban. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 647
Supreme Court likely to side with Catholic Charities seeking exemption from state taxes 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 677
I could not be prouder of this Georgetown University Law Center student group. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 668
White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1221
D.C. Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, allows for Trump's firing of members of multi-member independent boards. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 617
Hegseth doesn't want midshipmen reading an autobiography of MLK 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 652
Trans people can serve currently under the terms in place before Trump's EO. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 501
"Do not pretend that what is happening is normal or excusable. It isn't." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1053
Trump administration quietly reinstates a State Dept program allowing the tracking of Ukrainian children sent to Russia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 483
Exclusive: Trump's "pro-Hamas" purge could block foreign students from colleges 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 664
American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via Signal is a violation of ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 551
Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 18 1096
"We're the country that made lynchings into picnics." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1002
Key Takeaways from Trump's Election Integrity EO - Institute for Responsive Government 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 521
UPDATE: DOJ and Kari Lake are desperate to make this case go away, but they're not being too bright about it. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 823
"Trump DOJ lawyers making it clear that you should never trust a word they say. They'll renege on deals over and over." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 688
ICE goons were turned away at HD Cooke. They tried to seize the school nurse in the parking lot. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1381
Exclusive: DOGE staffer, 'Big Balls', provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 658
Law firm targeted by Trump could have been 'destroyed,' chairman says in explaining deal with Trump 5 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 883
Ninth Circuit panel allows Trump administration to enforce much of Trump EO pausing refugee admissions program 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 668
Join the AAUP webinar "Trump's Immigration Actions: What You Need to Know"; Thursday, March 27 at 3:00 PM PT/ 6:00 PM ET 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 463
U.S. Lodges New Accusations Against Detained Columbia Protest Leader 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 609
Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine 5 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1094

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"every person involved in this needs to be in prison" 9 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 60 3093
OSHA Update: All Quiet Now, But DOGE is Coming 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 618
RFK Jr.'s group set up a fake CDC site full of vaccine disinfo. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1011
Judge Boasberg is having a hearing starting now on the DOJ motion to vacate his Temporary Restraining Order. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 840
After filing nothing since Tuesday injunction blocking Trump anti-trans military ban, DOJ filed a motion this morning 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1065
This is how you take a stand. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 18 888
'Deported because of his tattoos': has the US targeted Venezuelans for their body art? 5 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1008
We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can't be challenged. Just trust us. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 721
Fed. judge says gov't filing in AEA case--which was filed, but tardy--is "woefully insufficient." 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 873
Federal judge blocks Elon Musk, Amy Gleason, and DOGE employees from access to Social Security Administration 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 673
"I do not think the filing in the Perkins Coie case actually complies with the court's order." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 671
The Claremont Institute has been conducting a campaign to radicalize sheriffs to embrace reactionary and nativist ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 561
How Bari Weiss's University of Austin Sidles Up to Orban's Strongman Rule 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 697
The perversity of false arrest claims. Plaintiffs has evidence he was falsely arrested for being a journalist. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 631
Meet Steve Davis, Elon Musk's Top Lieutenant Who Oversees DOGE (Gift Article) 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 585
Trump administration deletes database of kidnapped Ukrainian children out of spite 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 839
Georgetown Univ. researcher detained by federal immigration officials 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 671
French researcher denied entry to US for 'expressing personal opinion' on Trump policies 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 796
Justices allow Louisiana to execute Buddhist over religious freedom claim 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 756
NEW: Judge Boasberg says he'll give DOJ one more day to produce the information he asked for by noon. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 953
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