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6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration's Attacks on Civil Liberties 1 usonian Jun 2025 Jun 2025 7 767
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask judge to sanction Trump administration 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 545
Jury Nullification Gut Check 2 ck4829 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 837
Hearing before Judge Breyer on Governor Gavin Newsom's request for a temporary restraining order 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 776
Thou shalt not ignore the law: Illinois county sued over Ten Commandments monument 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 698
About 500 National Guard troops in LA are trained to accompany agents on immigration raids 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 944
"It's not just that it's clearly intentional, it's that it's clearly intentional knowing that he's being recorded." 16 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 53 3803
Alabama sheriff arrested for hiring uncertified officers, including one accused of violence 0 Eugene Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 661
One of the two FTC commissioners Trump purported to fire in March resigned today because he hasn't been paid since then 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 591
BREAKING: Federal judge denies Corporation for Public Broadcasting's request for a preliminary injunction ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 876
'Remember the Ladies': Attacks on Gender Equity Remain a Core Feature of Surging Authoritarianism 3 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 827
Trump Can Restrict A.P. Journalists' Access, Appeals Court Rules 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 815
Immigration lawyer says return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was calculated 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 49 1971
"So the conservative justices who had a meltdown over their 'privacy' being violated by Dobbs protests in front of ..." 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 51 2471
An hour before being blocked, State told consulates to reject Harvard visas 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 736
Ken White: "Pam Bondi is thug scum." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 915
The Trump admin's quiet (but deadly) attack on repro rights 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 639
"Kafka name-checked three words in" feels like the lawyer equivalent of noticing a small red dot appearing between ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 7 805
Unsealed records in Abrego Garcia case offer few details that are new, unknown 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 704
Arlington man describes terrifying weeks in ICE custody 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 724
Trump seeks to reshape judiciary as first nominees face Senate 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 622
FBI shows up at Charlottesville public defender's home unannounced after ICE raid 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 12 1466

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"Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse." 10 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 Jun 2025 8 1567
US files motion to dismiss lawsuit over Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 5 728
VOA plaintiffs, in the two cases against Kari Lake/USAGM, filed this morning a motion with the DC Circuit Ct. of Appeals 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 3 623
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as ..." 5 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 8 1233
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals 9 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 24 2082
Bill Burr on ICE 4 Mosby May 2025 May 2025 13 1205
Here is Harvard's new lawsuit, over the international student revocation ... 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 10 1112
Republican Bill Would Limit Judges' Contempt Power 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 4 779
Georgetown scholar recalls terror and 'mockery of due process' in immigration jail 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 14 877
El Salvador arrests rights lawyer helping deported migrants 0 Eugene May 2025 May 2025 8 758
Trump's Homeland Security secretary says habeas corpus lets him 'remove people from this country' 2 Eugene May 2025 May 2025 4 810
Someone on X described Alina Habba as "the Jenna Ellis of Ed Martins." 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 4 713
Wait, the GOP put a culture warrior -- who literally wrote in his application to Trump that he would "Fight back ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 3 773
Matt Kacsmaryk shouldn't be a judge 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 11 788
Trump Writes Congress out of the Constitution--and Congress Says Fine 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 8 877
Jeff Bezos Abandons Khashoggi to Cut Deal With MBS 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 12 1059
For "One First," I took a deeper dive into Friday afternoon's *very* significant #SCOTUS Alien Enemies Act ruling 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 4 718
Military ordered to identify troops with "symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria" to kick out 3 littlemissmartypants May 2025 May 2025 3 925
'Unconstitutional': Immigration experts knock Florida 'blueprint' for mass deportation 0 Eugene May 2025 May 2025 2 590
Autopsies misclassified deaths in police custody that were homicides, Maryland officials say 2 Eugene May 2025 May 2025 9 745
James Carver spent 36 years in prison after he was convicted of setting one of the deadliest fires in Mass. history. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 5 824
Trump DOJ Defunds National Prison Rape Resource Center 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 4 711
DOJ 'weaponization' group will shame individuals it can't charge with crimes, new head says 8 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 13 1505
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 1 706
Regent University School of Law FTW 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 7 1003
Montana court strikes down ban on health care for trans youth, finds it unconstitutional 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 4 638
(Over 100) deported Venezuelans believed held at El Salvador mega-prison, UN says. (Fate of 275 deportees unclear) 0 Eugene May 2025 May 2025 4 533
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 1039
Trump uses Supreme Court birthright citizenship case in bid to limit judges' power 0 Eugene May 2025 May 2025 5 5124
Judges have a warning about Trump's rapid deportations: Americans could be next 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 7 802

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Why Trump's demand that protests at the World Cup are 'reasonable' is alarming 1 Eugene May 2025 May 2025 4 794
Lawfare: Our Reporters' Notes on the May 7 Hearing in the J.G.G. Case 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 2 560
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 1323
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 5 877
Big things are happening this week in Garcia v. Noem. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 7 916
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 1094
We Hold These Truths... 3 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 937
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How Trump's America Is Normalizing Violence Against Women (trigger warning) 4 niyad May 2025 May 2025 12 1002
The Story of the 'Mistakenly Deported Maryland Man' 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 4 759
No such thing as low-key fascism. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 3 702
In Suits and Ties, Lawyers Protest Trump's Attacks on the Legal System 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 3 644
Orders to Investigate Columbia Protesters Raised Alarms in Justice Dept. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 2 657
Wheelchair-using UNC student activist doxxed, criminally charged; loses scholarship. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 10 1012
2006: Charlie Swift's War: Detainees' Military Lawyer Forced Out of Service 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 2 551
Federal judge says local police must follow order to halt enforcement of Florida immigration law 1 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 617
Iowa immigrant group is alarmed by a state lawmaker's demand for confidential information 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 568
Trump administration forced to reveal its ham-handed operation to terminate immigration records of thousands of students 0 Eugene Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 534
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 10 667
Stephen Miller mentor David Horowitz dies of cancer, age 89 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1212
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