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His short-staffed office is doing constant overtime and bouncing between contempt hearings.
The bleak assessment:
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
His short-staffed office is doing constant overtime and bouncing between contempt hearings.
The bleak assessment:
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
But because there are so many differences in how elections are run, there's also not one sure way for them to be attacked.
But because there are so many differences in how elections are run, there's also not one sure way for them to be attacked.
Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable when they violate the Constitution and the law.
Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable when they violate the Constitution and the law.
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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They're denying phone calls and refusing release so they can coerce them into giving up their rights.
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
They're denying phone calls and refusing release so they can coerce them into giving up their rights.
The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.
Happy Black History Month.
The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.
Happy Black History Month.
- Ensure early voting
- Allow drop boxes and help voting
- Allow poll monitors (including by out-of-state observers, even if just lawyers, etc.)
There are more polling places (>100k) than ICE and CBP agents combined, so they can only pick a few districts to try to intimidate.
Now what happens when cell phone footage of that goes online in the early morning?
- Ensure early voting
- Allow drop boxes and help voting
- Allow poll monitors (including by out-of-state observers, even if just lawyers, etc.)
There are more polling places (>100k) than ICE and CBP agents combined, so they can only pick a few districts to try to intimidate.
Now what happens when cell phone footage of that goes online in the early morning?
www.reuters.com/world/justic...
www.reuters.com/world/justic...
"I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."
Law Dork:
"I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."
Law Dork:
www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Also a lot more direct than the press statments by these two, unsurprising bc they're bad at rhetoric
Also a lot more direct than the press statments by these two, unsurprising bc they're bad at rhetoric