John Yoo, in an OLC memo from a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks, explaining when crime becomes war.

Question from @slotkin.senate.gov at Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with DOD personnel responsible for kill-or-capture missions

“Low-skill criminal activities” do not constitute an invasion, predatory incursion, or other act of war.

Sharing the German American Internee Coalition's statement on the Alien Enemies Act invocation.

If you are journalist and would like to interview former Alien Enemies Act internees or their families, please reach out; we work with these groups.

@brennancenter.bsky.social works on the Alien Enemies Act in coalition with Karen Ebel (German American Internee Coalition) and Grace Shimizu (Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project).

Everyone should read Karen and Grace's piece opposing the president's abuse of the Alien Enemies Act. /1

Compare here, where Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation says he's targeting Venezuelans who "are members of TdA."

Nothing in this proclamation actually gives the president unreviewable discretion to say who is or isn't a member of Tren de Aragua and proceed accordingly. /5

But this was their explanation for *why* they didn't assess whether internees were dangerous.

It was based on the way the Alien Enemies Act proclamation was written; the president wasn't interning people who "were" dangerous but instead those who had been "deemed dangerous." /4