leigha.bsky.social
@leigha.bsky.social
YIMBY, millennial, lawyer, lurker. Will repost your good urbanist takes.
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Familiar set of opponents to SB 79, which allows apartments near transit stops in California.
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAn...
April 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Bukele just posted this on X, suggesting he arranged a meeting between Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Chris Van Hollen. He then used it to mock his critics for expressing concern about Mr. Abrego.

If these photos are real, it suggests diplomatic pressure worked, despite his "I'm not mad" attitude.
April 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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This is indeed incredible. “Conservative judge” doesn’t quite cut it as a description of Wilkinson. He is one of the most deferential-to-government-power judges in the country. When he writes like Justice Sotomayor it’s signs-and-wonders level.
INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.
I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.
Just landed in El Salvador to discuss release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Didn’t get a chance to post this earlier, but there was a huge turnout in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the federal courthouse.

From my seat in the jury room, I heard the supporters outside chanting throughout the hearing.
April 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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HAPPENING NOW: At the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, Judge Paula Xinis is set to begin a hearing on the government’s efforts – or lack thereof – to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who was wrongly removed to El Salvador.

Follow along for updates ⬇️
April 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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It is legally impossible to deport citizens. This is not deportation. Removing citizens to foreign prisons, knowing to a certainty that they will be subjected to treatment that violates the U.S. constitution, doesn’t deserve any label that connotes legal legitimacy.
April 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record
April 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥
April 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Judge: I hope you will in good faith comply and we'll take it from there. But I know I want daily updates until this is resolved. Do you have any alternative suggestions for me, Mr. Ensign?

Ensign wants a declaration due by Monday close of business, not daily.

Judge: My order is daily updates
April 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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USDOT is now illegally tying federal transportation funds to:

—Marriage & birth rates

—Not taking public health measures during a pandemic

—Cooperation with ICE to implement mass deportations

—“Compliance … with other goals & objectives specified by the President”

—Having a “user-pay model”
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Hillary Clinton did not follow federal rules on her email as Secretary of State and it was a huge media scandal

Donald Trump is violating a foundational aspect of the Constitution as part of an unprecedented assault on US democracy and the media can't be bothered to cover it with the same intensity
February 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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So we have massive federal agencies disappearing in the middle of the night at the behest of an unelected billionaire and the response from the government is just *shrug*?
February 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM