As a reminder, this was NYT's framing of the political motivations of the hacker. Personally, I do not think that this is the most relevant way to frame the "politics" of a hacker who uses a slur as a username, calls themselves "violently racist," and RTs swastikas. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/n...

In any normal presidential administration, this is the kind of action that would lead to Congressional hearings and even raise the specter of impeachment; a Cabinet Secretary telling members of Congress their laws simply do not apply to her. Yet this will barely make the news.

Sotomayor’s dissent is flabbergasted that the government had been blatantly violating the court’s order up until that point, and then had been misrepresenting to the court who was responsible for it (saying it was DOD, not DHS) 2/

Havent we sufferred enough

Judge: And so given all those factual findings, I'm going to exercise the discretion I have to ORDER THE RELEASE of Mahmoud Khalil