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janainelson.bsky.social
Viola Ford Fletcher’s courage and conviction galvanized a national reckoning and reshaped the understanding of one of the most violently traumatic instances of racialized violence documented in American history—the Tulsa Massacre. Rest in eternal power.
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LDF Mourns the Loss of Viola Ford Fletcher, Oldest Known Survivor of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) mourns the passing of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Known affectionately as “Mother Fletcher,” through a century-long pur...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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attorneybencrump.bsky.social
65 years ago today, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges walked through a wall of hate to integrate the all-white William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans—becoming the first Black child to do so in the South. Surrounded by U.S. Marshals, she carried the weight of a nation on her small shoulders.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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oregoncapitalchronicle.com
BREAKING: Federal judge permanently blocks Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland.
buff.ly/ow0lMO6 by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
Federal judge finds Trump Guard deployment to Portland illegal • Oregon Capital Chronicle
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to return control of federalized Oregon and California Guard troops to each state’s governor.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
Feds have repeatedly claimed 115+ federal police (25% of force) had to be deployed to Portland over the summer to quell violence. Oregon lawyers found on discovery this was not true and are asking 9th Circuit to reverse Monday decision because feds lied:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
October 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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gibbie.bsky.social
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Woman found not guilty of assaulting FBI agent during ICE arrest outside DC Jail
Sidney Lori Reid was acquitted after a three-day trial plagued with evidence issues.
www.wusa9.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
U.S. District Judge April Perry's temporary restraining order is in:
October 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
A big victory for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s defense team.
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Oct 3
BREAKING: A federal judge says there is a realistic likelihood that the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driven by vindictive motives — reflected in the public statements of Bondi, Blanche, Noem et al.

He has ordered discovery on the question.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Judge: Again, I'm handling on emergency basis, limited briefing, but new info has been provided. For all of the reasons stated in this court's previous order, I GRANT plaintiffs' motion for second TRO. The question is the scope of it.
October 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Judge: How could bringing in NG from CA not be in direct contravention of TRO I issued yesterday?

DOJ: TRO related only to Oregon NG

Judge: You are an officer of the court. Aren't defendants clearly circumventing my order?
October 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
NEW: California joins Oregon and Portland in asking Judge Immergut for a SECOND temporary restraining order blocking the Trump admin from "circumventing this Court's Order" by deploying the federalized California National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
MEMORANDUM OF LAW I. INTRODUCTION Yesterday, this Court recognized that the legal principles at stake in this case “go[] to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.” Opinion & Order Granting Mot. for Temporary Restraining Order (“Order”), ECF 56 at 2. Applying those principles, this Court concluded that Defendants likely lacked authority to federalize Oregon National Guard members and ordered Defendants to halt federalization for 14 days. Defendants filed a notice of appeal last night (Ntc. of Appeal, ECF 57), and they have now asked the Ninth Circuit to stay the effect of this Court’s decision. Not content with this Court’s or the Ninth Circuit’s judgment, Defendants are now in the process of circumventing this Court's Order. After this Court ruled that 10 U.S.C. § 12406 could not justify federalizing the Oregon National Guard to deploy them to Portland, Defendants have deployed members of the California National Guard to Portland—servicemembers who were federalized under that very same Title 10 authority for deployment in Los Angeles. That redeployment is illegal: Setting aside whether the underlying federalization order from August violated Section 12406, the federalization order clearly did not contemplate the use of California
October 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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October 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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jimoleske.bsky.social
Key Excerpt #1:
In this case, and unlike in Newsom II, Plaintiffs provide substantial evidence that the protests at the Portland ICE facility were not significantly violent or disruptive in the days—or even weeks—leading up to the President’s directive on September 27, 2025. The record evidence establishes that while disruption outside the Portland ICE facility peaked in June of 2025, federal and local law enforcement officers were able to “quell[] . . . the disorder.” Newsom II, 141 F.4th at 1051 (quoting Sterling, 278 U.S. at 399–400). As of September 27, 2025, it had been months since there was any sustained level of violent or disruptive protest activity in Portland. During this time frame, there were sporadic events requiring either PPB monitoring or federal law enforcement intervention, but overall, the protests were small and uneventful.
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.

The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
Garcia Ramirez v. ICE case caption. ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND TO ENFORCE FINAL JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION Upon consideration of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and to Enforce the Permanent Injunction and accompanying Memorandum of Points and Authorities and Declarations (the "Motion"), and all other materials properly before this Court, it is hereby ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion is GRANTED; and it is further ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert with them, are hereby ENJOINED from implementing any new directive regarding age-outs; ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert with them, are hereby ENJOINED from detaining any class member in an adult ICE facility in any manner that contravenes the Permanent Injunction; ORDERED that Defendants immediately rescind any determinations to detain based on this directive; ORDERED that Defendants immediately produce that directive, any related policies regarding that directive, and the Age-Out Review Worksheets of any class members who may have been impacted by that directive, including all AORs issued since October 1, 2025. SO ORDERED this 4th day of October 2025.
October 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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propublica.org
Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets.

Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key witness because of credibility issues.

By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social
Chicago Cop Who Falsely Blamed an Ex-Girlfriend for Dozens of Traffic Tickets Pleads Guilty but Avoids Prison
Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets. Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key w...
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October 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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klasfeldreports.com
BREAKING:

A federal judge ORDERS an evidentiary hearing to determine whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been vindictively prosecuted.

Abrego’s lawyers carried their burden of demonstrating enough evidence to warrant it.
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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walterolson.bsky.social
Three cheers for the Constitution's right to a jury: a federal jury in Los Angeles "took just over an hour to acquit [Brayan] Ramos-Brito of a misdemeanor assault count" in an ICE-scuffle case hinging heavily on the testimony of border sector chief Gregory Bovino, now doing raids in Chicago.
October 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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blogwood.com
2025 Worker-Led State Policy Victories Show How States Can—and Must—Do More To Hold the Line Against Escalating Federal Attacks on Workers’ Rights portside.org/2025-08-18/2...
2025 Worker-Led State Policy Victories Show How States Can—and Must—Do More To Hold the Line Against Escalating Federal Attacks on Workers’ Rights
State action to strengthen worker rights and protections has become critically important at a moment when long-standing U.S. labor standards are under acute threat.
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August 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
JUST IN: Oregon sues to stop Trump’s deployment of the military, saying its pretextual and that ICE protests have been small and relatively contained since June. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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oregonian.com
"The number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city," Mayor Keith Wilson said.
What Oregon’s political leaders are saying to Trump’s plan to send troops to Portland
"The number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city," Mayor Keith Wilson said.
www.oregonlive.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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opb.org
ICE has released Oregon firefighter Rigoberto Hernandez Hernandez from federal custody. Hernandez was arrested while working the Bear Gulch Fire in Washington, and his release came as a surprise Wednesday morning.
ICE releases Oregon firefighter arrested last month during Bear Gulch Fire
Rigoberto Hernandez Hernandez’s release came suddenly Wednesday morning without a court order.
www.opb.org
September 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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joshgerstein.bsky.social
JUST IN: Fed judge in RI bars enforcement of Trump anti-'gender ideology' exec ord against a group of National Endowment for the Arts grantees. Judge William Smith (GWBush) says 'zero explanation' of how NEA will apply policy it adopted. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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September 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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gabrielmalor.bsky.social
Lawgeeks, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's reply filing in support of his motion to dismiss the criminal case in Tennessee for vindictive and selective prosecution is an excellent, powerful (and short) read.

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The Executive Branch cannot whitewash a vindictive and selective prosecution by running it through a prosecutor who turns a blind eye to the motivations that launched it. And this is hardly the only time the President has sought to use DOJ to get revenge: The U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia was forced from office for not vindictively charging New York Attorney General Letitia James.1 In our case, the Chief of the Criminal Division resigned rather than bring this vindictive prosecution himself. That Mr. McGuire professes to believe that this case is a righteous one, while claiming ignorance of its origins, is no answer to our motion. It’s a dodge. In the government’s telling, this case started on April 27, 2025, when HSI Nashville presented the case to Mr. McGuire. (Dkt. 121-1 ¶ 4). That ignores weeks of retributive government conduct punishing Mr. Abrego for challenging his unlawful deportation: officials’ statements that he is a “gangbanger,” “monster,” “predator,” “terrorist,” and “wife beater”; an Oval Office Abbott and Costello routine about how neither President Trump nor President Bukele nor Attorney General Bondi—Mr. McGuire’s ultimate boss—had the power to return him; and the ultimate decision, made by officials senior to Mr. McGuire before the case was presented to him, to gin up an investigation and prosecution. (Dkt. 105 at 8-12). On the facts, the government’s perspective is conveniently tunnel visioned. On the law, what Mr. McGuire may believe is irrelevant. Despite the government’s many distractions, Mr. Abrego has presented clear, unrebutted evidence of vindictiveness warranting dismissal or, at a minimum, discovery and a hearing.
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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propublica.org
Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him.

“This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.
Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case
“This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of…
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September 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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christyceeck.bsky.social
France will join the three next week.

"Australia, Canada and the UK announced their recognition of Palestinian statehood, in an apparently coordinated move that piles pressure on Israel and puts the three countries at odds with the US."
September 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEW: In a break from decades of history, the Trump administration has started detaining virtually everyone facing deportation — even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for decades.

Dozens of judges, with increasing alarm, have ruled the policy shift illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Trump’s new detention policy targets millions of immigrants. Judges keep saying it’s illegal.
The administration says the sweeping detentions are a key prong of Trump’s deportation strategy.
www.politico.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM