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"...a broader pattern by President Trump and his allies to undermine the Justice Department’s commitment to the rule of law." - Senator Dick Durbin, June 24, 2025
www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/re...
www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/re...
Durbin Statement On Whistleblower Disclosures By Erez Reuveni On Emil Bove's Nomination To Be Circuit Court Judge | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary...
www.judiciary.senate.gov
June 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"...a broader pattern by President Trump and his allies to undermine the Justice Department’s commitment to the rule of law." - Senator Dick Durbin, June 24, 2025
www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/re...
www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/re...
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This important whistleblower account (from the DOJ attorney fired for being honest in court) paints an absolutely damning portrait of an administration engaged in a conscious and calculated effort to defy federal court orders.
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June 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This important whistleblower account (from the DOJ attorney fired for being honest in court) paints an absolutely damning portrait of an administration engaged in a conscious and calculated effort to defy federal court orders.
static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
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Emil Bove, a senior Department of Justice official, suggested the department should tell courts “f*** you” and ignore their orders to carry out President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportations, according to a whistleblower complaint by a former DOJ attorney.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Senior DOJ Official Suggested Department Tell Courts ‘F*** You’ And Ignore Orders, Whistleblower Says
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Emil Bove, a senior Department of Justice official, suggested the department should tell courts “f*** you” and ignore their orders to carry out President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportations, according to a whistleblower complaint by a former DOJ attorney.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Warrensburg,NY 800 strong No Kings
June 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Warrensburg,NY 800 strong No Kings
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So glad they called the SG on the "delay remedy while we keep doing it" part. That's central to the Orbanism game the GOP is running. Bad faith institutionalism.
May 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
So glad they called the SG on the "delay remedy while we keep doing it" part. That's central to the Orbanism game the GOP is running. Bad faith institutionalism.
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Two things:
1. It's fantastic that the United States actually responded to pressure and returned this 2-year-old which it stole from her parents.
2. Trump's anti-Venezuela cruelty seems to be actively creating more popular support for Maduro and may be helping the regime!
1. It's fantastic that the United States actually responded to pressure and returned this 2-year-old which it stole from her parents.
2. Trump's anti-Venezuela cruelty seems to be actively creating more popular support for Maduro and may be helping the regime!
May 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Two things:
1. It's fantastic that the United States actually responded to pressure and returned this 2-year-old which it stole from her parents.
2. Trump's anti-Venezuela cruelty seems to be actively creating more popular support for Maduro and may be helping the regime!
1. It's fantastic that the United States actually responded to pressure and returned this 2-year-old which it stole from her parents.
2. Trump's anti-Venezuela cruelty seems to be actively creating more popular support for Maduro and may be helping the regime!
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Thank you @robertgarcia.bsky.social for continuing to advocate for Andry and for grilling Secretary Noem over his awful confinement.
Andry Romero, a young gay man, was given an asylum appointment by the U.S. Government. When he showed up to the appointment we kidnapped him and sent him to a foreign prison.
I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.
I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.
May 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Thank you @robertgarcia.bsky.social for continuing to advocate for Andry and for grilling Secretary Noem over his awful confinement.
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NEW— I've confirmed DOGE has entered the Export-Import Bank (EXIM), an independent federal agency of the executive branch. EXIM is the US export credit agency and helps American companies secure favorable interest rates worldwide.
Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park have emails set up and office space.
Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park have emails set up and office space.
May 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
NEW— I've confirmed DOGE has entered the Export-Import Bank (EXIM), an independent federal agency of the executive branch. EXIM is the US export credit agency and helps American companies secure favorable interest rates worldwide.
Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park have emails set up and office space.
Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park have emails set up and office space.
Great synopsis and includes much I hadn’t been aware of.
Sharing an excellent piece from @krhawkins.bsky.social, that documents all the ways in which the Trump administration has been "disappearing" migrants, from CECOT to Panama to Guantanamo Bay. Check it out! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...
How Trump Is Disappearing Migrants
From CECOT to domestic jails, the Trump administration is engaging in incommunicado detention to cut migrants off from legal protections.
www.lawfaremedia.org
May 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Great synopsis and includes much I hadn’t been aware of.
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I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark.
I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.
I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.
May 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark.
I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.
I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.
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Ok. I have seen enough. I am going to start blogging on Bluesky about your constitutional rights when confronted by a police officer to identify yourself or speak to them.
May 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Ok. I have seen enough. I am going to start blogging on Bluesky about your constitutional rights when confronted by a police officer to identify yourself or speak to them.
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See a column I wrote a week ago or so: 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...
The First Thing We Do, Let’s Abjectly Humiliate The Big Law Firms - 3 Quarks Daily
by Charles Siegel
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May 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
See a column I wrote a week ago or so: 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...
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... (5) equal protection (5th Am); (6) procedural due process (5th Am); (7) void for vagueness (5th Am); (8) right to counsel in civil cases (when you can afford one) (5th Am); right to counsel in criminal cases (6th Am). Howell does not decide one of Perkins’ claims ...
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May 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
... (5) equal protection (5th Am); (6) procedural due process (5th Am); (7) void for vagueness (5th Am); (8) right to counsel in civil cases (when you can afford one) (5th Am); right to counsel in criminal cases (6th Am). Howell does not decide one of Perkins’ claims ...
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As we’ve said before now confirmed. FOIA requests reveal that DOGE employees are pulling in six-figure salaries, with many holding the title of “Expert,” a specific Office of Personnel Management (OPM) designation that pays around $190,000 a year.
May 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
As we’ve said before now confirmed. FOIA requests reveal that DOGE employees are pulling in six-figure salaries, with many holding the title of “Expert,” a specific Office of Personnel Management (OPM) designation that pays around $190,000 a year.
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"John Roberts owns this nightmare; without him and his corrupt Republican co-conspirators against democracy on the Supreme Court we never would have had a reality star neofascist ascend to the highest office in the land."
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April 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"John Roberts owns this nightmare; without him and his corrupt Republican co-conspirators against democracy on the Supreme Court we never would have had a reality star neofascist ascend to the highest office in the land."
hartmannreport.com/p/roberts-ow...
hartmannreport.com/p/roberts-ow...
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How are things going with respect to the discovery before Judge Xinis in Abrego García?
Well, the government describes as a “false premise” that it “has been ordered to facilitate Abrego García’s release.”
(That’s *literally* what #SCOTUS held.)
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Well, the government describes as a “false premise” that it “has been ordered to facilitate Abrego García’s release.”
(That’s *literally* what #SCOTUS held.)
pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/84/578815/09...
April 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
How are things going with respect to the discovery before Judge Xinis in Abrego García?
Well, the government describes as a “false premise” that it “has been ordered to facilitate Abrego García’s release.”
(That’s *literally* what #SCOTUS held.)
pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/84/578815/09...
Well, the government describes as a “false premise” that it “has been ordered to facilitate Abrego García’s release.”
(That’s *literally* what #SCOTUS held.)
pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/84/578815/09...
Wow. That one had gone by me. They have changed their story many times. At one point saying he was a member of Tren de Aragua.
Trump fabricated a photo of Mr. Garcia with an MS-13 tattoo on his hand in an effort to keep him in prison. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCIST regimes do. My new article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-fabr...
Trump fabricating evidence to imprison Abrego Garcia is bone-chilling--and it's what he would do to you
This case is about our freedom
deanobeidallah.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Wow. That one had gone by me. They have changed their story many times. At one point saying he was a member of Tren de Aragua.
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Happy #LesbianVisibilityWeek to all the #Sisters who make our #Brighton spaces so rich & powerful 💜
For information on Brighton's lesbian-only brunch club drop us an email info@brightonsisters.org.uk
Join our monthly women-only Salons, see our link tree for details ☝️
For information on Brighton's lesbian-only brunch club drop us an email info@brightonsisters.org.uk
Join our monthly women-only Salons, see our link tree for details ☝️
April 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Happy #LesbianVisibilityWeek to all the #Sisters who make our #Brighton spaces so rich & powerful 💜
For information on Brighton's lesbian-only brunch club drop us an email info@brightonsisters.org.uk
Join our monthly women-only Salons, see our link tree for details ☝️
For information on Brighton's lesbian-only brunch club drop us an email info@brightonsisters.org.uk
Join our monthly women-only Salons, see our link tree for details ☝️
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China builds world’s first thorium reactor with US secret files interestingengineering.com/energy/china...
China builds world’s first thorium reactor with US secret files
After years of research and US data analysis, China has built a working thorium reactor and run it through a successful fuel reload.
interestingengineering.com
April 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
China builds world’s first thorium reactor with US secret files interestingengineering.com/energy/china...
Worrying they’re trying to intervene directly into nonprofits.
It’s NEVER been about efficiency or finding “fraud” with DOGE. It’s always been about getting their MAGA claws inside everything! From universities, to reputable law firms, to our cultural organizations, and now non-profits. They are trying to CHANGE our CULTURE & WAY WE THINK!
#MAGA
#DOGEHypocrisy
#MAGA
#DOGEHypocrisy
DOGE wanted to assign staff to the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice because it got federal funds
The nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice says staff from Elon Musk’s DOGE contacted them to “assign” a team to the organization and said DOGE staff told them they intended to “assign” teams to all nonp...
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April 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Worrying they’re trying to intervene directly into nonprofits.
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“The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph.” - Judge Wilkinson www.muellershewrote.com/p/how-a-judg...
How a Judge Tells a President to F**k Off
I read a lot of court documents, and I like to highlight some from time to time that really encapsulate the moment we find ourselves in. The latest from the 4th Circuit does it perfectly.
www.muellershewrote.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:48 AM
“The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph.” - Judge Wilkinson www.muellershewrote.com/p/how-a-judg...
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SCOTUS has blocked any new deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, after midnight, in response to an emergency appeal by lawyers from the ACLU ordering the 🍊🍕💩 to not remove at least 30 Venezuelan immigrants held in the Bluebonnet Detention.
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented...
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented...
April 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
SCOTUS has blocked any new deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, after midnight, in response to an emergency appeal by lawyers from the ACLU ordering the 🍊🍕💩 to not remove at least 30 Venezuelan immigrants held in the Bluebonnet Detention.
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented...
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented...
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Defiance of court order. Purging Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
New by Judge Amy Berman Jackson:
Court has reason to believe Trump officials "are thumbing their nose at both this Court and the Court of Appeals."
"dressing their RIF in new clothes"
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New by Judge Amy Berman Jackson:
Court has reason to believe Trump officials "are thumbing their nose at both this Court and the Court of Appeals."
"dressing their RIF in new clothes"
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Defiance of court order. Purging Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
New by Judge Amy Berman Jackson:
Court has reason to believe Trump officials "are thumbing their nose at both this Court and the Court of Appeals."
"dressing their RIF in new clothes"
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
New by Judge Amy Berman Jackson:
Court has reason to believe Trump officials "are thumbing their nose at both this Court and the Court of Appeals."
"dressing their RIF in new clothes"
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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SCOOP: FEMA employees tell WIRED that a rapid erosion of tools, external partnerships, and practices—as well as the looming threat of staffing cuts—is bad news for the country as it heads into the summer, and the official start of hurricane season.
FEMA Isn’t Ready for Disaster Season, Workers Say
Instability, cuts, and a looming sense of dread have FEMA employees unsure the agency is ready for hurricanes, fires, and floods. “We are being set up for a really, really bad situation," says one.
www.wired.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOOP: FEMA employees tell WIRED that a rapid erosion of tools, external partnerships, and practices—as well as the looming threat of staffing cuts—is bad news for the country as it heads into the summer, and the official start of hurricane season.