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"'Major terrorist organization' is not a thing in any US law." 4 mahatmakanejeeves 19 hrs ago 1 hr ago 6 2237
Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He's Eager To Be America's Top Censor 2 mahatmakanejeeves 11 hrs ago 9 hrs ago 20 1685
Protester found not guilty of assault despite top Border Patrol official's testimony 0 mahatmakanejeeves 20 hrs ago 20 hrs ago 1 300
New Edict from the Trump Regime 1 mahatmakanejeeves 20 hrs ago 20 hrs ago 6 2401
The Danger of Silencing Dissent 0 littlemissmartypants 21 hrs ago 21 hrs ago 2 1120
Clay Higgins sent a letter to social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 8 2589
Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers. (Fox2, Detroit) 13 usonian Monday Tuesday 2 575
Top FEMA official resigns after staffers ousted for negative Charlie Kirk comments 1 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 12 2421
Lawyers fear 1,000 children from Central America, dozens in California, are at risk of being deported 0 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 5 2352
ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People 'Assaulting' Officers 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 8 Sep 8 1 479
"Pam Bondi is letting a powerful white man engage in violence in part bc GOP Majority depends on her doing so." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 8 Sep 8 2 649
Trump's Most Dangerous Executive Order 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 7 Sep 7 14 1692
"The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, on a major American city." 33 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 6 Sep 7 50 3483
Justice Breyer Defends Judge Accused of Defying Supreme Court Order 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 7 Sep 7 4 613
Governor JB Pritzker: "Conoce tus derechos, Illinois." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 6 Sep 6 18 1552
Former Fox News Producer With History of Racist Social Media Posts Lands New Gig at EEOC 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 3 Sep 3 2 496
‪Qasim Rashid: A Florida Judge Tried To Strip Me Of My Law License 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 3 Sep 3 12 459
Know Your Rights with ICE 1 struggle4progress Sep 1 Sep 2 3 305
'Scan your face' laws for the web are having unexpected consequences 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 1 Sep 2 3 530
He Burned a Flag and Won an American Right. He Worries It's at Risk. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 1 Sep 1 4 486
Judge Halts U.S. Effort to Deport Guatemalan Children as Planes Sit on Tarmac 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 1 Sep 1 4 298
The Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 1 Sep 1 15 827
How ICE Spies On American Citizens 0 struggle4progress Aug 30 Aug 30 8 521
Trump's National Guard plans are 'basis of civil war' - Malcolm Nance - Times Radio 2 TexasTowelie Aug 27 Aug 28 14 706
Trump no longer expected to sign executive order to punish those who burn American flags 5 Eugene Aug 21 Aug 25 2 550
Dystopian definition 0 brakester Aug 24 Aug 24 7 442
Judge Orders That 'Alligator Alcatraz' Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 22 Aug 22 9 601
Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be released from jail Friday. Here's what to know 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 21 Aug 21 4 443
Judge orders DOJ to give more info on subpoenas targeting trans minors' medical care 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 21 Aug 21 1 430
"Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 19 Aug 19 46 1639

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DC and civil liberties 0 Be Leave On Aug 19 Aug 19 2 383
"Our leading papers failed to stand up to Trump's criminal justice authoritarianism" 10 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 18 Aug 18 25 970
Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE's breakneck expansion 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 17 Aug 17 6 501
"Declaring a fake emergency as an excuse to deploy the military to police civilians is ..." 12 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 17 Aug 17 73 2140
"NYT keeps publishing stories sourced entirely to Susie Wiles and White House staffers ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 16 Aug 16 5 561
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 15 Aug 15 3 465
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton's 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I'd like these days 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 15 Aug 15 15 537
"Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 15 Aug 15 16 550
IRS has officially passed over taxpayer information to ICE, per court filing 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 14 Aug 14 9 501
Trump Allies Were Told to Stop Saying They'll Put Migrants in 'Camps' 5 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 14 Aug 14 7 620
Will the Supreme Court revisit its ruling on same-sex marriage? 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 13 Aug 13 7 535
Florida Officials Won't Say If COVID Is Spreading at Everglades Concentration Camp 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 13 Aug 13 15 690
Army Secretary forces West Point to rescind appointment given to Easterly 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 30 Aug 10 10 653
"Do Legal Checks on a President's Power 'Diminish the Votes of the Citizens Who Elected Him'?" 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 8 Aug 10 8 479
New: Harvard patents targeted by Trump administration 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 8 Aug 8 2 491
DOJ manufactures another lawsuit to block in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 7 Aug 7 1 414
Immigration Trump's plan to hold migrants at military bases begins taking shape 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 7 Aug 7 3 380
body cameras/dash cameras 2 RussBLib Aug 5 Aug 5 3 485
"Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error ..." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 5 Aug 5 11 672
VOA director fired after declining reassignment to low-level post 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 5 Aug 5 7 527
Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 3 Aug 3 14 563
Two sisters in DCF custody since mother was detained by ICE in May in Worcester are missing, officials say 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 3 Aug 3 26 732
"The guy Trump picked to lead the office that's now investigating Jack Smith:" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 3 Aug 3 7 707
Alabama Notifying Adult Sites of New Tax Set to Take Effect Sept. 1 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 1 Aug 1 3 549
🧊🖕✈️ ICE HATES BEING WATCHED 👉 So what are you gonna do? 🤨 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 1 Aug 1 7 654
Justice Department fired official whose husband operated controversial ICEBlock app 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 1 Aug 1 1 428
Judge rips Noem's latest termination of immigrant protections: 'Color is neither a poison nor a crime' 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 1 Aug 1 17 486
Florida AG demands names of guests and performers who attended a drag show 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 31 Jul 31 4 533
Brown University Makes a Deal With the White House to Restore Funding 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 31 Jul 31 1 467
"Three DOJ attorneys challenged their removals in the U.S. District Court for D.C." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 30 Jul 30 2 428

Civil Liberties Continued...

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The Quickest Route to a Plum Judicial Appointment 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 30 Jul 30 4 491
Chokeholds, bikers and 'roving patrols': Are Trump's ICE tactics legal? 2 Eugene Jul 29 Jul 29 11 603
Why we need a right not to be manipulated 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 28 Jul 28 3 532
"DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding the officers provide a warrant" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 28 Jul 28 20 751
"The Trump admin has formally unveiled a program to illegally use money Congress passed for sheltering migrants ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 26 Jul 26 11 677
His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He's Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 25 Jul 25 2 416
Quebec man warning Canadian boaters after he was detained by U.S. Coast guard, put in jail cell 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 24 Jul 24 11 824
"Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask Judge Crenshaw to bring DHS back in line after its tweets and comments ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 24 Jul 24 7 481
Columbia punishes students involved in pro-Palestinian protest 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 23 Jul 23 0 543
Trump Awards $1.26 Billion Contract to Build Biggest Immigrant Detention Center in US 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 22 Jul 22 4 819
The Pentagon Won't Track Troops Deployed on U.S. Soil. So We Will. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 22 Jul 22 6 496
Beware of SHOCK EXHAUSTION 2 brakester Jul 21 Jul 22 13 649
"... Chief Judge James Boasberg--hearing the "CECOT class" AEA case--scheduled a status hearing for 11a Thursday, July 24." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 22 Jul 22 5 446
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask judge to delay release from jail over deportation fears 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 21 Jul 21 1 468
Nine Ways To Suppress African American Votes--the Republican Playbook Opinion (Newsweek) 2 usonian Jul 21 Jul 21 6 609
Iowa mom falsely accused of cocaine use during pregnancy sues drug testing lab 0 ck4829 Jul 20 Jul 20 14 822
Allentown grandfather's family was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he's alive, in a hospital in Guatemala 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 19 Jul 19 10 776
"Trump to TRY to fire Powell, although doing so may be illegal" is the headline. 9 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 16 Jul 16 8 995
NEW: The State Department has quietly declassified and posted the diplomatic notes exchanged between US and El Salvador 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 16 Jul 16 15 2098
Group challenges ruling that potentially weakens the Voting Rights Act 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 15 Jul 15 5 468
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