An immigration case in Minnesota modeled how to hold the Trump administration accountable for violating court orders.
JoAnna Suriani on the lessons learned:
www.justsecurity.org/131966/trump...
Proud to represent our clients in this important suit!
BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz cancels contempt hearing Friday where ICE chief Todd Lyons was to be forced to testify, but excoriates ICE for defying almost 100 court orders in last month. "ICE is not a law unto itself," Schiltz writes. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.
Must read: How the Hungarian pro-democracy coalition changed tactics to get ahead of shifting authoritarian attacks. Read, share, and subscribe to the "Democracy Atlas" series for more lessons from abroad. share.protectdemocracy.org/s/34gqulMC
Great fucking time to have actual federal agents showing up masked and refusing to identify themselves or show a warrant
this statement was made just yesterday
The Trump administration is at war with higher education in the United States. The question is not “will universities resist or submit” — it is: “will they survive the onslaught?”
There’s no negotiating with an annihilation attempt: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/universiti...
“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.” - Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III
1/ The Fourth Circuit issued a must-read opinion about the Trump admin’s latest move to erode checks & balances and Americans’ core constitutional rights in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan-appointee, had powerful words about what’s at stake: 🔗 bit.ly/3YF1eF1
Struggling to see the logic behind the new tariffs? Read this thread 👇
This is quite literally a dangerous situation. Call your senators, folks. (202) 224-3121.
🚨BREAKING🚨: We're suing to stop DOGE's illegal access to millions of Americans' private data. DOGE is doing exactly what the Privacy Act was designed to stop: political cronies breaking the law to snoop on vast amounts of Americans' data and try to use it to benefit themselves.
Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.
For all of my many public servant friends, this is a remarkably important new organization just launched today: thepublicservicealliance.com
Protect Democracy & Selendy Gay PLLC, today, filed suit in U.S. Dist. Court of D.C. on behalf of the Government Accountability Project, and National Active & Retired Federal Employees Assoc., challenging the Trump Admin’s attempt to dismantle a federal civil service rooted in merit & integrity. 1/7
Efforts to dismantle the civil service — in an attempted executive power grab — make us all less safe. We examine the aftermath of a tragedy and what it means for our democracy: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-stakes...
