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Lawyers fear 1,000 children from Central America, dozens in California, are at risk of being deported 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 15 Sep 15 5 2664
ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People 'Assaulting' Officers 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 8 Sep 8 1 853
"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 1021
Trump's Most Dangerous Executive Order 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 7 Sep 7 14 2017
"The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, on a major American city." 33 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 6 Sep 7 50 4397
Justice Breyer Defends Judge Accused of Defying Supreme Court Order 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 7 Sep 7 4 926
Governor JB Pritzker: "Conoce tus derechos, Illinois." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 6 Sep 6 18 1874
Former Fox News Producer With History of Racist Social Media Posts Lands New Gig at EEOC 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 819
‪Qasim Rashid: A Florida Judge Tried To Strip Me Of My Law License 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 778
Know Your Rights with ICE 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 586
'Scan your face' laws for the web are having unexpected consequences 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 815
He Burned a Flag and Won an American Right. He Worries It's at Risk. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 843
Judge Halts U.S. Effort to Deport Guatemalan Children as Planes Sit on Tarmac 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 576
The Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 15 1117
How ICE Spies On American Citizens 0 struggle4progress Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 775
Trump's National Guard plans are 'basis of civil war' - Malcolm Nance - Times Radio 2 TexasTowelie Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1038
Trump no longer expected to sign executive order to punish those who burn American flags 5 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 911
Dystopian definition 0 brakester Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 702
Judge Orders That 'Alligator Alcatraz' Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 932
Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be released from jail Friday. Here's what to know 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 775
Judge orders DOJ to give more info on subpoenas targeting trans minors' medical care 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 686
"Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 46 1934
DC and civil liberties 0 Be Leave On Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 660
"Our leading papers failed to stand up to Trump's criminal justice authoritarianism" 10 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 25 1355
Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE's breakneck expansion 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 754
"Declaring a fake emergency as an excuse to deploy the military to police civilians is ..." 12 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 73 2512
"NYT keeps publishing stories sourced entirely to Susie Wiles and White House staffers ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 783
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 711
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 2025 Aug 2025 15 778
"Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 16 793

Civil Liberties Continued...

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IRS has officially passed over taxpayer information to ICE, per court filing 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 736
Trump Allies Were Told to Stop Saying They'll Put Migrants in 'Camps' 5 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 888
Will the Supreme Court revisit its ruling on same-sex marriage? 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 816
Florida Officials Won't Say If COVID Is Spreading at Everglades Concentration Camp 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 969
Army Secretary forces West Point to rescind appointment given to Easterly 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Aug 2025 10 906
"Do Legal Checks on a President's Power 'Diminish the Votes of the Citizens Who Elected Him'?" 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 739
New: Harvard patents targeted by Trump administration 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 684
DOJ manufactures another lawsuit to block in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 610
Immigration Trump's plan to hold migrants at military bases begins taking shape 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 565
body cameras/dash cameras 2 RussBLib Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 730
"Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error ..." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 858
VOA director fired after declining reassignment to low-level post 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 696
Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 749
Two sisters in DCF custody since mother was detained by ICE in May in Worcester are missing, officials say 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 26 904
"The guy Trump picked to lead the office that's now investigating Jack Smith:" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 903
Alabama Notifying Adult Sites of New Tax Set to Take Effect Sept. 1 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 747
🧊🖕✈️ ICE HATES BEING WATCHED 👉 So what are you gonna do? 🤨 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 831
Justice Department fired official whose husband operated controversial ICEBlock app 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 585
Judge rips Noem's latest termination of immigrant protections: 'Color is neither a poison nor a crime' 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 17 656
Florida AG demands names of guests and performers who attended a drag show 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 691
Brown University Makes a Deal With the White House to Restore Funding 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 623
"Three DOJ attorneys challenged their removals in the U.S. District Court for D.C." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 586
The Quickest Route to a Plum Judicial Appointment 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 657
Chokeholds, bikers and 'roving patrols': Are Trump's ICE tactics legal? 2 Eugene Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 780
Why we need a right not to be manipulated 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 710
"DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding the officers provide a warrant" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 20 913
"The Trump admin has formally unveiled a program to illegally use money Congress passed for sheltering migrants ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 821
His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He's Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 567
Quebec man warning Canadian boaters after he was detained by U.S. Coast guard, put in jail cell 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1020
"Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask Judge Crenshaw to bring DHS back in line after its tweets and comments ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 618

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Columbia punishes students involved in pro-Palestinian protest 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 701
Trump Awards $1.26 Billion Contract to Build Biggest Immigrant Detention Center in US 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 1059
The Pentagon Won't Track Troops Deployed on U.S. Soil. So We Will. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 640
Beware of SHOCK EXHAUSTION 2 brakester Jul 2025 Jul 2025 13 832
"... Chief Judge James Boasberg--hearing the "CECOT class" AEA case--scheduled a status hearing for 11a Thursday, July 24." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 580
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask judge to delay release from jail over deportation fears 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 596
Nine Ways To Suppress African American Votes--the Republican Playbook Opinion (Newsweek) 2 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 771
Iowa mom falsely accused of cocaine use during pregnancy sues drug testing lab 0 ck4829 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 14 949
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 2025 Jul 2025 10 909
"Trump to TRY to fire Powell, although doing so may be illegal" is the headline. 9 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1214
NEW: The State Department has quietly declassified and posted the diplomatic notes exchanged between US and El Salvador 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 15 2238
Group challenges ruling that potentially weakens the Voting Rights Act 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 580
Trump appointee argues in dissent that noncitizens are not protected by the First Amendment. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 819
"Time to start paying attention to Florida attorney general James Uthmeier, the brains behind Alligator Auschwitz." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 793
NYT Opinion: 'Egregious.' 'Brazen.' 'Lawless.' How 48 Judges Describe Trump's Actions, in Their Own Words 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 926
Concentration camp jobs posted on Indeed. I wonder if they'll advertise that the uniforms are made by Hugo Boss. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1266
"DC Circuit rules that Pentagon can unravel plea deals with 9/11 plotters that would have precluded death penalty." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 833
"Judge restrains LAPD from using nonlethal munitions against journalists, detaining or assaulting journalists ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 725
"Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 841
Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be deported to Mexico or South Sudan, ICE official tells judge 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 599
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