Opinion | I Understand MAHA’s Appeal, but It Threatens My Life

“While the administration takes aim at real institutional shortcomings, its actions supplant science with ideology and people like myself are caught in the crossfire.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

Eviction fears, disability discrimination, and Trump’s war on fair housing Meanwhile “the nation is in the throes of a fair and affordable housing crisis.”

Eviction fears, disability discrimination, and Trump’s war on fair housing www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Disabled adults and families of disabled children said any cuts would have a profound effect on their lives. For many, home- and community-based care is the difference between living in an institution and a life comparable to peers who don’t have a disability. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/w...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President’s Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Analysis Shows

Trump Administration Live Updates: President’s Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Analysis Shows www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Largest Demonstration To Date At ICE Facility - The Jena Times They came from all over. New Orleans. Houston. Austin. San Antonio. And many other cities around the south as six large buses of demonstrators arrived at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in...

They came from all over. New Orleans. Houston. Austin. San Antonio. And many other cities around the south as six large buses of demonstrators arrived at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena last week in support of detainee Mahmoud Khalil. www.thejenatimes.net/2025/05/28/l...

Local jailers could face 10 years in prison if they don’t cooperate with ICE, under bill advancing in legislature - Verite News New Orleans The bill conflicts with a longstanding Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office policy, which was adopted under court order.

Local jailers could face 10 years in prison if they don’t cooperate with ICE, under bill advancing in legislature

By Verite immigration reporter Bobbi-Jeanne Misick.

"Constitutionalism means that society must accept an unpopular policy that respects constitutional limits over a popular policy that violates them. The very foundation of constitutionalism is that certain fundamental protections... must be beyond the reach of popular majorities."

"This strategy of court-baiting is widespread across cases of democratic backsliding... Presidents frequently antagonize the courts on national-security issues—a policy arena in which voters tend to support a stronger executive and weaker judiciary." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Opinion | Immigrants From Around the Country Keep Getting Detained in Louisiana Louisiana is a legal black hole for immigrants.

Immigrants From Around the Country Keep Getting Detained in Louisiana. It’s No Coincidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...

Tell Tulane to Drop the Charges Tell Tulane University President Michael Fitts to stop punishing students for peaceful, off-campus political expression.

www.thefire.org/tulane

From left to right, Congressman Jim McGovern, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, and Senator Ed Markey stand outside an ICE detention center in Louisiana.

I spent the day at the ICE Detention centers where Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil are being unjustly detained. They've been taken thousands of miles away from home and denied due process.

I’m here to call for their immediate release and make it known that they haven’t been forgotten.

Wow. This is the full document submitted by Rubio against Mr. Khalil invoking INA 237(a)(4)(C).

The standard in immigration court is extremely deferential; a judge must accept this so long as it is “facially reasonable and bona fide.” But this is so threadbare that it might not even satisfy that.

Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.

"If the government can disappear any people it wishes, dump them in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o... #dueprocess #immigration #scotus

Lafayette Square, New Orleans, LA #handsoff

Opinion | How (not) to keep Jews safe President Donald Trump’s anti-antisemitism crusade should make everyone nervous.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This is an attack on the rule of law. If a country seizes people with valid documents for detention and refuses to abide by any judicial process for it, that country is fundamentally lawless.

That the detention is indefinite and in a foreign labor prison makes it even more so.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

X post from CNN reporter Priscilla Alvarez, QTing herself. The original post says: "The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist, was based on a provision of immigration law that gives the administration broad authority on who can be subject to deportation, I'm told." The QT says: "Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved the use of a broad immigration authority to detain Mahmoud Khalil and another activist on Saturday, I'm told. It’s unclear what information he was provided prior to signing off on a rarely used provision of the law to arrest the activists."

!! This seems to confirm that the Trump admin invoked an obscure Cold War-era law, INA 237(a)(4)(C), which authorizes the Secretary of State to *personally* order any noncitizen to be deported on the grounds that their presence "would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences."

Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...

Please sign this petition in support of Mahmoud Khalil who has been abducted by ICE and DHS and is currently in a detention center in Jena, Louisiana: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema... #FreeMahmoud

“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and ...

Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment on hold. www.propublica.org/article/depa...

The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

In light of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday, our #TBT issue this week looks back to the organizations that protected scholars from Nazism, and discusses the still urgent need to aid endangered scholars today.

Our Winter 2017 issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/38051

LSU law professor removed from classes amid investigation into alleged political comments  • Louisiana Illuminator An LSU law school professor has reportedly been removed from teaching classes for making political comments to students, his attorney says.

LSU law professor removed from classes amid investigation into alleged political comments  lailluminator.com/2025/01/21/l...

Snow in Bayou St. John.

State officials begin removing unhoused people from tourist areas ahead of Super Bowl, Mardi Gras State officials began relocating people who are homeless from busy tourist areas in downtown New Orleans to a new facility in Pontchartrain Park on Wednesday morning (Jan. 15). The move comes ahead of...

“I don’t wanna be forced to do anything. I’d rather have a choice. And it doesn’t look like anyone’s getting a choice here."

A Father and Son Called for Help to Escape the Eaton Fire. None Came. The man and his son, who both used wheelchairs, called for help in evacuating from the Eaton fire in California. They were found dead later that day, and now their family is asking what happened.

Anthony Mitchell and his son, who both used wheelchairs, called for help in evacuating from the Eaton fire in California. They were found dead later that day, and now their family is asking what happened.

“New Orleans should decide when it feels like being New Orleans again. But because the College Football Playoff and the Super Bowl are in play, New Orleans wasn’t and won’t be asked to decide.”

After New Year's Day terrorist attack, New Orleans tries to balance tourism and grief Less than 36 hours after Wednesday’s attack and before we knew the names of all of the victims, New Orleans reopened Bourbon Street to pedestrians.

“The rush to clean up the city, pave over its potholes and fix its traffic lights…the heartless sweep of people living in tents beneath bridges who can’t afford rent in the Big Easy…Concerns about what’s best for New Orleanians don’t motivate any of those projects.” www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

How Katz’s Deli’s Legal Woes Started With the 2011 Zagat Guide The Lower East Side institution agreed to make renovations to accommodate people with disabilities, long after a “most popular” restaurants list put it under Justice Department scrutiny.

"Under the consent decree that Mr. Kim announced, Katz’s agreed to make the required renovations within the next several months. In addition, Katz’s agreed to pay a $20,000 civil penalty, Mr. Kim said." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/n...