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29.04.2025 05:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh.
"This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.β
Scary stuff.
18.04.2025 16:07 β π 272 π 83 π¬ 5 π 0Rep. Greg Steube says more guns is the solution to the FSU shooting: "For years and years, I sponsored legislation when I was in the state house and state senate to allow concealed carry on university campuses, and time and time again we have seen these lone gun shooters go after gun free zones."
18.04.2025 16:14 β π 502 π 111 π¬ 241 π 47MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON PLAINTIFFSβ MOTIONS FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION AND PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION MURPHY, J. This case presents a simple question: before the United States forcibly sends someone to a country other than their country of origin, must that person be told where they are going and be given a chance to tell the United States that they might be killed if sent there? Defendants argue that the United States may send a deportable alien to a country not of their origin, not where an immigration judge has ordered, where they may be immediately tortured and killed, without providing that person any opportunity to tell the deporting authorities that they face grave danger or death because of such a deportation. All nine sitting justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1 the Assistant Solicitor General of the United States, 2 Congress, 3 common sense,4 basic decency, and this Court all disagree. Plaintiffs are seeking a limited and measured remedyβone Defendants have conceded in other proceedings is the minimum that comports with due process. 5 Plaintiffs are simply asking to be told they are going to be deported to a new country before they are taken to such a country, and be given an opportunity to explain why such a deportation will likely result in their persecution, torture, and/or death. This small modicum of process is mandated by the Constitution of the United States, and for this reason, the motion for class certification is GRANTED, and the motion for preliminary injunction is GRANTED in part.
NEW: A federal judge in Massachusetts grants a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from deporting people to third countries without telling them where they're going and allowing them to raise fears of persecution or torture.
The opening lays out the stakes.
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18.04.2025 16:15 β π 62 π 15 π¬ 5 π 0And just as a reminder, the Obama-era IRS "scandal" the right was so enraged about here was the agency simply questioning whether explicitly partisan Tea Party organizations were eligible for a specific tax-exempt status that, by law, forbade the recipients from engaging in partisan politics.
18.04.2025 16:06 β π 994 π 279 π¬ 20 π 5"The core of the document is saying the king is a tyrant. The argument of the Declaration is that the king was depriving the colonists of their rights. Some of those rights perhaps havenβt resonated w/Americans before now, like depriving them of trials or making them have trials far away from home."
18.04.2025 15:59 β π 1237 π 319 π¬ 32 π 10Some of the students who survived the Parkland shooting are now at FSU, where they just faced another school shooting. These students should be looking forward to graduation, not reliving the same trauma.
Itβs past time for our elected leaders to take real action on gun violence prevention.
Over 1,000 international students had their legal status snatched by the Trump adminβno warning, no hearing, no due process.
This ainβt immigration policy. Itβs a power trip.
This is evidence.
18.04.2025 15:45 β π 23 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The White House posted this on their official site. GOP if you do not see the evil in this you have lost your souls.
18.04.2025 15:46 β π 43 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0That's a clear and direct threat (to life) from The White House. Let's call a spade a spade on this one.
18.04.2025 15:45 β π 32 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0βWronglyβ is how Trumpβs own administration characterized it.
18.04.2025 15:42 β π 1008 π 219 π¬ 121 π 23Steube: "Progressives and liberals always want to demonize the weapon that was used ... it's not the weapon that's being used that should be demonized, but the left will not let a tragedy go by without wanting to take away your firearms and ban guns."
18.04.2025 16:17 β π 826 π 140 π¬ 307 π 55Truth, an ethical requirement for all lawyers, is a now fireable offense.
18.04.2025 16:17 β π 697 π 218 π¬ 28 π 5ONE IF BY LAND
TWO IF BY D.C.
the north end church in boston
itβs 250 years today
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Auchincloss: "This issue about the Maryland man is not about border security or immigration. It's about freedom. Freedom in the US means that if your feet are on American soil, you get to stand in front of a judge on an equal basis to the awesome power of the state and put forward the facts."
18.04.2025 15:18 β π 19927 π 4674 π¬ 455 π 220For a man who tries to paint himself as an anti-intellectualist and who once praised President Richard Nixon for saying βprofessors are the enemy,β Vance is using a lot of Ivy League jargon as a smokescreen to attack a fundamental tenet of the American judicial system.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
The Florida State Shooter was hardcore #MAGA and thought things like "Rosa Parks was in the wrong and that black people were destroying his community"
18.04.2025 15:49 β π 658 π 247 π¬ 28 π 7π¨News: A prominent author reached out to me about how the Trump administration tried to denaturalize her father-in-law and end his social security benefits and Medicare.
Her family speaks English and was able advocate for him. But what about those that canβt?
They lost their qualified immunity when they were presented with his birth certificate and still refused to release him.
17.04.2025 23:53 β π 334 π 19 π¬ 2 π 0I hope they sue ICE, the individuals who kidnapped him, the tRump administration and Despot Donnie for billions.
17.04.2025 23:42 β π 849 π 91 π¬ 10 π 1US citizen who was kidnapped for crossing Georgia/Florida state line.
18.04.2025 00:02 β π 1355 π 110 π¬ 9 π 2Trump just attacked Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich
19.03.2025 19:49 β π 836 π 117 π¬ 102 π 15Great Substack Live with @adamkinzinger.bsky.social !! open.substack.com/pub/alexande...
19.03.2025 19:53 β π 401 π 96 π¬ 6 π 1Judge Howell: "I am offended on behalf of the American citizens who have done so much service to this country and have been treated so abominably"
19.03.2025 19:52 β π 1561 π 284 π¬ 17 π 12Federal Judge Orders Elon Musk to STOP
Dismantling Government Agency USAID.
youtu.be/pw7sMWvy8_c?...