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17.07.2025 18:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hey Jake Tapper, fodder for your next book!👇
16.07.2025 20:10 — 👍 17581 🔁 5099 💬 950 📌 452"Hold my case if Corona Light while I think of another lie .."
26.03.2025 18:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0![When the Alien Enemies Act was enacted, the ordinary meaning of "remove" was "to take or put away," or "to place at a distance." Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language (6th ed. 1785) ("To put from its place; to take or put away"; "to place at a distance"); John Ash, The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. II (1795) ("to put from its place, to place at a distance."); Sheridan, A Complete Dictionary of the English Language (3d ed. 1790) ("to put from its place, to take or put away, to place at a distance"). And it continues to mean the same thing today. See Remove, The American Heritage Dictionary (5th ed. 2011) ("to move from
a place or position occupied"); Remove, Webster's New World College Dictionary (4th ed. 2009) ("to move (something) from where it is; lift, push, transfer, or carry away, or from one place to another"); Remove, Black's Law Dictionary (defining "removal" as "[t]he transfer or moving of a person or thing from one location, position, or residence to another."). The Court's injunction thus directs the Government not "to take," "move," or "transfer" class members from the United States.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreiatxvabr5oqhbwm6kzhia6sr5b6ihpzx5dy3evf4p6fvsb74phzxq@jpeg)
When the Alien Enemies Act was enacted, the ordinary meaning of "remove" was "to take or put away," or "to place at a distance." Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language (6th ed. 1785) ("To put from its place; to take or put away"; "to place at a distance"); John Ash, The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. II (1795) ("to put from its place, to place at a distance."); Sheridan, A Complete Dictionary of the English Language (3d ed. 1790) ("to put from its place, to take or put away, to place at a distance"). And it continues to mean the same thing today. See Remove, The American Heritage Dictionary (5th ed. 2011) ("to move from a place or position occupied"); Remove, Webster's New World College Dictionary (4th ed. 2009) ("to move (something) from where it is; lift, push, transfer, or carry away, or from one place to another"); Remove, Black's Law Dictionary (defining "removal" as "[t]he transfer or moving of a person or thing from one location, position, or residence to another."). The Court's injunction thus directs the Government not "to take," "move," or "transfer" class members from the United States.
NEW: DOJ goes full "technically correct, the best kind of correct" in a new brief telling Judge Boasberg why it didn't violate his orders—e.g., the court wrote that the govt couldn't "remove" anyone, not "undo removals that have already occurred"! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
26.03.2025 02:36 — 👍 888 🔁 188 💬 56 📌 97Arrested development.
26.03.2025 17:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Professional liar Karoline Leavitt says the Signal chat – involving specific plans for F-18s to hit specific enemy targets – did not involve "war plans" but was a "policy discussion."
26.03.2025 17:35 — 👍 657 🔁 115 💬 70 📌 13
NEWS: The White House Still Claims Pete Hegseth's Messages Weren't "War Plans." They Were. I break it down. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
26.03.2025 14:45 — 👍 1194 🔁 194 💬 55 📌 11A group chat about implants?
26.03.2025 17:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Jon Ossof stepping up. More of this, please.
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