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Neither the Court nor the parties question the Executive Branch's authority and responsibility to enforce federal laws and, along with local law enforcement agencies, to protect 1 / 36 Case 1:25-cv-00072 Document 58 Filed on 05/01/25 in TXSD Page 2 of 36 the nation's population. Neither the Court nor the parties question that the Executive Branch can direct the detention and removal of aliens who engage in criminal activity in the United States. The Executive Branch has and will continue to rely on the Immigration and Nationality Act to remove aliens found to represent a danger to the country. The question that this lawsuit presents is whether the President can utilize a specific statute, the AEA, to detain and remove Venezuelan aliens who are members of TdA. As to that question, the historical record renders clear that the President's invocation of the AEA through the Proclamation exceeds the scope of the statute and is contrary to the plain, ordinary meaning of the statute's terms. As a result, the Court concludes that as a matter of law, the Executive Branch cannot rely on the AEA, based on the Proclamation, to detain the Named Petitioners and the certified class, or to remove them from the country.'

Case 1:25-cv-00072 Document 59 Filed on 05/01/25 in TXSD Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS BROWNSVILLE DIVISION ENTERED May 01, 2025 Nathan Ochsner, Clerk J.A.V., et al., Petitioners, son con con VS. CIVIL ACTION NO. 1:25-CV-072 DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Respondents. FINAL JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION In accordance with the Court's Order and Opinion granting class certification (Doc. 57) and its Order and Opinion granting summary judgment (Doc. 58), the Court enters final judgment in favor of Petitioners J.A.V., J.G.G., W.G.H., and the members of the certified class. Accordingly, it is: ORDERED that the Class Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Doc. 1) is GRANTED; and ORDERED that Respondents are permanently enjoined from detaining, transferring, or removing J.A.V., J.G.G., W.G.H., and the members of the certified class, under the Alien Enemies Act, 50 U.S.C. § 21, and based on the Presidential Proclamation, "Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua," 90 Fed. Reg. 13033. This permanent injunction does not prohibit Respondents from proceeding with removal proceedings or otherwise acting against J.A.V., J.G.G., W.G.H., and the members of the certified class, based on the Immigration and Nationality Act, including under any final order of removal. This Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction does not enjoin Respondent Donald Trump in his official duties as President of the United States. See Franklin v. Massachusetts, 505 U.S. 788, 802 (1992). Signed on May 1, 2025. 1/1 Femendo Rodiguez, Ja. Fernando Rodriguez, Jr. United States District Judge

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump exceeded his authority in his Alien Enemies Act proclamation addressing alleged members of Tren de Aragua, issuing a permanent injunction barring AEA proclamation-based removals from the Southern District of Texas.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

The Cost of Defunding Harvard If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and tre...

The Trump Administration’s assault on American academic health and science has targeted 10 public and private universities, jeopardizing an enterprise that made America the world leader in technology and innovation, Atul Gawande writes.

It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.

This will end with kids dying and being left damaged and disabled for life by diseases basic science has cured. RFK Jr will be gone sooner or later (ideally sooner) but nothing will bring those kids back or repair the damage done to their families.

It’s unfortunately quite efficient. The idea is to make those who could form opposing thoughts, e.g. very bright cadets, be deprived of a framework to form those thoughts in. That way they will appear to be more more out of line and be easier to repress. Historically this works well. For a while.

Best possible outcome: This is the origin story for the ‘“Secret Library of Annapolis”, a key institution in the struggle for freedom during centuries of oppression’. Hmm. Too bleak?

Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.

Hegseth's office ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to review all 590,000 books in its library for content at odds with an executive order banning “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools, even though it is a college. MLK, Einstein books already identified for removal www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

Harvard scientist from Russia detained by ICE and fears political persecution if deported A Russian researcher at Harvard Medical School was detained at Boston Logan Airport upon entering the U.S. after she failed to declare frog embryo samples on her customs declaration, according to her ...

"ICE detained a Harvard scientist. Now she faces deportation to Russia, where she fears persecution for her anti-war views."
The anti-Christian Trump regime of maximum cruelty.
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Say something about Trump killing US democracy & rule of law instead!

… because that is what institutions overwhelmingly do when hit hard on the head by an authoritarian regime change: They collapse. The real threats to authoritarians is from grass roots power, so expect all kinds of civic groups to be put in the crosshairs once the courts are immobilized.

Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...

Chilling report from Brown University.

Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.

Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

Ah. The Rule by Decree, a classic totalitarian method (in an earlier instance called “Führerbefehl”)

The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy.

Nonetheless, holy shit.

What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.

We read you. Loud and clear.

He’s laying down something for everyone with a mandate to do anything to pick up. Who will have the courage to do so?

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Yay! No major air accidents this week.

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

Good!!!

Quite the message from the guy running our government

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.

This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.

What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

«Praetorian Guard» is too kind a comparison. By analogy that would be the Secret Service, guarding the Emperor. A MAGA-ideologized FBI would be more akin to Gestapo.

Chose one or more of the. of them, then start positioning them as a clear alternative to whatever is happening now. Give them all possible support and be relentless in opposition. Gogogo!

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

This works best with corrupt actors since they a) are open to corruption b) tend to place themselves in positions where state sanctions can be legally applied, or illegally withheld to be used as leverage. Shame on you US. You voted for this. 2/2

DJT seems to be trying to develop a network of patronage where he uses instrument of state, like courts, military power, trade etc.to force actors into positions where they are dependent on his good will to not be slapped with an invasion, tariffs or a prison term. 1/2