Tom Jawetz

Outstanding line of questioning by Rep. Neguse about a terrible provision in the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill.

Here’s Erwin Chemerinsky’s analysis of the language: www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

A Terrible Idea Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders

This provision of the budget bill made it through the House.

It undercuts federal courts' ability to enforce contempt orders.

Read Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s sharp analysis.

www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

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Great explainer by Erwin Chemerinsky about a dangerous provision that House Republicans are trying to sneak into their budget reconciliation bill.

A direct attack on judicial independence and the rule of law.

Excellent breakdown of two emergency stay requests pending at SCOTUS with huge implications.

New Estimates of the Number of United States Citizen and Legal Permanent Resident Children Who May Lose Eligibility for the Child Tax Credit - The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) This fact sheet provides new estimates of the number of American citizen and legal permanent resident children who could lose eligibility for the federal Child Tax Credit if proposals currently consid...

House Republican plan would harm 4.5 million U.S. citizen children by stripping away their access to the Child Tax Credit if either of their parents file taxes w/o an SSN: cmsny.org/publications...

Judge dismisses ICE case against New Bedford man A federal immigration judge has dismissed the case against a New Bedford man whose dramatic detainment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents was c

Judge dismisses ICE case against New Bedford man whose car window was smashed by agents in viral video last month turnto10.com/news/local/j...

under the gop proposal, married parents can’t claim the child tax credit if one of them isn’t a citizen. literally punishing children while creating a monetary incentive to get divorced. ghoulish shit.

And yet the Department's spokesperson calls it "a successful operation." You can't make this stuff up... www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

NEW: In a SCATHING decision, Judge Briones of the Western District of Texas absolutely SAVAGED the government over this case, tearing to shreds ICE’s hearsay “evidence” that this husband and wife were in Tren de Aragua as “completely and wholly unsubstantiated” — and ordered their immediate release!

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well

Oh, there are now apparently *multiple deportations of U.S. citizen children in current cancer treatment*, one in Texas and one in Louisiana. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Dartmouth only Ivy to abstain from signing letter against Trump administration funding cuts A College spokesperson said that the President “does not believe that signing open form letters like this one is an effective way to defend Dartmouth’s mission.” 

1999 Dartmouth grad here.

Wish I could say I was surprised...

www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...

Deportation to CECOT: Punishment Without Charge or Trial Sending migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT prison raises grave constitutional concerns under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.

Very compelling new piece by @ahilantoolong.bsky.social arguing that while courts have long said deportation isn't a "punishment," condemnation to CECOT clearly is.

That matters for constitutional purposes. @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/110679/depor...

Great read.

Some notes on this morning’s remarkable emergency stay order granted by SCOTUS, stopping Trump Adm from summarily removing Venezuelans under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. SCOTUS acted while the NDTexas & 5th Circuit courts dragged their feet. Thread:
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So now we find out how directly and undeniably complicit in enforced disappearance and torture some Supreme Court justices want to be. Good times.

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This is the same lawyer who may face criminal contempt in the Alien Enemies Act case and who led the Abrego Garcia and Gitmo cases.

I’m guessing he likes his celebrity more than his law license.

He also appears to be arguing ALL of these cases because no career DOJ attorney would dare.

Not the first time a county has illegally imprisoned a U.S. citizen on an ICE detainer request.

As in those cases, the county is likely to pay out a chunk of $$$ for violating this guy’s constitutional rights.

Good pieces by Ezra Klein and Philip Bump on Trump’s illegal disappearance of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

But details matter. Withholding of removal wasn’t granted because fear of persecution was “credible”or “well founded.”

The judge concluded it was *more likely than not* to happen.

Lawmakers Slam Rubio Over El Salvador Prison Transfers (EXCLUSIVE) Rep. Velázquez co-leads letter demanding answers for human rights abuses.

The press and the courts are talking—intelligently and powerfully—about every aspect of the Trump administration’s rendition of people to El Salvador **except** the illegal use of taxpayer money to fund the imprisonment. On what authority?!?

This letter is great. migrantinsider.com/p/lawmakers-...

I am autistic. I pay taxes, I have a job. I dated. I get the desire to push this narrative autistic people DO accomplish these to rebut Kennedy. But there was a time when I DID NOT have a job. And non-speaking autistic people or thise with intellectual disabilities don't. They have worth as well.

Truly a piece of shit.

DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.

NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

Americorps NCCC was a life changing experience for me. Awful.

This is a very good point.

The idea that he was even an alternate for the flight though they knew he has withholding… incredible.

DOJ keeps speaking out of both sides of its mouth in these cases.

In one moment they argue against court orders preventing removal because there’s no irreparable harm from a wrongful removal bc the court can always order the person’s return…

The next they say courts have no power to order return.

The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act The President has invoked the law to send Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador without due process—and, in many cases, under false pretenses.

The Trump administration’s rendition of hundreds of Venezuelan nationals to a notorious Salvadoran prison is no less criminal than its family separation policy years ago.

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