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Our district is hurting. People feel it in their hearts and in their aching backs. We’re not helpless – we’re mad. That’s a fire I understand, because it burns in me too.

My name is Mike Pruitt. I’m a Navy veteran, a civil rights lawyer, and now I’m running for Congress.

I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive.

We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.

I haven't said anything about this, b/c it's taken me some time to sort my feelings. But...I served on the UVA law faculty with Jim Ryan and Liz Magill. I knew from early on that both would be great academic leaders. What has happened to them is a window into the bleak future of US universities. 1/

This is the same Rachel Sheridan who donated $25k to Youngkin’s gubernatorial campaign.

I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.

FBI shows up at Charlottesville public defender's home unannounced after ICE raid The day before the Memorial Day weekend, FBI agents arrived at the homes of Charlottesville-area lawyers to question them about an ICE raid in the city in April.

FBI agents are now visiting Charlottesville’s public defenders *at their homes*. It’s naked intimidation of our justice system.

Why does Trump hate RCV so much? He’s a product of the problem it aims to solve… 🧵

Come on, it's a little bit funny that Justice Alito is spending his entire Easter weekend writing a dissent about the due process rights of enemy aliens.

April 18, 2025 Tonight I had the extraordinary privilege of speaking at the anniversary of the lighting of the lanterns in Boston’s Old North Church, which happened 250 years ago tonight.

April 18, 2025

Letter | Trump's threat to the Education Department is a threat to disabled students Trump's plan to eliminate the Department of Education and transfer special education oversight to Health and Human Services is deeply troubling.

The Daily Progress published my op-ed today regarding how the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education will harm students with disabilities.

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This isn't going to end until the judges start holding lawyers and DOJ officials in contempt and throwing them in jail.

Even that might not end it, but there's no point trying to delay the inevitable. They're just getting bolder and more destructive as they go.

NEW: DOJ doubles down on refusing to follow Judge Xinis's orders. Today's status report contains nothing new. It again fails to provide information about steps they're taking to bring Mr. Abrego back), and arguably violates her command that a declaration be made by someone with personal knowledge.

JUST IN: The Trump administration says it has "no updates" for Judge Xinis about efforts to facilitate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Reiterates that a judge in 2019 viewed him as a member of MS-13.

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25 minutes away from when the DOJ is supposed to file their second daily status report on Mr. Abrego. Yesterday they seemingly refused to provide information on the steps they've taken previously and plan to take in the future to "facilitate his return." Let's see if they refuse again today.

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MARYLAND -Greenbelt Division- KILMAR ARMANDO ABREGO GARCIA, ET AL., Plaintiffs, Case No.: 8:25-CV-00951-PX KRISTI NOEM, ET AL., Defendants. PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR ADDITIONAL RELIEF Yesterday, President Trump confirmed that the United States has the power to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from prison and return to the United States: "If the Supreme Court said, "Bring somebody back,'I would do that. ... I respect the Supreme Court." Of course, that is precisely what the Supreme Court did when it ruled that this Court's injunction "properly requires the Government to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador." Noem et al. v. Abrego Garcia et al., 604 U.S. 2025 WL 1077101, at *1 (Apr. 10, 2025). The Government should be required to comply with the Supreme Court's order that it "ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador," by taking all available steps to release and return Abrego Garcia to Maryland.

In accordance with the Court's Order authorizing Plaintiffs to seek additional relief beyond what this Court previously ordered, ECF No. 61 at 2, Plaintiffs request that the Court order three additional types of relief. First, order the Government to take by end of the day Monday, April 14, 2024, the specific steps set forth below to comply with the injunction in this case. Second, order expedited discovery of the Government's actions (or failure to act) to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return to the United States. Third, order the Government to show cause by 10 a.m. Monday, April 14, 2025, as to why it should not be held in contempt due to its failure to comply with the Court's prior orders, including any failure to a comply with the Court's order of April 11, 2025 (ECF No. 61).

NEWS: Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia call for their client to be brought back to Maryland — and for the government to be held in contempt for its failure to comply with the court's orders in the case. They also ask for discovery into the gov't's actions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: The Trump administration, via a senior State Department official, says Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. But they still won't say if they're doing anything to get him back.

Details w/ @joshgerstein

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Unless there was another sealed filing which isn’t on the docket (a real possibility), it would appear that the administration has failed to provide the required information about what they are doing to try to get him back.

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I have nothing but contempt for these people. This is pathetic. I hope their reputations never recover, their best employees quit, any competent partners quit, their clients find new representation, and they go out of business in shame.

Many thanks to @annabower.bsky.social for this thread. As it makes clear, government's strategy for dealing with the order to facilitate the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia is to send Drew Ensign into court without telling him what's going on.

A few questions this raises:

Indeed, this is *exactly* what's wrong with last night's #SCOTUS ruling, as I wrote about in this morning's newsletter:

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Everyone saw this coming. And yet the Court did what it did anyway.

We knew they were going to drive a truck through that deference language. Roberts is either going to have to grow a pair and unequivocally slap Trump down or just quit pretending SCOTUS cares anymore.

Live updates: Supreme Court tells Trump administration to facilitate return of mistakenly deported man Fallout from President Donald Trump's trade war sent the S&P 500 down 3.5%. The House of Representatives has advanced a budget framework to cut $1.5 trillion in spending.

The Court is finally requiring the Trump admin to facilitate the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia from the crazy inhumane gulag in El Salvador they “accidentally” sent him to. Good. But I really hope he is still alive and hasn’t been tortured.

F*#% MAGA.

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Agreed. But man oh man SCOTUS could & should have issues this decision on Monday. Mr. Abrego-Garcia is still sitting in that crazy prison El Salvador (if he’s in fact still alive). Disgusted at all of this.

The fact that #SCOTUS hasn't yet ruled in Abrego Garcia isn't proof of *how* the justices are going to rule.

But the longer it takes, the more it suggests that there isn't a majority of the Court who views this dispute with the same *urgency* that so many of us do. And that's a problem unto itself.

Still waiting for a SCOTUS decision on whether Kilmar Abrego should be returned to the U.S. or not. One imagines that the hold-up is someone or someones writing concurring or dissenting opinions.

In the meantime, that's another day and night in a terrible prison for Abrego.

Gotta say, I am not encouraged that SCOTUS has not yet resolved the El Salvador kidnapping case.