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Trump Administration Ordered to Undo Yet Another Wrongful Deportation

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Late last night, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts ordered the US government to “facilitate” the return of a Guatemalan man who was deported to Mexico despite having presented evidence that he had been kidnapped and raped there on his way to the United States last year. The man, known in court documents as […]

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10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement

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Eight years ago, if you wanted to line the first family’s pockets, your choices—while ethically unprecedented—were limited. There was only so much you could spend on hotel rooms or Mar-a-Lago fundraisers. Fortunately for foreign governments, megacorporations, and anyone else with an agenda, the Trumps have diversified.  “It’s a whole different scale than it was in […]

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Judge Rules Trump’s South Sudan Deportations Violate Court Order

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A federal district court judge in Boston ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration’s attempt to send several immigrants from other countries to South Sudan violated a court order blocking the government from deporting people to third countries without allowing them to object to their removal. Judge Brian E. Murphy in the US District Court […]

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Supreme Court Again Halts Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Deportations

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In a 7-2 ruling on Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court once again barred the Trump administration from removing Venezuelans held at Texas immigration detention centers under the Alien Enemies Act, which gives the government extraordinary powers to summarily deport noncitizens during a “declared war” or “invasion.” The justices found that the federal government violated the […]

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North Carolina GOP Judge Finally Concedes After Six-Month Effort to Steal Election Fails

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Six months after the November election, Republican state supreme court candidate Jefferson Griffin finally conceded to Democratic Justice Allison Riggs on Wednesday after his unprecedented effort to throw out thousands of votes and overturn Riggs’ win was rejected by a federal court. Two recounts affirmed Riggs’ 734-vote margin of victory after the election, but Griffin, […]

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The Case That Could Gut Disabled People’s Right to Equal Health Care

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For decades, American hospitals have been subject to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and to the Americans with Disabilities Act, landmark federal disability civil rights laws that guarantee equal access to health care. But Hickson v. St. David’s Healthcare Partnership, a case before the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, could upend those protections—giving […]

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A Massive Power Grab Could Help North Carolina Republicans Steal an Election

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Two weeks after the November 2024 election, the Republican-controlled legislature in North Carolina convened a lame-duck session for the ostensible purpose of passing a hurricane relief bill. But, with no public notice, they snuck provisions into the bill stripping power from the state’s incoming Democratic governor and attorney general and drastically changing how elections were administered. Most […]

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Mohsen Mahdawi Has Been Released from Federal Custody

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Mohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian student at Columbia University who was arrested on April 14 at his naturalization interview in Vermont, was released on bail from federal custody on Wednesday. He is the first student to be released in the Trump administration’s widening crackdown on foreign students and academics who have been involved in Palestine advocacy […]

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The Supreme Court Is Trying to Normalize Its Own Anti-LGBTQ Animus

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On Tuesday, a group of religious parents had their day at the Supreme Court, hoping the justices would grant them something extraordinary: the ability to pull their kids out of a classroom whenever instruction verges into territory that contradicts their religious beliefs. Based on the justices’ responses in oral arguments, those parents are very likely […]

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We Asked You to Share Protest Photos. Wow, You Delivered.

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This weekend, national protests broke out once again to demand an end to creeping authoritarianism and to defend the rule of law—sparked by the chaotic opening months of the Trump administration, defined by the flouting of judicial authority, executive overreach, and a subservient Congress. You can find a wrap-up of those protests, organized under the […]

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“He’s So Scared”: More Venezuelans Face Imminent Deportation Under the Alien Enemies Act

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On Friday, Omar Cárdenas Martínez called a relative from the Bluebonnet detention center in Texas to say that he had just been given a notice. Cárdenas had arrived there earlier this week, after being transferred from another US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, Prairieland, about three hours away in Alvarado. The document stated that […]

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A Conservative Judge Just Issued a Dire Warning About the Abrego Garcia Case

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A conservative federal judge just issued a dire warning: The government must bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States after he was illegally deported to a brutal Salvadoran prison, or else the country will descend into lawlessness. The opinion, from the 4th Circuit’s J. Harvie Wilkinson III and joined by two colleagues, is […]

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