Exquisite illustration of how the Trump administration is weaponizing the “terrorism” slur against immigrants and to try to delegitimize those who oppose the administration’s lawlessness. Noem of course went on a sado-tourism photo-shoot to CECOT.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

New research reveals the profound impact on mixed-status families—where at least one family member lacks legal immigration status. 🧵 Marrying a U.S. citizen does NOT automatically grant a green card. These families face deportation threats that fundamentally reshape how they live, parent, and cope.

ICE treats you like a “living ghost,” one woman said from detention. “They don’t care if you die.” Inside the “psychological torture” regime targeting migrants who can’t be sent home.

UPDATE: Another judge, the Reagan-appointed Sarah Evans Barker, ruled today that the administration's use of the "automatic stay" — to keep locked up a man who had been ordered released by an immigration judge on $7,500 bond — was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together" absolutely cursed sentence

Lawgeeks, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's reply filing in support of his motion to dismiss the criminal case in Tennessee for vindictive and selective prosecution is an excellent, powerful (and short) read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Never in our history, not even during Watergate, has a single news cycle so comprehensibly established the deep corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Oh FFS bsky.app/profile/samt.... Next they're going to be arresting children for possession of Thomas the Tank Engine

12 Senate Dems on Armed Services write strongly against use of military as immigration judges: "the Trump administration views skilled personnel as pawns to be traded between agencies, rather than as professionals essential to their core missions, in order to advance misguided immigration policies"

Soooo is abolition starting to sound like the only viable solution to this yet or??? Idk how many more object lessons in how every cage to cage a person is a bad cage that's used for fascism we can really handle here folks

Judge Kelly suggests he does not trust the government not to do outrageously underhanded things — like "changing the criteria [] tomorrow ... and hustling [a] child out of the country as they tried to do over Labor Day weekend." Another sign of the further erosion of the presumption of regularity.

Judges REALLY do not like when the DOJ lies to them: "While Defendants plunged ahead in the middle of the night with their 'reunification' plan and then represented to a judge that a parent or guardian had requested each child’s return, that turned out not to be true."

What you see happening in both the Guatemalan children’s case and the Ghana pass-thru case is that the Trump Adm seems to be incentivizing or pressuring foreign nations to make phony diplomatic “requests” or “assurances” that it then uses to try to evade judicial review of dubious removals ... 1/5

9th Cir., en banc, holds that aliens in removal proceeding have a constitutional due process right to notice of their hearing that goes beyond the safeguards in the INA. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

BREAKING: Judge Kelly (Trump appointee) bars the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan kids in HHS custody, finding the claim they were “reunifying” kids with their parents “crumbled like a house of cards” upon review. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Trump-Appointed Judge Stops Trump Administration From Deporting Guatemalan Children U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly expresses skepticism about the government’s move to send minors back to their home country over the Labor Day weekend www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit *denied* a stay of Judge Chen's summary judgment invalidating Secy Noem's attempt to wipe out temporary protective status for >350K Venezuelans. Though SCOTUS stayed Chen's earlier prelim injunction 8-1, USCA9 says posture is different on "fully developed record."

Mimi Lettunich, who is caring for four U.S. citizen children whose parents and grandmother remain in ICE custody, gives her testimony: “I’m here to talk about another mother, my dear friend Jackie, and how the administration devasted her family and traumatized her darling American children.”

Gregory Bovino, leader of Trump’s LA and Chicago raids, personally testified that he saw a protestor strike a Border Patrol agent. The jury did not believe him and the protestor was acquitted. The Trump admin is losing these cases left and right. Their credibility with jurors is virtually nil.

In a letter to Rubio and Noem, @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, an appropriator, demands information about the El Salvador CECOT renditions that would already have been public if the administration were even trying to maintain a thin veneer of democracy. www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Breaking down the rapid-fire court fight that unfolded in recent days over the fate of West African men deported to Ghana, which culminated with a US judge blasting the Trump admin's conduct but concluding she couldn't take immediate action now that they were gone tinyurl.com/Deportations...

BREAKING: Judge Chutkan denies the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order, saying the court lacks jurisdiction

“His case reflects a corruption of the legal process from start to finish," Senator Chris Van Hollen told @cristianfarias.com. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

In defending its actions in the refoulement-through-Ghana case, govt relies on SCOTUS' cryptic stay ruling in DVD. Says SCOTUS effectively greenlit govt's reliance on Ghana's assurances that it would treat aliens lawfully, those assurances are unreviewable, and Ghana's compliance is unredressable.

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

This is as huge a scandal & blunder as this chaotic Administration has seen. The person who should be called to answer for it is Secy Kristi Noem. When a woman who loves the camera as much as Noem is nowhere to be seen for 10 days it’s b/c she’s hiding out. Media should be all over this.

Horrific. Note that this is sworn testimony, not a mere allegation.

EP: US does not have the ability to tell Ghana what to do. TSC: Frustrating? Appears to be exactly what they intended to happen. Appears to be a specific plan or design to make an end-run around this obligation. How can you tell me you were given specific assurances that this wouldn't happen?

Judge Chutkan declines to order the D.A. case transferred to Massachusetts (with the D.V.D. v. DHS case before Judge Murphy), at least for now, and demands the Government explain its efforts. That's shy of ordering it "facilitate the return" that plaintiffs asked for.

JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders the government to file a declaration that sets forth the efforts it has taken thus far to keep the plaintiffs in Ghana “from being removed to their countries of origin or other countries where they fear persecution or torture”

EP: The US is not saying this is OK. The US does not have the power to tell Ghana what to do. TSC: That lack of power appears to be by design? Sent those individuals knowing you can't repatriate them. And say, "But Ghana says they're not going to send them home."

Who is paying attention to this D.A. v. Noem litigation? It seems like stuff is moving pretty fast? (This is the non-refoulement via Ghana litigation with the emergency hearing before Judge Chutkan at 2pm earlier today. I did not listen to the hearing.) www.courtlistener.com/docket/71323...?

POLITICO: “A federal judge worried publicly Friday Trump had, “with a wink and a nod,” deported a group of African nationals to Ghana, only to have Ghana redirect them to countries where they may face torture and persecution.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

NEW: A judge warned Friday that the Trump admin is "with a wink and a nod" deporting people to Ghana, only for Ghana to quickly re-deport them to countries where they face torture and persecution. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

New in PN: Trump's lawyers won't stop lying in court "The administration is now the worst possible litigant, constantly belligerent & willfully defiant, & not a single person speaking on its behalf, from Trump to the lowliest newbie DOJ lawyer, should be given the benefit of the doubt ever again."

NEW: A group of appeals court judges openly struggled with — and in some cases criticized — the Supreme Court's terse and vague shadow docket rulings. One said they've left lower courts "in limbo," forcing them to interpret "signals" w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

BREAKING: Federal judge in Los Angeles issues preliminary injunction against Department of Homeland Security to restrict use of force against press, legal observers and protesters. Judge in LA Press Club v. Noem calls out "surprising savagery" of DHS officers: "The First Amendment demands better."

I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves. I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct. I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

This is the story of the government's unlawful effort to deport migrant children under the cover of night during a holiday weekend. It’s also the story of how district court judges are watching each other grapple with the administration—and adapting in response: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

In the Oval Office meeting with President Bukele days later, Stephen Miller mischaracterized it as a win against the district court so the White House could save face in front of their guest, who said he had no power to bring him back. It’s all a game.

Chief Justice Roberts in SFFA just two years ago: "Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it." Yet when the government is EXPLICITLY using race & ethnicity to detain & question people, he gives it his blessing.

In this powerful new piece, @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social ties a panic in Aurora about our newest neighbors to the disappearances in CECOT. My friend Laura Lunn told him she thought it was a shitty landlord situation until Trump showed up. Don’t miss it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

In weekend filing, govt admitted its shocking timeline for deporting Guatemalan children, ages 10-17. Just before midnight on Saturday, Labor Day Weekend, it told caregivers to have children prepared for departure within 2 hrs (4 if in foster care). ... 1/8

In this post, I describe why the Pentagon's plan to use JAG officers as immigration judges is dangerous and illegal. It also highlights a broader constitutional flaw in our immigration law system: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Let's be clear what this image represents. Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders. THAT is the reference here.

New high of Americans saying immigration is good for the US

In a new filing, DOJ appears to back off that claim. It says that the request for the children’s return came from the Guatemalan government. Conveniently, the filing doesn’t address whether the parents (or the children) requested repatriation. 2/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...