"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Holy shit

WOW. Judge Kelly takes the Trump admin to task for their outrageous effort to deport children in the dead of the night. Not only does he say their justification "crumbled like a house of cards," he also says the admin was not engaging in "conduct ... that reflect[s] good faith."

Oh. That doesn’t seem right

One of the only pieces of the Constitution still working as intended is the part that relies on regular people. I cannot say I expected juries to be part of the we in we keep us safe. But it’s a relief.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

The world according to Todd Blanche: Conspiring to overturn the results of a presidential election = not RICO Yelling in the vicinity of the president while he dines at Joe’s Stone Crab = RICO Ok, got it! 👌

We shouldn’t be cowed into silence. But they can ruin lives. So we should be prepared to rally in defense of the groups and individuals they do target. Pro bono legal teams in place. Funding. Publicity. Protests.

NEW: Recently we reported on L.A. honor student and track star Nory Sontay Ramos and her mom Estela, deported after a routine immigration check-in. Weeks after we met them in Guatemala, where they were in hiding, Estela died suddenly. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

Asking whether ICE is violating the Constitution is beside the point A right is only as good as its remedy, & the Court has eliminated nearly all remedies against ICE That’s allowed ICE to ignore millions of people’s rights, which creates pressure for the Court to bless the practice retroactively

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

The most censorious time in America since the red scare and its just a nothing story and 98.5% of "free speech advocates" from the previous 10 years either don't give a shit or actively support the current climate.

It is truly horrifying what is being alleged against the Trump administration in the Ghana case. Here is from an affidavit filed in the case today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Brian Kilmeade is doing politics the right way.”

This is why it was always stupid to be like "oh crime is higher in the red states, why aren't you sending the guard there." The national guard isn't for fighting crime period, anywhere

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

This isn’t at all surprising, given that it’s essentially been publicly reported that Stephen Miller ordered ICE to arrest first and ask questions later, but it’s still worth noting. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... They are not even pretending that they know anything about someone before arrest.

Thinking of this John Roberts classic today: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."

US Citizens have had their car windows smashed out and been dragged away to spend hours, sometimes days, in ICE detention. Very few have "promptly" gone free after being run down by heavily armed masked men jumping out of Penske trucks Let's be fucking real here

There are a bunch of sworn declarations from plaintiffs in this case about how horrifying and confusing their arrests were and how they could not "promptly go free" after a brief detainment because the government is weighing ethnicity and occupation above all.

This is absolutely right. The excuse for the first case won't be necessary once they create the precedent allowing the practice. And besides, since the Admin just gets to make up stats, it will just say every jurisdiction is flooded with millions of illegals who all work in certain industries.

When people say the Supreme Court is not doing law, one way that's apparent is how the Court routinely ignores standards of review and other doctrines that bind lower courts. In weighing the merits, Kav ignores sworn decs of the plaintiffs in favor of bald assertions of fact in the gov's brief.

The TRO before the court was limited to the initial Terry stops, even though the plaintiffs' allegations show that the Terry stops inevitably turn into arrests, even for citizens. Kavanaugh ignores those allegations of how ICE is conducting this raids in real life for his imagined platonic ideal.

More: "The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction."

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

Broward County police "had a warrant for a different Jennifer... who was 23 years younger; five inches shorter; and had a different hair color, eye color, skin tone, social security number, and home address. 'When I was in jail, nobody would listen to me that they had arrested the wrong person.'"

HUGE WIN A judge has ruled the police officers who overlooked obvious evidence they were arresting the wrong woman when they arrested @ij.org client Jennifer Heath Box in a case of mistaken identity are NOT entitled to qualified immunity. 🧵 ij.org/press-releas...

I was in the courtroom when a DHS lawyer tried to argue that filming ICE equals encouraging incitement of violence. A) Press didn't do that. B) He denied DHS did things we caught on video. Which ... proves why press needs to film police/ICE/DHS. Thanks for making our point for us, DHS lawyer!

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

Running out of federal law-enforcement agencies who aren’t now deputized as ICE enforcement and removal.

This, from our QI win yesterday. Idk but maybe county jails modeled after gitmo with guards pumping freezing air and death metal music shouldn’t be “more-or-less typical.”

Outstanding news that should be shared.

Victory! We beat qualified immunity in our FL Mistaken Identity case. The court held it was clearly established that officers violate 4A when they execute a warrant on the wrong person when there are observable differences from the suspect’s description and time to verify their identity.

This would track with everything else the admin is doing under the guise of being tough on crime

"i will never stop murdering people"

Victory! We beat qualified immunity in our FL Mistaken Identity case. The court held it was clearly established that officers violate 4A when they execute a warrant on the wrong person when there are observable differences from the suspect’s description and time to verify their identity.

So despite no Authorization for Use of Military Force and no possible invocation of the War Powers Act, the U.S. military is now going to be drone striking people alleged to be committing a crime? Again, on what legal authority?

The same people who said Chevron deference to the exec branch was an existential threat to the constitutional order

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

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It might seem hypocritical from people insisting the laws must be race-neutral. But the through line is their belief that brown or black skin makes someone’s presence in society inherently suspect—whether it’s someone accepted into college or just standing at the bus stop looking too immigrant-y

I can’t understand the mindset of a person who sees masked snatch squads disappearing people off the street and thinks “This will never affect me.” How do you convince yourself that once it finishes with all the Bad People the state’s paramilitary kidnapping function is going to disband itself.

Can’t believe it was the military vehicles on civilian streets that hurt someone and not the enemy mines hidden throughout capitol hill