It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

Trump (1) reveals he doesn't know what habeas corpus is and (2) punts to Noem, who famously revealed her own ignorance at a Senate hearing when she defined habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country." www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

"Blistering opinion" is absolutely right. But this principled, outraged ruling is an entirely appropriate response to Trump's effort to imprison and deport people for their constitutionally protected speech. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Most of the plaudits will go out to Shane Lowry, but this guy was the only one to win a point for Europe today. Cap doffed Ludvig Åberg - a huge crucial point. #RyderCup

What was incredible to me about this press conference is that nowhere did anyone mention that the victims were all detainees. Even if it turns out the suspect intended to target ICE employees, which we still don’t know is true, doesn’t that seem like important information?

NEW: In a break from decades of history, the Trump administration has started detaining virtually everyone facing deportation — even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for decades. Dozens of judges, with increasing alarm, have ruled the policy shift illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Starting at 8:30 EST, @immcouncil.org’s own @naynagupta.bsky.social will be testifying at a shadow hearing held by Congressional Democrats on the impact of Trump’s mass deportation policies. Check it out! www.youtube.com/live/m47GZMk...

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

Kavanaugh's concurrence cites as examples two immigration cases in which the Court held that lower courts lacked the power to block Biden administration immigration policies. What he rather curiously omits is that, in both cases, the Court had *denied* the government's emergency applications.

And, as you pointed out just now, these two case involving the State of Texas and District Courts therein were somehow cited as examples of consistent and even application by Justice Kavanaugh in his concurrence. Mindboggling.

What happened at SCOTUS today is alarming: The right-wing majority allowed the Trump admin, as part of its sweeping immigration raids, to racially profile Spanish-speaking people who look Latino at certain low-wage job sites in the Los Angeles area while litigation challenging the raids is ongoing.

A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."

Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.

BREAKING: Trump-appointed judge *dismisses* DOJ lawsuit against Maryland judges over their decision to automatically pause deportation cases for 48 hours He also calls Trump and his admin's attack on judges a "smear" that is "unprecedented and unfortunate storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Clergy showing up for people facing deportation. @jackjenkins.me of @rns.org reported on clergy in MD supporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia: religionnews.com/2025/08/25/o.... @jeremyfuzy.bsky.social of @wordandway.bsky.social reported on clergy in OH backing Ayman Soliman: wordandway.org/2025/08/25/r...

Exactly right. ICE routinely brings people back after mistakes. Even still, today! But with him, it was the CECOT deportation flights. It was their defiance of Judge Boasberg. And when his removal threatened to blow up their narrative, they turned the full weight of the federal government on him.

🎉We’re thrilled to introduce the honorees for this year’s Dignity, Community & Power Awards gala: ✨Brad Lander, @nyccomptroller.bsky.social ✨‪ @chasestrangio.bsky.social, Co-Director of the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project ✨ @chirla-org.bsky.social, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights 🧵⤵️

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

A D.C. Circuit panel just declined to pause implementation of the so-called “Alien Registration Requirement.” That rule now forces nearly 3 million undocumented immigrants ages 14+ to fingerprint, carry ID, or face criminal charges. 🔗 Read more here: www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-d...

Great new piece from @immcouncil.org's Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social, emphasizing how Trump's actions on immigration represent a broader threat to democracy.

Deep appreciation to @justiceactionctr.bsky.social for litigating this and to the members of @chirla-org.bsky.social @casaforall.bsky.social and UndocuBlack for stepping forward.

BREAKING: Breaking: Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration to Halt Termination of TPS For 60,000 Nepali, Honduran, and Nicaraguan Long-Term Residents of the US. Virtual press conference in 30 minutes... www.nationaltpsalliance.org/wp-content/u...

reupping this piece, since the seat that Emil Bove just filled could have been filled by Adeel Mangi last year

🚨A federal judge in Los Angeles has temporarily blocked ICE raids and other arrests in LA and surrounding areas unless there’s “reasonable suspicion” of immigration violations that aren’t based on “apparent race or ethnicity” or speaking Spanish or English with an accent.

1/Court grants TRO in big ICE case in LA "What the federal government would have this Court believe-in the face of a mountain of evidence... is that none of this is actually happening." Reference is to "roving patrols indiscriminately rounding up numerous individuals without reasonable suspicion."

Trump wins the appeals court lottery in D.C. The panel hearing emergency appeals this month appears to be: Rao, Katsas, Walker. All three are Trump appointees — in fact the only Trump appointees on the DC Circuit. They are handling one of the key tariff appeals.

🚨 #BREAKING: “#SCOTUS has effectively greenlit deportation orders for an estimated one million people, the largest such de-legalization in the modern era.” — @karentumlin.bsky.social of @justiceactionctr.bsky.social

NEW from me, @naynagupta.bsky.social, and the policy team at @immcouncil.org. We’re trying something a bit new for our blog, and doing a roundup of “red flags” coming out of the administration in the last week on immigration, rather than focusing on one topic. immigrationimpact.com/2025/05/28/i...

Hopefully his former colleagues ask the Secretary of State about these policies and about his new friends. Hearing at 10am, 5/20: www.c-span.org/event/senate... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

When you’re getting lectured by the <checks notes> German government on failing to account for the dangers posed by right-wing extremism, it might be time to take a seat.

This is a positive step forward after courts found the Trump Admin’s actions here were blatantly unlawful. We must continue fighting to end this president's lawless acts, like the illegal detentions of students like Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk & others.

Let's talk about Attorney General Bondi's attack on Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan and the weakness of the DOJ's criminal charges against the judge -- simply by closely examining the government's own affidavit. youtu.be/9mvdg_Ap4EU

JUST IN: The ACLU has added Andry Hernandez Romero, the openly gay barber/makeup artist, as lead plaintiff in its D.C.-based class action against the Alien Enemies Act. They say the US has "constructive custody" over those held in El Salvador. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

we need more Costco's and less Walmarts, Targets and Amazons

NEW: RÜMEYSA ÖZTÜRK prevails on the hard jurisdictional questions and Judge Sessions orders her brought to Vermont for further proceedings. 74-page opinion filed at 5:06:51 pm. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s not just that Trump is deporting people without due process. He’s deporting people without due process *because* he needs to sustain false claims about them, to sustain the myth about “invasion” that Stephen Miller is promoting

It’s worth keeping in mind that nowhere in the record has Garcia Abrego ever been accused of a discrete criminal act. The double hearsay allegation made by an informant to a corrupt cop is of gang “membership”, a kind of ontological state of criminality that is assigned by the state to men of color.

It's now been over a month since Trump sent innocent man Andry Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons because of "Mom" and "Dad" tattoos. Like the others, he is being imprisoned with no contact with the outside world. Don't let him be forgotten.

The whole point of a preliminary injunction is that a judge decides what should happen while the "case is 'ongoing.'" Once that happens, the Press Secretary cannot decide what should happen while the "case is 'ongoing.'"

Is anyone following/liveskeeting the ongoing PI hearing in D.DC on ICE-IRS data sharing? Centro de Trabajadores v. Bessent. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69714...

This is positively Soviet. Vera is a nonprofit organization that funds lawyers for indigent people. The government sought to embed people there like political commissars, and only pulled back when they found out Vera's federal grants had already been cut. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This makes 2 innocent people (Kilmar and Andry) who've been sent to the CECOT based on sloppy testimony from cops who were later disgraced. Andry's accuser: www.jsonline.com/story/news/i...

Trump admin officials who have conceded that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was erroneously removed to El Salvador: 1. Solicitor General John Sauer, in a filing at SCOTUS 2. ICE official Robert Cerna, in a sworn declaration 3. DOJ lawyer Erez Reuveni, in court filings and at a hearing

For almost 2 weeks, Badar Khan Suri was kept in a room without a bed & with TV blaring 21 hrs/day. He was given used underwear & red uniform "usually reserved" for "high security" detainees. Not allowed to spend more than 2 hrs/week outside dorm. His little son has stopped talking in his absence.