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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen says Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported, told him he has been moved from the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT to a detention center with better conditions.
The Maryland senator said that Abrego Garcia reported he’d been moved from a notorious Salvadoran mega-prison, CECOT, to a detention center with better conditions.
Abrego Garcia’s status after Van Hollen left was not known, and there was no indication that Van Hollen’s trip pushed him any closer to release.
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from deporting noncitizens to countries other than their place of origin without due process.
An attack on the Pennsylvania governor shows the dangers of tendentious misrepresentations.
Early Sunday morning, a man named Cody Balmer allegedly attempted to burn down the official residence of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, just hours after Shapiro and his family had finished their Passover seder. Photos from the scene captured the charred remains of the religious books they’d used that evening. In an affidavit for a search warrant, police said that the assailant had told a 911 operator that he’d targeted Shapiro “for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people.” Balmer later told police that he’d planned to beat the governor with a hammer had he encountered him. He faces eight charges, including attempted homicide.
Attempting to
The federal judiciary is warning that Congress is not providing enough money for judges’ security, at a time of escalating threats and chilling efforts at intimidation.
"This is an administration priding itself on revenge," says John Koskinen.
A US-born man initially charged with being an “unauthorized alien” in Florida has been released after spending the night in jail on a 48-hour hold requested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid the Trump administration’s broad deportation crackdown.
The temporary injunction resumes public health, clean air and climate-resilience efforts halted by Trump’s executive order.
Trump administration is “pulling its levers to punish dissent,” Krebs said.
The homeland security secretary said the university wouldn’t be able to enroll international students unless it handed over records about their protest activity and disciplinary files.
My father taught me that American values are nothing without those who have the courage to uphold them.
One night while my family was having dinner, the president of the United States called my dad to complain about something he’d seen on television. My father, Newton Minow, was then the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. And the president, John F. Kennedy, was furious.
“Did you see Huntley-Brinkley tonight?” Kennedy asked, referring to NBC’s nightly news broadcast, anchored by the journalists Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. The news report had featured steel executives bitterly attacking Kennedy, who was angry with them about an increase in steel prices. The president yelled over the phone, “Did you see how those guys lied about me? Outrageous! Do something about it!” Dad said he would.
The next morning, Dad called the White House and spoke with Kennedy’s aide Kenny O’Donnell, who had been with the president during the phone call the night before. Dad said he would be happy to talk to the president, or O’Donnell could give him this message: “He is lucky to have a frie
As the Trump administration talks itself into refusing to comply with judicial orders, federal judges are moving closer to deploying the most powerful tool they have: contempt of court.
Since early February, when Vice President J. D. Vance posted on X that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” the United States has been inching nearer and nearer to the moment when the White House directly defies an order of the court. So far, that moment doesn’t appear to have arrived—in part because the Trump administration can’t quite commit to its own authoritarian posturing. But new developments in two court cases, both concerning Donald Trump’s blatantly illegal rendering of detainees to a Salvadoran megaprison, may soon push the constitutional system into an unambiguous crisis. As the administration talks itself into refusing to comply with judicial orders, federal judges are moving closer to deploying the most powerful tool they have: contempt of court. Even that tool might not be powerful enough.
In retrospect, it makes perfect sense that Trump’s most
Marco Rubio Claims He Can Kick Lawful Permanent Residents Out Of The US On The Basis Of Their “Expected Beliefs”; Immigration Judge Says “Sounds Good”
The Trump administration has just claimed an astounding new power: the ability to deport lawful permanent residents based on their “expected beliefs” (including perfectly “lawful” expec…
The Trump administration has just claimed an astounding new power: the ability to deport lawful permanent residents based on their “expected beliefs” (including perfectly “lawful” expected beliefs). This isn’t speculation or hyperbole — it’s the explicit thought-police justification Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave in immigration court documents for trying to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student and green card holder. This attempted expansion of government authority to police thought should alarm anyone who cares about civil liberties, due process, or the rule of law.
As a reminder, Khalil is a lawful permanent resident (green card holder) in the US and a student at Columbia University in New York. While he was involved in some pro-Palestinian demonstrations, MAGA world has falsely labeled him a “Hamas supporter.” I’ve yet to see any evidence that actually supports that claim, but MAGA isn’t exactly known for accuracy in their accusations. Even worse, when ICE showe
What Bernie’s Largest-Ever Rally Revealed
For the American left’s favorite double act, unvarnished populism is the key to rallying the resistance.
Photographs by Philip Cheung
Liberals are fed up. Although people on the left tend to blame President Donald Trump and Elon Musk for America’s downward spiral, plenty of even lifelong blue voters are frustrated with a Democratic Party they see as complacent. This much was clear from Saturday’s “Fighting Oligarchy” rally in downtown Los Angeles, where an estimated 36,000 people joined Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York in attacking apathy—even, or especially, if that meant targeting timid Democrats.
“This isn’t just about the Republican attacks on working people, L.A.; we need a Democratic Party that fights harder for us too,” Ocasio-Cortez told the crowd. “I want you to look at every level of office around and support Democrats who actually fight, because those are the ones who can actually defeat Republicans.”
Sanders and AOC are on the very long list of liberal politicians who are mad as hell, but on the very short list of t
David Hogg, a young liberal activist and now a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, is leading an effort to unseat the party’s older lawmakers in primaries.
Boasberg held there was probable cause to show the government's transfer of immigrants to CECOT without due process was a willful violation of his order.
This seems like a smart use of taxpayer money.
Should the city of Houston, which proudly bills itself as "Space City," have a prized Space Shuttle orbiter on public display?
More than a decade ago, arguably, the answer was yes. After all, the Space Shuttle program was managed from Johnson Space Center, in southeastern Houston. All the astronauts who flew on the shuttle trained there. And the vehicle was operated out of Mission Control at the Houston-based facility.
But when the final decisions were being made to distribute the shuttles 15 years ago, the Houston community dragged its feet on putting together a competitive proposal. There were also questions about the ability of Space Center Houston to raise funding to house the shuttle within a new display area, which magnified concerns that the historical vehicle, like a Saturn V rocket before it, would be left outside in the region's humid environment. Finally, other cities offered better proposals for displaying the shuttles to the public.
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