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"Instead of the next judicial education session, all the judges watch this tiktok instead." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 29 Sep 29 10 2131
Justice Clarence Thomas says legal precedents are not 'the gospel' 9 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 27 Sep 27 5 1600
A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk 4 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 24 Sep 24 41 2799
Indiana AG Todd Rokita urges public schools to fire teachers who speak poorly of Charlie Kirk. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 23 Sep 23 5 2942
"'Major terrorist organization' is not a thing in any US law." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 17 Sep 23 6 3056
Trump's Censorship Binge After Kirk's Killing Is Part of an All-Out Effort to Crush the Opposition 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 22 Sep 22 2 990
US appeals court orders deportation of Atlanta journalist detained by ICE 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 19 Sep 19 8 2641
Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He's Eager To Be America's Top Censor 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 18 Sep 18 22 2795
Protester found not guilty of assault despite top Border Patrol official's testimony 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 17 Sep 17 1 707
New Edict from the Trump Regime 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 17 Sep 17 6 3003
The Danger of Silencing Dissent 0 littlemissmartypants Sep 17 Sep 17 2 1501
Clay Higgins sent a letter to social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 17 Sep 17 8 3231
Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers. (Fox2, Detroit) 13 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1236
Top FEMA official resigns after staffers ousted for negative Charlie Kirk comments 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 2830
Lawyers fear 1,000 children from Central America, dozens in California, are at risk of being deported 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2676
ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People 'Assaulting' Officers 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 878
"Pam Bondi is letting a powerful white man engage in violence in part bc GOP Majority depends on her doing so." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1042
Trump's Most Dangerous Executive Order 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 2028
"The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, on a major American city." 33 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 50 4597
Justice Breyer Defends Judge Accused of Defying Supreme Court Order 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 938
Governor JB Pritzker: "Conoce tus derechos, Illinois." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 18 1889
Former Fox News Producer With History of Racist Social Media Posts Lands New Gig at EEOC 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 842
‪Qasim Rashid: A Florida Judge Tried To Strip Me Of My Law License 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 796
Know Your Rights with ICE 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 596
'Scan your face' laws for the web are having unexpected consequences 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 831
He Burned a Flag and Won an American Right. He Worries It's at Risk. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 870
Judge Halts U.S. Effort to Deport Guatemalan Children as Planes Sit on Tarmac 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 586
The Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 15 1132
How ICE Spies On American Citizens 0 struggle4progress Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 793
Trump's National Guard plans are 'basis of civil war' - Malcolm Nance - Times Radio 2 TexasTowelie Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1060

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Trump no longer expected to sign executive order to punish those who burn American flags 5 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 941
Dystopian definition 0 brakester Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 713
Judge Orders That 'Alligator Alcatraz' Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 956
Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be released from jail Friday. Here's what to know 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 810
Judge orders DOJ to give more info on subpoenas targeting trans minors' medical care 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 699
"Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 46 1965
DC and civil liberties 0 Be Leave On Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 678
"Our leading papers failed to stand up to Trump's criminal justice authoritarianism" 10 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 25 1403
Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE's breakneck expansion 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 775
"Declaring a fake emergency as an excuse to deploy the military to police civilians is ..." 12 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 73 2565
"NYT keeps publishing stories sourced entirely to Susie Wiles and White House staffers ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 797
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 739
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton's 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I'd like these days 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 799
"Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 16 816
IRS has officially passed over taxpayer information to ICE, per court filing 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 754
Trump Allies Were Told to Stop Saying They'll Put Migrants in 'Camps' 5 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 913
Will the Supreme Court revisit its ruling on same-sex marriage? 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 856
Florida Officials Won't Say If COVID Is Spreading at Everglades Concentration Camp 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 1008
Army Secretary forces West Point to rescind appointment given to Easterly 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Aug 2025 10 931
"Do Legal Checks on a President's Power 'Diminish the Votes of the Citizens Who Elected Him'?" 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 768
New: Harvard patents targeted by Trump administration 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 698
DOJ manufactures another lawsuit to block in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 623
Immigration Trump's plan to hold migrants at military bases begins taking shape 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 578
body cameras/dash cameras 2 RussBLib Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 755
"Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error ..." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 876
VOA director fired after declining reassignment to low-level post 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 709
Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 765
Two sisters in DCF custody since mother was detained by ICE in May in Worcester are missing, officials say 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 26 916
"The guy Trump picked to lead the office that's now investigating Jack Smith:" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 922
Alabama Notifying Adult Sites of New Tax Set to Take Effect Sept. 1 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 769

Civil Liberties Continued...

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🧊🖕✈️ ICE HATES BEING WATCHED 👉 So what are you gonna do? 🤨 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 851
Justice Department fired official whose husband operated controversial ICEBlock app 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 598
Judge rips Noem's latest termination of immigrant protections: 'Color is neither a poison nor a crime' 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 17 668
Florida AG demands names of guests and performers who attended a drag show 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 709
Brown University Makes a Deal With the White House to Restore Funding 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 635
"Three DOJ attorneys challenged their removals in the U.S. District Court for D.C." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 602
The Quickest Route to a Plum Judicial Appointment 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 670
Chokeholds, bikers and 'roving patrols': Are Trump's ICE tactics legal? 2 Eugene Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 806
Why we need a right not to be manipulated 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 727
"DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding the officers provide a warrant" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 20 942
"The Trump admin has formally unveiled a program to illegally use money Congress passed for sheltering migrants ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 836
His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He's Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 580
Quebec man warning Canadian boaters after he was detained by U.S. Coast guard, put in jail cell 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1040
"Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask Judge Crenshaw to bring DHS back in line after its tweets and comments ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 633
Columbia punishes students involved in pro-Palestinian protest 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 718
Trump Awards $1.26 Billion Contract to Build Biggest Immigrant Detention Center in US 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 1094
The Pentagon Won't Track Troops Deployed on U.S. Soil. So We Will. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 653
Beware of SHOCK EXHAUSTION 2 brakester Jul 2025 Jul 2025 13 862
"... Chief Judge James Boasberg--hearing the "CECOT class" AEA case--scheduled a status hearing for 11a Thursday, July 24." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 596
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask judge to delay release from jail over deportation fears 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 619
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