Inside a cavernous, neon-lit ballroom in the bowels of a joyless Washington D.C. hotel, Carly Simon blasts from the speakers in an effort drown out the chants of “Free, Free Palestine” from protesters who’ve crashed a conversation with Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) — the gay, Black, self-described Zionist representing one …
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El Salvador’s National Civil Police have arrested Ruth Eleonora López, a renowned human rights and anti-corruption attorney who has become one of the nation’s most prominent critics of President Nayib Bukele’s regime. According to representatives from Cristosal, the human rights group where López serves as Chief Legal Officer for Anti-Corruption; …
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Jen Psaki is launching a new MSNBC show Tuesday night, at a dark time: four-and-a-half months into Donald Trump’s second presidency. Some of the headlines leading up to the premiere of The Briefing have been about Joe Biden’s decline — and whether Psaki, who served as Biden’s White House press …
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Donald Trump owes his continued freedom — and very likely his second term as president — to the fact that he was allowed to exploit the fundamental American right and hard-won tradition of due process, which is designed to protect an individual from arbitrary, weaponized prosecution and state terror. But …
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a Venezuelan couple Friday after a federal judge in Texas ruled that the Trump administration’s handling of their case did not have a “lawful basis.” U.S. District Judge David Briones of El Paso wrote in a searing ruling that ICE had not demonstrated convincing evidence …
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A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to return a second migrant who was deported to El Salvador’s notorious prison system despite a previous court settlement barring their removal. It might be hard for the president and his officials to argue the ruling is the work of …
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Donald Trump slammed the Supreme Court on Monday after the justices temporarily blocked him from deporting Venezuelan immigrants, while asserting that America “cannot give everyone a trial” — a bedrock constitutional right. The high court over the weekend took up an emergency petition from the American Civil Liberties Union of …
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Donald Trump‘s administration is preparing to deport a new group of Venezuelan men detained in Texas, said the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in an emergency Friday court filing. ACLU lawyers urged the Supreme Court to block the administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to justify sending migrants to …
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The Supreme Court blocked Donald Trump’s administration from another round of deportations under the Alien Enemies Act in the early hours of Saturday. Their ruling was made after lawyers said in an emergency appeal that a group of immigrants from Venezuela detained in Texas were slated for deportation, potentially to …
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Thursday evening posted an image showing him meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland immigrant whom Donald Trump’s administration illegally deported to El Salvador and refused to bring home, despite a Supreme Court order. Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday seeking to …
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