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DOJ filed notices on Thursday night that it will be appealing the preliminary injunctions issued in NY and California. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 3 328
Another ICE threat visit: How did agents track down this critic on his vacation? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 29 Jun 29 5 617
A Free Tool Is Helping Drivers Dodge Automatic License Plate Readers 3 usonian Jun 24 Jun 24 8 736
"Earlier today the DOJ and Texas colluded with Reed O'Connor to erase a Biden-era regulation." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 23 Jun 23 2 676
Hearing in Coe v. Blanche, June 23, 2026, at 2:30 p.m., in New York City 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 23 Jun 23 3 662
The NSA Is Coming to Town 2 red dog 1 Jun 21 Jun 21 7 767
Federal judge asked to halt Cleveland Clinic policy of detaining people who transport gunshot victims to ER 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 6 Jun 6 7 593
"It's no big surprise that Trump's DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website." 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 31 Jun 5 7 727
Trump Gets a Lesson in History-and the First Amendment 5 mahatmakanejeeves May 31 May 31 35 1758
ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 29 May 29 18 643
Video shows ICE violently arresting Oregon farm workers and using facial recognition 0 Eugene May 21 May 21 5 653
Iowa lawmakers move to mandate students take Center for Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 21 May 21 6 828
Liberty University student fights for religious studies tuition grant 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 21 May 21 0 644
New York Times Files Second Lawsuit Against Pentagon 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 19 May 19 1 605
New opinion from DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) claims federal law authorizes Trump administration to obtain ... 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 13 May 14 7 898
Trump's Complaints About Iran War Leaks Prompt Aggressive DOJ Investigations 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 12 May 12 3 739
Meet the Seattle woman behind a national effort to end same-sex marriage 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 10 May 10 8 1139
No religion should ever be exempt from protest here in America. That would be against the Constitution. 4 Eko May 7 May 7 6 951
DOJ Enters a New, Even More Aggressive Phase 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 3 May 3 5 800
What Just Happened to the Voting Rights Act 2 SamuelAdams May 3 May 3 5 1041
Elie Mystal: Supreme Court gutting Voting Rights Act is about again making US an apartheid state 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2 May 2 3 740
Blanche, asked if DOJ will now prosecute every post of '86 47,' says 'every case is different' 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 1 May 1 2 1002
Montreal Gazette: Alligator Alcatraz was hell, says Montrealer detained by ICE The Corner Booth 1 AStern Apr 29 Apr 29 8 953
In the SPLC case this morning, SPLC filed two motions. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 28 Apr 28 6 854
Supreme Court to hear argument on law enforcement's use of "geofence warrants" 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 9 1342
The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 10 1052
She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 13 950
ICE Is Still in Minneapolis -- Families Say 'The Suffering Hasn't Stopped' 1 AStern Apr 18 Apr 18 10 983
Turning Point USA's high school push in GOP states meets free speech and religion concerns 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 17 Apr 17 4 846
Between this and Sotomayor's recent dig at Kavanaugh, I'm getting the sense that Callais (VRA case) will be a disaster. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 16 Apr 16 8 1221

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Colorado Court of Appeals: Boulder can't charge fees for bodycam footage in alleged misconduct cases 0 Eugene Apr 2026 Apr 2026 5 796
Pizzagate lawyer Nathan Hansen is now Minnesota's newest immigration judge 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2026 Apr 2026 6 887
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins sent Easter email to staff touting 'Jesus' and 'God' 7 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2026 Apr 2026 6 1547
The woman who thinks civil rights went too far 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2026 Apr 2026 6 1404
This Election Won't Be Normal (with Stuart Stevens and Simon Rosenberg) 1 marmar Apr 2026 Apr 2026 2 857
Georgia Army veteran deported by ICE after 50 years in U.S. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2026 Apr 2026 18 1366
Tennessee librarian is fired for refusing to move over 100 LGBTQ books from children's to adult section 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2026 Apr 2026 6 868
Looking to limit birthright citizenship, Trump turns to an 1884 Supreme Court ruling against a Native American man 5 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Apr 2026 3 1341
Birthright Citizenship Case Pushes Trump's Relationship With Supreme Court to Brink 5 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Apr 2026 9 1530
Nebraska student appeals censorship of editorial cartoon 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2026 Apr 2026 20 1025
Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 10 1396
San Diego woman says her credit card information was stolen while she was in ICE custody 11 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 60 3261
Arab-American teen who sat for Pledge of Allegiance reaches settlement with Plymouth-Canton Schools 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 1249
Apple formally signs on with Big Brother (UK) "Face that telescreen OR ELSE" 1 usonian Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 1048
ICE misinformed DOJ prosecutors about its authorization to arrest migrants at immigration courts. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 955
Two-Thirds of Open Somali Cases Placed on "Somali Rocket Docket" - bklg blog 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 940
Americans United for Separation of Church and State sues for information on Pentagon and Labor prayer meetings 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 1105
The Vote: Part One Full Documentary American Experience PBS 0 marmar Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 875
Cato had urged the Supreme Court to reverse the Fifth Circuit's ruling in Villarreal v. Alaniz. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 1067
Afroman Wins Verdict Rejecting Lawsuit Filed by Ohio Cops Over Mocking Music Videos 8 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 22 1925
DOJ Civil Rights Division hire resigned from Alabama firm over Facebook post following George Floyd's murder 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 1202
An update on immigrants who were detained in Trump's crackdown on campus activism 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 1 921
Professors Are Changing What They Teach, Even Far from Trump's Gaze 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 1402
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 0 761
FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 1953
The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 1096
Lafayette Parish Louisiana superintendent directs principals to display Ten Commandments in classrooms 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 968
Cato Institute's David Bier stood his ground at a hearing today and talked back to bloviating Sen. John Kennedy, (R-LA) 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 1397
Watch Cato's Director of Immigration Studies, David J. Bier, testify at the Senate Budget Committee hearing. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 964
Chicago law firm leading push to appoint special prosecutor to target ICE, Border Patrol agents 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 12 1160

Civil Liberties Continued...

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You're Welcome, Mr. Supreme Leader (Khamenei) 4 usonian Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 1581
Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn't Support Broad Search of Protesters' Devices and Digital Data 0 usonian Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 1146
Trump administration cannot 'terrorize' Minnesota's refugees with arrests, US judge rules 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 1062
BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained ... 8 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 63 3486
"The police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school protest." 20 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 61 4993
"More lawless slaughter at sea by the Trump administration under the specious guise of counterterrorism." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 1503
She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her 4 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 26 1985
Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump's Secretive Deportation Program 13 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 53 3422
US DOJ lawyer hit with bar complaint over search of reporter's home 1 Eugene Feb 2026 Feb 2026 16 1275
The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 0 Eugene Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 1201
DHS warned its independent watchdog that Noem can kill its investigations, senator says 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1122
"Democrats Need to Get Serious About Stopping Trump From Rigging the Midterms" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 1333
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ's Civil Rights Chief Called Federal Election Interference Unconstitutional 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 1182
"An agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 18 1421
Pentagon Defends Restrictions on Media Outlets 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 1 1284
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 1428
The Fashionable Notion of 'Free Speech Culture' Is Justifying State Censorship, Ironically 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 2 1051
What to Do if ICE Invades Your Neighborhood 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 1349
Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 1494
Pam Bondi's X account is posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP, forbidden under DOJ rules. 10 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 8 2439
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