At her confirmation hearing in January, Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to reassure senators about the job she would do as the nation’s top federal law-enforcement officer. Her “overriding objective,” Bondi said, would be to “return the Department of Justice to its core mission of keeping Americans safe and vigorously enforcing the law.” Her stated […]
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Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Here, a caveat: At times officials have followed the law, ultimately bringing Abrego Garcia back and releasing him this time around under judicial order. But when books are written about this and other travesties, we will likely learn that Miller lost internal battles about how far to push the envelope, with Trump losing interest at […]
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Judge Rips Trump Lawyers for Lying as She Frees Kilmar Abrego Garcia
On Thursday, hours before the state Senate is set to vote, Trump issued another nasty missive, attacking more local leaders while threatening to back primary opponents for anyone who votes against his plan. This time, the ire of Trump’s focus was Senate President Pro Tem Rod Bray, who has formed a coalition of allies averse […]
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Judge Rips Trump Lawyers for Lying About Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Case
On Thursday, hours before the state Senate is set to vote, Trump issued another nasty missive, attacking more local leaders while threatening to back primary opponents for anyone who votes against his plan. This time, the ire of Trump’s focus was Senate President Pro Tem Rod Bray, who has formed a coalition of allies averse […]
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Major Court Error Could Set Kilmar Abrego Garcia Free
Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty A newly uncovered 2019 immigration court mistake and a damning revelation about the Trump administration’s deception A major error in the federal government’s deportation proceedings against Salvadoran immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia has thrown the Trump administration’s case into disarray and may soon lead to his release. During the federal hearing […]
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Ring the Alarm Bells: Authoritarianism Isn’t Coming, It’s Here Now
A ninth rule is to use the power of the government to spread propaganda, and Trump is doing exactly that: banners with the president’s face hanging off federal buildings; video announcements at airports featuring Homeland Security Secretary Noem blaming Democrats for the government shutdown; federal websites spreading the president’s political messages. These actions violate provisions […]
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DOJ’s Plan for Deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia Keeps Getting Worse
In reality … Reagan was still very critical of tariffs during the brief speech, perhaps even more so than depicted by the ad’s brevity. Not all of the sentences used in the advert, however, are in the exact order they appear in the complete speech. Here’s what Reagan actually said in his full address at […]
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Trump DOJ Has Bonkers New Plan for Where to Send Kilmar Abrego Garcia
In reality … Reagan was still very critical of tariffs during the brief speech, perhaps even more so than depicted by the ad’s brevity. Not all of the sentences used in the advert, however, are in the exact order they appear in the complete speech. Here’s what Reagan actually said in his full address at […]
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Former DOJ Lawyer Says He Was Ordered to Lie About Ábrego García
“The old societies of Europe are collapsing,” he said, “and the United States is applauding its new Hitler. It’s not listening to its own young people, or its older people who died in the battlefields of Europe, fighting against Hitler and against his criminal ideology. Today, the same thing is being done as Hitler did, […]
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With Portland, Trump’s Police State Is Getting Bigger and More Radical
What’s so terrifying about these policies is not just the people who are arrested and deported but the randomness of them and the resulting fear and uncertainty for everyone else. When news broke last Friday that ICE had detained Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, I (and I suspect liberals across the […]
Read MoreThe Attorney Who Refused to Help Trump Break the Law
In February, when Attorney General Pam Bondi took over the Justice Department, she immediately informed its 10,000-odd lawyers that they would have to “zealously” advocate for the United States. What she actually meant was that, under her watch, the department would have to zealously advocate for Donald Trump. DOJ lawyers, she said in her February […]
Read MoreThe Federal Judge Who’s Holding Trump’s Feet to the Flame
Awful as things are under Trump 2.0, they’d be far worse still without the courage of some federal judges willing to rule against the administration. James Boasberg ruled that Trump administration officials could face criminal charges for deporting migrants. John McConnell ruled that the administration had overstepped its bounds in freezing a variety of federal […]
Read MoreThe Immigrant’s Wife Who Became a Symbol of Suffering and Perseverance
For months and months, the full weight of the White House’s propaganda and legal operation has been brutally bearing down on the family of one day laborer from Maryland. Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been shipped off to a megaprison in El Salvador, falsely depicted as a violent gang member, smeared by federal government agencies, and—now […]
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MAGA Thug Kristi Noem’s Hateful Attack on CBS Unmasks a Big Trump Scam
Here again, with this edit, CBS didn’t do anything wrong, and many lawyers had predicted CBS would have won in court if it had litigated. But executives at CBS parent company Paramount viewed the settlement as a way to facilitate the Trump administration’s approval of its merger with Skydance, which was subsequently completed in August. […]
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ICE Barbie Kristi Noem’s Ugly New Attack on CBS Exposes Big Trump Scam
Here again, with this edit, CBS didn’t do anything wrong, and many lawyers had predicted CBS would have won in court if it had litigated. But executives at CBS parent company Paramount viewed the settlement as a way to facilitate the Trump administration’s approval of its merger with Skydance, which was subsequently completed in August. […]
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Transcript: Trump’s Treatment of Abrego Garcia Is Cruel and Lawless
Ivey: Well, it’s a stupid abuse of the military power. It’s enormously expensive. The quote I heard was $1 million a day just for D.C. And let’s start with this. Crime’s gone down in the U.S. pretty significantly in the last few years, but we have a major crime problem. I was a prosecutor for […]
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia Released Friday, Arrested Again By ICE Monday
Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland man at the center of a long-running immigration battle who was released from federal custody Friday while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges, was taken into custody by ICE Monday morning, and may soon be facing another deportation, only this time to Uganda. On Friday, […]
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ICE Detains Kilmar Abrego Garcia as Nightmare Scenario Unfolds
As Rolling Stone reported, in June, the fence of the school’s play area displayed a laminated message. Its reported content, which matches a statement Cottonwood posted to Facebook, denounced the “harm being inflicted on our neighbors, ecosystem, students and school” and called on ICE to cease using weapons such as tear gas, “‘green’ gas, pepper […]
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ICE Barbie Confirms Twisted Deportation Plan for Kilmar Abrego Garcia
As Rolling Stone reported, in June, the fence of the school’s play area displayed a laminated message. Its reported content, which matches a statement Cottonwood posted to Facebook, denounced the “harm being inflicted on our neighbors, ecosystem, students and school” and called on ICE to cease using weapons such as tear gas, “‘green’ gas, pepper […]
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New Whistleblower Says Trump Judicial Nominee Lied in Senate Hearing
Just two weeks after they were filed, prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss the charges against four people, “in the interest of justice,” due to a litany of errors that were discovered in the officers’ testimony. Social media footage documenting the arrest of two sisters, Ashley and Joceline Rodriguez, directly contradicted the criminal complaint submitted […]
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Finally Coming Home to Maryland (for Now)
“What do you now have that refutes” previous investigations into the matter, inquired a reporter. “I will encourage you, in my role as director of national intelligence—my job, again, I said when I came into this role, was to make sure we are telling the truth to the American people, and that we are ensuring […]
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Judge Rips DOJ Lawyers for Undermining Own Case Against Abrego Garcia
Joe Rogan, podcaster and prominent supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential bid, is souring on the administration’s immigration agenda. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Rogan, who dined with the president on June 30, “has discussed immigration policy with Trump and pushed him to back off deporting workers who have not committed crimes.” In a podcast […]
Read More Judge Rips DOJ Lawyers for Undermining Own Case Against Abrego Garcia
Joe Rogan, podcaster and prominent supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential bid, is souring on the administration’s immigration agenda. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Rogan, who dined with the president on June 30, “has discussed immigration policy with Trump and pushed him to back off deporting workers who have not committed crimes.” In a podcast […]
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Whistleblower Emails Expose Fresh Trump Abuses in Abrego Garcia Case
“Can we say the following?” Percival asked, then listed several things he’d like the administration to say about Abrego Garcia, one being: “This guy is a leader of MS-13.” “If we can get a declaration to that effect, yes,” Reuveni answered. This meant the assertion could not be made without a facts-and-evidence-based declaration from ICE […]
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Trump DOJ Lawyers’ Incompetence in Abrego Garcia Case Stuns Judge
Fox News pushed back Monday on the Department of Justice’s claim that Jeffrey Epstein did not keep a list of clients, citing the head of that very agency, who’d claimed she’d seen the list. During a press briefing, Fox News’s senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy questioned press secretary Karoline Leavitt about the DOJ’s memo […]
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Abrego Garcia Reveals How He Was Tortured in El Salvador Mega-Prison
On Wednesday night, a Fox News guest falsely accused Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident who was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration, of killing Americans. In an appearance on Fox News @ Night, Monica Paige, White House correspondent for “Frontlines,” a program by Charlie Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, discussed the GOP spending […]
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia Reveals He Was Tortured in El Salvador Megaprison
On Wednesday night, a Fox News guest falsely accused Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident who was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration, of killing Americans. In an appearance on Fox News @ Night, Monica Paige, White House correspondent for “Frontlines,” a program by Charlie Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, discussed the GOP spending […]
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Fox News Stoops to Stunning Low and Airs Blatant Lie on Abrego Garcia
On Wednesday night, a Fox News guest falsely accused Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident who was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration, of killing Americans. In an appearance on Fox News @ Night, Monica Paige, White House correspondent for “Frontlines,” a program by Charlie Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, discussed the GOP spending […]
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Fox News Airs Outrageous Lie About Kilmar Abrego Garcia
On Wednesday night, a Fox News guest falsely accused Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident who was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration, of killing Americans. In an appearance on Fox News @ Night, Monica Paige, White House correspondent for “Frontlines,” a program by Charlie Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, discussed the GOP spending […]
Read MoreThe Trump Administration Wants to Deny Kilmar Abrego Garcia a Trial
The White House is embracing Donald Trump’s “Daddy” nickname in a pretty intense way for a guy whose name was in the Jeffrey Epstein files. The White House communications office released an eye roll–inducing supercut video Thursday about Trump’s trip to the NATO summit, declaring “Daddy’s Home,” using Usher’s song “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home).” 🎶 […]
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Judge Destroys Trump’s Case Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Donald Trump is kicking Representative Thomas Massie out of the MAGA tent for daring to object to war with Iran. “GET THIS ‘BUM’ OUT OF OFFICE, ASAP!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday, re-sharing a lengthy screed he had posted about Massie the day before. Trump had written that “Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky is […]
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