Mastodawn

#Trump ends #foreignstudents' legal status🤦‍♂️
"judges in at least 7 states issued #emergency orders barring immigration auths fr acting against #students aft #government cancelled their legal basis for being in US.. A #federal #judge in Wisconsin ruled Tues tt e govt's action was likely #unlawful.. #US #Constitution guarantees #freedomofspeech for everyone in US regardless of #immigration status.. "every procedural safeguard in the book was blown past.""🧐
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/3004969/foreign-students-in-united-states-mount-court-challenges-as-trump-ends-their-legal-status

Trump ends foreign students' legal status

<p>BOSTON — International students are rushing to ask US judges to block immigration officials from deporting them after President Donald Trump's administration began revoking the rights of thousands of student visa holders to remain in the United States.</p>

Bangkok Post

Disco3000 Mar 27

„Three years after bursting on the scene in a blaze of orange, at the end of April we’ll be hanging up the hi vis.
Just Stop Oil’s initial demand to end new oil and gas is now government policy, making us one of the most #successful civil resistance campaigns in recent history. We’ve kept over 4.4 billion #barrels of oil in the ground and the courts have ruled new oil and gas licences #unlawful.
So it is the end of soup on Van Goghs, cornstarch on #Stonehenge and slow marching in the streets. But it is not the end of trials, of tagging and surveillance, of fines, probation and years in prison. We have exposed the corruption at the heart of our legal system, which protects those causing death and destruction while prosecuting those seeking to minimize harm. Just Stop Oil will continue to tell the truth in the courts, speak out for our political prisoners and call out the UK’s oppressive anti-protest laws.“

#JustStopOil

cabbage Mar 26

Detention of Tufts University captures the emerging police state on video

https://piefed.social/post/578167

Detention of Tufts University captures the emerging police state on video

A video has emerged of the arrest of a Turkish Tuft University graduate, showing her argue briefly with the men in hoodies and black jackets before…

DoomsdaysCW Mar 21

'#Delusional' #Trump Threatens to Send #Tesla #Vandals to Prison for 20 Years... in #ElSalvador

"If genuine steps are taken to remove U.S. citizens convicted of crimes to prisons in El Salvador," said one legal expert, "this removal would violate not only U.S. law but the U.S. Constitution."

Jon Queally, Mar 21, 2025

"President Donald Trump on Friday morning said anyone caught vandalizing Tesla cars or dealerships would be sent to the notoriously violent prisons of El Salvador for a 20-year sentence, a threat characterized by critics as 'delusional' as well as overtly #unlawful.

"'People that get caught sabotaging Teslas will stand a very good chance of going to jail for up to twenty years, and that includes the funders,' Trump stated overnight, adding in all caps: 'WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!!'

"Several hours later, Trump took up the issue again on his TruthSocial platform, saying: 'I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20-year jail sentences for what they are doing to #ElonMusk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!'

"#CivilRightsAttorney #SherrilynIfill said the threat, which follows on Trump's highly controversial deportation of alleged gang members to El Salvador last week, should not be taken lightly.

"'Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began,' said Ifill in response to Trump's rantings on Friday. 'The #MigrantDetentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador. We cannot sleepwalk through this.'

"The #TeslaTakedown movement has gained steam over recent weeks, with people nationwide angered by Elon Musk's wholesale assault on cherished government agencies and programs. The world's richest man, #Musk, has been empowered by Trump to spearhead his invented Department of Government Efficiency, or #DOGE.

"As Axios reports, in response to the popular anger directed at Tesla, "Trump has put the full weight of the U.S. government behind defending and promoting 'first buddy' Elon Musk's car company, which has seen both its sales and stock price slump."

'Delusional' Trump Threatens to Send Tesla Vandals to Prison for 20 Years... in El Salvador | Common Dreams

"If genuine steps are taken to remove U.S. citizens convicted of crimes to prisons in El Salvador," said one legal expert, "this removal would violate not only U.S. law but the U.S. Constitution."

Common Dreams

Zzyzx/P Mar 17

Where have we seen this movie before? I guess 1932 wasn't a warning enough. This #felon and #corruptGOP #administration will rest only after the complete #destruction of #USA.
#impeach #unlawful #illegal #TraitorMAGA #TraitorGOP #USPolitics #government

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge4l109r3o

Trump dismantles Voice of America with executive order

More than 1,300 staff placed on administrative leave as White House accuses VOA of being anti-Trump, "radical" and "leftist".

StanceOfMind Mar 17

While Trump is enjoying immunity from his unlawful activities, everyone else involved don't necessarily have "I was following orders" as a defense.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9yv1gnzyvo
#Trump #Deportations #Immigration #Unlawful #Legal #Venezuela #USA #ElSalvador

US removes hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order to turn back deportation flights

The White House says it has removed Venezuelan gang members and denies violating a court order.

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Nonilex Mar 2

“My efforts to protect federal employees generally, & whistleblowers in particular, from #unlawful treatment will continue,” Dellinger added.  …Judge #AmyBermanJackson had previously ordered Dellinger reinstated temporarily while she considered arguments from both sides. An appeals court rejected the #Trump admin’s emergency appeal of that order, prompting the admin to ask #SCOTUS to intervene. The justices delayed ruling on the admin’s request so that Jackson could hold a hearing w/the parties.

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Nonilex Feb 25

#CivilRights advocates & the plaintiffs argue the #law is meant to level the playing field, counter #discrimination & boost opportunity for people who have historically experienced discrimination. Work promoting #diversity, #equity & #inclusion furthers the law’s intent.

But under #Trump’s interpretation, these efforts are seen as #unlawful discrimination themselves because they consider #race. It relies in part on the 2023 #SCOTUS decision outlawing race consideration in college admissions.

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Nonilex Feb 25

“This Letter is an #unlawful attempt by the Department to impose this administration’s particular views of how #schools should operate as if it were the #law,” the suit says.

The letter & the lawsuit represent polar opposite interpretations of the 1964 #CivilRights Act, which bars #discrimination on the basis of #race in federally funded programs.

#Education #Trump

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Nonilex Feb 25

“But that optimism doesn’t extend to the consequences of removing the #military’s top judge advocates general [#JAG], the senior military professionals who interpret & enforce the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the rules that guide troops in the field. They have the independent #legal authority to tell any military commander or political appointee that an order from the #president or the secretary of #defense is #unlawful, cannot be given & should not be obeyed.”

#law #Trump