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"Every lie told by this regime [is] about pushing narratives to facilitate ethnic cleansing." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 11 1174
New York school violated civil rights law by changing name from 'Thunderbirds' to 'T-Birds,' US says 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 0 1236
The head of Trump DOJ's Civil Rights Division boosts prediction markets placing 36% odds she'll prosecute Don Lemon 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 0 1199
Autopsy finds Cuban immigrant in ICE custody died of homicide due to asphyxia 12 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 35 3062
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to DHS 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 11 1077
Judge Kacsmaryk rejects challenge by West Texas A&M University's [LGBTQ] club to drag show ban ... 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 0 1300
DOJ files notice that it is appealing its loss in the challenge to its invasive trans care subpoena 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 0 976
"Mischief Toys is a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Trump administration ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 11 999
Stars and Stripes job applicants are asked if they back Trump policies 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 2 1152
Minneapolis duo details their ICE detention, including pressure to rat on protest organizers 0 Eugene Jan 2026 Jan 2026 1 858
TWSJ.: Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 1153
'Turn off your video': ICE agents tell NC men to quit recording traffic stop 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 22 1323
Seattle Indivisible: Know your protest rights. Edited: now in alt text, for people with visual disabilities. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 1162
"Data created during times of human rights violations can be used to prove command responsibility ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 1037
Top union accuses Texas of targeting teachers over Charlie Kirk posts 0 Eugene Jan 2026 Jan 2026 3 842
"In the midst of everything else, the Trump administration is an incredible combination of entitlement and sloppiness." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 2 977
Organizer arrested in Grand Rapids following protest in response to U.S. attack in Venezuela 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 3 1223
More than 300 judges rebuff Trump's immigration policy 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 973
NEW: The latest effort to hold Gregory Bovino accountable for his disregard of the rule of law. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 8 1105
JUST IN: Abrego Garcia lawyers press TN fed judge to sanction feds for alleged gag order violations 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 7 1076
Federal judge dismisses indictment against TikToker shot by ICE, citing constitutional violations 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 1116
The Situation: A Legal Puzzle to Ponder 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 916
Miami Herald reporter accuses the Trump Department of Justice for tracking her flight history in 2019. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 10 978
Here's the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 11 1503
Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 1036
Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 10 1081
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 1 1013
Trump's Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 10 1193
Kari Lake sends a memo to the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 1072
DHS says recording or following law enforcement 'sure sounds like obstruction of justice' 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 1082

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Federal judge to decide whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia should return to immigration custody 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 1177
Abrego's lawyers have proof of Todd Blanche's direct involvement in his prosecution - after lying to the court about it. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 25 1717
Texas is making a list of transgender Texans. It's using the DMV to help. 8 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 14 1741
11th Ct. grants Florida's request to limit the injunction against the anti-drag law to cover only Hamburger Mary's 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 1048
"Rob Reiner was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California's Prop 8 banning same sex marriage." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 47 1984
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 11 1205
More Trump DOJ Hijinks in Abrego Garcia Saga 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 1084
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 10 1095
CBP agents held this U.S. citizen for hours until he agreed to let them search his electronic devices 6 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 38 2246
🚀 NOTICE: Federal US website newly registered. https://merrychristmas.gov 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 4 1374
Turkish student who criticized Israel can resume research at Tufts after visa revoked, judge rules 0 Eugene Dec 2025 Dec 2025 11 879
"Constitution's 'domestic violence' clause may block Trump deployment of National Guard in Oregon." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 985
Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 2 929
Amicus brief from the Cato Institute, Dale Carpenter and Eugene Volokh urges full Fifth Circuit to affirm panel ruling 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 4 997
Trump Action Tracker keeps track of antidemocratic actions by category including civil liberties, with links 6 mahina Dec 2025 Dec 2025 12 1683
Halligan Continues as U.S. Attorney, Prompting Criticism From Judges 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 965
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 1196
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran. 9 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 58 3156
Fired EPA employees challenge agency, alleging free speech violations 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 6 863
The Rise of the Anti-Trump Jury. Juries Can Stop Trump, Too 1 ck4829 Dec 2025 Dec 2025 10 1310
Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 1082
They're simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but ... 5 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 18 1882
Judge Boasberg orders DHS Sec Kristi Noem and other officials to submit declarations. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 13 1270
Ask yourself why there wasn't this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 70 3020
FL has suspended 25 rules using DeSantis' yearslong immigration state of emergency 5 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 9 1649
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana 6 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 53 2971
OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 1106
After 27 years on Louisiana's death row, Chris "Jimmie" Duncan is finally getting out. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 19 1596
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 1264
ICE video shows officers planned to 'smash' into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol 7 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 37 2720

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Judge Places Hold on I.R.S. Data Sharing With ICE 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 790
MAGA's $300 million heist 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 1248
Trump Loyalist Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 1103
At the Justice Department, Civil Rights Now Means Gun Rights 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 868
UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump's university attacks 0 usonian Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 1324
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content 5 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 19 1577
Wisconsin: Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs--And They Have No Idea What They're Doing 2 Eugene Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 1092
Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: 'I felt like a piece of trash' 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 13 982
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 1266
Advocates Applaud as Pro-Palestinian Commentator Sami Hamdi Released by ICE 2 cbabe Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 996
DOJ Officials Hype Up Ongoing Efforts to Weaponize Civil Rights Laws 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 809
Q) How does a person protect a pro democracy anti fascist web site? 2 Ranting Randy Oct 2025 Nov 2025 2 976
Trump administration speeds up new rules that would make it easier to charge some protesters 2 Eugene Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 1013
Flock cameras lead Colorado police to wrong suspect: "It became my job to prove my innocence" 2 ck4829 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 0 986
"Excessive force. PERIOD!" 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 40 1609
Are You on Trump's List of Domestic Terrorists? There's No Way to Know. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 847
The Battle in Virginia Over an Activist Who Protested Stephen Miller 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 1340
EXCLUSIVE: Key Lime Air is running flights of detainees for ICE, according to government data and flight tracking 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 1110
Don't think of it as a concentration camp; think of it as an "accountability center." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 897
Shock Video Shows ICE Agent Assaulting Woman Who Asked If He's A Good Christian 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 967
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