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  No More Benefit Of The Doubt Joyce Vance Mar 7 Last Sunday, we discussed a number of cases pending in front of federal district judges in Minneapolis. Friday night, one of them, Judge John Tunheim, dropped a decision that is well worth your time—even on a Friday night. It involves allegations from people detained by ICE that their property was seized and not returned to them. Another word for that might be theft, although one supposes it could also be the result of extraordinary carelessness. Federal law enforcement agents routinely collect, and subsequently return, the possessions of people they detain. But that isn’t happening here. Judge Tunheim felt so much urgency about the matter than he got his ruling out on a Friday night, not a typical time for a federal judge to be finishing up at work. But he decided it was time to deliver a reckoning to the Trump administration and apparently, didn’t want to delay.  His order   starts like this: “During Operation Metro Surg...

  This coming week represents one year into Trump’s second term. We’re holding him accountable. The Trump administration has frozen funds, dismantled entire government agencies, fired federal workers, and disregarded laws passed by Congress. They are abducting immigrants without regard to due process, deporting people despite court orders, and arresting, assaulting, and killing citizens. But, together, our resistance is stronger than their campaign of terror. We’re working hand-in-hand with our national grassroots allies and our champions in Congress to hold Trump accountable and stop this authoritarian regime. Whether it’s national mass mobilizations, educating people about their rights and how to peacefully resist, sending hundreds of thousands of messages to Congress, or ensuring organizers on the ground have the tools they need to mobilize their communities, help power our peaceful resistance by rushing a donation of $5 or more today. DONATE TODAY Over the summer, Trump signed ...

ICE Melts Under Noem’s Shadow ICE isn’t just losing support; it’s imploding under its own cruelty, incompetence, and Kristi Noem’s vanishing act, leaving America questioning who the real threat is. Michael Cohen and MeidasTouch Network Dec 12 Guest article by  Michael Cohen . Remember to follow him on Substack for more by  clicking here . Michael just hit 500,000 subscribers on YouTube! Subscribe today for free  here  and let’s keep the momentum going! Support for ICE is melting, faster than Kristi Noem can bolt from a hearing room in heels she clearly didn’t plan to stand in for long. And that’s saying something, because if this week’s Capitol Hill performance proved anything, it’s that the Secretary of Homeland Security can flee accountability with the grace and determination of someone escaping a bad blind date. The hearing was supposed to be about national security threats. Instead, it became a public colonoscopy of Noem’s leadership, her version of “tr...

  Judicial Ethics Joyce Vance Dec 11 Yesterday, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove   attended  an event where Donald Trump spoke. That’s an unusual thing for a federal judge to do, even when the president in question is his former client. Federal judges usually avoid political events like the plague. Doing so would seem especially prudent when the Judge in question is newly appointed to the bench after a confirmation hearing that included testimony about the role he played in the government’s decision to ignore Judge James Boasberg’s order in the El Salvador deportation case . Bove has said that testimony from a whistleblower claiming  he said   “D.O.J. would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such order,” isn’t true. He recently  submitted a declaration   in that case that he provided “privileged legal advice” to others in that matter, without going into the substance of it. Attending a presidential speech in th...