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  Deportations: It's not where it starts, it's where it ends. Joyce Vance Mar 18   Just ahead of the hearing scheduled for 5 p.m. Eastern in the case we discussed last night, the Justice Department asked Judge James Boasberg to vacate the order setting the hearing. The government didn’t want to have to show up. Their reason? They   wrote  they weren’t in violation of the two temporary restraining orders (TROs) he issued over the weekend, the first for the five named plaintiffs in the case and the second for the remainder of the group subject to deportation. DOJ also told the Judge that “the government is not prepared to disclose any further national security or operational security details.” In my experience, that’s not how it works. If a judge is considering whether a party, especially the government, is in contempt of an order, the judge gets whatever information they need. Otherwise, contempt. But that’s not how the government played it today. When Judge Boasberg...

  Fact check: Trump, on a lying spree, made at least 40 separate false claims in two Pennsylvania speeches By  Daniel Dale , CNN  17 minute read  Updated 5:29 PM EDT, Thu October 10, 2024 Washington CNN  —  Former President Donald Trump is on a lying spree. As Election Day draws nearer, the Republican presidential nominee has made false claim after false claim on a dizzying variety of subjects. He has both come up with new falsehoods on pressing issues, most notably the federal response to Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, and repeated old favorites about subjects he has been railing about since his 2016 presidential campaign. We went through the speeches Trump made at his two Wednesday campaign rallies in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, one in Scranton and one in Reading. In those two addresses alone, he uttered at least 40 separate false claims. Here is a fact check. FEMA and migrants : Trump  falsely claimed  of the Federal Emerg...