The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Massachusetts, takes a broader approach than a flurry of other recent lawsuits challenging the federal govt’s #deportation policies on college campuses. Those suits, including 2 involving a #ColumbiaUniversity student & a recent grad who are #GreenCard holders, aim to stop individual deportation proceedings.
The lawsuit filed Tues challenges the #Trump admin’s overall approach to deportation, saying it is #unconstitutional.
"This is nothing less than government compelled speech – a textbook #FirstAmendment violation. The #government is explicitly forcing a private entity to dedicate resources to supporting specific #political initiatives. That a major #law firm would accept such an obviously #unconstitutional demand, rather than challenge it as #PerkinsCoie did, represents a complete abdication of their professional responsibilities"
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/paul-weisss-shameful-surrender-makes-every-lawyer-there-complicit-in-trumpian-constitutional-desecration/
The #Trump admin is appealing a judge’s order requiring #ElonMusk & #DOGE to comply w/evidence demands from Democratic state ofcls who claim the #billionaire is exercising #unconstitutional #power across the US govt.
The #DOJ is arguing the lower court judge’s “unusual & highly invasive” order “raises grievous separation-of-powers concerns” by requiring a presidential adviser & the WH to turn over info about their activities….
#law #USpol #transparency #TrumpPurge
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-19/trump-administration-fights-order-to-turn-over-doge-information
2 Officials Who Helped Dismantle #US #Aid Agency Are Named as Its New Leaders
Secretary of #State #MarcoRubio said he had canceled 83% of #USAID’s programs. A federal judge found that efforts to shutter the agency were likely #unconstitutional.
#law #USpol #Trump #Musk #DOGE #ForeignPolicy #SoftPower #TrumpPurge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/usaid-doge-leadership.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1B3ACA71-70A6-4630-8DE3-5A77E2B20013
Analysis: A Strike at the Heart of DOGE and Musk...
...With a Surprising Star Witness
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/analysis-a-strike-at-the-heart-of
"the surprising star witness...
Musk himself! With assists from #Trump & his press secretary.
It turns out, with their non-stop tweeting & trash-talking about what they’ve been doing... quotes from them turn out to be the best #evidence negating the DOJ’s desperate defense of DOGE’s #unconstitutional actions."
Advisory Opinions: Is Trump Going to War Against the Rule of Law?
Episode webpage: https://advisoryopinions.thedispatch.com/
Media file: https://chrt.fm/track/GF7929/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/DISPMI3329203381.mp3?updated=1742269542
Woohoo! From @ErinInTheMorn / @erininthemorning.com on Substack: "Breaking: Judge Reyes...ruled that #transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Tr*mp's ban...as #unconstitutional and motivated by #animus. Trans military members may continue to serve." https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0240-89
Trump and Musk are building a new spoils system
When ideological targeting becomes cronyism
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-musk-are-building-a-new
"Trump, via #Musk, is engaged in #impoundment, which is #illegal & #unconstitutional. It also vastly weakens #Congress. & yet, the #Trump pitch to get Congress to pass appropriations is that he will ignore what they actually pass! Impoundment is a feature, not a bug, in their model for governing."
#unConstitutional #FreeSpeech #ColumbiaUniversity #PalestinianRights #activism #ICE
Mahmoud Khalil Was Detained by ICE Agent Honored by Trump at State of the Union https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-khalil-detained-ice-agent-honored-trump
The 15-wk #AbortionBan had already been paused since Dec, when Reuss & other providers filed suit, which argued that the ballot measure, which adds constitutional protections for #abortion until about 24 wks, meant the ban was now #unconstitutional. #Arizona’s AG, Kris Mayes, had agreed not to enforce the ban while litigation played out.
The short ruling, from Judge Frank Moskowitz of #MaricopaCounty superior court, agreed the 15-wk ban was unconstitutional & forbade AZ ofcls from enforcing it.
Court rules #FISA #Section702 #surveillance of #US resident was #unconstitutional
'Public interest alone does not justify #warrantless querying' says judge
Specifically, it was decided the #FBI had violated a US resident's #FourthAmendment rights against unreasonable searches by looking through a vast database of overseas communications vacuumed up under Section 702 of FISA and using that resident's private messages as evidence to successfully prosecute him.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/section_702_court/ #privacy
The suit asks a federal district court in Maryland to ban the #Education dept from acting on these #threats, saying the letter is an #unconstitutional infringement on #FreeSpeech & a twisting of long-standing anti-#discrimination #law. It was filed by the American Federation of #Teachers, its MD affiliate & the American Sociological Association, working w/Democracy Forward, which has filed several suits challenging #Trump admin actions.
Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1iwd6q9/hegseth_says_firing_of_top_military_lawyers_was/
The #AssociatedPress sued 3 #Trump admin ofcls Fri over #access to presidential events, citing #FreedomOfSpeech in asking a federal judge to stop the 10-day blocking of its #journalists.
The lawsuit was filed Fri afternoon in US Dist Court in Washington, DC.
#AP says its case is about an #unconstitutional effort by the #WhiteHouse to control #speech — in this case refusing to change its style from the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”
#law #FreePress #autocracy
https://apnews.com/article/ap-lawsuit-trump-administration-officials-0352075501b779b8b187667f3427e0e8
#Trump on Thurs again raised the prospect of serving for an #unconstitutional 3rd term asking a crowd at a WH event whether he should run again & receiving audience chants of “4 more years!”
Trump’s escalating rhetoric stoked further alarm among critics who say he is governing w/an #authoritarian playbook & fear he could attempt to seize #power undemocratically, as he attempted to do after losing the 2020 election. The #Constitution’s 22nd Amendment limits presidents from holding the office >2X.
#Trump again raises idea of running for an #unconstitutional third term
The suggestion followed a stretch of days in which Trump referred to himself as a #king & quoted a #dictator in suggesting that he was #immune from following laws
#USpol #Constitution #law #authoritarianism #democracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-third-term-king-unconstitutional/
#BreakingNews
Update:
#Legal #USpol #SurveillanceState #Surveillance
(1/n)
Via #TheIntercept:
"#FBI’s #Warrantless Search Ruled #Unconstitutional in a Blow to Government Spying"
My question:
Will the constant violation of #US #American's 4th Amendment rights by the FBI end up freeing a confessed would-be #Terrorist?-- A bedrock principal of US law, the #FruitOfThePoisonousTree doctrine might end up saving the imprisoned convict...
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/27/fbi-government-spying-surveillance-702-fisa/
#Americans have to accept a sad reality
The #Congress will not be able to save you from the #Trump fascist 'administration'
Congress does not have the numbers or means to stop Trump #Musk
#unconstitutional #illegal acts
Not even the #Judicial #Institution can stop Trump
since it is controlled by Trump
Only the -people- the American can stop the #fascists ..
But you have to act immediately
Can’t #judges recommend disbarment proceedings against #lawyers who bring frivolous or illegal or #unconstitutional prosecutions? I’m not a lawyer but don’t the #courts still have some power here?
The unions had asked the court to block #Trump’s dismantlement of the #aid agency, calling it “#unconstitutional & #illegal” & saying it had “generated a global #HumanitarianCrisis” & threatened American strategic interests.
“Not a single one of defendants’ actions to dismantle #USAID were taken pursuant to congressional authorization,” the lawsuit said. “And pursuant to federal #statute, #Congress is the only entity that may lawfully dismantle the agency.”
