"The peril of the #dualstate lies precisely in this capacity for targeted #suppression. Most people can ignore the construction of the prerogative state simply because it does not touch their lives."
#constitutionalcrisis
#USpol
#authoritarianism
#history
#nazigermany
Check out this exchange between Senator #JeffMerkley (D-OR) & #FBI Director #KashPatel over whether #DuePocess applies to people targeted by the #AlienEnemiesAct.
NEW: Judge Sessions appears to have converted tomorrow's scheduled bail hearing for #RümeysaÖztürk into a status conference while the court awaits #Öztürk's transfer to Vermont.
NEW: #KilmarAbregoGarcia's lawyers are asking Judge #Xinis to permit them to take 3 additional #depositions — from #State, #DHS, #DOJ. And they say that they might request a 4th deposition from the #Trump White House.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.116.0.pdf
Update:
Last night the #ACLU added Andry Hernandez Romero, the openly gay stylist & makeup artist, as lead plaintiff in its DC based #ClassAction against #Trump’s #AlienEnemiesAct *deportations* – renditions.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.103.1.pdf
That’s in some tension with the result: that they were sent to a prison that is neither in the #US nor their country of origin with NO CHARGES & no clear #legal #authority justifying their continued, indefinite detention. The US govt is paying #ElSalvador to hold them.
That, at least, is what federal ofcls contend: while the #Trump admin invoked the #AlienEnemiesAct to dubiously justify sending 137 detainees to #ElSalvador, >100 others that day had received standard, *lawful* #deportation orders—often to Venezuela—from #immigration courts.
Inside The Fight To Return The Other Men #Trump Sent To #CECOT
The admin removed >100 #Venezuelans to the detention camp without using the #AlienEnemiesAct.
When the Trump admin sent >200 Venezuelans to an El Salvador detention camp last month, nearly half of them were subject to standard #immigration #law.
#Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #ChecksAndBalances #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-the-fight-to-return-the-other-men-trump-sent-to-cecot
The #Trump admin sent more *alleged* gang members to #ElSalvador despite a Massachusetts court order barring #deportations to 3rd-party countries.
They say the order only applied to the #DHS & so they had #DoD carry out the deportations.
Dishonest as hell.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.72.0.pdf
![DHS did not direct the Department of Defense to remove [fill in the blank for name] The Department of Defense is not a defendant in this action.](https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/114/393/342/144/982/432/original/040fefe24579c822.png "DHS did not direct the Department of Defense to remove [fill in the blank for name] The Department of Defense is not a defendant in this action.")
An Immigrant Held in #US Custody ‘Simply Disappeared’
The #Venezuelan man did not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in #ElSalvador, & his family & friends had no idea of his whereabouts.
#law #immigration #Trump #RicardoPradaVásquez #WhiteSupremacy #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #ChecksAndBalances #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B08.IFW7.E0ozyGyhHps0&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Amazing truth & fact filled press conference from Sen #VanHollen on his visit to #ElSalvador & the ILLEGAL #rendition of #KilmarAbregoGarcia by #Trump
#law #contempt #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump
WOW
Judge Wilkinson writes,
"We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."
Beautiful.
[Ab]Using the #budget - #reconciliation process, #Republican *lawmakers* are now preparing to lavish #ICE with a colossal #funding increase—enough to pay for the kind of #social & #demographic transformation of the US that #immigration hard-liners have long fantasized about achieving.
#Trump’s tactics have spread #fear & created a showreel of social-media-ready highlights for the White House. But they have not brought #ICE much closer to delivering the “millions” of deportations…Trump has set as a goal.
“We need more money,” #TomHoman, Trump’s “border czar,” told Miroff in an interview. “We won’t fail if we get the resources we need.”
We’re About to Find Out What #MassDeportation Really Looks Like
The #Trump admin’s campaign to remove millions of people from the #US could soon be supercharged by #Congress.
–Nick Miroff
“#Republican *lawmakers* are now preparing to lavish #ICE w/ a colossal #funding increase”
It will fund the “social & demographic transformation of the US that #immigration hard-liners have long fantasized about achieving”
#law #StateTerror #DualState #Constitution
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/ice-deportation-funding-increase/682480/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxQaHREZu2dHnmR9IBjIsyyU
Just released Judge #Xinis letter order on discovery procedure in #KilmarAbregoGarcia v. #KristiNoem et al.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.80.0.pdf
What-the-ever-loving-fuck? #Trump propagandist Karoline Leavitt is inventing shit out of whole cloth here!
Never, has there ever been even a mention of human trafficking in #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s past. Never. Not ever.
(He’s also not M-13, nor a terrorist)
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #gaslighting #propaganda #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #DualState #SCOTUS #ChecksAndBalances #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
Last night, US Judge Sweeney in Colorado granted a district-wide (state-wide) class #habeas #TRO to stop #Trump from summarily removing *aliens* under his #AlienEnemiesAct proclamation. #ACLU attys had warned that, despite #SCOTUS ruling, Admin won't commit to providing even 24 hrs notice.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cod.243061/gov.uscourts.cod.243061.13.0.pdf
![On April 7, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court granted the government's application to stay the order on the basis that Petitioners had to proceed through habeas, while emphasizing that individuals who are designated under the AEA Proclamation are "entitle[d] to due process" & notice "within a reasonable time & in such manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief' before removal.… To date, the government has not indicated the type of notice they intend to provide or how much time they will give individuals before seeking to remove them under the AEA. However, in a hearing in the Southern District of Texas on Friday April 11, the government said they had not ruled out the possibility that individuals will receive no more than 24 hours' notice; the government did not say whether it was considering providing even less than 24 hours.](https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/114/342/650/439/112/946/original/1252fa055bf530e8.png "On April 7, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court granted the government's application to stay the order on the basis that Petitioners had to proceed through habeas, while emphasizing that individuals who are designated under the AEA Proclamation are \"entitle[d] to due process\" & notice \"within a reasonable time & in such manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief' before removal.… To date, the government has not indicated the type of notice they intend to provide or how much time they will give individuals before seeking to remove them under the AEA. However, in a hearing in the Southern District of Texas on Friday April 11, the government said they had not ruled out the possibility that individuals will receive no more than 24 hours' notice; the government did not say whether it was considering providing even less than 24 hours.")
Tomorrow, Tues, April 15, at 4:00 PM ET, Judge #Xinis will be hearing a “Status Conference” on #KilmarAbregoGarcia et al v. Noem et al.
It’ll be interesting to hear how she responds to the #Trump admin’s latest filing. She has been very plainspoken in her assessment of the #DOJ’s claims.
