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Another ICE threat visit: How did agents track down this critic on his vacation? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 5 385
A Free Tool Is Helping Drivers Dodge Automatic License Plate Readers 3 usonian Wednesday Wednesday 8 604
"Earlier today the DOJ and Texas colluded with Reed O'Connor to erase a Biden-era regulation." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Tuesday 2 549
Hearing in Coe v. Blanche, June 23, 2026, at 2:30 p.m., in New York City 2 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Tuesday 3 523
The NSA Is Coming to Town 2 red dog 1 Jun 21 Jun 21 7 664
Federal judge asked to halt Cleveland Clinic policy of detaining people who transport gunshot victims to ER 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 6 Jun 6 7 519
"It's no big surprise that Trump's DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website." 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 31 Jun 5 7 625
Trump Gets a Lesson in History-and the First Amendment 5 mahatmakanejeeves May 31 May 31 35 1646
ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 29 May 29 18 571
Video shows ICE violently arresting Oregon farm workers and using facial recognition 0 Eugene May 21 May 21 5 573
Iowa lawmakers move to mandate students take Center for Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 21 May 21 6 739
Liberty University student fights for religious studies tuition grant 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 21 May 21 0 576
New York Times Files Second Lawsuit Against Pentagon 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 19 May 19 1 531
New opinion from DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) claims federal law authorizes Trump administration to obtain ... 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 13 May 14 7 811
Trump's Complaints About Iran War Leaks Prompt Aggressive DOJ Investigations 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 12 May 12 3 669
Meet the Seattle woman behind a national effort to end same-sex marriage 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 10 May 10 8 1046
No religion should ever be exempt from protest here in America. That would be against the Constitution. 4 Eko May 7 May 7 6 831
DOJ Enters a New, Even More Aggressive Phase 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 3 May 3 5 722
What Just Happened to the Voting Rights Act 2 SamuelAdams May 3 May 3 5 962
Elie Mystal: Supreme Court gutting Voting Rights Act is about again making US an apartheid state 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2 May 2 3 657
Blanche, asked if DOJ will now prosecute every post of '86 47,' says 'every case is different' 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 1 May 1 2 898
Montreal Gazette: Alligator Alcatraz was hell, says Montrealer detained by ICE The Corner Booth 1 AStern Apr 29 Apr 29 8 881
In the SPLC case this morning, SPLC filed two motions. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 28 Apr 28 6 772
Supreme Court to hear argument on law enforcement's use of "geofence warrants" 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 9 1179
The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 10 964
She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 13 877
ICE Is Still in Minneapolis -- Families Say 'The Suffering Hasn't Stopped' 1 AStern Apr 18 Apr 18 10 912
Turning Point USA's high school push in GOP states meets free speech and religion concerns 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 17 Apr 17 4 784
Between this and Sotomayor's recent dig at Kavanaugh, I'm getting the sense that Callais (VRA case) will be a disaster. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 16 Apr 16 8 1158
Colorado Court of Appeals: Boulder can't charge fees for bodycam footage in alleged misconduct cases 0 Eugene Apr 10 Apr 10 5 736

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Pizzagate lawyer Nathan Hansen is now Minnesota's newest immigration judge 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 6 818
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins sent Easter email to staff touting 'Jesus' and 'God' 7 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 6 1419
The woman who thinks civil rights went too far 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 7 Apr 7 6 1307
This Election Won't Be Normal (with Stuart Stevens and Simon Rosenberg) 1 marmar Apr 7 Apr 7 2 786
Georgia Army veteran deported by ICE after 50 years in U.S. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 6 Apr 6 18 1284
Tennessee librarian is fired for refusing to move over 100 LGBTQ books from children's to adult section 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 3 Apr 3 6 804
Looking to limit birthright citizenship, Trump turns to an 1884 Supreme Court ruling against a Native American man 5 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Apr 2 3 1215
Birthright Citizenship Case Pushes Trump's Relationship With Supreme Court to Brink 5 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Apr 1 9 1426
Nebraska student appeals censorship of editorial cartoon 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 1 Apr 1 20 966
Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 10 1306
San Diego woman says her credit card information was stolen while she was in ICE custody 11 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 60 3069
Arab-American teen who sat for Pledge of Allegiance reaches settlement with Plymouth-Canton Schools 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 1156
Apple formally signs on with Big Brother (UK) "Face that telescreen OR ELSE" 1 usonian Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 970
ICE misinformed DOJ prosecutors about its authorization to arrest migrants at immigration courts. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 873
Two-Thirds of Open Somali Cases Placed on "Somali Rocket Docket" - bklg blog 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 875
Americans United for Separation of Church and State sues for information on Pentagon and Labor prayer meetings 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 1018
The Vote: Part One Full Documentary American Experience PBS 0 marmar Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 805
Cato had urged the Supreme Court to reverse the Fifth Circuit's ruling in Villarreal v. Alaniz. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 989
Afroman Wins Verdict Rejecting Lawsuit Filed by Ohio Cops Over Mocking Music Videos 8 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 22 1783
DOJ Civil Rights Division hire resigned from Alabama firm over Facebook post following George Floyd's murder 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 1132
An update on immigrants who were detained in Trump's crackdown on campus activism 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 1 846
Professors Are Changing What They Teach, Even Far from Trump's Gaze 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 1300
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 0 702
FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 1807
The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 1024
Lafayette Parish Louisiana superintendent directs principals to display Ten Commandments in classrooms 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 894
Cato Institute's David Bier stood his ground at a hearing today and talked back to bloviating Sen. John Kennedy, (R-LA) 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 1306
Watch Cato's Director of Immigration Studies, David J. Bier, testify at the Senate Budget Committee hearing. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 902
Chicago law firm leading push to appoint special prosecutor to target ICE, Border Patrol agents 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 12 1085
You're Welcome, Mr. Supreme Leader (Khamenei) 4 usonian Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 1475

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn't Support Broad Search of Protesters' Devices and Digital Data 0 usonian Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 1074
Trump administration cannot 'terrorize' Minnesota's refugees with arrests, US judge rules 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 987
BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained ... 8 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 63 3332
"The police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school protest." 20 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 61 4694
"More lawless slaughter at sea by the Trump administration under the specious guise of counterterrorism." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 1419
She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her 4 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 26 1867
Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump's Secretive Deportation Program 13 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 53 3238
US DOJ lawyer hit with bar complaint over search of reporter's home 1 Eugene Feb 2026 Feb 2026 16 1199
The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 0 Eugene Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 1121
DHS warned its independent watchdog that Noem can kill its investigations, senator says 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1048
"Democrats Need to Get Serious About Stopping Trump From Rigging the Midterms" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 1246
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ's Civil Rights Chief Called Federal Election Interference Unconstitutional 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 1105
"An agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 18 1339
Pentagon Defends Restrictions on Media Outlets 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 1 1198
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 1341
The Fashionable Notion of 'Free Speech Culture' Is Justifying State Censorship, Ironically 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 2 985
What to Do if ICE Invades Your Neighborhood 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 1270
Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 1406
Pam Bondi's X account is posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP, forbidden under DOJ rules. 10 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 8 2267
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues another out-of-state provider accused of illegally sending abortion-inducing pills to Texans. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 2 1226
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