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#abuseofpower

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Judge Illston listed services that could disappear if the offices that administer them were wiped out, including #DisasterRelief funds for #farmers after a #flood, in-person appointments for #SocialSecurity recipients to discuss their #benefits, #workplace #safety inspections in #mines & #grants that support #kindergarten programs.

Judge Illston’s order:
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#law#Trump#TrumpPurge
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Judge Illston noted that process requires consultation with #Congress on any plan to abolish or transfer part of an agency.

“It is the prerogative of presidents to pursue new policy priorities & to imprint their stamp on the #FederalGovernment,” she wrote in a 42-page order. “But to make large-scale overhauls of federal agencies, any president must enlist the help of his #CoequalBranch & partner, the Congress.”

#law#Trump#TrumpCoup
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Of all the lawsuits challenging #Trump’s vision to dramatically scale back the form & function of the #FederalGovernment, this one is poised to have the broadest effect. Most of the agencies have yet to announce their downsizing plans, but employees across the govt have been anxiously waiting for announcements that have been expected for weeks.

#law#TrumpPurge#TrumpCoup
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Federal Judge Susan Illston on Friday called for a two-week pause in the #Trump admin’s plans for #MassLayoffs & program closures, barring 2 dozen agencies from moving forward w/the largest phase of Trump’s *downsizing* efforts, which the judge said was #illegal without congressional authorization.

#law #TrumpPurge #TrumpCoup #Musk #DOGE #Congress #LegislativeBranch #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/poli

Protesters outside the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston rallied in March to protect the jobs of embattled federal workers.
The New York Times · Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Plans for Mass Layoffs and Program ClosuresBy Zach Montague
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Judge Talwani in April found that the #law governing such parole did not allow for the program's blanket termination, instead requiring a case-by-case review. The Boston-based 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put that decision on hold.

#SCOTUS#immigration#Trump
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The #DOJ requested that the justices put on hold Boston-based US District Judge Indira Talwani's order halting the admin's move to terminate the #immigration "parole" granted to the migrants under #Biden. The move is part of #Trump's hardline approach to immigration.

The dispute involves immigration "parole," a form of temporary permission under American #law to be in the #UnitedStates for "urgent #humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit."

#SCOTUS#judiciary#AbuseOfPower
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#Trump asks #SCOTUS to allow revocation of migrants' legal status

Trump's admin asked the US Supreme Court on Thurs to intervene in its bid to revoke the temporary legal status granted by his predecessor Joe #Biden to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian & Nicaraguan migrants living in the #UnitedStates.

#law #immigration #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
reuters.com/world/us/trump-ask

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New filing yesterday in #MahmoudKhalil's case: Petitioner’s Supplemental Brief Regarding Vagueness Claims

The #Trump policy of targeting #noncitizens who speak out for #Palestinian rights & #MarcoRubio's use of the "foreign policy ground" for #deportation are impermissibly vague, & violate #FirstAmendment & #FifthAmendment rights.

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Pursuant to this Court's order…the petitioner submits this supplemental briefing solely regarding his due process void-for-vagueness claims. These claims focus on the government's announced policy to arrest, detain, & seek to deport noncitizens who engage in protected expression in support of Palestinian rights or critical of Israel (the "Policy"), & its use of 8 U.S.C. 8 1227(a)(4)(C) (the "Foreign Policy Ground) to effectuate the Policy. Mr. Khalil raises two independent but related vagueness arguments. First, he argues that the government has adopted a Policy that is impermissibly vague & should be enjoined for the same reasons courts routinely find that policies, both written & unwritten, run afoul of due process: this Policy provides no notice to noncitizens regarding which of their otherwise-lawful expressive activity will result in the government targeting them for arrest, detention & removal, and it gives government officials unfettered discretion to target disfavored speech. Second, Mr. Khalil argues that the Foreign Policy Ground is itself impermissibly vague as applied to him through the Rubio Determination because neither the statue, past executive practice, nor the legislative history gave Mr. Khalil any notice, in advance of the government's enforcement, that he could possibly be subject to detention & removal for participating -alongside thousands of others
#law#Constitution#immigration
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#NYPD officers, some in riot gear, "responded with force multiple times" while 100+ #protesters #picketed around #Columbia’s campus last night, according to the Columbia Spectator. This followed the arrest of 75+ pro-Palestinian protestors at Columbia's main library.

#law #Constitution #ColumbiaUniversity #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #CivilRights #Dictatorship #AmericanAutocracy #Trump #AbuseOfPower
columbiaspectator.com/news/202

Columbia Daily SpectatorNYPD officers respond with force to protesters picketing around Columbia after arrests at Butler Library<i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.</i>
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