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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 14/03/2025

BREAKING: Family of Mahmoud Khalil releases footage from the night of his arrest. Make no mistake: This is federal agents in plainclothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his constitutionally protected speech.

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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 17/03/2025

The question isn’t if Trump would try to exceed his power, but when. That time is now. Seeming to defy courts & using the rare war powers in 1789 AEA law to perform unlawful deportations is the latest step to replace the Constitution with authoritarianism. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration ta...

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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025

🚨 BREAKING: Today we filed a motion for a preliminary injunction on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, arguing that he should be released because his arrest and continued detention are unconstitutional, retaliatory, and causing irreparable harm. Here’s what you need to know. 🧵

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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

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The Pocket Lawyer @thepocketlawyer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The Case For: Learning from history so that it does not repeat itself. See Martin Neimoller (German Lutheran Pastor, 1892-1984) (“First they came for the socialists—and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. . . . And then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”).

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

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The Pocket Lawyer @thepocketlawyer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Part 3: I have to imagine we’d be much better off than we are on this divided day in 2025 where I’ve seen posts reminding Americans that it’s Presidents’ Day and not Dictators’ Day. (Thank you Professor @rbreich.bsky.social .)

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The Pocket Lawyer @thepocketlawyer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Part 2: Listening to Hamilton again this weekend, it struck me that perhaps Miranda, I, and so many of us had backed the wrong horse that election cycle.

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The Pocket Lawyer @thepocketlawyer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Part 1: In honor of Presidents’ Day, I spent much of my weekend listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton never became President, but he arguably would have been a brilliant one. For my take on Hamilton and what it means to me today, almost a decade after its release, see ⬇️

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