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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you have any interest in asylum/border management and the pending Supreme Court decision in Noem v. Al Otro Lado, I highly recommend the discussion at the top of this podcast. Admirably clear. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

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Season 2, Episode 6: Supreme Court

Podcast Episode · Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times · May 18 · 56m

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The Trump administration's calculated disdain for the rule of law was on full display this week when DHS Secretary Mullin testified before Congress. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. tinyurl.com/yb4anmj5 @ms.now

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Opinion | Markwayne Mullin’s answer about following court orders should alarm every American

The Department of Homeland Security is not exempt from the rule of law.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

People might be surprised to learn Public Health Service officers cannot be sued under Bivens for violating the constitutional rights of immigration detainees. Terrible precedent: supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

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Hui v. Castaneda, 559 U.S. 799 (2010)

Hui v. Castaneda

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Circle Wu-Tang Square Wu-Tang Square House Circle

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It’s great a list is being kept, because one of the 10-15 executive orders signed on Day 1 of the next administration should call immediately rename all of these things. No more signing pens; the next POTUS should hand out crowbars and chisels to remove the letters. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

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All the Things Named for Trump, and How Long Other Presidents Had to Wait

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

In the last week we’ve learned that @secdef.govpeeps.us personally gave the order that led to the commission of a war crime and @secnoem.govpeeps.us personally ordered that flights to CECOT continue in defiance of a court order.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

What’s to stop Trump from replacing the seated sculpture of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial with a statue of himself and then installing a golf tee at the top of the steps so he can drive balls into the Reflecting Pool?

AI image of Trump at the top of the Lincoln Memorial driving golf balls into the Reflecting Pool.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

How can we defend our culture against the white supremacists that have infiltrated our government?

New USCIS job posting for a Homeland Defender that says “Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America’s frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud.”

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/08/2025

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

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More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C.

Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Outstanding line of questioning by Rep. Neguse about a terrible provision in the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill. Here’s Erwin Chemerinsky’s analysis of the language: www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

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A Terrible Idea

Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This provision of the budget bill made it through the House. It undercuts federal courts' ability to enforce contempt orders. Read Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s sharp analysis. www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

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A Terrible Idea

Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Great explainer by Erwin Chemerinsky about a dangerous provision that House Republicans are trying to sneak into their budget reconciliation bill. A direct attack on judicial independence and the rule of law.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Excellent breakdown of two emergency stay requests pending at SCOTUS with huge implications.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

under the gop proposal, married parents can’t claim the child tax credit if one of them isn’t a citizen. literally punishing children while creating a monetary incentive to get divorced. ghoulish shit.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

And yet the Department's spokesperson calls it "a successful operation." You can't make this stuff up... www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

NEW: In a SCATHING decision, Judge Briones of the Western District of Texas absolutely SAVAGED the government over this case, tearing to shreds ICE’s hearsay “evidence” that this husband and wife were in Tren de Aragua as “completely and wholly unsubstantiated” — and ordered their immediate release!

3. Conclusion
It is this Court's finding that Respondents' Response and testimony was replete with
conclusions, declarations, and accusations, by anything
meaningful in the record. Respondents have been unable to convince the Court by even a preponderance of the evidence, let alone clear, unequivocal, and convincing evidence required, that Petitioners Sanchez Garcia and Sanchez Puentes are members of Tren de Aragua, and therefore has not shown this Court that they are properly designated "alien enemies" under the AEA pursuant the TdA Proclamation.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Very compelling new piece by @ahilantoolong.bsky.social arguing that while courts have long said deportation isn't a "punishment," condemnation to CECOT clearly is. That matters for constitutional purposes. @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/110679/depor...

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Deportation to CECOT: Punishment Without Charge or Trial

Sending migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT prison raises grave constitutional concerns under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Some notes on this morning’s remarkable emergency stay order granted by SCOTUS, stopping Trump Adm from summarily removing Venezuelans under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. SCOTUS acted while the NDTexas & 5th Circuit courts dragged their feet. Thread: 1/10 bsky.app/profile/anna...

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KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

So now we find out how directly and undeniably complicit in enforced disappearance and torture some Supreme Court justices want to be. Good times.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This is the same lawyer who may face criminal contempt in the Alien Enemies Act case and who led the Abrego Garcia and Gitmo cases. I’m guessing he likes his celebrity more than his law license. He also appears to be arguing ALL of these cases because no career DOJ attorney would dare.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Not the first time a county has illegally imprisoned a U.S. citizen on an ICE detainer request. As in those cases, the county is likely to pay out a chunk of $$$ for violating this guy’s constitutional rights.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Good pieces by Ezra Klein and Philip Bump on Trump’s illegal disappearance of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But details matter. Withholding of removal wasn’t granted because fear of persecution was “credible”or “well founded.” The judge concluded it was *more likely than not* to happen.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The press and the courts are talking—intelligently and powerfully—about every aspect of the Trump administration’s rendition of people to El Salvador **except** the illegal use of taxpayer money to fund the imprisonment. On what authority?!? This letter is great. migrantinsider.com/p/lawmakers-...

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Lawmakers Slam Rubio Over El Salvador Prison Transfers (EXCLUSIVE)

Rep. Velázquez co-leads letter demanding answers for human rights abuses.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I am autistic. I pay taxes, I have a job. I dated. I get the desire to push this narrative autistic people DO accomplish these to rebut Kennedy. But there was a time when I DID NOT have a job. And non-speaking autistic people or thise with intellectual disabilities don't. They have worth as well.

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 16/04/2025

NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

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DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs

The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Americorps NCCC was a life changing experience for me. Awful.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

DOJ keeps speaking out of both sides of its mouth in these cases. In one moment they argue against court orders preventing removal because there’s no irreparable harm from a wrongful removal bc the court can always order the person’s return… The next they say courts have no power to order return.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The Trump administration’s rendition of hundreds of Venezuelan nationals to a notorious Salvadoran prison is no less criminal than its family separation policy years ago. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

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The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act

The President has invoked the law to send Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador without due process—and, in many cases, under false pretenses.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I’d say she should read the State Department’s own human rights report on the deadly and dehumanizing conditions in El Salvador’s prisons but it wouldn’t do any good. You should read it: state.gov/wp-content/upl…

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced

Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Yes, a law prof in 2025 is trying to deny citizenship to undocumented children by drawing spurious analogies between their parents and “wild Indians” circa 1868. And this is the best that anti-birthrighters can do.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

DOJ *in this case* said the judge could order them to return people to the U.S. after removal. It was part of their unsuccessful argument that going to a Salvadoran mega prison wasn’t irreparable harm. Said the same thing 24 hours earlier re Gitmo. They conceded the judge’s authority!

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

They say the TRO issued yesterday “purport[s] to halt the removal” of people under the AEA. The TRO 100% halted their removal and the judge directed that planes in the air be turned around. Trump admin appears to have flouted that order.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Judge orders any plane still in the air to return to the U.S. and bars further removals for members of the newly approved class.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

In the 40 minutes the court gave the DOJ to check whether any AEA removal flights were planned, a flight to El Salvador took off. Other reporting suggests the admin plans to send Venezuelans there to be imprisoned by Bukele for a year at USG expense. All of this is lawless and so dangerous.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

UPDATE: Lawyer for govt, Drew Ensign, cited 'grave national security issue' in declining to discuss current state of the deportations in a public hearing, so judge took it private. But looks like one El Salvador-bound flight took off during a break in the hearing www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

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G66145 (GXA6145) GlobalX Flight Tracking and History 15-Mar-2025 (KHRL-XPL / MHPR) - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for GlobalX 6145 (G66145/GXA6145) 15-Mar-2025 (KHRL-XPL / MHPR) including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

NEVERMIND. DOJ attorney Drew Ensign says operational details can’t be shared on a public line so we are about to be cut off for a little bit.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

We’re literally about to hear if the government got one or more planes in the air over the last 40 minutes with people being summarily and illegally expelled from the country under the AEA. Reason to believe they might just have done that.

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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Judge Boasberg plans to adjourn the hearing to give DOJ 40 minutes to confirm whether flights are planned. He should enjoin removals until that time!

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