I can say without reservation that Bluesky is my favorite T-shirt company website RE: View quoted note →
NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." [storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](📄.pdf ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreihqif6zdrucvah3vjzao4utawnz7qsab2ngji5pw62jo3ud6yi4du
NEW: DOJ notifies Judge Xinis that it is appealing her revised order directing it to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the Fourth Circuit. [storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](📄.pdf ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreifpxarq5czb2ghxqm4hxgek6eoqdw5c3xyqbuulkmfowfglskk4hu
NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause for contempt against the Trump administration: "The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it." [storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](📄.pdf ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreihowfbvofmcpy6eq3xyxss5ydbxonjg3uiepovafvga2qlyh57474
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attys tell Judge Xinis that to accept the Trump admin's position would be to render the Supreme Court's order a nullity. "The Government should at least be required to request the release of Abrego Garcia." [storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](📄.pdf ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreihiu62xi4y26p7ej2a5yktka5pzuryi7vplf42ccz63cziikqun5q https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreicriodmcvlkvmzx6oirblrds7vpwuzazdstnmpey5r74umiylwfxm
My thread on today's hearing for Rümeysa Öztürk, now complete! TLDR: The judge seemed inclined to order Öztürk transferred from Louisiana to Vermont so she could assist in her case. He sounded open to releasing her from ICE detention altogether but wanted a hearing with chance to enter evidence. RE: View quoted note →
HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III. Öztürk is the Tufts PhD student snatched off the street by ICE and now facing deportation for cowriting a pro-Palestine op-ed in the student newspaper. 🧵
Boris Epshteyn—indicted Trump election conspirator and not actually a member of the government—is personally negotiating Trump's Big Law shakedowns, per WSJ [Trump’s $1 Billion Law Firm De...](https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trumps-1-billion-law-firm-deals-are-the-work-of-his-personal-lawyer-77bd7b8c )
NEW: SCOTUS affirms that the Trump admin must take steps to try to arrange Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return from the Salvadoran prison. There are no noted dissents, though the three liberals write separately to say that SCOTUS should never have intervened. [s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...](📄.pdf ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreibla7c6yuevzi5pniknksfbs3c5ja42ffjtq24qwt3dkmbfk5ycce
NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." [www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...](📄.pdf ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreicuw4wzyz426xv5vtawkjtde63fbdnruw5tqawypsnvhtl27rblvu