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:
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HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III. Öztürk is the Tufts PhD s...
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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
What a grim paragraph [www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...](
Social Security Lists Thousands of Migrants as Dead to Prompt Them to ‘Self-Deport’
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, ba...
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NEW: The Trump administration wants federal supervision of Columbia University—a consent decree—which could last for years and subject the university to contempt penalties if it doesn't conform to Trump admin demands. [www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...](https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-consent-decree-trump-federal-funding-2f4c4690 ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreibuxwknjnseyefj2bckworbvoij5o5ixtlg2cfjspmdgtqo3uzsze
NEW: As the Fourth Circuit today considers whether to block her order, Judge Paula Xinis releases a strong opinion defending it, calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia's detention "wholly lawless" and her order "the narrowest, daresay only, relief warranted." [storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](📄.pdf ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreihaix5ab4ve72d5k6h5z6ofmjwvbh5ugfdshcqrqoraxaiolqkv4i
I saw someone criticizing a very funny poster for making jokes instead of posting about politics, and I am reminded of a favorite line from E. B. White: We should strive not for balanced books but balanced libraries