#BadarSuri has NO criminal record & has not been charged w/a crime, his petition says. His #detention & petition have not been previously reported.
Suri’s lawyer, Hassan Ahmad, argued in his petition that Suri is being punished because of the #Palestinian heritage of his wife — who is a #UScitizen — & because the govt *suspects* that he & his wife oppose US #ForeignPolicy toward #Israel.
The agents identified themselves as being w/ #DHS & told #BadarSuri the govt had revoked his #visa…
Suri…was put in #deportation proceedings under the same rarely used provision of #immigration #law that the govt invoked to deport #MahmoudKhalil, the #ColumbiaUniversity grad student & #GreenCard holder who led pro-#Palestinian protests on campus. That provision gives the secy of #State power to deport noncitizens if he determines their continued presence in the #US would threaten #ForeignPolicy.
#Trump is seeking to #deport another #academic who is legally in the country
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at #Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a US #citizen w/ #Palestinian heritage.
Hooded #ICE agents snatched the India-born Georgetown postdoc #BadarSuri from Rosslyn street Mon, per the court filing. Like #MahmoudKhalil, Suri was subject to #MarcoRubio’s 'foreign policy' power, atty says.
#immigration #law #USpol #NaziState
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/trump-deportation-georgetown-graduate-student-00239754
Hungary passes bill against annual Budapest Pride march | Nation https://www.byteseu.com/844963/ #Democracy #Government #HumanRights #Hungary #jobbik #justice #LAW #partners/afp #PoliticalEvents #PoliticalScience #Politics #ViktorOrbán
The man behind #DOGE's "#AI-first" strategy, the 28 year-old ex-#Tesla engineer #ThomasShedd, has quietly—& possibly illegally—become the head of technology for the Department of #Labor.
- Brian Merchant
@brianmerchant
#law #Trump #Musk #technocracy #USpol #government #regulation #broligarchy #plutocracy #NeoReactionary #NRx #Technofeudalism
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/doges-ai-first-strategist-is-now
@Nonilex
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merikkka über alles...
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"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"
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#law #geopolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #Nazis
#Trump plans to sign #ExecutiveOrder on Thurs to shut down #Education Dept
Finalizing the elimination of the #DoE would [normally] require an act of #Congress, but a WH fact sheet said the EO would direct Education Secy [& fmr pro-wrestling promoter
] #LindaMcMahon “to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure (of) the Department of Education & return education authority to the States.”
#law #USpol #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-3-19-2025#00000195-b06f-d117-abf5-f17f7d7a0000
I agree with Maya Sen who said, “The fact that the world’s richest man works at the behest of the executive & can buy out the #legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined. there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this.”
#Musk Donates to #GOP Members of #Congress Who Support Impeaching #Judges
Amid a controversy over whether #Trump will abide by court rulings, #ElonMusk gave the maximum to the campaigns of #Republicans who back ousting judges who impede the administration.
#law #judiciary #ConstitutionalCrisis #SeparationOfPowers #broligarchy #plutocracy #oligarchy #MafiaState
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/musk-donations-congress-judges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=29AF8158-73AC-450D-83DA-4EC2BA1F079B
#Germany updates #UStravel advice after citizens detained
Germany updated its #TravelAdvisory for the #UnitedStates to emphasise that a #visa or entry waiver does not guarantee entry for its citizens after several Germans were detained at the border recently, a foreign ministry spox said.
The ministry updated its travel advice website for the US to clarify that neither approval through the US #ESTA system nor a US visa entitles entry.
#geopolitics #immigration #law
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-updates-us-travel-advice-after-citizens-detained-2025-03-19/
The women said in court papers that they were living in constant fear of #SexualAssault & other #violence after being moved to male prisons. Male inmates repeatedly propositioned them for sex & male officers subjected them strip searches w/o female officers present, they said [#ACAB].
US Dist Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington issued a preliminary #injunction after the women were added as plaintiffs in ongoing litigation over the impact of #Trump’s EO on #transgender women in federal #prisons.
Lamberth ordered the FBP to “immediately transfer” the 2 women – identified in court papers by the pseudonyms Rachel & Ellen Doe – back to women’s facilities & said the agency must continue to provide them w/ hormone therapy treatment for gender *dysphoria*.
A judge on Wednesday ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons #FBP to transfer 2 #transgender women inmates back to federal women’s prisons after they had been sent to men’s facilities in the wake of #Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder that truncated transgender protections.
#law #rape #SexualAssault #heterosexism #LGBTQIA #WhiteCisHeteroChristianMaleSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/federal-prisons-transgender-trump-executive-order-inmates-b4bb058cb6e922a536a26e534f92b005
Those officials are Jeremy Lewin, who has been working for the cost-cutting task force led by the billionaire #ElonMusk, & Kenneth Jackson, a #State Dept official who was named the acting president of the U.S. Institute of #Peace #USIP this week [another independent agency under assault by #Trump, #Musk & #DOGE & subsequently embroiled in federal lawsuits].
#PeteMarocco, the #State Dept ofcl who oversaw the #Trump admin’s efforts to dismantle the main govt agency distributing foreign #aid, announced in an email on Tues night that he would be replaced at the agency by 2 officials who had been involved in making the cuts.
Marocco said in the email that he would remain at State as director of #ForeignAid, but that 2 other officials would handle what remains of the #USAID.
2 Officials Who Helped Dismantle #US #Aid Agency Are Named as Its New Leaders
Secretary of #State #MarcoRubio said he had canceled 83% of #USAID’s programs. A federal judge found that efforts to shutter the agency were likely #unconstitutional.
#law #USpol #Trump #Musk #DOGE #ForeignPolicy #SoftPower #TrumpPurge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/usaid-doge-leadership.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1B3ACA71-70A6-4630-8DE3-5A77E2B20013
#DOJ lawyers urged an appeals court Wed to overturn a judge’s block on #Trump’s #deportation of #Venezuelans under the #AlienEnemiesAct.
The filing is the latest volley in an escalating legal battle over Trump's priority of strengthening #immigration enforcement. Trump has called for Chief US District Judge James #Boasberg's #impeachment …[&] #SCOTUS Chief Justice #JohnRoberts rebuked Trump over the impeachment threat.
#law #DueProcess #Judiciary #ConstitutionalCrisis
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/19/justice-department-appeal-trump-deportations-alien-enemies-act/82551316007/
To date, the #Trump admin has addressed such legal considerations by having #CBP or #ICE detain people & move them once in custody, including on US #military flights involved in its #deportation efforts.
If the plan is approved, & admin officials deem it successful, the military-controlled buffer zone, measuring 60 feet deep, eventually could stretch west to #California, officials said.
The effort would enable the most significant use yet of #ActiveDuty forces at the border, under #Trump, though any move to militarize the southern border’s buffer zone [essentially a #DMZ] is certain to raise questions about whether employing the #military in this way runs afoul of the #PosseComitatusAct, a federal #law that prohibits active-duty troops from most law enforcement missions.
