🚨Criminal complaint unsealed in case of Wisconsin judge helping illegal. It is just jaw-dropping that a judge would do this to help this character! 2/ Not merely 3 counts of domestic batter with physical pain or injury but he had already been deported once and illegal returned!

🚨🚨🚨District court entered injunction barring Trump Administration from taking steps to implement president's determination that unions no longer represent certain employees based on federal statute Trump invoked: 1/ 2/ Here is Trump's brief explaining background etc. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

🚨Yet another effort to interfere in Trump Administration's management of agencies filed today regarding DHS's terminations of employees. Lawsuit filed by three organizations seeks, among other things: 1/ 2/ Here's docket: courtlistener.com/docket/6993865…

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Court unseals procedure for Alien Enemies Act removals, explaining notice & process. 2 key points: First, notice is given in native language, so did ACLU mislead court by focusing on written notice being only in English? 1/

2/ Notice provided, as Declaration states, is more than provided in expedited removal cases. THIS point was made in appeal filed in 10th Cir. earlier. Given Courts have held less process is due in other situations, where not dealing w/ terrorists, hard to say not enough here.

Thanks to @Philippicae for tagging me on just filed appeal by Trump Administration in 10th Circuit challenging Colorado district court ruling in Alien Enemy Act case. 1/ 2/ Entire brief is a must read for several reasons. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

🚨🚨🚨Another federal judge entered another injunction trumping the Trump Administration's executive authority. The D.C. Circuit has already stayed similar injunctions holding claims must go to the Court of Claims. Here we have that plus employment disputes. 1/
2/ Not only does the Court seek to control operation of Voice of America, it is requiring the Trump Administration to report in on a monthly basis on its operations. Trump Administration's brief highlights the many reasons Plaintiffs' claims fail. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Judge in Garcia case enters order regarding discovery, i.e., what Trump Administration must answer/provide as evidence. 1/ 2/ Link. Comments to follow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

🔥🔥🔥WHOA...I just now am seeing Judge Hendrix's scathing order chastising the ACLU for its effort to engage in ex parte communications with the Court. 1/ 2/ Full order here. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

If you've been following the machinations of the Alien Enemies Act case that SCOTUS intervened in in the midnight hours, @JoshMBlackman has written several must-read pieces @reason. I've agreed with nearly everything, but disagree on this point: 1/ 2/ While I could see the clerk telling SCOTUS clerk 5th Circuit judges had stated opinion would be issued shortly, I doubt that the clerk would have said anything on merit because the clerk of the court likely didn't know.

🚨🚨ACLU files reply in SCOTUS re Alien Enemies Act and asks SCOTUS for an advisory opinion in response to an application for which there has been no lower court decision and with no plaintiff. Un. Rea. 2/ Oh, and then asks SCOTUS to take case without any decision.

🚨🚨🚨Justice Alito's dissenting statement in Alien Enemies Act case dropped late yesterday or early this morning. After detailing how SCOTUS ignored controlling law, he closed with profound point: "Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law." 1/ 2/ Full dissenting statement. supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf…

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Trump files response in Alien Enemies Act case. I didn't think Sauer would wait until tomorrow or Monday. 1/ 2/ Link: Comments to follow.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/2…

🚨District court judge in the case that ACLU double-leap-frogged to SCOTUS entered an order detailing the timing of everything. This order makes even more striking SCOTUS decision to toss "norms" to the wayside. 1/ 2/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Late last night SCOTUS directed Trump not to remove any aliens under Alien Enemies Act based on a "putative class" meaning there is NO certified class action yet. So much for norms! 1/ 2/ What makes SCOTUS' decision even more "norm" breaking is that it acted before allowing 5th Cir. to act and 5th Cir. actually dismissed appeal & request as "premature" because it is "a court of review" and district court needs a chance to rule.

🚨Judge Boasberg set an emergency hearing for 6:15 p.m., so starting momentarily. I'll have your color commentary. 1/

https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1913320467047346623

2/ Judge: I have another concerns with my ability to act on plaintiffs' TRO I think I need to first to find out what is happening in court and on the ground. What's happening legally?
ACLU: Sought emergency relief in both 5th Circuit & SCOTUS given urgent circumstance.
Judge: Are you seeking same relief there as here?
ACLU: Yes. No removal for 30 days...or without more notice. We believe on way to airport. Appears more being transport. All being moved out of north district of Texas. (Got nationawide TRO in southern TRO). Northern District Court b/c 2 named plaintiff not being removed. Notice in English said you were being removed and could make a phone call. Our position is that whatever SCOTUS meant that what they did can't possibly this little notice.

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING. I. Can't. Even. 1/ 2/ District court entered injunction prohibiting firings in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau & appellate court entered partial stay of injunction, to allow Trump to fire people except as necessary to carry out statutory duties.

🧵on Garcia (MS-13 El Salvadorian gang member): DOJ has staked out it's position--all it will do to facilitate Garcia's return to US is to, if Garcia presents at a port of entry, to take him into custody in U.S. 1/ 2/ District court has said "facilitate" means what it means in dictionary and you must "facilitate" Garcia's return to U.S. under that meaning & submit to discovery to tell us what you have done. DOJ's position is "no, you must tell us precisely what you want us to do first."

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Trump Admin. seeks emergency stay/mandamus of Judge Boasberg's order re contempt in Alien Enemies Act. 1/ 2/ Here's docket in DC Circuit. courtlistener.com/docket/6990525…

🔥This excerpt from the Gang Field Interview Sheet re Garcia includes two additional key facts: Per experts in gangs, "MS-13 gang members are only allowed to hang around other members or prospects for the gang." 1/

https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi/status/1912603713157419129

2/So Garcia being with other gang members held more significance than happenstance. BUT more importantly, "confidential source" of "past proven and reliable source" not only knew Garcia's rank & moniker BUT didn't claim to know anything about 4th person.

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Another crazy injunction barring Trump Administration officials from accessing social security data for purposes of improving system & finding fraud. Social Security numbers, names, addresses, are key to cross checking for fraud. 1/
2/ 4th Cir. recently granted stay in a similar case but judge claims "it's different"

THREDETTE: I'll have more thoughts on 4th Cir. opinion denying Stay and Mandamus later, but in short, there was a lot...I mean A LOT, I agreed with in Judge Wilkerson's measured opinion. But he was fundamentally WRONG in his conclusion & his attitude of superiority. 1/ 2/ Bottom line is Article III cannot force Article II to engage in diplomatic efforts EVEN if it is in private. And no only does district court mandate Trump does so, she wants full discovery about it.