#SCOTUS’ decision was 5-4, with #AmyConeyBarrett joining the 3 Democrat appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge #Boasberg’s temporary restraining order #TRO in the #AlienEnemyAct cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through #habeas petitions.

"Yesterday, millions of Americans rallied nationwide at #HandsOff! protests, taking a stand against the Trump-Musk chaos regime... The energy was electric as #Americans delivered a clear message to #Trump & #Musk: Hands off our #Constitution.

Now, the real work continues. We must never stop fighting for #democracy. Never stop organizing. Never stop speaking out."
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/april-5-millions-take-to-the-streets

Video of #protests around the country.

"And then today, across the country, millions of people turned out for #HandsOff protests...

In #SanFrancisco, where Buddy and I joined a protest, what jumped out to me was how many of the signs in the crowd called for the protection of the U.S. Constitution, our institutions, and the government agencies that keep us safe."
-Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-5-2025

In the #Trump admin’s #SCOTUS application, it refers to Abrego Garcia as an “enemy alien.”

The government has claimed that Garcia was removed under the #Immigration & Nationality Act, NOT the #AlienEnemiesAct.

The Trump admin has also claimed he’s a member of M13 which is NOT covered by the #AEA, only Tren de Aragua.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25881144-24a949/

The admin appealed Judge Xinis’s order to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which on Mon declined to intervene immediately & stay the lower court ruling.

So the #Trump admin asked #SCOTUS to intervene on an emergency basis [I think we’re in double digits now for Trump’s SCOTUS emergency applications].

#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower

@SocraticEthics Active Duty #military in #UnitedStates who take their oath to defend the #Constitution seriously should remember that #DonaldTheDeplorable greatly admires #VladimirPutin and emulates him in all ways.

#Resist and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.

"From the moment he was seized, it was #unconstitutional," Judge Xinis said during the hearing. "If there isn't a document, a warrant, a statement of probable cause, then there is no basis to have seized him in the first place. That's how I'm looking at it," the judge said.

Abrego Garcia was arrested & deported last month — despite having been granted protection by an #immigration judge in 2019 that should have prevented him from being deported to #ElSalvador.

Judge Xinis ordered the #Trump admin to return Abrego Garcia to the US by 11:59PM ET on Mon, April 7. She said keeping him in El Salvador constitutes irreparable harm.

The justices will soon decide whether to relieve the #Trump admin from the trial court’s order halting the expulsions. Whether the govt has complied w/the order isn’t directly before #SCOTUS. But whether the Court can trust the govt’s representations during such quickly unfolding litigation is—& the justices have every reason not to.

The #Trump admin had asked #SCOTUS to intervene & lift a block on the #deportations imposed by a lower court. But a brief filed on behalf of the #immigrants by the #ACLU & #DemocracyForward said that block is now “the only thing” preventing the Trump admin from sending immigrants “to a prison in #ElSalvador, perhaps never to be seen again, without any kind of procedural protection, much less judicial review.”

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A931/354494/20250401111703480_2025.04.01%20AEA%20Stay%20Opp%20FINAL%20Opp.%20only%20pdfA.pdf

The decision by US Dist Judge Michael Farbiarz in Newark, NJ, means any appeals in the #Palestinian #activist's case will be heard by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, which has a 6-6 split between active judges appointed by Republican & Democratic presidents, instead of the #5thCircuit, the country's most #conservative appeals court.

#MahmoudKhalil
#immigration #law #ColumbiaUniversity #Constitution #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #CivilRights #DueProcess #Trump #AbuseOfPower

Amazingly Sen #CoryBooker is still awake & will be interviewed on The #RachelMaddow Show which starts at 9PM ET.

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our #history! I don't a #whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched #truth about #America, because that speaks to our greatness" - Sen Cory Booker

#TRMS
#resist #Trump #money #power #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup 
#democracy #law #USpol #Senate #Constitution #CivilRights #MoralMoment #GoodTrouble