civilrights
Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
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The class-action lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-lawsuit-trump-parents?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Trump #CivilRights #Discrimination #Parents #Disability #School
*** This report may not be accurate. Times of India is the only outlet reporting it. ***
Hundreds of international #students have received an email telling them their #visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus #activism or #SocialMedia posts.
#Trump #immigration #law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #Education #Universities #Colleges #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hundreds-of-international-students-are-waking-up-to-an-email-asking-them-to-self-deport-for-campus-activism-or-even-sharing-posts-on-social-media/articleshow/119679695.cms
Our top story, from Josephine Lee: Attorneys at the Department of Education say that #Trump's cuts to the agency have left them “hamstrung” and unable to pursue civil rights cases, including a shocking incident of police brutality in a Gulf Coast school. https://www.texasobserver.org/beaumont-pepper-spray-school-department-education/
#education #police #politics #USpol #news #schools #CivilRights
At least 100,000 rallying and marching in Boston today!
#HandsOff #Boston #Massachusetts #Protest #CivilRights #MassMobilization #Indivisible #MoveOn #EDU #Resist #Resistance #Defiance #NoKings #HandsOff2025
#Trump ofcls deny #UScitizen #children were ‘deported’ to #Honduras
#TomHoman, Trump’s border czar, insisted Sunday that the Trump admin did not “deport” American children to Honduras — arguing that the White House sent the children to the country because their mothers, who were being deported, wished to bring them.
#law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Rendition #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/27/trump-deportation-citizens-children/
Everything maga hates, in one convenient place...
#CivilRights #HumanRights #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomOfReligion #SeparationOfChurchAndState #LGBTQ #Abortion #Contraception #Capitalism #Racism #WhiteNationalism #ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism #ClimateCrisis #Immigration #Healthcare #WomensRights #Science #History
Via Nathan Kalman-Lamb
One of hundreds of people abducted by #ICE & sold to slavery in #ElSalvador was a 19 yr old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela & no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
#Trump #law #immigration #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://documentedny.com/2025/04/14/ice-bukele-cecot-tren-de-aragua-el-salvador-new-york-deported/
#Trump Admin Plans to Send Migrants to #Libya on a #Military Flight
#HumanRights groups have called conditions in the country’s network of migrant #detention centers “horrific” & “deplorable.”
#law #immigration #Constitution #DueProcess #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/politics/trump-libya-migrants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=76A42B13-CE0C-465C-833A-19E7FDFD950C
Nice. Sen #SheldonWhitehouse just mentioned that #KilmarAbregoGarcia has an excellent #BivensAction complaint against #Trump et al.
#DeepCut but exactly on the nose.
A Bivens action generally refers to a lawsuit for #damages when a federal officer who is acting in the color of federal authority allegedly violates the US #Constitution by federal officers acting.
👏👏👏
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bivens_action
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #rendition #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
🚨🚨🚨NEW!!
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has UNANIMOUSLY rejected #Trump’s request to halt proceedings in #KilmarAbregoGarcia's case.
👏👏👏👏
Reagan appointee Judge Wilkinson wrote that the Trump admin's position is "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans ... still hold dear."
Damn straight.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca4.178400/gov.uscourts.ca4.178400.8.0.pdf
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower
Amazing truth & fact filled press conference from Sen #VanHollen on his visit to #ElSalvador & the ILLEGAL #rendition of #KilmarAbregoGarcia by #Trump
#law #contempt #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump
#Trump posted a photo of himself holding up a picture claiming to show #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s tattoos that prove he’s MS-13.
The picture he’s holding has obviously been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13.
The source of this BS is a neo-Nazi X user who claims the tattoos are code for “MS-13.”
This is why you try people in court of #law & not on social media.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #gaslighting #propaganda #dehumanization #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #DueProcess
The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #CivilRights #Immigration #Law #Trump #DHS #Deportation #Border
Disgusting
The 16-year-old was dragged away & arrested by #Worcester PD because she kicked the car #ICE was holding her mother in as her mom was taken away. The day earlier, ICE had taken her dad as well.
"She told MassLive that she, along with a crowd of other people, asked ICE to show a #warrant for the #arrest. She said the agents replied, 'We don’t have to show you anything.'"
#immigration #law #CivilRights #DueProcess #Trump #Dictatorship #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.masslive.com/worcester/2025/05/chaotic-ice-arrest-in-worcester-leads-to-second-arrest-by-local-police.html
#KilmarAbregoGarcia's latest legal brief roasts #Trump's "shocking proposition" that officers can "snatch residents of this country & deposit them in foreign prisons in admitted violation of federal law" — & no US court can do anything about it.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.176.0.pdf
#law #immigration #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
The #Trump admin says Secy of #State #MarcoRubio is "personally handling" discussions with #ElSalvador over the return of wrongly deported migrants.
He has a "personal relationship" with #Bukele that dates to his time on #ForeignRelations Cmte.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483.290.1.pdf
#immigration #law #DueProcess #AlienEnemiesAct #CivilRights #HumanRights
“Young, an 84-year-old jurist appointed by Ronald Reagan, said that the manner of #RumeysaOzturk’s arrest seemed unusual to him.
“‘I’m not accustomed to … law enforcement officers without identification, approaching individuals masked and you know, not having a warrant…’”
#law #immigration #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #AbuseOfPower
https://www.allrisenews.com/p/aaup-rubio-trial
#TexasLegislature Mandates #Sheriff-#ICE Cooperation in Jails or Streets
#Texas lawmakers are ordering all counties to seek federal agreements that may be limited to jailhouses—or may convert deputies into roving immigration agents.
#law #Gestapo #CivilRights #ImmigrantRights
https://www.texasobserver.org/legislature-sheriffs-ice-cooperation-jails-streets/
#US abandons #PoliceReform accords sought over deaths of #GeorgeFloyd & #BreonnaTaylor
The #DOJ is abandoning efforts to secure court-approved settlements w/ #Minneapolis & #Louisville, despite its prior finding that #police in both cities routinely violated the #CivilRights of #Black people, a snr ofcl said on Wed.
#law #BLM #ACAB
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-abandons-police-reform-accords-sought-over-deaths-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-2025-05-21/
5 years after #GeorgeFloyd's #murder
#law #PoliceAbuse #PoliceReform #SystemicRacism #ExcessiveForce #PoliceViolence #QualifiedImmunity #Trump #DOJ #CivilRights #HumanRights #ICC
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/briefing/five-years-after-floyd.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=E5801D2D-5163-436A-AA1B-7D9DE956DF60
The chaos that unfolded in #LosAngeles over the weekend was sparked by …#ICE raids at #workplaces, a controversial #policy that seems designed to appease the #Trump admin’s desire to increase the number of #deportations at all costs.
The policy to #raid workplaces, reportedly pushed by WH Deputy Chief of Staff #StephenMiller & other top #Trump admin ofcls, comes as ICE has tried to increase its deportation numbers.
#immigration #law #CivilRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/la-protest-ice-raid-trump-immigration-dhs-national-guard-workplace-raid/
I'm kind of sick of endless #superhero movies and endless reboots
But I can totally get behind this:
"#JamesGunn Says ‘#Superman’ Is About an ‘#Immigrant That Came From Other Places’ and How We’ve ‘Lost’ the Value of ‘Basic Human Kindness’: ‘Yes, it’s About #Politics’"
So much can be mined from the golden age of comic books which had its roots in fighting #fascism in #WWII
And the silver age and the #civilRights struggle (#XMen)
#PopCulture is a tool to fight #MAGA
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#golang #legalaid #civilrights #opensource #volunteer #immigration #tech4good #nokings
#SCOTUS on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on #gender-affirming care for #transgender minors, a stunning setback to #TransgenderRights.
The 6-3 decision in a case from #Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by #Trump’s #Republican admin & #state govts to roll back #protections for transgender people. 26 other #states have laws similar to the one in TN.
#law #discrimination #bigotry #LGBTQ #CivilRights #HumanRights #privacy #BodilyAutonomy
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-transgender-health-care-trump-79fc6f3bbdab2e92d6f0184201a468a9?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-18-Breaking+News