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Brilliant!. As said just earlier, "Thank goodness for competent and honest judges. From yours:
"U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw found that comments from senior Department of Justice (DOJ) officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, raised a “realistic likelihood” that the department sought immigrant smuggling charges against Abrego Garcia for vindictive reasons."
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These judges ruled against Trump. Then their families came under attack.
[...]When U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled in April that Trump administration officials could face criminal contempt charges for deporting migrants in defiance of a court order, the blowback was immediate.
USA-TRUMP/JUDGES-THREATS Boasberg tweet
When Elon Musk shared an online post that mischaracterized the work of Judge Boasberg’s
daughter, some of his followers responded on X with calls “to lock her up."
P - The president’s supporters unleashed a wave of threats and menacing posts. And they didn’t just target the judge. Some attacked Boasberg’s brother. Others blasted his daughter. Some demanded the family’s arrest – or execution.
P - U.S. District Judge John McConnell’s family endured similar threats after he ruled that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority in freezing grants for education and other services. Far-right provocateur Laura Loomer tweeted a photo of the judge’s daughter, who had worked at the U.S. Education Department as a policy advisor, and accused McConnell of protecting her paycheck. Billionaire Elon Musk amplified the post to his 219 million X followers. Neither mentioned the daughter had left her job before Trump’s inauguration.
P - Loomer continued her attacks with nine more posts in the ensuing days – and more than 600 calls and emails flooded McConnell’s Rhode Island courthouse, including death threats and menacing messages taunting his family, according to a court clerk and another person familiar with the communications.
P - Loomer continued her attacks with nine more posts in the ensuing days – and more than 600 calls and emails flooded McConnell’s Rhode Island courthouse, including death threats and menacing messages taunting his family, according to a court clerk and another person familiar with the communications.
P - Boasberg and McConnell are among at least 11 federal judges whose families have faced threats of violence or harassment after they ruled against the new Trump administration, a Reuters investigation found.
P - The broadsides are part of an intimidation campaign directed at federal judges who have stood in the way of Trump’s moves to dramatically expand presidential authority and slash the federal bureaucracy. As Trump and his allies call for judges to be impeached or attack them as “radical left” political foes, the families of judges are being singled out for harassment.
P - Since Trump returned to power in January, at least 60 judges or appeals courts have slowed or blocked some of his administration’s initiatives.
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The Courts Versus Trump, Then and Now
"2 more judges block Trump administration's use of Alien Enemies Act to remove certain migrants
Solid democratic institutions are fighting back against the most vicious and dangerous
president the United States had ever had. They will win, too. This time, yet .. the war.
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Trump and allies ramp up attacks on judges, courts as agenda hits legal roadblocks
"FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding
"Trump on long legal losing streak... ""
Elon Musk on Wednesday called a federal judge "evil," saying he "must be fired."
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President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit challenging Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) voter purge program that targeted the registrations of naturalized citizens and other eligible voters on the eve of the 2024 general election.
P - Yesterday’s dismissal comes less than four months after former President Joe Biden’s DOJ filed suit alongside .. https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/virginia-noncitizen-voter-purge-program-challenge/ .. private advocacy groups arguing that the purge program runs afoul of the National Voter Registration (NVRA) — part of which bars states from systematically removing voters from the rolls within 90 days of a federal election.
P - Just a few weeks prior to the 2024 general election, a Trump-appointed federal judge preliminarily blocked Youngkin’s program for likely violating the NVRA and ordered election officials to restore to the voter rolls approximately 1,600 individuals whose registrations were canceled or marked as inactive.
P - The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals subsequently declined the commonwealth’s request to pause the district court’s injunction, but the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority ultimately reinstated the purge program without explanation a mere six days prior to the election.
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Justice officials move to drop Adams case after 7 lawyers refuse, resign in protest
"Massacre’: Six DOJ officials resign in protest of ‘dangerous’ Trump abuse in widening scanda"
Acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove told prosecutors in Washington to find someone who would seek to have the case dismissed, or risk losing their jobs
Updated February 14, 2025
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Judge upholds Trump’s felony conviction, but does not plan to order jail time
[...]"Judge Merchan is doing the best he can in a really terrible situation that none of us wanted to be in to try to at least send home a message that there is still, if not accountability for Donald Trump, accountability for others," Vance told the host.
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Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency
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Back to your article: Hard to omit any of it, and the Trump image should be seen with Judge Young's
condemnation of him and of his administration, so will reproduce it in full:

Reagan-Appointed Judge Calls Out Trump’s ‘Full-Throated Assault on the First Amendment’

By Jacob Knutson
September 30, 2025


President Trump in the Oval Office on Sept. 30. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

A judge Tuesday issued an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Donald Trump while finding that the U.S. government impermissibly violated the First Amendment by targeting pro-Palestinian student activists for deportation.

U.S. District Judge Bill Young’s ruling was the long-anticipated result of a lawsuit brought by university professors who alleged that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and other Trump officials intentionally violated First Amendment speech protections to chill pro-Palestine campus speech.

Young, based in Massachusetts, agreed with the plaintiffs, finding that by explicitly targeting pro-Palestinian student activists like Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk for deportation, the Trump administration sought to “strike fear” into similarly situated non-citizen students and stifle political activity it disagrees with.

Young, 85, who has been on the bench for four decades after being appointed by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1985, said the case was “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court.”

The constitutional question before Young was whether non-citizens lawfully present in the country have the same free speech rights as U.S. citizens.

Young ruled “unequivocally” they do.

“‘No law’ means ‘no law,’” Young said, referring to the text of the First Amendment, which in part states that Congress shall make no law “abridging the freedom of speech” or “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Young ruled that the First Amendment could not draw on the Trump administration’s “invidious distinction” between citizens and non-citizens, which the judge said “is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence.”

“No one’s freedom of speech is unlimited, of course, but these limits are the same for both citizens and non-citizens alike,” he wrote.

“The president’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.”

Intimidating non-citizen students, Young noted in a footnote, was just one aspect of the Trump administration’s “full-throated assault on the First Amendment across the board under the cover of an unconstitutionally broad definition of Anti-Semitism.”

Though he found that the government violated the First Amendment, Young for now held off on ordering changes to administration policies. The judge said he would hold additional proceedings to secure relief that goes beyond ordering public officials to “cease and desist in the future.” He warned, however, that given Trump and the “rapidly changing nature of the Executive Branch under Article II of our Constitution,” a remedy might not be obtainable.

Young’s opinion was remarkable in its candid assessment of the Trump administration’s effort to squelch political speech in general — not just on college campuses — and Trump’s autocratic tendencies as a leader.

“Behold President Trump’s successes in limiting free speech – law firms cower, institutional leaders in higher education meekly appease the President, media outlets from huge conglomerates to small niche magazines mind the bottom line rather than the ethics of journalism.”

The judge included in his ruling a 12-page assessment of the president himself, saying that Trump routinely ignores the Constitution, laws, regulations and customs while governing but will readily and aggressively deploy the legal system against those who stand in his way.

“Now that he is our duly elected President after a full and fair election, he not only enjoys broad immunity from any personal liability, he is prepared to deploy all the resources of the nation against obstruction,” Young wrote. “Daunting prospect, isn’t it?”

Young also heavily chided Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) officials for routinely wearing masks while carrying out immigration-related arrests. Masked agents arrested both Khalil and Öztürk earlier this year.

“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence,” Young wrote. “To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

At the very top of the opinion, before even listing the parties involved in the case, Young included a copy of an anonymous handwritten postcard his chambers recently received.

“Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?” the postcard read.

In reply, Young stated, “Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution.”

“Here’s how that works out in a specific case,” the judge added.

The rest of the opinion served as a response to the anonymous postcard. At the end, the judge thanked the anonymous writer and invited them to “stop in at the Courthouse and watch your fellow citizens, sitting as jurors, reach out for justice.”

“It is here, and in courthouses just like this one, both state and federal, spread throughout our land that our Constitution is most vibrantly alive,” Young wrote

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