Created by Congress in 1996,
the Alien Terrorist Removal Court,
has five federal judges appointed by the Chief Justice,
“to review applications for the removal from the United States of alien terrorists.”
The attorney general submits applications for removal to the court under seal.
According to the Federal Judicial Center, it has never received an application since its founding.
-- Until this week.
According to a court order posted on the newly-cr…
One of the things in this here timeline (the world, not social media) that I find extremely disgusting is the amount of ableism in “blue no matter who”-type and “Apple is evil” posters.
This is prevalent on most social media platforms, but the strongest I’ve ever seen this is on Bluesky and Mastodon.
If you’re ableist, you’re not a good person.
Google unveils Continue On, a new feature in Android 17 that will let users move tasks between Android devices, similar to Apple's Handoff feature (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/05/19/android-17s-…
Filing: Netflix paid $587M in cash for Ben Affleck's AI company, InterPositive, in March (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-price-ben-affleck-ai-company-r…
The Trump administration has activated a secretive and
never-before-used legal process
to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists”
or their immediate family members.
The Justice Department submitted the first-ever application to the Alien Terrorist Removal Court
— which has lain dormant since it was established by law in 1996
— with little notice earlier this week.
The details of the July 15 application are sealed and an acco…
Wildberger: „Wir geben diese digitale Republik nicht auf“
Auf der re:publica in Berlin erhält Bundesdigitalminister Karsten Wildberger auch Applaus – doch an einer Stelle bleibt der merklich aus.
https://www.
Hiring a hit man is not a crime of violence -- even in cases where the killer fulfills his contract and his employer is convicted in the conspiracy, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week.
In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel vacated two felony convictions that stemmed from a pair of contract killings negotiated to settle an oil well dispute in North Dakota.
The court found that although trucking and drilling magnate James Henrikson had paid Timothy Suckow tens of…