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The Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union squared off
in front of a federal appeals court on Monday to debate for the first time whether Trump could use
an 18th-century wartime law to deport immigrants he has accused of belonging to a violent Venezuelan street gang.
The debate took place during an hourlong hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans.
While several lower courts have considered Trump’s use of the sta…

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-05-29 20:25:52

«AI systems are an attack on workers, climate goals, our information environment, and civil liberties. Rather than enhancing our human qualities, these systems degrade our social relations, and undermine our capacity for empathy and care.»
Nice writing by @…!
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@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-23 19:30:44

Media Matters files suit in federal court to block retaliatory FTC investigation and protect its First Amendment rights (Media Matters for America)
mediamatters.org/justice-civil
memeorandum.com/250623/p103#a2

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-05-29 20:25:52

«AI systems are an attack on workers, climate goals, our information environment, and civil liberties. Rather than enhancing our human qualities, these systems degrade our social relations, and undermine our capacity for empathy and care.»
Nice writing by @…!
thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-06-22 09:20:22

Even Elysium’s director thinks his film is a mess – but a decade on, it deserves a second chance theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-06-14 15:26:36

In light of the political killings in Minnesota, remember what Trump did, #minnesota

Judge to weigh blocking Trump on birthright citizenship despite supreme court ruling
A federal judge will consider today whether to prevent Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing his executive order limiting birthright citizenship -- after the US supreme court restricted the ability of judges to block his policies using nationwide injunctions.
American Civil Liberties Union lawyers are set to ask US district judge Joseph Laplante at a hearing in Concord, New Hampshire, to g…