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A U.S. federal judge has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt of court over its failure to halt deportation flights to El Salvador. Cassandra Burke Robertson, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University, explains to @TheConversationUS what it all means.
“It’s not too late for the government to comply. One option for the government is called “purging the contempt,” meaning the administration complies with the court order and brings the individuals who were sent to El Salvador back into U.S. custody,” Burke Robertson says. “If the administration does that, there will not be any further contempt proceedings. Normally, that would be attractive to the government in this position.”
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14/15
Federal judge finds ‘probable cause’ to hold Trump administration in contempt – a legal scholar explains what this means
Judge James Boasberg’s order stops short of holding any government officials in contempt, but leaves open the possibility for these sanctions.The Conversation
Remember when Nate Silver tipped New York City Mayor Eric Adams as a future U.S. president? How’s that going for you, Nate?
@nybooks takes a look at Adams’ hubris, the scandal that will likely come to define him, and how his mayoralty has “come to epitomize the spirit of Trump’s second term — from its ethos of aggrieved narcissism to its punitive approach toward the vulnerable.” [Story may be paywalled]
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7/15
The President of Brooklyn | Nawal Arjini, Willa Glickman | The New York Review of Books
The saga of Eric Adams’s mayoralty has come to epitomize the spirit of Trump’s second term—from its ethos of aggrieved narcissism to its punitive approach toward the vulnerable.Willa Glickman (The New York Review of Books)
If America wants to see how successful tariffs can be in the automotive industry, they should look to Ukraine, where they were first implemented in the early 1990s. The goal was to protect domestic car producers after the collapse of the USSR, which saw an economic crisis followed by an influx of foreign vehicles. “In the best years, the Ukrainian car market had 623,000 new cars and was Europe's No. 7 car market, according to Autoconsulting,” @timkmak’s Counteroffensive reports. “Today, it is almost zero.” The only hope for the resurrection of production? Making tanks for Ukraine’s army.
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6/15
Tariffs destroyed Ukraine’s automotive industry. Is the U.S. next?
The Trump administration recently imposed tariffs on imported cars. In Ukraine, this policy has already proved ineffective amid its inability to develop its local industry.Myroslava Tanska-Vikulova (The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak)
“Harvard didn’t blink. The fight starts here,” writes @Daojoan for her Index newsletter. “[It] did not act quickly. But it acted clearly. That clarity must be contagious. Because unless every university in America is ready to say no to federal ideological coercion, this moment will not be a line in the sand. It will be a footnote in the obituary of academic freedom,” she writes. “The government has already decided it can control the curriculum by controlling the cash. What happens next is not up to them. It's up to everyone else.”
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4/15
Harvard Didn’t Blink. The Fight Starts Here.
Harvard stood its ground. Now every university faces a choice: comply or resist.Joan Westenberg (The Index.)
Short thread.
If you have not read what the U.S. government demanded that Harvard do, by all means, scan this document.
I found these demands objectionable, even outrageous, and I have no affiliation with Harvard. 1/2
The Trump administration hasn't targeted businesses that sponsor Pride events (yet), but that hasn't stopped some from pulling their funding. Several celebrations are down hundreds of thousands of dollars this year as a result of reduced or withdrawn donations. Some smaller, rural Pride events are down between 70 and 90 percent in sponsorship dollars compared to an average year. “We will remember who stood by us and who didn’t," Suzanne Ford, executive director of San Francisco said of disappearing sponsors. "When it was politically popular, they were lined up.”
#LGBTQ #Pride #PrideMonth #LoveIsLove #TrumpAdministration #USPolitics
DEI rollbacks prompt corporations to pull sponsorship from major Pride parades
Several major LGBTQ Pride celebrations lose top sponsors due to DEI-related rollbacks costing $200,000 to $350,000 in funding.Jo Yurcaba (NBC News)
Trump news at a glance: US can deport lawful resident for his views in ‘unjust and alarming’ court ruling
Judge rules Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil for his beliefs – key US politics stories from 11 April at a glanceGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
We are witnessing the destruction of science in America
If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be inventedGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
JUST IN: Judge Orders Return of Man Trump Admin Sent To El Salvador Mega-Prison by Error
#MistakenDetention #TrumpAdministration #ImmigrationNews #FederalJudgeOrder #ElSalvadorPrison
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Judge Orders Return of Man Trump Admin Sent To El Salvador Mega-Prison by Error
A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump's administration to return a man accidentally sent to a El Salvador prison back to the United States.Zachary Leeman (Mediaite)
