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A federal judge in Eugene extended a temporary court order on Monday requiring the U.S. Coast Guard to maintain a search and rescue helicopter in Newport for at least the next two weeks.
U.S. Coast Guard likely ‘ran afoul’ of law by removing rescue helicopter from Newport, judge says
The judge's order Monday is the latest in a political and legal drama that’s rapidly escalated, emanating from Oregon’s central coast.
www.opb.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A federal judge in Eugene extended a temporary court order on Monday requiring the U.S. Coast Guard to maintain a search and rescue helicopter in Newport for at least the next two weeks.
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It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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🚨BREAKING: Alina Habba, a former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, has been unlawfully serving as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor for months, an appeals court panel unanimously ruled Monday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Appeals Court Disqualifies former Trump Lawyer Alina Habba as New Jersey’s Top Federal Prosecutor
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🚨BREAKING: Alina Habba, a former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, has been unlawfully serving as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor for months, an appeals court panel unanimously ruled Monday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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There's a lot going on, and immigration law is notoriously labyrinthine. But it's still wild both that (1) the Trump administration is trying to treat millions of non-citizens who have lived here for years/decades as "arriving aliens"; & (2) *hundreds* of courts have (almost unanimously!) said "no":
195. The Immigration Detention Flood
The Trump administration's attempt to quietly—but massively—expand who can be detained pending their removal has been met with overwhelming pushback from a remarkably large number of district courts.
www.stevevladeck.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
There's a lot going on, and immigration law is notoriously labyrinthine. But it's still wild both that (1) the Trump administration is trying to treat millions of non-citizens who have lived here for years/decades as "arriving aliens"; & (2) *hundreds* of courts have (almost unanimously!) said "no":
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Viola Ford Fletcher’s courage and conviction galvanized a national reckoning and reshaped the understanding of one of the most violently traumatic instances of racialized violence documented in American history—the Tulsa Massacre. Rest in eternal power.
www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
LDF Mourns the Loss of Viola Ford Fletcher, Oldest Known Survivor of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) mourns the passing of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Known affectionately as “Mother Fletcher,” through a century-long pur...
www.naacpldf.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Viola Ford Fletcher’s courage and conviction galvanized a national reckoning and reshaped the understanding of one of the most violently traumatic instances of racialized violence documented in American history—the Tulsa Massacre. Rest in eternal power.
www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
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65 years ago today, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges walked through a wall of hate to integrate the all-white William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans—becoming the first Black child to do so in the South. Surrounded by U.S. Marshals, she carried the weight of a nation on her small shoulders.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
65 years ago today, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges walked through a wall of hate to integrate the all-white William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans—becoming the first Black child to do so in the South. Surrounded by U.S. Marshals, she carried the weight of a nation on her small shoulders.
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BREAKING: Federal judge permanently blocks Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland.
buff.ly/ow0lMO6 by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
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Federal judge finds Trump Guard deployment to Portland illegal • Oregon Capital Chronicle
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to return control of federalized Oregon and California Guard troops to each state’s governor.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
BREAKING: Federal judge permanently blocks Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland.
buff.ly/ow0lMO6 by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
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Feds have repeatedly claimed 115+ federal police (25% of force) had to be deployed to Portland over the summer to quell violence. Oregon lawyers found on discovery this was not true and are asking 9th Circuit to reverse Monday decision because feds lied:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
October 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Feds have repeatedly claimed 115+ federal police (25% of force) had to be deployed to Portland over the summer to quell violence. Oregon lawyers found on discovery this was not true and are asking 9th Circuit to reverse Monday decision because feds lied:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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U.S. District Judge April Perry's temporary restraining order is in:
October 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
U.S. District Judge April Perry's temporary restraining order is in:
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A big victory for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s defense team.
BREAKING: A federal judge says there is a realistic likelihood that the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driven by vindictive motives — reflected in the public statements of Bondi, Blanche, Noem et al.
He has ordered discovery on the question.
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He has ordered discovery on the question.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A big victory for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s defense team.
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Judge: Again, I'm handling on emergency basis, limited briefing, but new info has been provided. For all of the reasons stated in this court's previous order, I GRANT plaintiffs' motion for second TRO. The question is the scope of it.
October 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Judge: Again, I'm handling on emergency basis, limited briefing, but new info has been provided. For all of the reasons stated in this court's previous order, I GRANT plaintiffs' motion for second TRO. The question is the scope of it.
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Judge: How could bringing in NG from CA not be in direct contravention of TRO I issued yesterday?
DOJ: TRO related only to Oregon NG
Judge: You are an officer of the court. Aren't defendants clearly circumventing my order?
DOJ: TRO related only to Oregon NG
Judge: You are an officer of the court. Aren't defendants clearly circumventing my order?
October 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Judge: How could bringing in NG from CA not be in direct contravention of TRO I issued yesterday?
DOJ: TRO related only to Oregon NG
Judge: You are an officer of the court. Aren't defendants clearly circumventing my order?
DOJ: TRO related only to Oregon NG
Judge: You are an officer of the court. Aren't defendants clearly circumventing my order?
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NEW: California joins Oregon and Portland in asking Judge Immergut for a SECOND temporary restraining order blocking the Trump admin from "circumventing this Court's Order" by deploying the federalized California National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![MEMORANDUM OF LAW
I. INTRODUCTION
Yesterday, this Court recognized that the legal principles at stake in this case “go[] to the
heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.” Opinion & Order
Granting Mot. for Temporary Restraining Order (“Order”), ECF 56 at 2. Applying those
principles, this Court concluded that Defendants likely lacked authority to federalize Oregon
National Guard members and ordered Defendants to halt federalization for 14 days. Defendants
filed a notice of appeal last night (Ntc. of Appeal, ECF 57), and they have now asked the Ninth
Circuit to stay the effect of this Court’s decision.
Not content with this Court’s or the Ninth Circuit’s judgment, Defendants are now in the
process of circumventing this Court's Order. After this Court ruled that 10 U.S.C. § 12406 could
not justify federalizing the Oregon National Guard to deploy them to Portland, Defendants have
deployed members of the California National Guard to Portland—servicemembers who were
federalized under that very same Title 10 authority for deployment in Los Angeles. That
redeployment is illegal: Setting aside whether the underlying federalization order from August
violated Section 12406, the federalization order clearly did not contemplate the use of California](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreibjegxtrxgazrxcnjswezrqiyfuiqgiciwilpiuchnes7rg5c4uae@jpeg)
October 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
NEW: California joins Oregon and Portland in asking Judge Immergut for a SECOND temporary restraining order blocking the Trump admin from "circumventing this Court's Order" by deploying the federalized California National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
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ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
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![In this case, and unlike in Newsom II, Plaintiffs provide substantial evidence that the
protests at the Portland ICE facility were not significantly violent or disruptive in the days—or
even weeks—leading up to the President’s directive on September 27, 2025. The record evidence
establishes that while disruption outside the Portland ICE facility peaked in June of 2025, federal
and local law enforcement officers were able to “quell[] . . . the disorder.” Newsom II, 141 F.4th
at 1051 (quoting Sterling, 278 U.S. at 399–400). As of September 27, 2025, it had been months
since there was any sustained level of violent or disruptive protest activity in Portland. During
this time frame, there were sporadic events requiring either PPB monitoring or federal law
enforcement intervention, but overall, the protests were small and uneventful.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iv73mapy52ilxfjnetqatnvu/bafkreichx477gffu3qplmr3ftyqea2r25htz5tpmzeal3isz54tkas5u5u@jpeg)
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BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
October 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
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Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets.
Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key witness because of credibility issues.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social
Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key witness because of credibility issues.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social
Chicago Cop Who Falsely Blamed an Ex-Girlfriend for Dozens of Traffic Tickets Pleads Guilty but Avoids Prison
Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets. Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key w...
www.propublica.org
October 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets.
Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key witness because of credibility issues.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social
Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key witness because of credibility issues.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social
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BREAKING:
A federal judge ORDERS an evidentiary hearing to determine whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been vindictively prosecuted.
Abrego’s lawyers carried their burden of demonstrating enough evidence to warrant it.
A federal judge ORDERS an evidentiary hearing to determine whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been vindictively prosecuted.
Abrego’s lawyers carried their burden of demonstrating enough evidence to warrant it.
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
BREAKING:
A federal judge ORDERS an evidentiary hearing to determine whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been vindictively prosecuted.
Abrego’s lawyers carried their burden of demonstrating enough evidence to warrant it.
A federal judge ORDERS an evidentiary hearing to determine whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been vindictively prosecuted.
Abrego’s lawyers carried their burden of demonstrating enough evidence to warrant it.
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Three cheers for the Constitution's right to a jury: a federal jury in Los Angeles "took just over an hour to acquit [Brayan] Ramos-Brito of a misdemeanor assault count" in an ICE-scuffle case hinging heavily on the testimony of border sector chief Gregory Bovino, now doing raids in Chicago.
October 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Three cheers for the Constitution's right to a jury: a federal jury in Los Angeles "took just over an hour to acquit [Brayan] Ramos-Brito of a misdemeanor assault count" in an ICE-scuffle case hinging heavily on the testimony of border sector chief Gregory Bovino, now doing raids in Chicago.
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2025 Worker-Led State Policy Victories Show How States Can—and Must—Do More To Hold the Line Against Escalating Federal Attacks on Workers’ Rights portside.org/2025-08-18/2...
2025 Worker-Led State Policy Victories Show How States Can—and Must—Do More To Hold the Line Against Escalating Federal Attacks on Workers’ Rights
State action to strengthen worker rights and protections has become critically important at a moment when long-standing U.S. labor standards are under acute threat.
portside.org
August 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
2025 Worker-Led State Policy Victories Show How States Can—and Must—Do More To Hold the Line Against Escalating Federal Attacks on Workers’ Rights portside.org/2025-08-18/2...
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JUST IN: Oregon sues to stop Trump’s deployment of the military, saying its pretextual and that ICE protests have been small and relatively contained since June. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
JUST IN: Oregon sues to stop Trump’s deployment of the military, saying its pretextual and that ICE protests have been small and relatively contained since June. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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"The number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city," Mayor Keith Wilson said.
What Oregon’s political leaders are saying to Trump’s plan to send troops to Portland
"The number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city," Mayor Keith Wilson said.
www.oregonlive.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"The number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city," Mayor Keith Wilson said.
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ICE has released Oregon firefighter Rigoberto Hernandez Hernandez from federal custody. Hernandez was arrested while working the Bear Gulch Fire in Washington, and his release came as a surprise Wednesday morning.
ICE releases Oregon firefighter arrested last month during Bear Gulch Fire
Rigoberto Hernandez Hernandez’s release came suddenly Wednesday morning without a court order.
www.opb.org
September 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
ICE has released Oregon firefighter Rigoberto Hernandez Hernandez from federal custody. Hernandez was arrested while working the Bear Gulch Fire in Washington, and his release came as a surprise Wednesday morning.
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JUST IN: Fed judge in RI bars enforcement of Trump anti-'gender ideology' exec ord against a group of National Endowment for the Arts grantees. Judge William Smith (GWBush) says 'zero explanation' of how NEA will apply policy it adopted. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
NEAGrantsOrdRI091925
www.documentcloud.org
September 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
JUST IN: Fed judge in RI bars enforcement of Trump anti-'gender ideology' exec ord against a group of National Endowment for the Arts grantees. Judge William Smith (GWBush) says 'zero explanation' of how NEA will apply policy it adopted. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...