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@kyledcheney
Sep 18, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Heavy police presence ringing the Capitol this morning, fleet of plows for crowd control, clear ‘police line’ signage and police vans for mass arrests situations at the ready. Security not messing around. Image
Some Three Percenter regalia here, including one man with a ‘Vietnam Veteran’ hat and jacket . Several affiliated with these loose anti-govt groups were arrested after Jan. 6. ImageImage
A very good boy doing security. Image
Small counterprotest presence here too. No visible pro-Trump signage, which is what organizer asked for. Image
DC police chief Robert Contee III on the scene Image
A very #ThisTown counterprotest Image
Event underway, very low key. Wife of Jonathan Mellis (one of Jan. 6 defendants held in pretrial detention) currently speaking.
Aaaand it’s over. Protesters appeared to be outnumbered by media/cops for duration of event. A muted demonstration that nevertheless put DC on edge and drew an overwhelming display of force from police/government.
USCP chief Manger hanging out with Montgomery County officers (his old force) on front line of Capitol defenses. Image
NEW: DC was on edge, but a rally in support of those arrested on Jan. 6 drew a meager turnout — media presence rivaled the crowd size and overwhelming police force was on display.

w/ @nicholaswu12 @joshgerstein

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Mar 28
BREAKING: A second federal judge has barred the military from enforcing its ban on transgender service members. Details TK storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
Judge Settle, a George W. Bush appointee, says the Trump administration provided no evidence that transgender service members negatively affect readiness, unit cohesion or lethality.

65-page opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
Here is the description of one of the transgender plaintiffs who would be forced out of the military under the Hegseth policy. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
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Mar 26
BREAKING: The DC Circuit has *rejected* DOJ's effort to lift Judge Boasberg's block on Alien Enemies Act deportations.

Ruling is 2-1, with Judge Walker dissenting.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
Judge Henderson (GHW Bush appointee) bases her ruling almost entirely on determination that Trump failed to justify claim of "invasion" or "predatory incursion." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
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Judge Millett (Obama) is focused more on due process and the failure to afford any to the people Trump claimed were members of Tren de Aragua. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
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Mar 21
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Boasberg has taken the bench as he weighs whether to vacate his restraining order on deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
Boasberg comes in hot: Wants to know why the lawyer who originally argued the case didn't show up to hearing Monday. He says the filings since have used "the kind of intemperate and disrespectful language I’m not used to hearing from the United States."
DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign says he believed Boasberg intended the planes to be turned around when he issued his oral order in court over the wekend: "I understood the intent that you meant that to be effective at that time."

DOJ has since said they didn't view it that way.
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Mar 20
BREAKING: A federal judge in Maryland has just barred DOGE from accessing Social Security systems, saying the group is on a "fishing expedition" that jeopardizes people's personal data.

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NEW: Judge Hollander ruled that DOGE was granted unusual access to non-anonymized social security data and could not identify any basis for that degree of access.

She wants access limited, installed software removed and data taken out of SSA destroyed.

politico.com/news/2025/03/2…Image
MORE: Judge Hollander called it ironic that DOGE demanded anonymity for their staffers but “did not appear to share a privacy concern” for people whose data could be exposed at Social Security. politico.com/news/2025/03/2…Image
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Mar 19
NEWS: An Indian national teaching at Georgetown was arrested by immigration authorities in Rosslyn, Va. Monday.

His lawyers say he's being targeted for his pro-Palestinian views. His U.S. citizen wife's father was a Hamas adviser.

w/ @joshgerstein

politico.com/news/2025/03/1…
Badar Khan Suri has not been charged with any crime, but his lawyer says DHS whisked him to detention Monday night. He's since been trasnferred to a facility in Louisiana. His lawyer compares Suri's plight to Mahmoud Khalil.

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We came across the case earlier today on the federal docket in Va., but the habeas petition was not public. A quick search of Suri's name, though, revealed his Georgetown connection -- as well as numerous articles about his wife, Mapheze Saleh.

politico.com/news/2025/03/1…Image
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Mar 18
HMMM: So the administration reveals in a new court filing (ordered by Judge Bates) that Amy Gleason was actually hired by HHS as an "expert/consultant" on March 4, just a few days after the White House identified her as the administrator of DOGE. Image
MORE: In an earlier filing, without identifying Gleason by name, HHS identified her as being "detailed" to HHS in February (around time she was IDed as DOGE administrator) They indicate she will remain a DOGE/USDS employee while also working at HHS. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
Importantly, the Trump administration has been identifying Gleason as the administrator in other recent court filings but has not noted she is dual hatted at HHS, which might … limit her bandwidth to run the whole DOGE operation.
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