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Jan 22 3 tweets 1 min read
POLICE: We've caught you trying to rob this bank.

ROBBER: No, you misunderstand. I'm trying to seat an alternate slate of bank account holders.
POLICE: We found the notes you took on your criminal conspiracy.

CONSPIRATOR: We prefer to think of them as legal memos proving that it’s okay to do crime.
POLICE: We have a recorded jail call of you arranging drug sales

DEFENDANT: But you can't touch me because I began the call by saying it was legitimate political discourse

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Sep 3, 2021
This is completely, 100%, not accurate.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Civil rights advocates acting as private attorneys general represent *injured* parties against people who *violated* their rights.

They don't bring suits by *uninjured* parties to punish others for *exercising* rights. That's what SB8 allows.
More fundamentally, there is no "progressive playbook" of suing people for exercising rights and then contriving to prevent courts from deciding whether that's lawful.

Not yesterday. Not today. Not ever.

Not even with the door to this mischief thrown open by the Supreme Court.
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Dec 24, 2019
BREAKING: Judge Wolf has issued a temporary restraining order requiring ICE to release our class member “forthwith” so that he can be reunited with his family for the holidays! 🙌🙌🙌
COURT: the law required ICE to interview Mr. Kim to determine whether his detention should continue, but ICE detained him for NINE MONTHS without interviewing him once.
COURT: when ICE intends to deport someone, their opportunity to spend time with family is “especially precious and irreplaceable.”
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Oct 11, 2019
So.

Today an ICE “Removal & International Operations Chief,” who makes decisions to detain people all over the US, testified that ICE has been REPEATEDLY VIOLATING a regulation designed to give detainees a chance to explain why they should be released.
The law (8 CFR 241.4(i)(3)) requires a personal interview for “post order” custody past 180 days.

ICE has not been doing the interviews. 👇
Upon learning it was violating the law, ICE CONTINUED VIOLATING THE LAW. 👇
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Jun 28, 2018
Actual words said by a govt employee when telling a mom that the United States would be stealing her child.
They told mom to bathe her daughter and do her hair before they took her.
Angelica’s little girl has turned 8 while in captivity. She would like a pizza.
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