Calle Bergquist
@callebergquist.bsky.social
CHIRLA General Counsel, riffing on immigration, racism, civil rights & liberties. Alum: UH Richardson School of Law '19; Georgetown SFS '94, Drug Policy Forum of Hawaiʻi; #Imua #BackaGirjas
JUST IN: DHS is responsible for dangerous and unsanitary conditions at at California's Adelanto ICE facility, even though it is managed day-to-day by the GEO Group, the 9th Circuit rules. 3 judge panel declines to stay lower-court order for monitors. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
USA:s förföljelse av antifascister konkretiseras genom gripandet av den tidigare SPLC-medarbetaren Heidi Beirich, på vad som lär visa sig vara mer eller mindre skrattretande grunder.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: CNN is reporting as an "exclusive" that the former CFO of SPLC, Heidi Beirich, was arrested in California today. They have a quote from Blanche at a news conference and say this is "part of a superseding indictment," but the docket does not yet reflect the superseding indictment.
Trump’s Department of Education and Secretary Linda McMahon tried to politicize the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program by only allowing employers who agreed with the administration’s agenda to qualify. We sued, and today, we won on behalf of nonprofits, local governments, and labor unions.
“It is a shocking act of retaliation for the federal government to arrest someone who has courageously dared to call out the government’s unlawful immigration raids,” Mohammad Tajsar... "We expect Isaac to be released immediately.” www.latimes.com/california/s...
California plaintiff in lawsuit challenging immigration raids arrested by ICE
ICE on Thursday arrested a plaintiff involved in a class action lawsuit challenging Los Angeles immigration raids, prompting concerns from lawyers of retaliation and calls for his release.
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Chris Newman@cnewman.bsky.social · 6mo agoTODAY in Los Angeles-- Rally at Noon PST-- Plaintiff in Landmark Federal Lawsuit Challenging ICE Raids Throughout LA Arrested in Apparent Violation of Immigration Court Order #ICEoutofLA ndlon.org/plaintiff-in...
"We're not going to litigate whether the supposed need for this legislation that would contract voting access exists."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoQ: Can you give one example of fraud in a previous election that the SAVE America Act would stop? MIKE JOHNSON: Look, we're not gonna litigate all that
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
Trump (1) reveals he doesn't know what habeas corpus is and (2) punts to Noem, who famously revealed her own ignorance at a Senate hearing when she defined habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country." www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12mo agoQ: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus? TRUMP: Suspending who? Q: Habeas corpus TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
"Blistering opinion" is absolutely right. But this principled, outraged ruling is an entirely appropriate response to Trump's effort to imprison and deport people for their constitutionally protected speech. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Judge issues blistering opinion against Trump policy to deport pro-Palestinian students
Judge rules non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment
theguardian.com
Most of the plaudits will go out to Shane Lowry, but this guy was the only one to win a point for Europe today. Cap doffed Ludvig Åberg - a huge crucial point. #RyderCup
What was incredible to me about this press conference is that nowhere did anyone mention that the victims were all detainees. Even if it turns out the suspect intended to target ICE employees, which we still don’t know is true, doesn’t that seem like important information?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.FBI official: "What I can share with you is that early evidence we're seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that are anti-ICE in nature. Again, this is just the most recently example of this type of attack."
NEW: In a break from decades of history, the Trump administration has started detaining virtually everyone facing deportation — even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for decades. Dozens of judges, with increasing alarm, have ruled the policy shift illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Trump’s new detention policy targets millions of immigrants. Judges keep saying it’s illegal.
The administration says the sweeping detentions are a key prong of Trump’s deportation strategy.
politico.com
Starting at 8:30 EST, @immcouncil.org’s own @naynagupta.bsky.social will be testifying at a shadow hearing held by Congressional Democrats on the impact of Trump’s mass deportation policies. Check it out! www.youtube.com/live/m47GZMk...
Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Assault Destroys U.S. Families and Communities
YouTube video by Representative Pramila Jayapal
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I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · last yr.korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Kavanaugh's concurrence cites as examples two immigration cases in which the Court held that lower courts lacked the power to block Biden administration immigration policies. What he rather curiously omits is that, in both cases, the Court had *denied* the government's emergency applications.
And, as you pointed out just now, these two case involving the State of Texas and District Courts therein were somehow cited as examples of consistent and even application by Justice Kavanaugh in his concurrence. Mindboggling.
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last yr.One might also add examples of stuff Biden did that lower courts blocked and that #SCOTUS *left* blocked at the emergency application stage, only to unblock on the merits (e.g., rescission of MPP; immigration enforcement priorities). Those seem like the sharpest examples of differences in behavior.
What happened at SCOTUS today is alarming: The right-wing majority allowed the Trump admin, as part of its sweeping immigration raids, to racially profile Spanish-speaking people who look Latino at certain low-wage job sites in the Los Angeles area while litigation challenging the raids is ongoing.
SCOTUS conservatives OK Trump admin's racial profiling of Latinos in low-wage jobs
Five of the six Republican appointees to the Supreme Court wrote nothing Monday. But their actions, and Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence, paint an alarming picture.
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A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."
Trump administration illegally froze billions in Harvard funds, judge rules
The ruling is a legal victory for Harvard but the White House says it will appeal the decision.
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Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · last yr.If you prefer to read this thread on our site, here’s the link: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
BREAKING: Trump-appointed judge *dismisses* DOJ lawsuit against Maryland judges over their decision to automatically pause deportation cases for 48 hours He also calls Trump and his admin's attack on judges a "smear" that is "unprecedented and unfortunate storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Clergy showing up for people facing deportation. @jackjenkins.me of @rns.org reported on clergy in MD supporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia: religionnews.com/2025/08/25/o.... @jeremyfuzy.bsky.social of @wordandway.bsky.social reported on clergy in OH backing Ayman Soliman: wordandway.org/2025/08/25/r...
Religious Leaders Urge Ohio Governor to Challenge ICE on ‘Interfaith Imam’ Chaplain Case - Word&Way
A group of leaders representing multiple religious traditions came together to call on Gov. Mike DeWine to intervene in the detention and possible deportation of Ayman Soliman, a beloved chaplain at C...
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Exactly right. ICE routinely brings people back after mistakes. Even still, today! But with him, it was the CECOT deportation flights. It was their defiance of Judge Boasberg. And when his removal threatened to blow up their narrative, they turned the full weight of the federal government on him.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.this is little more than a vendetta being pursued by the federal government against a man it unlawfully removed from the country and was forced to bring back
🎉We’re thrilled to introduce the honorees for this year’s Dignity, Community & Power Awards gala: ✨Brad Lander, @nyccomptroller.bsky.social ✨ @chasestrangio.bsky.social, Co-Director of the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project ✨ @chirla-org.bsky.social, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights 🧵⤵️
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
A D.C. Circuit panel just declined to pause implementation of the so-called “Alien Registration Requirement.” That rule now forces nearly 3 million undocumented immigrants ages 14+ to fingerprint, carry ID, or face criminal charges. 🔗 Read more here: www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-d...
DC Circuit denies emergency bid to block national registry for immigrants
The now-effective “Alien Registration Requirement” requires all migrants 14 or older to register their fingerprints and carry an ID card — or face criminal prosecution.
courthousenews.com
Great new piece from @immcouncil.org's Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social, emphasizing how Trump's actions on immigration represent a broader threat to democracy.
American Immigration Council@immcouncil.org · last yr.The immigration system was broken before President Trump returned to office. But instead of fixing it, the Trump administration has chosen to make things worse — on purpose. Read more from our policy director @naynagupta.bsky.social in @msnbc.com ⤵️
Deep appreciation to @justiceactionctr.bsky.social for litigating this and to the members of @chirla-org.bsky.social @casaforall.bsky.social and UndocuBlack for stepping forward.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.NEW: a federal court in DC has barred DHS from using “expedited removal” to strip those people who entered the country legally through humanitarian parole of a right to a court hearing. Full opinion here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
