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Senior Editor, Lawfare. Practiced law a long time ago. Email: roger.parloff@lawfaremedia.org ; signal rparloff.61

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You ask “Why?” So does Judge Tunheim. Here’s his full ruling.
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06.03.2026 15:19 👍 57 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
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This refugee girl, a junior in high school, was pulled over on way to school, shackled, threatened that she & family would be taken to Chicago or TX. After court order stops that, she spends night in a hotel room with 3 ICE agents. Finally released. ...
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06.03.2026 15:19 👍 37 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 1
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(ICE started doing this shortly after a deranged Afghan refugee shot 2 national guardsmen in DC.)
ICE nabbed this family, with 4-yo, shipped them to TX, made them spend night in a cell & then in a hotel room with 3 ICE agents. Released in TX. No return ticket.
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06.03.2026 15:19 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
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Depraved stories from last Friday’s ruling striking down DHS’s detentions of lawfully admitted & vetted refugees in MN. In Jan 2026, ICE scrapped 45-yrs of practice & started detaining every refugee in MN (5,600) on 1st anniversary of entry, ostensibly to make sure they weren’t terrorists ...
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06.03.2026 15:19 👍 109 🔁 51 💬 5 📌 1
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Main Document – #00108413580, Att. #1 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.com MOTION to stay judgment pending appeal filed by Appellants DHS, Kristi Noem, Pamela J. Bondi and Antone Moniz. Served on 03/05/2026. [26-1212] (ML) [Entered: 03/05/2026 11:08 PM]

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06.03.2026 12:56 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Govt asks 1st Circuit for emergency stay to maintain DHS's policy of removing noncitizens to 3d countries with minimal process. Judge Murphy declared it illegal. If stay is denied, govt will go straight to SCOTUS, which twice stayed Murphy's preliminary injunctions.

06.03.2026 12:55 👍 129 🔁 71 💬 5 📌 3
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Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes Andrew Paul Johnson, authorities said, tried to keep one of his victims mum by floating the promise of money he was expecting to receive from the Justice Department.

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes

05.03.2026 21:15 👍 1070 🔁 422 💬 46 📌 67

One of the petitioners -- a roofer named Riky who's in the U.S. legally on a U1 visa -- is still missing his work permit & $400 nail gun. Can't do much roofing without either. His lawyer says ICE agents told Riky they were going to destroy the nail gun. He's also missing $100 in cash.

05.03.2026 22:27 👍 62 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 1

I was there today, and at Judge Bryan's on Tuesday. This one was far less spicy (and shorter). U.S. Atty Dan Rosen was contrite and promised full compensation for missing items. Tunheim is promising a ruling tonight, likely w/ 30-day deadline to return items with threat of civil contempt fines.

05.03.2026 22:27 👍 34 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

i think it's happening now, but without remote access.

05.03.2026 22:22 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Order to Show Cause – #24 in J.B.C.O. v. Bondi (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00424) – CourtListener.com ORDER The Court will hold a hearing 3/5/2026 at 02:00 PM in Courtroom 14E (MPLS) before Judge John R. Tunheim. The parties shall present a status update regarding Petitioner's property and any conditi...

Judge Tunheim's full order, issued Tuesday, convoking today's hearing is below:
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05.03.2026 22:07 👍 73 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
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The civil contempt hearing Judge Tunheim ordered US Atty Dan Rosen to attend today, concerning late or no return of detainees' property in ~5 cases, should not be confused with the one Judge Bryan ordered Rosen to attend Tuesday concerning the same issue in ~25 other cases. ...
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05.03.2026 22:07 👍 397 🔁 129 💬 2 📌 1
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Trump prosecutor running for appeals court judge
Fulton County Deputy DA Will Wooten qualified Thursday to run against Judge E. Trenton Brown III for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Fulton Deputy DA Will Wooten (left) and and special prosecutor Nathan Wade were part of the prosecutorial team in the case against Donald Trump. (Jason Getz/AJC 2023)
By Anna Bower - For the AJC

POLITICS Trump prosecutor running for appeals court judge Fulton County Deputy DA Will Wooten qualified Thursday to run against Judge E. Trenton Brown III for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals. Fulton Deputy DA Will Wooten (left) and and special prosecutor Nathan Wade were part of the prosecutorial team in the case against Donald Trump. (Jason Getz/AJC 2023) By Anna Bower - For the AJC

SCOOP: A prosecutor who helped build the Georgia election interference case against Trump is running to unseat the appeals court judge whose ruling helped bring the case to an end.

Will Wooten will challenge Trent Brown, who wrote the opinion disqualifying Fani Willis.

Me for @ajc.com (link in 🧵👇)

05.03.2026 20:33 👍 953 🔁 293 💬 9 📌 11
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Trump Is Preparing to Fire Kristi Noem The president has already been asking aides and congressional Republicans for names of potential replacements.

gift
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05.03.2026 18:04 👍 94 🔁 29 💬 22 📌 5
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Motion filed Consolidate Appeals – #4 in United States v. Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia Unive (11th Cir., 26-10674) – CourtListener.com MOTION to consolidate appeals 25-14507 and 26-10674 filed by Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Motion is Opposed. [4] [26-10674] (ECF: Scott Wilkens)

The 2 advocacy groups trying to permit the public to see Jack Smith’s Vol 2 each tried to intervene before Judge Cannon twice—once in 2/25 and once in 2/26. She refused each time. They’re now asking to have all their appeals heard the week of June 22.
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05.03.2026 18:02 👍 108 🔁 42 💬 1 📌 0
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Mediator in the Fulton Co. voting records search case will be Harold Melton, former Chief Justice of the GA supreme court.
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05.03.2026 13:24 👍 60 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 1

Here's the rule, which casts the effort as "Ending the Weaponization of the Bar Complaint and Investigation Process" aboutblaw.com/bk49

04.03.2026 14:25 👍 61 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 0
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Trump DOJ Pushes to Sideline State Bar Ethics Investigations The Justice Department has proposed a regulation seeking to authorize Attorney General Pam Bondi’s intervention to suspend state bar ethics investigations into current and former DOJ lawyers.

JUST IN: Trump DOJ proposes surprise rule aiming to let Attorney General Pam Bondi suspend state bar investigations into alleged misconduct by DOJ lawyers. Very unclear if there'd be legal authority for the AG to intervene in this manner.
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04.03.2026 14:23 👍 1348 🔁 581 💬 153 📌 139

Govt's appeal brief is due Friday. So it'll be interesting to see if they ask for a continuance—on the grounds that they'd planned to drop the appeal due to its frivolousness but their boss said they couldn't.

03.03.2026 18:08 👍 146 🔁 29 💬 6 📌 0
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and it's official:

03.03.2026 17:42 👍 37 🔁 4 💬 7 📌 3
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It's official. Govt asks to withdraw its unopposed motion to dismiss its appeal in the law firm executive order cases.
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03.03.2026 17:35 👍 66 🔁 26 💬 12 📌 6
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Trump Administration, in Apparent Reversal, Tries to Continue Fight Against Law Firms

can you believe this?
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03.03.2026 16:38 👍 119 🔁 25 💬 23 📌 7

Sorry, it's *3 violations every 2 weeks.*

03.03.2026 14:36 👍 54 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Henceforth he’ll require declarations of both the head of civil division in the US Attys Office & one from the local Newark ICE director or dep director.
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03.03.2026 14:28 👍 139 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 2
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“Mistakes can be made. But when the same mistakes happen over and over again --- the picture can start to look different.”
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03.03.2026 14:28 👍 117 🔁 30 💬 1 📌 0
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After DOJ admitted 17 violations of no-transfer orders (2 every 3 weeks) in DNJ, Judge Farbiarz orders local ICE director to sign affidavit acknowledging each future order. Implies that new violations will constitute criminal contempt on a “willful blindness” theory.
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03.03.2026 14:28 👍 274 🔁 108 💬 8 📌 3

it means they know they don't have a leg to stand on.

02.03.2026 20:01 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

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02.03.2026 19:54 👍 62 🔁 9 💬 9 📌 3
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Judges in a Trump stronghold condemn ICE tactics “If the government may simply seize someone without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize anyone,” one judge wrote.

So the battle is metamorphosing from a statutory one to a constitutional one (due process)—and not just in Texas, where the 5th Circuit has adopted Trump’s ultra-minority statutory reading. See @kyledcheney.bsky.social here:
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02.03.2026 13:28 👍 74 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 1
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The above quote was from Judge Johnston (GW Bush) in WVa. Here’s another from Judge Berger in WVa (Obama): “a bond hearing before an immigration judge would not comport with due process. ... IJs who provide neutral adjudications have been removed.”
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02.03.2026 13:28 👍 94 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 3