Notices by Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)

Pete Hegseth orders that a ship named for Harvey Milk be renamed, and intentionally does this at the beginning of Pride Month. What a bigot. https://archive.ph/2025.06.03-171503/https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/03/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html

Attorney General Bonta Issues Statement on Ongoing Tariffs Lawsuit: California Will Keep Fighting on All Fronts https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-issues-statement-ongoing-tariffs-lawsuit-california-will

Question for tech friends. Direct File, the free online tax filing system, which the Trump regime has axed, is now fully open source. See https://chrisgiven.com/2025/05/direct-file-on-github/. Would it be possible for people to create low-cost-no-cost filing system? What sort of knowledge/information would be needed from CPAs and tax lawyers?

The Trump regime has wrongly deported another immigrant to El Salvador. “Held for more than 2 years at the ICE detention center in Batavia, federal judges ruled Jordin Melgar-Salmeron could remain in the U.S. until his court case was resolved.“ The regime promised the court it would comply with the ruling, then deported Melgar-Salmeron early. Now, we’ll see whether they fall back on their position that they can’t get him back bc they don’t have custody. https://www.investigativepost.org/2025/05/30/another-ice-deportation-in-defiance-of-court-order/ #LawFedi

Don’t fly Avelo. https://onemileatatime.com/news/avelo-deportation-flights-shame-white-737/

This is fantastic, managing to be funny and informative simultaneously. Read it, you won’t be sorry. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-witaod-chronicles

This column, explaining the relationship between fascist dictators and birthday military parades, illuminates the importance of massive No Kings protests. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/30/trump-military-parade-fascism 1/

Reporter Marisa Kabas takes a detailed look at at how Marco Rubio is aligning the U.S. State Department with explicitly white Christian supremacist and neo-Nazi policies. Horribly, these terms are in no way hyperbolic. Hard to read, but we must not look away. https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/state-department-office-of-remigration

Noting that it appeared that defendants or their DOJ attorneys had twice misrepresented facts about the buildup to O.C.G.’s removal, Judge Murphy ordered DHS and the other defendants to bring O.C.G. back to the U.S. and to submit a status report on this to the court within 5 days of his order. Late today, the Trump regime did. Document at https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.143.0_1.pdf 2/

Well, well, well - it seems that somebody in the Trump regime understands the thin ice Noem, Bondi, and the other defendants in D.V.D. v. DHS et al are on. Several days ago I wrote about one of the plaintiffs, O.C.G., who DHS sent to Mexico, without any notice or hearing as to his fear for his safety there. See thread at https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/114560831079476108 1/ #LawFedi

For the first time I know of in any of the litigation over the Trump regime’s mass deportation efforts, the Trump regime seems not to be stalling or evading. The status report indicates that ICE is actually working to bring O.C.G. back to the U.S. They contacted his lawyers, did the necessary paperwork, and are arranging a flight back to the U.S. on a chartered aircraft. 3/

Attorney General Bonta Celebrates Decision Halting All Illegal Tariffs Under IEEPA https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-celebrates-decision-halting-all-illegal-tariffs-under

Attorney General Platkin Sues Trump Administration to Protect Scientific Research and Education Programs https://www.njoag.gov/attorney-general-platkin-sues-trump-administration-to-protect-scientific-research-and-education-programs/

I’m a couple of days late to this very interesting development: Democratic Senators and Representatives have introduced a bill to put the U.S. Marshals, who provide security to federal judges, under the supervision of the federal judiciary rather than the executive branch DOJ. https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/leader-schumer-senators-booker-padilla-and-schiff-along-with-representatives-raskin-swalwell-and-johnson-introduce-bicameral-bill-to-move-us-marshals-service-to-judicial-branch

Reporting from the Wall Street Journal about judges’ concerns, the understaffing of court security, and judicial interest in seeing the Marshals Service moved. https://archive.ph/2025.05.26-034759/https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-judges-security-marshals-6e080ac6 1/

Biden is the past. The present and the future are fraught with problems that have nothing to do with him. 6/6

This is disgusting and will become increasingly regular as Trump ramps up his deportatiin efforts throughout the country. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/us-citizen-detained-ice-real-id

Presumably, appeals courts, including the Supreme Court, will reject Rubio's statement as any basis for vacating Judge Murphy's orders. But, we shall see.... 7/7

To fully appreciate the craziness of O.C.G.'s winding up in Guatemala, you need to understand both the background facts of his situation and the legal procedural background. Let's start with the facts. 3/

One of the plaintiffs in the case, O.C.G., has twice sought an order that the Trump regime return him from Guatemala to the U.S. This time, the judge has directed the regime to take "all immediate steps" to facilitate O.C.G.'s return. The regime has to file a status report with the court within five days of today's (5/23) order. 2/

D.V.D. v. Trump, the case involving immigrants removed to third-party countries without due process, just gets wilder and wilder. Two developments today. This thread is about the judge's latest opinion and order for yet another preliminary injunction in the lawsuit. Full document at https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.132.0.pdf. #LawFedi 1/