Notices by Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)

What a clusterfk

Via Brad Moss:

So to sum up the Wisconsin arrest issue:

ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant.

The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge.

This is ridiculous.

Via Norm Eisen re: Patel's arrest of the judge:

URGENT: This is not a crime

A judge has the authority in her courthouse to excuse a defendant for God's sake

Trump tried this in 1st term & he was thrown out of court 👉 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14997436/united-states-v-joseph/

PS the violation here was Patel's tweet & that's why he deleted. I'll be filing complaint

[Here's the tweet:]

From the Dept. of Oops:

"HHS official said Fri that the health department is not creating an autism registry, contradicting announcement made days ago by director of the Nat Institutes of Health describing his plans to study causes of autism" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/health-agencies-not-creating-autism-registry-hhs-nih/

Fascism via Trump Thugs Inc.

Via Mark Joseph Stern:

Government officials were quietly developing a plan to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia before Trump appointees muscled their way in and halted it, per the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/kilmar-abrego-garcia-plan-reversal/682594/

#WompWomp

Via Kyle Cheney:

George #Santos sentenced to 87 months in prison for fraud and identity theft, plus...ordered to pay $373,749.97 in restitution.

4/ Finally, still via Cheney:

By my count, there had been 103 lawsuits filed in the last 20 days, and judges had issued 50 restraining orders requiring the Trump administration to reverse the terminations. Those decisions came in more than 23 states.

3/ The reason ICE appeared to have canceled their SEVIS records? Minor legal infractions that showed up in criminal history searches — which the law explicitly says is not a basis to deny a foreign student, studying on an F1 visa, their legal status.

Now, after dozens of judges across the country flagged the likely illegality, ICE says it won't do that anymore.

2/ ICE had terminated the records of thousands of students from a federal database called SEVIS that tracks their legal status in the country. The effect of those terminations was in dispute, but many students said they had been barred from continuing their studies and were at risk of deportation.

To quote Maddow: "Oops."

Pressure works.

Keep 'em coming. 🧵

Kyle Cheney:

NEWS: After canceling thousands of foreign students' immigration records — threatening their ability to study and live in the US — the Trump administration has reversed course and restored them all.

👉🏼It follows intense pushback from courts across the country 👈🏼

1/...

“The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.”

https://thereport.be/article/?app=breaking&u=https%3A%2F%2Fapnews.com%2Farticle%2Fisrael-palestinians-gaza-blockade-food-e492a5ba3197b15b1599747e3cde12b2%3Ftaid%3D680b9bb93d26750001f45150

“Trump's nom to be surgeon general, the Fox News [sic] contributor & family physician Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, described herself as double board-certified physician w degree from U of Arkansas School of Medicine

But claims about her certification and schooling appear to be misleading.

Nesheiwat actually earned her medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean (AUC) School of Medicine, located in St. Maarten, in the Caribbean”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-surgeon-general-nominee-dr-janette-nesheiwat-credentials/

Keep ‘em coming

Via Anna Bower:

NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…”

Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin… https://docs.google.com/document/d/10POW8J0MVRSNUvMm8zBpyYLW0d7VWlGxd50Nw-Ql9SI/edit?usp=drivesdk

At this point, a given.

" #Trump administration conceded on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents did not have a warrant when they detained Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil in March, acknowledging it was "a warrantless arrest."

Khalil's attorneys are asking an immigration judge in Louisiana, where their client has been detained by ICE for weeks, to terminate his deportation case based on the fact that he was arrested without a warrant" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mahmoud-khalil-arrest-ice-without-warrant-trump-administration/

NEW: ICE has canceled a $3.8 billion contract to build an immigrant detention camp in Fort Bliss, Texas, just days after issuing it.

But sources say the Trump administration still intends to move ahead with its plan to build the tent camp.
— ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-cancels-contract-immigrant-detention-camp-fort-bliss

Keep ‘em coming

Via Kyle Cheney:

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from pulling federal funds from places it deems “sanctuary cities,” saying the policy is unconstitutional. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.444175/gov.uscourts.cand.444175.111.0.pdf

#Zelensky says #Russia used #NorthKorea-made ballistic missile in Kyiv attack— AFP

Keep 'em coming

"A federal judge in Washington, D.C., Thursday blocked federal agencies from carrying out parts of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order on elections.

The Democratic Party, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the League of Women Voters Education Fund and others are challenging Trump’s order as an unprecedented assault on states’ constitutional authority to run their own elections." https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-halts-trumps-anti-voting-executive-order/

#WompWomp

Via NPR: Many oil company executives celebrated Donald Trump's return to the White House. But now expectations of higher profits are fading amid fears of a recession.

Nobody does it like Ann Telnaes, right @Wileymiller?

https://open.substack.com/pub/anntelnaes/p/the-three-branches-of-government?r=br61&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Racist " #Trump admin killed landmark civil rights settlement requiring #Alabama to address raw sewage pollution in majority-Black, residential areas SW of Montgomery, dismissing it as “illegal” DEI agreement

..could condemn low-income people in Lowndes county.. to indefinitely continue living with no or failing sanitation infrastructure" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/trump-sewage-pollution-settlement-alabama