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  1. Rep Monica De La Cruz, a #Republican who flipped her House district that includes the #Texas #border in 2022, joined #Democrats in the predominantly #MexicanAmerican region in calling for the release of immigrants with deep ties to their local communities & no criminal record.

    #law #immigration #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #ICE #Sturmabteilung #CivilRights #DueProcess #RacialProfiling #SCOTUS

  2. Rep Monica De La Cruz, a #Republican who flipped her House district that includes the #Texas #border in 2022, joined #Democrats in the predominantly #MexicanAmerican region in calling for the release of immigrants with deep ties to their local communities & no criminal record.

    #law #immigration #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #ICE #Sturmabteilung #CivilRights #DueProcess #RacialProfiling #SCOTUS

  3. An unlikely #bipartisan consensus has emerged in Texas’s #RioGrande Valley to protest several recent #immigration arrests, including those of 3 teenage mariachi musicians, numerous construction workers, & cases involving #children & people who had been granted #protection from #deportation.

    #law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #ICE #Sturmabteilung #CivilRights #DueProcess #RacialProfiling #SCOTUS

  4. An unlikely #bipartisan consensus has emerged in Texas’s #RioGrande Valley to protest several recent #immigration arrests, including those of 3 teenage mariachi musicians, numerous construction workers, & cases involving #children & people who had been granted #protection from #deportation.

    #law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #ICE #Sturmabteilung #CivilRights #DueProcess #RacialProfiling #SCOTUS

  5. 🚨 Captivity Inside Captivity!

    Luigi Mangione’s elevator delay was more than a delay. Twenty minutes trapped in a courthouse elevator while in federal custody raises a deeper question: when the system controls a defendant’s body, who accounts for what that confinement does to the person inside.

    Read Story:
    micheleevansbooks.com/pages/lu

    #LuigiMangione #NYCCourts #CriminalJustice #DueProcess #NewYorkCity

  6. 🚨 Captivity Inside Captivity!

    Luigi Mangione’s elevator delay was more than a delay. Twenty minutes trapped in a courthouse elevator while in federal custody raises a deeper question: when the system controls a defendant’s body, who accounts for what that confinement does to the person inside.

    Read Story:
    micheleevansbooks.com/pages/lu

    #LuigiMangione #NYCCourts #CriminalJustice #DueProcess #NewYorkCity

  7. Ms. Prost & Ms. Bossa also claim that blocking their US-based bank accounts violated the #FifthAmendment, which requires #DueProcess under #US #law.

    “Targeting international judges for carrying out their judicial duties is an unprecedented attack on judicial independence & the rule of law,” said James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, a rights-focused legal organization that is representing Ms. Prost in the case.

    #InternationalLaw #ICC #Trump #imperialism

  8. Ms. Prost & Ms. Bossa also claim that blocking their US-based bank accounts violated the #FifthAmendment, which requires #DueProcess under #US #law.

    “Targeting international judges for carrying out their judicial duties is an unprecedented attack on judicial independence & the rule of law,” said James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, a rights-focused legal organization that is representing Ms. Prost in the case.

    #InternationalLaw #ICC #Trump #imperialism

  9. Children of a Lesser God? Filton, Menon, Gaza and Lawfare: the Fight for Democratic Dissent in Britain!

    Direct action has repeatedly forced democratic reform. The Filton sentencing and Re Rajiv Menon KC expose how far the state is willing to go in criminalising protest, advocacy, and conscience before law itself mutates into repression.

    Children of a Lesser God?

    Together, these cases test how far the UK state may go in punishing protest before it starts suppressing democracy itself.1 The deeper question asks whether principled dissenters are treated as children of a lesser god: expected to obey, yet denied equal moral standing the moment they resist injustice. Lawfare is the misuse of legal process as a strategic weapon to harass, delay, punish, or silence opponents, turning courts and procedures into instruments of political pressure rather than neutral justice. 2

    Domestic routes

    In Re Rajiv Menon KC, the core point is procedural. The Court of Appeal held that the trial judge’s direct referral to the High Court for contempt was not authorised; any contempt route should have gone first through the Attorney General in the public interest.3 That makes section 13 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 relevant only once contempt is properly before the court.4

    The domestic argument therefore turns on jurisdiction, public-interest control, and whether restrictions on lawful-excuse and jury-equity material crossed into suppression rather than case management.5 Filton raises the same structural concern from another angle: whether severe punishment for expressive direct action was proportionate, or whether it criminalised dissent itself.6

    International routes

    Strasbourg remains important because Articles 10 and 6 protect expression and fair trial rights.7 Nikula v Finland remains the reminder that contempt powers can chill defence advocacy when used too aggressively.8

    Fanon’s warning

    Ibrahim Frantz Fanon’s work helps explain the deeper harm: colonial power works on the mind as well as the body, producing fear, inferiority, and compliance.9 With criminal prosecutions looming in the months ahead for peaceful pro-Gaza placard-holders, there is a pressing need to resist any sentencing path designed to clamp down on them. Together with the Filton prisoners, they appear to be subject to pressure intended to break their spirit; the point is not merely punishment, but the manufacture of submission.10

    Fanon’s warning helps clarify the deeper pattern. A movement can be crushed not only by prison or sentence length, but by the cumulative message that resistance is futile, conscience is naïve, and public dissent will always be treated as aberrant or dangerous. That is why accountability must remain the golden thread. Without it, undue influence hardens into impunity, and impunity becomes normalised.11

    State sovereignty, citizen autonomy and the global South frame

    But there is a larger frame that orthodox legal analysis often misses. Truthaholics’ wider frame is that these cases sit inside an intersectional global order shaped by US hegemony, Israeli belligerence, Palestinian disenfranchisement, debt discipline, and resource extraction by externally backed elites.12 In that world, impunity is structural, and democratic accountability is routinely weakened at home and abroad.13

    That is why Gaza matters here. The ICJ’s provisional measures and the ICC arrest warrants show that international law cannot remain decorative if it is to mean anything at all.14 Domestic protest law cannot be separated from that wider moral and legal context.15 More broadly, recent events show ordinary working people organising on an unprecedented scale including direct action, insurgency and intifada against war-crime complicity, state-sanctioned militarism, and war profiteering.15

    Direct action’s history

    Direct action is not a democratic anomaly. It is the engine for societies to gain labour rights, civil rights, anti-colonial independence, suffrage, and environmental justice by shaking free of undue influence and coercive state control.16 The question is not whether protest is comfortable, but whether power can still be challenged without being treated as criminal by default.17

    The best of us should not be treated as children of a lesser god when they resist injustice. If they are, the law is no longer upholding or defending democracy; it is undermining and eroding it.18

    Footnotes

    1. Re Rajiv Menon KC; BBC on Filton sentencing & UK Lawfare, Jury Equity & Silencing the Defence: The High-Stakes Legal Battle in Re Rajiv Menon KC! Pt 2
    2. UK: Terrorist sentence for Palestine Action marks ‘dangerous’ move against right to protest, Amnesty UK.
    3. Menon ruling & Guardian summary.
    4. Administration of Justice Act 1960, s 13.
    5. HRW protest-rights report.
    6. Filton sentencing coverage & Amnesty UK.
    7. ECHR.
    8. Nikula v Finland.
    9. Fanon, Congress of Black African Writers (1959).
    10. Fanon’s psycho-politics of decolonisation.
    11. Caveat Emptor: What to Do When the UK State Labels Protest As Terrorism!.
    12. Global South critique.
    13. Global South commentary on Gaza and law.
    14. ICJ provisional measures & ICC warrants note.
    15. OHCHR on impunity; Counterfire & Cage International
    16. Civil rights movement & Children of a Lesser God theme discussion.
    17. HRW on protest rights.
    18. Counterfire & Cage International.

    ALSO SEE:

    Eradicate our roots!
    Demolish our homes!
    Criminalise our existence!
    Falsify our origins!
    Separate our loved ones!
    And Slaughter our children!
    Take our blood for granted!
    And demonise our revolutionaries!
    Steal our knowledge!
    Keep our people oblivious!
    And torture our spirits!
    And denounce us our rights!
    Colonise our countries!
    And appoint our rulers!
    Appropriate our goods!
    And burn down our trees!

    But who would you be without us?
    But who would you be without us?
    But who would you be without us?
    But who would you be without us?

    Bomb our roofs!
    Make us out as liars!
    And watch our pain!
    And belittle our agony!
    Ignore our tears!
    And close our eyes!
    Mutilate our faces!
    And deny our feelings!
    Destroy our dreams!
    Objectify our bodies!
    And darken our skies!
    And kill our peace!
    We will keep standing!
    And our love stands in us!

    But who would you be without us?
    You would not be without us!
    You will not be without us!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFlJFXPNZU

    #Democracy #directAction #dueProcess #freedom #Gaza #Israel #justice #lawfare #news #Palestine #politics
  10. Children of a Lesser God? Filton, Menon, Gaza and Lawfare: the Fight for Democratic Dissent in Britain!

    Direct action has repeatedly forced democratic reform. The Filton sentencing and Re Rajiv Menon KC expose how far the state is willing to go in criminalising protest, advocacy, and conscience before law itself mutates into repression.

    Children of a Lesser God?

    Together, these cases test how far the UK state may go in punishing protest before it starts suppressing democracy itself.1 The deeper question asks whether principled dissenters are treated as children of a lesser god: expected to obey, yet denied equal moral standing the moment they resist injustice. Lawfare is the misuse of legal process as a strategic weapon to harass, delay, punish, or silence opponents, turning courts and procedures into instruments of political pressure rather than neutral justice. 2

    Domestic routes

    In Re Rajiv Menon KC, the core point is procedural. The Court of Appeal held that the trial judge’s direct referral to the High Court for contempt was not authorised; any contempt route should have gone first through the Attorney General in the public interest.3 That makes section 13 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 relevant only once contempt is properly before the court.4

    The domestic argument therefore turns on jurisdiction, public-interest control, and whether restrictions on lawful-excuse and jury-equity material crossed into suppression rather than case management.5 Filton raises the same structural concern from another angle: whether severe punishment for expressive direct action was proportionate, or whether it criminalised dissent itself.6

    International routes

    Strasbourg remains important because Articles 10 and 6 protect expression and fair trial rights.7 Nikula v Finland remains the reminder that contempt powers can chill defence advocacy when used too aggressively.8

    Fanon’s warning

    Ibrahim Frantz Fanon’s work helps explain the deeper harm: colonial power works on the mind as well as the body, producing fear, inferiority, and compliance.9 With criminal prosecutions looming in the months ahead for peaceful pro-Gaza placard-holders, there is a pressing need to resist any sentencing path designed to clamp down on them. Together with the Filton prisoners, they appear to be subject to pressure intended to break their spirit; the point is not merely punishment, but the manufacture of submission.10

    Fanon’s warning helps clarify the deeper pattern. A movement can be crushed not only by prison or sentence length, but by the cumulative message that resistance is futile, conscience is naïve, and public dissent will always be treated as aberrant or dangerous. That is why accountability must remain the golden thread. Without it, undue influence hardens into impunity, and impunity becomes normalised.11

    State sovereignty, citizen autonomy and the global South frame

    But there is a larger frame that orthodox legal analysis often misses. Truthaholics’ wider frame is that these cases sit inside an intersectional global order shaped by US hegemony, Israeli belligerence, Palestinian disenfranchisement, debt discipline, and resource extraction by externally backed elites.12 In that world, impunity is structural, and democratic accountability is routinely weakened at home and abroad.13

    That is why Gaza matters here. The ICJ’s provisional measures and the ICC arrest warrants show that international law cannot remain decorative if it is to mean anything at all.14 Domestic protest law cannot be separated from that wider moral and legal context.15 More broadly, recent events show ordinary working people organising on an unprecedented scale including direct action, insurgency and intifada against war-crime complicity, state-sanctioned militarism, and war profiteering.15

    Direct action’s history

    Direct action is not a democratic anomaly. It is the engine for societies to gain labour rights, civil rights, anti-colonial independence, suffrage, and environmental justice by shaking free of undue influence and coercive state control.16 The question is not whether protest is comfortable, but whether power can still be challenged without being treated as criminal by default.17

    The best of us should not be treated as children of a lesser god when they resist injustice. If they are, the law is no longer upholding or defending democracy; it is undermining and eroding it.18

    Footnotes

    1. Re Rajiv Menon KC; BBC on Filton sentencing & UK Lawfare, Jury Equity & Silencing the Defence: The High-Stakes Legal Battle in Re Rajiv Menon KC! Pt 2
    2. UK: Terrorist sentence for Palestine Action marks ‘dangerous’ move against right to protest, Amnesty UK.
    3. Menon ruling & Guardian summary.
    4. Administration of Justice Act 1960, s 13.
    5. HRW protest-rights report.
    6. Filton sentencing coverage & Amnesty UK.
    7. ECHR.
    8. Nikula v Finland.
    9. Fanon, Congress of Black African Writers (1959).
    10. Fanon’s psycho-politics of decolonisation.
    11. Caveat Emptor: What to Do When the UK State Labels Protest As Terrorism!.
    12. Global South critique.
    13. Global South commentary on Gaza and law.
    14. ICJ provisional measures & ICC warrants note.
    15. OHCHR on impunity; Counterfire & Cage International
    16. Civil rights movement & Children of a Lesser God theme discussion.
    17. HRW on protest rights.
    18. Counterfire & Cage International.

    ALSO SEE:

    Eradicate our roots!
    Demolish our homes!
    Criminalise our existence!
    Falsify our origins!
    Separate our loved ones!
    And Slaughter our children!
    Take our blood for granted!
    And demonise our revolutionaries!
    Steal our knowledge!
    Keep our people oblivious!
    And torture our spirits!
    And denounce us our rights!
    Colonise our countries!
    And appoint our rulers!
    Appropriate our goods!
    And burn down our trees!

    But who would you be without us?
    But who would you be without us?
    But who would you be without us?
    But who would you be without us?

    Bomb our roofs!
    Make us out as liars!
    And watch our pain!
    And belittle our agony!
    Ignore our tears!
    And close our eyes!
    Mutilate our faces!
    And deny our feelings!
    Destroy our dreams!
    Objectify our bodies!
    And darken our skies!
    And kill our peace!
    We will keep standing!
    And our love stands in us!

    But who would you be without us?
    You would not be without us!
    You will not be without us!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFlJFXPNZU

    #Democracy #directAction #dueProcess #freedom #Gaza #Israel #justice #lawfare #news #Palestine #politics
  11. A federal judge in California on Tues issued a #nationwide block against the #Trump admin’s policy of #arrests at #ImmigrationCourts….

    Last year, #ICE began detaining #immigrants in #courthouse hallways across the country, sometimes moments after pleading their cases. The move raised alarm among attorneys & advocates who said the practice was turning #immigration courts from places of #DueProcess into zones of fear & punishing people who were following the rules.

    #law
    cnn.com/2026/06/23/politics/ju

  12. A federal judge in California on Tues issued a #nationwide block against the #Trump admin’s policy of #arrests at #ImmigrationCourts….

    Last year, #ICE began detaining #immigrants in #courthouse hallways across the country, sometimes moments after pleading their cases. The move raised alarm among attorneys & advocates who said the practice was turning #immigration courts from places of #DueProcess into zones of fear & punishing people who were following the rules.

    #law
    cnn.com/2026/06/23/politics/ju

  13. #Trump admin can expand fast-track #deportation process, #US appeals court rules

    A 2-1 panel of the ‌US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ​overturned ​a ⁠decision by a lower-court judge ​who in ​August ⁠2025 blocked the administration's move to ⁠expand ​who qualifies ​for expedited removal.

    #law #immigration #DueProcess
    reuters.com/world/trump-admini

  14. #Trump admin can expand fast-track #deportation process, #US appeals court rules

    A 2-1 panel of the ‌US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ​overturned ​a ⁠decision by a lower-court judge ​who in ​August ⁠2025 blocked the administration's move to ⁠expand ​who qualifies ​for expedited removal.

    #law #immigration #DueProcess
    reuters.com/world/trump-admini

  15. Seventeen people entered ICE custody alive this year and left in a bag — one death every six days. The agency's answer? Buy more warehouses. One was appraised at $76.8M and bought for $102.4M. That's not a failure. That's the design.
    twp.ai/4hsbqk
    #ICE #ImmigrantRights #HumanRights #USpol #News #AbolishICE #DueProcess #Resist #DetentionDeaths #MutualAid

  16. Seventeen people entered ICE custody alive this year and left in a bag — one death every six days. The agency's answer? Buy more warehouses. One was appraised at $76.8M and bought for $102.4M. That's not a failure. That's the design.
    twp.ai/4hsbqk
    #ICE #ImmigrantRights #HumanRights #USpol #News #AbolishICE #DueProcess #Resist #DetentionDeaths #MutualAid

  17. “Over 6 months later, many of those individuals remain without work, without legal status, & without any meaningful ability to plan for their futures,” Judge McConnell wrote.

    He wrote that the various holds violated the #immigration laws governing the responsibilities of #USCIS, & that the agency had routinely applied the #law unequally under the policies.

    #Trump #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

  18. “Over 6 months later, many of those individuals remain without work, without legal status, & without any meaningful ability to plan for their futures,” Judge McConnell wrote.

    He wrote that the various holds violated the #immigration laws governing the responsibilities of #USCIS, & that the agency had routinely applied the #law unequally under the policies.

    #Trump #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

  19. The policies, enacted by #US #Citizenship & #Immigration Services [#USCIS], included a global hold on #asylum applications filed with the agency. It also paused decisions on immigration applications filed by people from the 39 countries subject to #Trump’s #TravelBan, halting their ability to obtain #GreenCards, US citizenship & other benefits.

    #law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

  20. The policies, enacted by #US #Citizenship & #Immigration Services [#USCIS], included a global hold on #asylum applications filed with the agency. It also paused decisions on immigration applications filed by people from the 39 countries subject to #Trump’s #TravelBan, halting their ability to obtain #GreenCards, US citizenship & other benefits.

    #law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

  21. A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a slate of #immigration policies enacted by the #Trump admin, writing that it had left #immigrants living in the #US in “indeterminate legal limbo” because of “anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making.”

    #law #immigration #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

  22. A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a slate of #immigration policies enacted by the #Trump admin, writing that it had left #immigrants living in the #US in “indeterminate legal limbo” because of “anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making.”

    #law #immigration #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

  23. #Judge Says #Trump Officials Must Restart #Asylum & #Immigration Processing

    The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries.

    #law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
    nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/poli

  24. #Judge Says #Trump Officials Must Restart #Asylum & #Immigration Processing

    The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries.

    #law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
    nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/poli

  25. Justices Diverge on Capital Punishment Case

    Two conservative justices stopped John Doe's execution due to claims of withheld evidence, raising questions about due process in capital punishment cases.

    #DeathPenalty, #SupremeCourt, #JohnDoe, #DueProcess, #CapitalPunishment

    newsletter.tf/high-court-halts

  26. While some in the #TrumpAdministration (not #ElonMusk, though) tried(!) to wear their #fascism not too blatantly obvious on their sleeves so that people would unanimously agree on it being fascism, aliens.gov/ paints a very clear picture:

    #UmbertoEco describes several things that you can see on the #AlienFiles site as fascism:

    1/

    #uspol #MassDeportations2026 #politics #TrumpAdministration2026 #Project2025 #AlienEnemiesAct #HabeasCorpus #DueProcess #SecondTrumpAdminstration

  27. For a moment, I thought, aliens.gov/ was the release of the #UFOFiles—it sure does look like the #XFiles on the preview thumbnail—but it is just the usual government propaganda for illegal #MassDeportations of the #SecondTrumpAdminstration

    So, are there even any UFO files coming or was that just the marketing stunt for this?

    #uspol #MassDeportations2026 #TrumpAdministration #politics #TrumpAdministration2026 #Project2025 #AlienEnemiesAct #HabeasCorpus #DueProcess #AlienFiles