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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social

Ok, the hearing is underway. Drew Ensign is here for DOJ. (The audio isn't great so I couldn't catch which attorneys are here for the plaintiffs.)

aug 31, 2025, 4:49 pm • 704 63

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Sharon ❌👑 @citizen-sharon.bsky.social

Thank you for interrupting your holiday weekend to do this reporting! You are a bright light in a sea of distressing news.

aug 31, 2025, 5:25 pm • 19 0 • view
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wontgobackagain.bsky.social @wontgobackagain.bsky.social

And a shout out to the judge who took the call at 2 am & had set the hearing by 3 am & then moved up the hearing because plaintiffs advised that the government was in the process of removing the children. She is aware of the governments duplicity in ignoring another court's order in a similar case.

aug 31, 2025, 5:47 pm • 22 1 • view
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Elizabeth Bisbee @bisbee4148.bsky.social

Drew “Thirty Pieces of Silver” Ensign once again defends the indefensible & asserts government’s prerogative to torment & torture innocents for sport & Stephen Miller’s favor.

aug 31, 2025, 7:02 pm • 2 0 • view
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Bill McCormick @billmccormickpm.bsky.social

Three flights to Guatemala are in en route. Looking like lying again

aug 31, 2025, 6:40 pm • 4 0 • view
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social

Sooknanan starts off by asking Ensign if he's aware that she just entered a new TRO on the docket to bar the removal of the putative class of minor children. He says no, he's not. She asks him to take minutes to circulate that order to his clients. We're in recess for 5 min while he does so.

aug 31, 2025, 4:50 pm • 1,061 114 • view
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social

This whole scenario feels like it's straight outta the government's Alien Enemies Act/J.G.G. playbook. In J.G.G., Boasberg entered TRO barring removal of named plaintiffs and set weekend emergency hearing on certification of class. But DHS started removing people just before/during hearing...

aug 31, 2025, 5:02 pm • 1,221 165 • view
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Ol' Dick's Lemon Party @kizzlebizzle.bsky.social

ghoulish behavior

aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 2 1 • view
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bkshep.bsky.social @bkshep.bsky.social

Removal is supported by the bove doctrine at main justice

aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 1 0 • view
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KeithDB @keithdb.bsky.social

The government is contemptuously laughing at the contempt proceedings in the JGG case.

aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 6 0 • view
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Zaggs @zaggsz.bsky.social

They started moving people during the break in the hearing which was ordered because Ensign played dumb about the govts plan.

aug 31, 2025, 5:05 pm • 11 1 • view
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Invictus Ghost @invictusghost.bsky.social

I wonder if they've given these kids food and water. How hot are the planes? These kids can't even sleep. This is child abuse.

aug 31, 2025, 10:35 pm • 3 0 • view
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Fuzzy Soft @fuzzysoft.bsky.social

Completely clueless here. Does the judge have the right to put on the brakes and demand to be taken to where the children are currently being taken to/from?

aug 31, 2025, 5:06 pm • 4 0 • view
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social

We're back and Sooknanan asks if any planes have taken off. Ensign says all of the planes are on the ground -- one of them might have taken off and turned around. He's not sure. His understanding is that if that's the case, plane has returned.

aug 31, 2025, 5:05 pm • 964 118 • view
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social

One lesson was learned I guess 🤨

aug 31, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social

CYA

aug 31, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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Neon @lurkem.bsky.social

Drew Ensign has lied to the court before about the whereabouts of planes.

aug 31, 2025, 5:11 pm • 11 1 • view
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social

Scary, tbh

aug 31, 2025, 5:07 pm • 6 1 • view
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social

Sooknanan explains the circumstances of how/when she got the case. First got a call around 2 am last night, entered TRO and set hearing. Moved up hearing after receiving call from plaintiffs to notify her that children were in process of being removed. Then entered new TRO for putative class.

aug 31, 2025, 5:08 pm • 883 104 • view
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KeithDB @keithdb.bsky.social

Federal judges just love those 2 am phone calls . . .

aug 31, 2025, 5:42 pm • 3 0 • view
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megynslashes.bsky.social @megynslashes.bsky.social

My god … what if she hadn’t gotten the call (phone on silent)? The plaintiffs attorneys are heroes. What kind of monsters are these people? (The worst, I know).

aug 31, 2025, 5:26 pm • 6 0 • view
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social

When Sooknanan wraps up, counsel for plaintiffs tell her that their understanding is that the planes with the children have been grounded but that the children have not been deplaned. Sooknanan asks Ensign for an explanation, he says it might be that they're waiting for resolution of this hearing

aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 829 105 • view
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Jack Churchill's Arrow @churchillsarrow.bsky.social

"Hey Ensign, Maybe get them off the fucking planes then?"

aug 31, 2025, 5:29 pm • 9 0 • view
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Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social

"The planes that you were already ordered not to put them on, those planes, get them off now."

aug 31, 2025, 5:43 pm • 7 1 • view
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social

Damn

aug 31, 2025, 5:13 pm • 5 0 • view
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Fuzzy Soft @fuzzysoft.bsky.social

The resolution they should be waiting for is a head, heart & gut telling them what they're doing is beyond immoral and has entered the realm of what we call monstrosity.

aug 31, 2025, 5:12 pm • 10 1 • view
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John G. @iaincaradoc.bsky.social

That only works on people who have a functioning moral compass, empathy, and basic humanity. All of which are disqualifying traits under the current regime.

aug 31, 2025, 5:37 pm • 5 0 • view
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social

Sooknanan asks Ensign about legal authority for the removals. He discusses a statutory provision that authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to unite children with parents from whom they've been separated...

aug 31, 2025, 5:14 pm • 627 45 • view
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social

Ensign: "The Government of Guatemala has requested the return of these children, and all of these children have their parents or guardians in Guatemala who are requesting their return..."

aug 31, 2025, 5:14 pm • 632 57 • view
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Whisper “democracy” daily 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @stef47.bsky.social

Republicans see kids as roadkill on the highway to hell they are driving down.

sep 1, 2025, 4:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social

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aug 31, 2025, 5:15 pm • 18 0 • view
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KathyBuckner @wendykitty.bsky.social

I'm sure each child's situation is different, but I have been wondering for a while, in general, is it most common for unaccompanied immigrant minors to be living with relatives here in the US? If not, where are they usually placed?

aug 31, 2025, 5:26 pm • 6 0 • view
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Kimichi Tsuzuku @kimichitsuzuku.bsky.social

Most of them would have been with a blood relation or a guardian. A double-handful might have been in foster care because their parents/family were previously deported or they were otherwise separated by the system.

aug 31, 2025, 11:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jennifer R @jennired83.bsky.social

Yes

aug 31, 2025, 6:51 pm • 3 0 • view
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social

Judge Sooknanan isn't buying it... The plaintiffs are telling me, she says, that the children do not want to go back to Guatemala, that no request has been made, and that they fear returning to Guatemala, and may be subject to harm

aug 31, 2025, 5:16 pm • 1,030 155 • view
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social

Sooknanan: So to be clear, you are representing that all of the children who were put on the planes are children whose parents have requested their return? Ensign: That's what I've been told...Through the government of Guatemala, it's been a month long process to ID children who meet criteria

aug 31, 2025, 5:18 pm • 706 57 • view
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social

"what I've been told" Lie and he knows it

aug 31, 2025, 5:19 pm • 32 1 • view
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J Sutton @jlsaz.bsky.social

A month. One? Seems short, to put it mildly.

aug 31, 2025, 5:19 pm • 5 0 • view
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We’re all John Bolton @cbf.bsky.social

“That’s what I’ve been told” will be the DOJ’s “I vas just followink orders” when this is all over. Ensign knows it’s bullshit. The judge knows he knows it’s bullshit.

sep 1, 2025, 12:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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Attractive Nuisance @robindescamp.bsky.social

Well, if Ensign says that’s what he’s been told, then we’re all done here. Please commence with Labor Day festivities!

aug 31, 2025, 5:21 pm • 2 0 • view
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social

Sooknanan: And from the plaintiff's perspective, you do not think that that's true? Plaintiff's counsel: We know that is not true for all the children in the class...and even if it were, the provisions the government cites as legal basis does not override other protections in the statute

aug 31, 2025, 5:20 pm • 860 82 • view
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SteveBev @stevebev.bsky.social

“Through the government of Guatemala, it's been a month long process to ID children who meet criteria” Yet the children and their legal guardians and legal representatives know NOTHING cause the DHS want it to be a surprise and adventure for them 🙄

aug 31, 2025, 5:22 pm • 5 0 • view
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Richard Adlof . . . @richardladlof.bsky.social

Is this the criteria check?

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aug 31, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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Susan From Boston @susanboston.bsky.social

Indirectly the govt of Guatemala told someone who told Ensign…

aug 31, 2025, 5:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Leslie @leslieandrews.bsky.social

Well, shouldn’t they have some sort of government documentation from Guatemala requesting the return of these children if that’s the case

aug 31, 2025, 5:22 pm • 9 0 • view
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CapeCodder2025 @capecodder2025.bsky.social

"that's what I've been told" does not cut it, Mr Ensign. What to YOU have in writing, on official letterhead? (that's me asking the question)

aug 31, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cheyney™ 🫘 🌀🌀🐢🐢🐢🌀 @cheyney0.bsky.social

🐂💩

aug 31, 2025, 5:19 pm • 3 0 • view
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L'il @marontheweb.bsky.social

"that's what I've been told" is the new "I was just following orders"

aug 31, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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ResistaSista76 @resistasista76.bsky.social

This administration is covering for Donald Trump and Jeff Epstein trafficking children for sex. They’re coddling Putin, who’s kidnapped nearly a million Ukrainian kids during his illegal invasion and occupation. And we’re now watching them kidnap kids and deport them with zero proof as to where 🥵

aug 31, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cindy Arnevik @cabbageridge.bsky.social

How did they get separated to start with? Their track record with losing children isn’t good

aug 31, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social

“….what I’ve been told.” Not likely. A government (here, Guatemala’s) would not initiate an operation of this size based on verbal communications. There would be something written down — and communicating that to a US government attorney would be a simple matter.

aug 31, 2025, 5:22 pm • 18 0 • view
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LR @trychick.bsky.social

Liar

aug 31, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jerry Newmark @jerryn13.bsky.social

And somehow, plaintiffs' attorneys are unaware of this month long process. This doesn't pass the smell test.

aug 31, 2025, 5:21 pm • 5 1 • view
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Larry Jackson @ljlawyers.bsky.social

“That’s what I have been told” is not an answer.

aug 31, 2025, 6:13 pm • 2 0 • view
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Steve Zorowitz @stevezorowitz.bsky.social

Based on everything, safer to go with presumption of irregularity.

aug 31, 2025, 5:19 pm • 3 0 • view
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CIA Shadows @dukieboy2.bsky.social

If it takes a month just to ID kids for return, something’s broken. Families deserve clarity, not red tape and vague answers. Children aren’t paperwork- they’re lives in limbo. #HumanRights #Immigration #Accountability

aug 31, 2025, 5:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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changegamer.bsky.social @changegamer.bsky.social

We can just assume that this regime will lie and cheat and act in bad faith every day of its existence! They want their meddling to extend into every facet of our lives and exert control over society like the most authoritarian regimes do! Cruelty is what they do The Trump regime cannot be trusted!

aug 31, 2025, 5:39 pm • 2 0 • view
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social

Without actual consequences for the lawyers making these BS claims in court this will not stop.

aug 31, 2025, 5:26 pm • 9 0 • view
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artisanrox @artisanrox.bsky.social

omg never thought I'd have to read court case stuff on a Sunday

aug 31, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Rick H @lfeatfan.bsky.social

Sounds more believable than all of their parents are there and the government wants them returned. That's my understanding sounds like plausible deniability. So who's lying?

aug 31, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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ennaliadon.bsky.social @ennaliadon.bsky.social

👍🏼 Judge Sooknanan!

aug 31, 2025, 6:34 pm • 5 0 • view
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victorytwin.bsky.social @victorytwin.bsky.social

For how much and how did they determine it’s their parents or guardians?

aug 31, 2025, 5:15 pm • 11 0 • view
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River Tide @eastslope.bsky.social

Guatamalian-selected guardians?

aug 31, 2025, 5:20 pm • 2 0 • view
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Susan From Boston @susanboston.bsky.social

Just stop teaching Evidence in law school because it has become irrelevant. (And because the hearsay rule is very confusing.)

aug 31, 2025, 5:17 pm • 14 1 • view
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The wrong people have power @maiett.bsky.social

Same for Con Law.😳

aug 31, 2025, 5:23 pm • 2 0 • view
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Steve Jones @saj008.bsky.social

Same for Legal Ethics

aug 31, 2025, 6:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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stroligus.bsky.social @stroligus.bsky.social

Swear him in.

aug 31, 2025, 5:15 pm • 20 0 • view
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Kim @kimoco.bsky.social

I do believe that

aug 31, 2025, 5:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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DrWTF @drrxufa.bsky.social

Ensign is lying to the Court.

aug 31, 2025, 6:34 pm • 10 0 • view
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social

Proof

aug 31, 2025, 5:15 pm • 21 0 • view
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Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social

When the DoJ lies like this, the court should prove that it is a lie, and consider EVERY statement made by them going forward as a lie afterwards

aug 31, 2025, 5:28 pm • 26 2 • view
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artisanrox @artisanrox.bsky.social

Ensign and every DOJ Rep is just undistilled evil.

aug 31, 2025, 9:52 pm • 3 0 • view
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Rick does Math and Stuff @mathandstuff.bsky.social

"We're going to tell a blatant lie and we demand five days so you can get less angry at us for lying." Seems to me if they had legal cause for these flights, they wouldn't need five days to figure out what that is.

aug 31, 2025, 10:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social

aug 31, 2025, 5:17 pm • 2 0 • view
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victorytwin.bsky.social @victorytwin.bsky.social

He should be forced to call and confirm right now!

aug 31, 2025, 5:11 pm • 6 0 • view
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SteveBev @stevebev.bsky.social

“Might be”…!?!

aug 31, 2025, 5:14 pm • 4 0 • view
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Richard Adlof . . . @richardladlof.bsky.social

Sooknanan needs ask why the children are being human-trafficked to foreign rent-a-death camps or if these children are fooder for Felon47's new Epstein-Maxwell style child rape ring.

aug 31, 2025, 5:16 pm • 8 3 • view
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Kim @kimoco.bsky.social

They are holding scared kids on planes for hours.

aug 31, 2025, 5:31 pm • 9 0 • view
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social

Are they all in shackles, as well?

aug 31, 2025, 5:11 pm • 20 1 • view
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KeithDB @keithdb.bsky.social

I assure you that they are. And the people doing this are wearing mask because that is more scary and they desire to terrorize children.

aug 31, 2025, 5:13 pm • 4 0 • view
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Ann Given @missgiven.bsky.social

Toddlers are pretty dangerous.

aug 31, 2025, 5:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social

I think the youngest here is 10, though

aug 31, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Given @missgiven.bsky.social

Perfect age to sell them into sex slavery.

aug 31, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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Martin Moreno @leftcoasteroc.bsky.social

Knowing these criminals, probably.

aug 31, 2025, 5:11 pm • 7 0 • view
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social

I think many do not realize they treat children this way.

aug 31, 2025, 5:15 pm • 7 4 • view
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Millie @thatmillie.bsky.social

Good god, so many Americans willfully complicit in treating CHILDREN like animals.

aug 31, 2025, 5:49 pm • 2 0 • view
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Just a french cat @justafrenchcat.bsky.social

🤮

aug 31, 2025, 5:10 pm • 6 0 • view
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John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social

Is it just me or is the a wide gap between SS: "Is it your REPRESENTATION that …" and DE: "Your Honor, my UNDERSTANDING is that…" ?

aug 31, 2025, 5:13 pm • 20 2 • view
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JJCornflower @jjcornflower.bsky.social

Exactly! DOJ should be providing facts and evidence. They don’t get to hide behind plausible deniability

aug 31, 2025, 5:25 pm • 10 0 • view
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kmkraus.bsky.social @kmkraus.bsky.social

Cannot thank you enough for covering this on a weekend, Anna🙏

aug 31, 2025, 5:10 pm • 13 1 • view
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ennaliadon.bsky.social @ennaliadon.bsky.social

How heartless are these people? So intent on meeting deportation goals that judge must take 2am call on a Sunday & issue a TRO to stop them from deporting children to Guatemala. They’re weaker by acting so inhumanely. No mercy? No justice. Thanks to lawyers representing kids. Fighting good fight!

aug 31, 2025, 6:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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JJCornflower @jjcornflower.bsky.social

Ensign is unsure about one plane. That sounds like a familiar story, exactly what they did last time. What are the odds that plane is still on US soil?

aug 31, 2025, 5:19 pm • 13 1 • view
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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com

About 0 in 1

aug 31, 2025, 5:28 pm • 6 0 • view
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John Manning @johnmanningpct.bsky.social

Do we know how many kids were put through this?

sep 1, 2025, 6:44 am • 0 0 • view
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rosalita1959.bsky.social @rosalita1959.bsky.social

They’re lying

aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 5 0 • view
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CapeCodder2025 @capecodder2025.bsky.social

when will Ensign realize DOJ / ICEis does not care about him, or the rules?

aug 31, 2025, 6:52 pm • 2 0 • view
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Cheyney™ 🫘 🌀🌀🐢🐢🐢🌀 @cheyney0.bsky.social

I don’t trust them.

aug 31, 2025, 5:06 pm • 22 0 • view
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maryhoag.bsky.social @maryhoag.bsky.social

I don’t think the judge does either.

aug 31, 2025, 5:07 pm • 15 0 • view
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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social

Nor should anyone.

aug 31, 2025, 5:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social

planes with little kids with no parents little kids no parents

aug 31, 2025, 7:29 pm • 2 0 • view
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TLAnde @tlande.bsky.social

I can't even.....😭 How scared must they be. The cruelty of this regime is beyond the pale. Not one heart in the entire administration.

sep 1, 2025, 2:28 am • 2 0 • view
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Seentoomuch @seentoomuch.bsky.social

I wouldn't belive him, personally.

aug 31, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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kate411.bsky.social @kate411.bsky.social

GET THE CAMERAS THERE!! AT THE AIRPORT!!

aug 31, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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Immigrant now citizen @now-citizen.bsky.social

Somewhere I saw that Gov asked for 5 days to reply. Given DOJ sued MD judges for insisting TWO days to file habeus (too slow!), I think judges should say “I would give you two, but now only one as you think reasonable. If not release them all” cc @muellershewrote.com @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

aug 31, 2025, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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Carole Czoernie @czoernie.bsky.social

Here we go again.

aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 3 0 • view
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LR @trychick.bsky.social

Sure, we totally believe him.

aug 31, 2025, 5:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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Audrey_the_good_girl @jb3po.bsky.social

Jesus

aug 31, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Larry Jackson @ljlawyers.bsky.social

Maybe. Maybe not. bsky.app/profile/jjin...

aug 31, 2025, 6:12 pm • 5 1 • view
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lawaccbutnolawdeg.bsky.social @lawaccbutnolawdeg.bsky.social

Fool me once… shame on you…… fool me twice………. can’t get fooled again!

aug 31, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social

That’s somewhat reassuring.

aug 31, 2025, 5:05 pm • 4 0 • view
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Skeeter65 @skeeter65.bsky.social

Require that lying SOB Ensign to guaran-fucking-te that those children won’t end up in Trump & the GOP’s pedo den. Make him sign away his own life as collateral.

sep 1, 2025, 1:33 am • 1 0 • view
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Lila Lyn @palnvt.bsky.social

The pilots who are agreeing to transporting migrants without proper legal authorization should be charged with human trafficking.

aug 31, 2025, 8:47 pm • 8 0 • view
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eric1990s.bsky.social @eric1990s.bsky.social

Only this time this one may actually lead to contempt faster.

aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 6 1 • view
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Pam Palmer, Esq. @pampalmeresq.bsky.social

The Appellate Court should have never ruled the Federal Courts cannot enforce Contempt charges against DOJ, or the Whitehouse. By the way, I read an article yesterday where Judge Boasberg has filed an appeal on this before the full court. I hope the hell he wins!

aug 31, 2025, 5:10 pm • 15 2 • view
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eric1990s.bsky.social @eric1990s.bsky.social

They never said that. They only said he couldn’t given hold them in contempt over the order due to how the tros were vacated.

aug 31, 2025, 5:19 pm • 4 0 • view
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eric1990s.bsky.social @eric1990s.bsky.social

It was still a bs ruling by the appeals court. But yeah if he was holding them in contempt for the Supreme Court’s due process requirement then even Rao would draw the line.

aug 31, 2025, 5:25 pm • 3 0 • view
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Cindy Rugeley @cindyrugeley.bsky.social

It seems this administration goes to extreme lengths to do things that are just awful.

aug 31, 2025, 6:34 pm • 12 1 • view
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dianapet.bsky.social @dianapet.bsky.social

Steven Miller. You know it’s evil if he is involved.

sep 1, 2025, 1:14 pm • 3 0 • view
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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social

Miller's just telling the DOJ to "screw their orders, screw their human rights", isn't he.

aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 27 1 • view
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KeithDB @keithdb.bsky.social

The actual phrase is that the courts can "fuck off."

aug 31, 2025, 5:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social

I remember that too.

aug 31, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kate Needz Coffee 💛🤍💜🖤 @kateneedzcoffee.bsky.social

^this

aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 3 0 • view
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John Adams @armyinfsgtvet.bsky.social

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John Adams @armyinfsgtvet.bsky.social

‪Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD‬ @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social‬ Bill Cassidy is a physician who is being humiliated daily by Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s craven prioritization of his own power over the health and safety of his constituents and of the United States of America.

aug 31, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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olympicdane.bsky.social @olympicdane.bsky.social

This is bullshit. There are methods for doing this through state courts and the UCCJEA. I have handled cases involving minors from foreign countries in Florida state court. The DOJ appears to be lying here.

aug 31, 2025, 6:36 pm • 19 4 • view
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ATS/NLG @atsnlg.bsky.social

Honest question: Is it grounds for a child's asylum claims that their parent(s) are abusing them? (I'd think not.)

aug 31, 2025, 9:00 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com

Trafficking yes

aug 31, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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nickoftime5546.bsky.social @nickoftime5546.bsky.social

Always

aug 31, 2025, 8:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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Piotr Wilkin @ilintar.org

Our warm thoughts go to Justice Rao, whose behavior on the special panel with first delaying and then blocking the contempt proceedings from that case have allowed the government to run the same shit all over again.

aug 31, 2025, 8:13 pm • 5 1 • view
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StarBucket @aquagyrl.bsky.social

Thanks for reporting on this!

aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 2 0 • view
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delmarra.bsky.social @delmarra.bsky.social

Yes, it's very much appreciated

aug 31, 2025, 5:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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whateverwhichwitch.bsky.social @whateverwhichwitch.bsky.social

Child trafficking by us gov

aug 31, 2025, 6:41 pm • 7 0 • view
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44 is the one 🕳 @jettdash.bsky.social

tbh I can't name one person in this administration who doesn't seem like they have dabbled in human trafficking. NOT ONE!

aug 31, 2025, 8:07 pm • 3 0 • view
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Robert Democracy Illes @bobbygoode.bsky.social

So they have deniability.

aug 31, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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cg66826.bsky.social @cg66826.bsky.social

Thank you for covering the courts on the weekend so we all stay informed! I appreciate all your hard work!

aug 31, 2025, 8:19 pm • 5 0 • view
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Matthew 🦖 @moosewithablanket.bsky.social

Is it just me or are judges being extra careful to make sure Ensign and others communicate this stuff after the administration ignored court orders and sent people to El Salvador earlier this year?

aug 31, 2025, 5:07 pm • 54 4 • view
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ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social

Some (many?) judges aren't as willing to give the DoJ the benefit of the doubt at this point. (I think it's called a "presumption of regulatory" or something like that?) It only 8 months to end decades of reasonable assumption.

sep 1, 2025, 10:09 am • 2 0 • view
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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social

Did they stop once the ruling was communicated to them? If not, and there wasn’t some higher court order staying it — and that happens again — our problem becomes exponentially worse

aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 1 0 • view
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eric1990s.bsky.social @eric1990s.bsky.social

This was a similar case months ago with Garcia and how even the Supreme Court told them they had to bring him back. But the deadline was initially too tight apparently.

aug 31, 2025, 5:05 pm • 2 0 • view
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berniemj.bsky.social @berniemj.bsky.social

No, the deadline was not the problem. You can rest assured that DOJ knew, and ignored it. They've already explained the Bove Doctrine, after all.

aug 31, 2025, 6:17 pm • 5 1 • view
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Kathy Mair @katielou10.bsky.social

Dear lord. Thank you for covering this for us, Anna. You're an absolute treasure.

aug 31, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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p0rtiaB00 @p0rtiab00.bsky.social

Of course he's not! And I believe him! 🤮

aug 31, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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Richard Adlof . . . @richardladlof.bsky.social

Golly, the judge needs to recommend to the Bar Association that Ensign be disbarred.

aug 31, 2025, 5:03 pm • 8 1 • view
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eric1990s.bsky.social @eric1990s.bsky.social

Can say the same for Noem.

aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 3 1 • view
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Richard Adlof . . . @richardladlof.bsky.social

I didn't know that KKKosplayKKKristi had a law degree . . . Little "Mark the Rube" Rubio needs to be disbarred.

aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 2 0 • view
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p @vel.law

Does Ensign just not have a direct line to the people at DHS calling these shots?

aug 31, 2025, 4:55 pm • 5 0 • view
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SteveBev @stevebev.bsky.social

A WAG When there is nefariousness to be done, they are all officially unable to reach each other … cause,difficulties…(mumble)…. Meanwhile, on signal on unofficial phones…

aug 31, 2025, 5:11 pm • 4 0 • view
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Honor your oath of office or resign. @trialrun2024.bsky.social

youtu.be/6DkIbNE25Q0?.... Republicans covered up signslgate very efficidntly.

aug 31, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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watchingwhales.bsky.social @watchingwhales.bsky.social

How convenient for the Administration.

aug 31, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Gina Dalfonzo @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social

Smart judge.

aug 31, 2025, 4:56 pm • 14 0 • view
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Tim Rand @timrand.bsky.social

How can he not be aware? Either he or his clerks MUST have known and if the clerks didn’t tell him, that’s a dereliction of duty on their part.

aug 31, 2025, 4:53 pm • 14 1 • view
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AF @tardigradeaf.bsky.social

If I am aware, he should be aware.

aug 31, 2025, 4:54 pm • 13 0 • view
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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social

I think this is a new order which isn't publicly docketed yet. The prior order (despite reporting) only applied to the 10 named plaintiffs, not the putative class members (based on my read).

aug 31, 2025, 4:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Just a french cat @justafrenchcat.bsky.social

It was entered in the docket bsky.app/profile/kyle...

aug 31, 2025, 5:01 pm • 5 2 • view
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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social

While the hearing was already underway

aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social

(And it only just appeared on recap)

aug 31, 2025, 5:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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KB @sorrykb.bsky.social

They pull Ensign out of the Cone of Silence right before each hearing, and put him back immediately after.

aug 31, 2025, 4:54 pm • 5 0 • view
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Modernista64 @modernista64.bsky.social

Clerks? What makes you think Ensign has clerks?

aug 31, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social

Ensign is either lying or terrible at his job. I guess I hope he's lying so we can get him one day

aug 31, 2025, 4:53 pm • 19 1 • view
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The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social

Hey, it can be both!

aug 31, 2025, 4:56 pm • 13 0 • view
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seekingwittyid.bsky.social @seekingwittyid.bsky.social

It could also be that his superiors are keeping him in the dark, trifecta!

aug 31, 2025, 5:00 pm • 6 0 • view
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Jameslet @jamesh1977.bsky.social

Fucking Ensign again - he’s going to be a mid tier villain in the history books.

aug 31, 2025, 4:52 pm • 66 1 • view
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Baron Oliver StJohn Mollusc @tjhl65.bsky.social

Another one who will use the “I was just acting under orders” defence come the day.

aug 31, 2025, 4:56 pm • 27 1 • view
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Carl S. Ergo Sum @carlsergosum.bsky.social

That didn’t work at Nuremberg 1.0.

aug 31, 2025, 5:01 pm • 6 0 • view
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Baron Oliver StJohn Mollusc @tjhl65.bsky.social

“Dance the hempen jig”!!!

aug 31, 2025, 5:48 pm • 1 0 • view
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CosmosXX @cosmosxx.bsky.social

I hope lying to the court still has consequences.

sep 1, 2025, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Alexi Charles @alexcharles.bsky.social

600 KIDS for Gods sake. What has happened to America?

aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 10 0 • view
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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com

Fascism.

aug 31, 2025, 5:22 pm • 11 0 • view
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stroligus.bsky.social @stroligus.bsky.social

One day soon it’ll be Drew Ensign’s turn in the barrel.

aug 31, 2025, 4:58 pm • 12 0 • view
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Jill RS @jillrs1234.bsky.social

Did you ever catch who is representing plaintiffs? Thanks so much for this livestream btw!!

aug 31, 2025, 6:24 pm • 2 0 • view
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Mongrel @mongrel.bsky.social

If anything happens to Ensign does the DoJ just collapse entirely?

aug 31, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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heavenlysky.bsky.social @heavenlysky.bsky.social

Thank you Anna for your reporting.

aug 31, 2025, 4:59 pm • 17 0 • view
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hvstylist.bsky.social @hvstylist.bsky.social

Thank you!

aug 31, 2025, 5:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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LR @trychick.bsky.social

Fuck that asshole.

aug 31, 2025, 5:34 pm • 2 0 • view
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Stephanie King @weary-mermaid.bsky.social

I'll bet a lot of my replies get covered, too. Lol

aug 31, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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LR @trychick.bsky.social

What?

aug 31, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Stephanie King @weary-mermaid.bsky.social

Your post was covered with a little eyeball(which I always click on).

aug 31, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social

Ohhhh. It is Efren C. Olivares for plaintiffs. SS just said his name so much more clearly in her closing. (Hilda Bonilla who filed the papers was also there but she didn't speak other than initially).

aug 31, 2025, 5:58 pm • 4 0 • view
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Kate Jagger @katwitdown.bsky.social

The people “doing something”

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aug 31, 2025, 7:43 pm • 2 0 • view