Functioning democracies don’t deport kids in the middle of the night on a long weekend. This is fascist shit.

📊🤔🇺🇸 This chart should make every American worker stop and think... bsky.app/profile/that...

Thank God for those clerks and this judge. This whole situation has given me a glimmer of hope.

God bless all of them!! Everyone who helped. Now let’s get those kids safely placed with more good people. They’ve been through enough.

👍🥂💙

This will make a great movie someday

Medals of Freedom in 2029 for all involved on the humane side of this.

Sparkle sparkled this weekend

Thank you Judge Sooknanan! We appreciate your dedication and wise adjudication!

Judge Sparkle is giving us life this weekend.

she was up for like 20 hours

Why are we still dealing with this inhumane shit, oh that's right its the fucking Supreme Court

@johnhawkinson.bsky.social says Drew Ensign has missed the 4 pm deadline to file his status report.

For the clerks!🍻🥂🍸🍹🥃🍷🧉☕️🫖 Whatever they want!!!

Ah yes, those lazy civil servants do it again.

And for the judge making herself available

some people actually believe in the rule of law👍

That’s public service. My thanks and admiration to every one of these people.

That is insane dedication.

(During today’s hearing, the judge said that her clerks have also been up since around 2:30 a.m., when she called them about the emergency motion for a temporary restraining order.) bsky.app/profile/anna...

Not only does the judge and her clerks deserve a shout-out, so do you, Anna! You, too, had your holiday weekend upended. I appreciate your energy and conscientiousness in reporting on this. THIS is quality journalism!

i agree!

Damn. What heroes - that's absolutely insane.

I'm pouring 2! The second one because she has the most brilliant name! And I'm sure that will drive them all absolutely insane.

I sincerely thank them!

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For real though

I understand Kavanaugh's "We are in fact a Denny's," statement but surely it's in the government's power and interest to *not* make people do this.

Give them all a bonus AND a raise!

They haven’t filed their status report and she just entered an order to file by 6:30. Remember Bove is still at the Justice Department. He may have said Fuck You to another judge. Congress and the Supreme Court are fine with it. A deportation flight did go to Guatemala today.

Can we stop to ask why the pedophile regime is moving unaccompanied children around in the middle of the night?

Dang!

Yes, certainly. But it’s alarming that the fate of these children is dependent on whether or not the case filed on their behalf happened to be assigned to an alert, heroic, hardworking judge

Vigilant judiciary = strong democracy.

And it was a 100% nefarious made up emergency by DHS for which they should be held accountable

Heroes!

unfortunately i fear this is the greatest day of your life if you’re a federal clerk. these are true sickos.

best and worst. whichever clerk wasn’t in the line of fire is probably buying the others a round as we speak.

*eyes @courtneymilan.com suspiciously*

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bsky.app/profile/abdo... is why 22,000 children and 17,000 women were killed, and 158,000 had their legs or hands cut off.

I bet the judge suspected they would try it and had her contingency plan ready to activate whenever they did.

At least one of whom has been on the job for probably just two or three weeks.

My clerkship started on the day after Labor Day, and it would have been wild if hers were the same and it was either the first or last thing her clerks did.

This is that time of year. Hopefully, she has a career law clerk to guide the term newbies.

DONE!

I'd like to buy them a meal!

Thank you Judge Sooknanan & clerks. Having held a license to practice law for 45 years, I’m trying to maintain confidence in the rule of law.

No Son, there aren't any monsters in your closet. They're too busy working for the government abusing children!

Cheers. And thank you to the judge and her clerks.

Can we start jailing Ensign and others who deny judges orders? Asking for those rooting for due process and rule of law. Thank you.

I wonder how many other migrants the government is sending in the dead of night. I also wonder how many of them are legal migrants or US citizens that have been deported without due process.

I worry about how many flights like this have already happened and gone undetected

Well done lady 👏

The criminal MAGA never rest because they are fueled by their racism and bullying of the weak. So the few heroes of justice must match with greater strength.

If she didn’t do this the children would be gone forever.

If you have to hide it, you already know you’re doing something bad.

Damned straight.

They should get drinks for free for the next year.

This is patriotic.

Just like Russia stealing Ukrainian children. You can’t steal children. What is wrong with these monsters

The felon’s first regime proved that yes, you can steal children. By the thousands.

Horrors

Our heroine

I can’t verify this so hesitate to repost, but wonder WTH is going on here in Seattle bsky.app/profile/gbro...

Absolutely! 👏👏👏

Whatever happens in the rest of their careers, they literally saved children from being tortured this weekend.

One for you, too, Anna. Absolutely terrific reporting. Thanks.

Pour one out for Anna Bower!

yes!

3rd Shift on-call is an ass kicker...

Cheers to Judge Sparkle🥂🍾

Lots of heroes today… and some seriously evil villains, including the flight crew who were willing to fly those children out of the country!

They know they’re on the front line of the battle for our nation’s soul

the judge knows they ll try to ignore the order with “oops, too late!” we need a massive national protest to demands organized by schumer and jeffries, our leaders if they dont care about kids rounded up, they should resign now and let doers do because as i see it, their lack of action is complicit

I hope to never relive these horrific days, not even through a movie.

Born for justice, descended from Sparkle Plenty, of Dick Tracy fame.

Thanks, good to know I am not alone.

Their work is making me feel something patriotic.

Judicial SWAT.

There has been minimal coverage on that other hellscape website. Thank you for all your attention and coverage here …

I second that.

tRump's government is sadistic & evil.

Federal judges have an ability to request assistance from federal clerks in other districts (or there was when I clerked in 2004-2005). It’s a remarkably polite way of making sure no clerk is “low on opportunities.” My judge did it when I clerked once. I wonder if they used it here for help?

I’ll pour one out for anyone named Sparkle!

There still are heroes in robes, um, bathrobes.

The name Sparkle Sooknanan deserves a shot for that name alone! Those clerks with that judge are heroes and will go down in history as such!🥂🍾

Do you mean “complaint” rather than “compliant”? Very different meanings.

Just one tiny example of my experience with the federal courts that no one ever sees and why it must remain independent, which is going to be a huge challenge because the extreme 6 seem intent on merging with this lawless preznut.

Pour one out for a judge by the name of “Sparkle Sookanan” delivering justice in the age of Trump

glad we have woke clerks fed up, ready to go !

I am beyond grateful for the judiciary still holding to the law. Except for SCOTUS, that is….

SCOTUS is turning laws into a knot that don’t even look like Constitutional laws anymore 😩

This is the challenge federal law clerks live for!!

And they really rose to it. F’ing DOJ trying to sneak kids out on a holiday weekend. These people are unbelievably evil.

Is there any way these Trump flaky attorneys can be brought up on disbarment review?

Absolutely there is.