Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Today, Judge Boasberg issued an opinion that probable cause exists to find the government in criminal contempt when they refused to turn the planes around march 15th; Bukele refused to let Senator Van Hollen into CECOT - the torture prison in El Salvador - to meet with kidnapped maryland father Abrego Garcia; a new habeas petition has been filed in the case of Edicson David Quintero Chacón - another man disappeared to the gulag in El Salvador; the government’s case against Mahmoud Khalil relied on tabloid accounts; DOGE sought to assign a team to an independent nonprofit group; Judge Tanya Chutkan has blocked trump’s EPA from withholding $20B in clean energy programs; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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El Salvador refuses to let Democratic senator visit or speak with Kilmar Abrego Garcia | The Independent
DOGE sought to assign a team to an independent nonprofit group | The Washington Post
Judge blocks Trump EPA from freezing clean energy funds | MSNBC
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