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@tylermcbrien.comAccess the @brennancenter.org's Supreme Court Shadow Docket Tracker here: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
@tylermcbrien.comYesterday, the Trump admin made its 42nd application to the Supreme Court shadow docket—that's more than Trump's first term, as well as the Biden admin's 19 requests and the Obama and George W. Bush admin's 8 emergency docket requests combined, according to the @brennancenter.org.
@tylermcbrien.comLink to the OFAC page here: ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...
Link to the @reuters.com reporting here: reuters.com/world/us-imp...
@tylermcbrien.comIt finally happened. After weeks of threats and rumors, the Trump administration has sanctioned the International Criminal Court—hours after Navi Pillay, a former judge in the ICC's Appeal Chamber, won the Nobel Peace Prize, as @reuters.com points out.
@tylermcbrien.comLink here: humanrights.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...
@tylermcbrien.com"ARCHITECTURE OF CRUELTY: Third Country Removal Agreements and the Second Trump Administration," the full report from @hrcberkeley.bsky.social, is now live at the link below.
@tylermcbrien.comRead the report here: www.mentalhealth.va.gov/suicide_prev...
@tylermcbrien.comNEW: a Department of Veterans Affairs report found that 6,488 veterans died by suicide in 2024—62% of whom had no contact with the Veterans Health Administration and received no VA benefits—an average of nearly 18 veteran deaths by suicide per day, a slight decrease from 2023.
@tylermcbrien.comRead @hrcberkeley.bsky.social's report "The Architecture of Cruelty" here: humanrights.berkeley.edu/architecture...
Reading room here: hrc.berkeley.edu/the-reading-...
And interactive timeline here: hrc.berkeley.edu/graph.html
@tylermcbrien.comThese are really great tools + resources for lawyers, journalists, researchers, or really anyone looking into 3rd country removal agreements—which the Trump admin should be disclosing under the Case-Zablocki Act, though agreements w/ at least 6 countries are still not public
@tylermcbrien.comNEW: Ahead of Supreme Court oral argument on 3rd country removals in Dec, @hrcberkeley.bsky.social released a report, reading room, & other resources digging into 33 publicly available agreements the US has entered into with 29 (out of at least 35) countries.
humanrights.berkeley.edu/projects/tra...
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@tylermcbrien.comToday in memory-holing news: the government appears to be scrubbing dockets from military commissions cases at Guantánamo Bay. One important 2023 ruling from the ongoing Al Nashiri case is now redacted in full in one spot on the OMC website...and available in full in another.
@stevenmazie.bsky.socialReposted by @tylermcbrien.comBREAKING: Supreme Court grants Trump administration request to revive third-country deportations and takes case onto merits docket for December oral argument
@tylermcbrien.comWatch the second chapter of "DEPORTATION, INC.: The Rise of the Immigration Enforcement Economy" here or on @lawfaremedia.org's YouTube page: www.lawfaremedia.org/deportationinc
@tylermcbrien.comAs I write in @theintercept.com today, 3rd country agreements in particular illustrate the Trump administration’s obfuscation, nondisclosure, and dealmaking of the backroom variety, as it invokes national security to justify shielding itself from public scrutiny and accountability.
