#cambma municipal 2025 election realtime results from me: bsky.app/profile/johnhawkins…

Wyden and Kennedy introduced a bill to modernize PACER

KSENIIA PETROVA (Harvard clawed frog embryo computational biologist) wins her Vermont habeas case on partial summary judgment: the Court finds the cancellation of her visa was arbitrary and capricious and must be set aside, & therefore the revocation of her visa is set aside.

JUST IN: Judge William Young (Reagan) in fine fettle as he mostly denies DOJ's motion to stay remedy for 'breathtaking misconduct' in deportation drive v. pro-Palestinian activists. Young mocks DOJ for undercutting Trump's unitary executive claims. Doc: documentcloud.org/documents/…

JUST IN: Trump admin sues Harvard for allegedly slowwalking requests for admissions data from DOJ. Suit assigned to Judge Myong Joun (Biden). Doc: justice.gov/opa/media/142762…

My live coverage of this morning's Kseniia Petrova discovery hearing (Bill Fick of @fickmarx for Petrova) was over on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/johnhawkins… Judge Dein will grant at least some discovery into selective/vindictive prosecution.

JUST IN: Judge William Young, who ruled Trump admin violated 1st Amendment by targeting pro-Palestinian activists for deportation, enters order allowing @AAUP & @MESA_1966 members to block any deport attempt until feds convince a judge it's legit. Doc: documentcloud.org/documents/…

The top U.S. immigration judge has told her colleagues that they are not bound by a federal court ruling that declared the Trump administration cannot place thousands of people in mandatory detention without an opportunity to be released on bond. reuters.com/legal/government…

Reagan-appointed Judge William Young in Boston today: "It's fairly clear that this president believes, as an authoritarian, that when he speaks, everyone, everyone in Article II is going to toe the line absolutely." reuters.com/world/us-judge-r…

HAPPENING NOW; Judge Young is picking up where he left off in his remarkable opinion describing an unconstitutional scheme to arrest/deport pro-Palestinian activists in violation of their constitutional rights: "There was no policy here. What happened here is an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people, to twist the laws." "Two cabinet secretaries conspired ... they intentionally, knowing what they were doing, counseled by professionals who cautioned them, nevertheless went ahead to pick off these people with the intention that your clients would be chilled. And did so rather effectively, by the way."

JUST IN: As deadline nears, Trump administration appeals judge's ruling blocking attempt to cut off Harvard's federal funding. Doc: documentcloud.org/documents/… cc: DOJ slow-walk maven @chrisgeidner

#BREAKING: Anthony Campbell will leave his post as Yale University’s police chief to serve as the next chief of the Harvard University Police Department, the University announced Thursday. @matanjosephy and @laurelmshugart report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/…

Just before midnight, my @CambridgeDay followup article on #cambma Election disclosure errors posted: cambridgeday.com/2025/11/11/…

Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary essay by Rümeysa Öztürk: "I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison." vanityfair.com/news/story/ru…

BREAKING 6:02pm: Judge Murphy denies the TRO order in Phan:

#cambma City Council thread for June 30, 2025, elaewhere: bsky.app/profile/johnhawkins…

Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday on three criminal counts. @williamcmao and @laurelmshugart report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/…