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Ge·sta·po
[ɡəˈstäpō]
definition
  1. the German secret police under Nazi rule. It ruthlessly suppressed opposition to the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe, and sent Jewish people and others to concentration camps. From 1936 it was headed by Heinrich Himmler.

"Last month, Clay Jackson was at a gas station near his home in Dallas when an attendant asked if he could offer up some legal advice to an immigrant family in the neighborhood.

A father was caught up in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid, and the mixed-status family with a U.S. citizen child wasn’t sure what to do next.

Jackson agreed to give them informal pro bono support in his personal capacity, not as an in-house lawyer for Fidelity National Financial, a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 title insurance company.

“My goal was to try to find somebody just to be a conduit for them, to alleviate their immediate concerns and fear, give them just some basic understanding of what this is and how this may play out, and then try to find them with a good lawyer,” he told The Independent.

Then two people he says appeared to be federal law enforcement agents visited Jackson himself.

Two plain-clothed agents appeared at his home and accused Jackson of obstructing an investigation, he said.

Jackson talked to formerWashington Post columnist Radley Balko about the people he believed were ICE agents arriving at his door. That article, which did not mention where Jackson worked, was published April 23.

That same day, Jackson was fired.

The incident follows a series of actions from Donald Trump’s administration targeting individual lawyers and firms that provided work for his perceived political enemies. Jackson fears ICE’s threats and his abrupt termination could send a “chilling” effect preventing lawyers from pro bono work or even informal advice."

A Texas lawyer gave advice to an immigrant family caught up in an ICE raid. Agents visited him, and then he was fired

 

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Where have you been? Trump's lawyers had their offices raided, threats of disbarring them, and threats of prison time all for the crime of giving him legal representation. 

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43 minutes ago, blackbird said:
Ge·sta·po
[ɡəˈstäpō]
definition
  1. the German secret police under Nazi rule. It ruthlessly suppressed opposition to the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe, and sent Jewish people and others to concentration camps. From 1936 it was headed by Heinrich Himmler.

"Last month, Clay Jackson was at a gas station near his home in Dallas when an attendant asked if he could offer up some legal advice to an immigrant family in the neighborhood.

A father was caught up in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid, and the mixed-status family with a U.S. citizen child wasn’t sure what to do next.

Jackson agreed to give them informal pro bono support in his personal capacity, not as an in-house lawyer for Fidelity National Financial, a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 title insurance company.

“My goal was to try to find somebody just to be a conduit for them, to alleviate their immediate concerns and fear, give them just some basic understanding of what this is and how this may play out, and then try to find them with a good lawyer,” he told The Independent.

Then two people he says appeared to be federal law enforcement agents visited Jackson himself.

Two plain-clothed agents appeared at his home and accused Jackson of obstructing an investigation, he said.

Jackson talked to formerWashington Post columnist Radley Balko about the people he believed were ICE agents arriving at his door. That article, which did not mention where Jackson worked, was published April 23.

That same day, Jackson was fired.

The incident follows a series of actions from Donald Trump’s administration targeting individual lawyers and firms that provided work for his perceived political enemies. Jackson fears ICE’s threats and his abrupt termination could send a “chilling” effect preventing lawyers from pro bono work or even informal advice."

A Texas lawyer gave advice to an immigrant family caught up in an ICE raid. Agents visited him, and then he was fired

I would've fired him as well. 

Citizens need to understand that Trump is fulfilling his promise to the American people. If you can't handle that, then risk getting fired like this guy, or relocate to a different country like Ellen Degenerate and that big mouth did. 

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41 minutes ago, West said:

Where have you been? Trump's lawyers had their offices raided, threats of disbarring them, and threats of prison time all for the crime of giving him legal representation. 

I'm sure there is a REASON you've posted ZERO EVIDENCE of ^these wild and unsubstantiated claims. 

Probably the lawyers who were threatened with disbarment were like John Eastman who advised a strategy he KNEW was ILLEGAL. Being penalized by a JUDGE is very different from being targeted by Trump's DoJ goons.

John Charles Eastman (born 1960) is an American lawyer and academic. He is known for his efforts to block certification and overturn the results of the 2020 ...
 
Mar 19, 2025  The Orange County attorney, a constitutional scholar who once clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote two memos arguing the ...
Mar 27, 2024  A California judge has formally recommended that attorney John Eastman lose his law license for his role in Donald Trump's legal effort to remain in power.
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41 minutes ago, robosmith said:

I'm sure there is a REASON you've posted ZERO EVIDENCE of ^these wild and unsubstantiated claims. 

Probably the lawyers who were threatened with disbarment were like John Eastman who advised a strategy he KNEW was ILLEGAL. Being penalized by a JUDGE is very different from being targeted by Trump's DoJ goons.

John Charles Eastman (born 1960) is an American lawyer and academic. He is known for his efforts to block certification and overturn the results of the 2020 ...
 
Mar 19, 2025  The Orange County attorney, a constitutional scholar who once clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote two memos arguing the ...
Mar 27, 2024  A California judge has formally recommended that attorney John Eastman lose his law license for his role in Donald Trump's legal effort to remain in power.

Of course communists try to make it look legitimate but it's just communism 

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Just now, West said:

Of course communists try to make it look legitimate but it's just communism 

There is NO communism in the US, you ignorant Canuck.

EVIDENCE in COURT is what convicted Peters. Communists never even bother with evidence (like you). Duh

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5 minutes ago, robosmith said:

There is NO communism in the US, you ignorant Canuck.

Yes there is, you stunted pervert. Look at speech. You f*ckers have been working on speech control for so long, that now people have to watch EVERY F*CKING THING they say. If someone says the wrong thing, it's a goddamn surety one of you wet diapers is going to try to have that person thrown in jail. 

No, YOU are the problem, not us. WE are Americans. YOU are traitors. ;) 

 

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21 minutes ago, Deluge said:

Yes there is, you stunted pervert. Look at speech. You f*ckers have been working on speech control for so long, that now people have to watch EVERY F*CKING THING they say. If someone says the wrong thing, it's a goddamn surety one of you wet diapers is going to try to have that person thrown in jail. 

No, YOU are the problem, not us. WE are Americans. YOU are traitors. ;) 

Ironic that it is Trump who is having college students arrested for WHAT THEY SAY. AKA, you ARE LYING.

U.S. students face deportation after speaking out about Gaza

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In recent weeks, several international university students have been taken by immigration agents or had their legal status questioned.

Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Öztürk was detained by masked agents in plainclothes as she walked to meet friends for dinner. She says she is being targeted over an op-ed about Gaza that she wrote in the Tufts University student newspaper.

Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil was arrested in his university housing despite being a legal permanent resident. He says he was taken over his peaceful protests against Israel's war in Gaza.

 

Columbia University Ph.D. student Ranjani Srinivasan was accused publicly by the Department of Homeland Security of being a terrorist sympathizer, with no evidence, when she got notice that her visa was revoked. She chose to leave.

Their cases raise concerns that more students could be targeted for their views. That alarm is found among free speech advocates across the political spectrum, including pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups that uphold the First Amendment for views they both agree and disagree with.


Tune in to NPR and visit NPR.org every day this week for in-depth stories on "The State of the First Amendment: The Right From Which All Other Rights Flow." 


Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he has revoked more than 300 visas and has defended the decisions.

"We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campus. We've given you a visa and you decide to do that — we're going to take it away," Rubio said in a recent news conference.

None of these students has been charged with a crime. Instead, the government is using a rarely invoked immigration act that allows the secretary of state to revoke immigration status if the secretary deems their presence a threat to U.S. foreign policy.

The students, their families and their lawyers say these detentions and visa revocations should worry every American.

"This is what happens in a dictatorship, and these are test cases," said Eric Lee, a lawyer who represents Momodou Taal, a Cornell University Ph.D. student and advocate for Palestinian rights whose visa was revoked. "If the government can get away with doing this to these students, it can do it to everybody in this country. Your citizenship won't save you. ... Your views will be next."

Taal sued the government on the grounds of free speech this year. After the case was filed, Immigration and Customs Enforcement called on Taal to turn himself in for deportation. Taal didn't turn himself in and continued the case until just over a week ago, when he issued a public statement on X sharing that he had left the country.

Momodou Taal is a Cornell University Ph.D. student and advocate for Palestinian rights whose visa was revoked. "Given what we have seen across the United States," he wrote, "I have lost faith that a favourable ruling from the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs. I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted."

 

 

 
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13 minutes ago, robosmith said:

Ironic that it is Trump who is having college students arrested for WHAT THEY SAY. AKA, you ARE LYING.

U.S. students face deportation after speaking out about Gaza

Trump is going after America hating non-citizens. They either need to keep their noses in their text books, and out of our politics, or they need to go home. 

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2 hours ago, blackbird said:
Ge·sta·po
[ɡəˈstäpō]
definition
  1. the German secret police under Nazi rule. It ruthlessly suppressed opposition to the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe, and sent Jewish people and others to concentration camps. From 1936 it was headed by Heinrich Himmler.

"Last month, Clay Jackson was at a gas station near his home in Dallas when an attendant asked if he could offer up some legal advice to an immigrant family in the neighborhood.

A father was caught up in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid, and the mixed-status family with a U.S. citizen child wasn’t sure what to do next.

Jackson agreed to give them informal pro bono support in his personal capacity, not as an in-house lawyer for Fidelity National Financial, a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 title insurance company.

“My goal was to try to find somebody just to be a conduit for them, to alleviate their immediate concerns and fear, give them just some basic understanding of what this is and how this may play out, and then try to find them with a good lawyer,” he told The Independent.

Then two people he says appeared to be federal law enforcement agents visited Jackson himself.

Two plain-clothed agents appeared at his home and accused Jackson of obstructing an investigation, he said.

Jackson talked to formerWashington Post columnist Radley Balko about the people he believed were ICE agents arriving at his door. That article, which did not mention where Jackson worked, was published April 23.

That same day, Jackson was fired.

The incident follows a series of actions from Donald Trump’s administration targeting individual lawyers and firms that provided work for his perceived political enemies. Jackson fears ICE’s threats and his abrupt termination could send a “chilling” effect preventing lawyers from pro bono work or even informal advice."

A Texas lawyer gave advice to an immigrant family caught up in an ICE raid. Agents visited him, and then he was fired

 

Very sobering, thanks for sharing.

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4 hours ago, blackbird said:

Sorry we have to disagree about this one.  This is not a black and white issue.  Even if one thinks the general policy of removing alleged illegal migrants is in order, a President and country must respect due process, and respect lawyers that defend the accused.  You can't just crush the rights of lawyers who defend these people and just ignore the due processes and procedures that respect human rights. We need to think deeper.

Your good blackbird. I appreciate your love for God regardless 

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15 hours ago, blackbird said:

Sorry we have to disagree about this one.  This is not a black and white issue.  Even if one thinks the general policy of removing alleged illegal migrants is in order, a President and country must respect due process, and respect lawyers that defend the accused.  You can't just crush the rights of lawyers who defend these people and just ignore the due processes and procedures that respect human rights. We need to think deeper.

How many times did the Democrats warp the law and prosecute people? 10? Probably more eh? And the law simply looked the other way and allowed it all to unfold. Hilary-Billary and her team of liars are still free, even though they all very clearly broke a number of laws. Hell Brandon himself broke several laws and the law did nothing.

So I'm sorry blackbird...your sentiments are noble but...the Democrats chucked nobility out the window years ago. For hate's sake, they justify everything and have gotten away with it all...so far.

Trump has enacted a policy that essentially has been learned from these Democrats. He's fighting fire with fire. It may be difficult to watch but always remember...when the dust finally settles...it was the Democrats who started this.

Trump is going to end it.

Its so lonely in m'saddle since m'horse died.

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Yep. Deporting people on student visas is totally gestapo like. Except it's in the law that any student can have their visa revoked by the admin. But, still, it's so awful that the people that support the genocide of Jews are being deported. That's so who we want in America.

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  4. Everyone you disagree with is Hitler.
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On 5/6/2025 at 9:48 AM, blackbird said:
Ge·sta·po
[ɡəˈstäpō]
definition
  1. the German secret police under Nazi rule. It ruthlessly suppressed opposition to the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe, and sent Jewish people and others to concentration camps. From 1936 it was headed by Heinrich Himmler.

"Last month, Clay Jackson was at a gas station near his home in Dallas when an attendant asked if he could offer up some legal advice to an immigrant family in the neighborhood.

A father was caught up in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid, and the mixed-status family with a U.S. citizen child wasn’t sure what to do next.

Jackson agreed to give them informal pro bono support in his personal capacity, not as an in-house lawyer for Fidelity National Financial, a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 title insurance company.

“My goal was to try to find somebody just to be a conduit for them, to alleviate their immediate concerns and fear, give them just some basic understanding of what this is and how this may play out, and then try to find them with a good lawyer,” he told The Independent.

Then two people he says appeared to be federal law enforcement agents visited Jackson himself.

Two plain-clothed agents appeared at his home and accused Jackson of obstructing an investigation, he said.

Jackson talked to formerWashington Post columnist Radley Balko about the people he believed were ICE agents arriving at his door. That article, which did not mention where Jackson worked, was published April 23.

That same day, Jackson was fired.

The incident follows a series of actions from Donald Trump’s administration targeting individual lawyers and firms that provided work for his perceived political enemies. Jackson fears ICE’s threats and his abrupt termination could send a “chilling” effect preventing lawyers from pro bono work or even informal advice."

A Texas lawyer gave advice to an immigrant family caught up in an ICE raid. Agents visited him, and then he was fired

 

Trump has been forcing legal companies to bend the knee over threats of retaliation. This shouldn't surprise anyone. Of course MAGA's will respond with made up whatabouts.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/former-top-lawyers-major-companies-decry-trump-orders-against-law-firms-2025-04-08/

https://apnews.com/article/trump-law-firms-executive-order-fe8f38a61cf77c5bb6add1315f5f96f1

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-orders-target-law-firms-some-lawyers-say-that-threatens-rule-of-law-60-minutes-transcript/

 

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1 hour ago, Aristides said:

Is this better or worse than Biden trying to prosecute Trump lawyers for defending him from Joe's Banana Republic?

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2 minutes ago, Scott75 said:

Do 2 wrongs make a right?

No, but three lefts do.

You assume what is reported in the article is the whole truth. Until we see the whole truth, I'll stick to sarcasm and pointing out the hypocrisy of the left.

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9 hours ago, gatomontes99 said:

Is this better or worse than Biden trying to prosecute Trump lawyers for defending him from Joe's Banana Republic?

Unlike Trump who PROMISED RETRIBUTION, Joe Biden never said a word about prosecuting any of the MAGA CULT because he left that up to an independent DoJ like it's supposed to be. AKA totally dependent on JUSTICE.

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10 hours ago, gatomontes99 said:
10 hours ago, Scott75 said:
14 hours ago, gatomontes99 said:

  

  

15 hours ago, Aristides said:

Is this better or worse than Biden trying to prosecute Trump lawyers for defending him from Joe's Banana Republic?

Do 2 wrongs make a right?

No, but three lefts do.

You assume what is reported in the article is the whole truth. Until we see the whole truth, I'll stick to sarcasm and pointing out the hypocrisy of the left.

Aristides linked to 3 articles, not one. Did you read any of them? I'll quote from the summary from the first, let me know if you find any errors in it:

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  • 67 current and former general counsels submit legal brief
  • Filing backs Perkins Coie in lawsuit against Trump administration
  • Trump orders 'hijack' companies' ability to choose lawyers, brief says

**

Source:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/former-top-lawyers-major-companies-decry-trump-orders-against-law-firms-2025-04-08/

 

When I first read that summary, I had no idea what Perkins Coie was. I do now. An article on the Perkins Coie lawfirm's win against Trump:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/how-trumps-own-words-helped-him-lose-fight-with-law-firm-perkins-coie-2025-05-06/

Again, let me know if you find anything wrong with the summary of this article:

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  • Trump targets law firms he disfavors with punitive orders
  • Judge Howell invalidates Trump's Perkins Coie directive
  • Trump's public comments underpinned finding of retaliation

**

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7 hours ago, robosmith said:

Unlike Trump who PROMISED RETRIBUTION, Joe Biden never said a word about prosecuting any of the MAGA CULT because he left that up to an independent DoJ like it's supposed to be. AKA totally dependent on JUSTICE.

There needs to be retribution. However, Joe absolutely said he would do everything in his power to keep Trump out of office. Then, when he realized he told the truth he added legally so that fan boys like you would still defend him.

1 hour ago, Scott75 said:

Aristides linked to 3 articles, not one. Did you read any of them? I'll quote from the summary from the first, let me know if you find any errors in it:

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  • 67 current and former general counsels submit legal brief
  • Filing backs Perkins Coie in lawsuit against Trump administration
  • Trump orders 'hijack' companies' ability to choose lawyers, brief says

**

Source:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/former-top-lawyers-major-companies-decry-trump-orders-against-law-firms-2025-04-08/

 

When I first read that summary, I had no idea what Perkins Coie was. I do now. An article on the Perkins Coie lawfirm's win against Trump:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/how-trumps-own-words-helped-him-lose-fight-with-law-firm-perkins-coie-2025-05-06/

Again, let me know if you find anything wrong with the summary of this article:

**

  • Trump targets law firms he disfavors with punitive orders
  • Judge Howell invalidates Trump's Perkins Coie directive
  • Trump's public comments underpinned finding of retaliation

**

Again, the whole truthnisnwhat I'm waiting for. These articles always slant reality to fit a narrative.

The Rules for Liberal tactics:

  1. If they can't refute the content, attack the source.
  2. If they can't refute the content, attack the poster.
  3. If 1 and 2 fail, pretend it never happened.
  4. Everyone you disagree with is Hitler.
  5. A word is defined by the emotion it elicits and not the actual definition.
  6. If they are wrong, blame the opponent.
  7. If a liberal policy didn't work, it's a conservatives fault and vice versa.
  8. If all else fails, just be angry.
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53 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:
2 hours ago, Scott75 said:

Aristides linked to 3 articles, not one. Did you read any of them? I'll quote from the summary from the first, let me know if you find any errors in it:

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  • 67 current and former general counsels submit legal brief
  • Filing backs Perkins Coie in lawsuit against Trump administration
  • Trump orders 'hijack' companies' ability to choose lawyers, brief says

**

Source:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/former-top-lawyers-major-companies-decry-trump-orders-against-law-firms-2025-04-08/

 

When I first read that summary, I had no idea what Perkins Coie was. I do now. An article on the Perkins Coie lawfirm's win against Trump:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/how-trumps-own-words-helped-him-lose-fight-with-law-firm-perkins-coie-2025-05-06/

Again, let me know if you find anything wrong with the summary of this article:

**

  • Trump targets law firms he disfavors with punitive orders
  • Judge Howell invalidates Trump's Perkins Coie directive
  • Trump's public comments underpinned finding of retaliation

**

Again, the whole truthnisnwhat I'm waiting for. These articles always slant reality to fit a narrative.

You may recall that I asked you a question in the post of mine that you just responded to. To whit: "Aristides linked to 3 articles, not one. Did you read any of them?"

I am -hoping- that you have now at least read the summary of the 1 article of Aristides that I quoted from. You may recall that I asked you to let me know if you found any errors in it. Did you?

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3 minutes ago, Scott75 said:

You may recall that I asked you a question in the post of mine that you just responded to. To whit: "Aristides linked to 3 articles, not one. Did you read any of them?"

I am -hoping- that you have now at least read the summary of the 1 article of Aristides that I quoted from. You may recall that I asked you to let me know if you found any errors in it. Did you?

Like I said, I'm waiting for the whole truth. Not some writers slant. You assume that those articles are accurate. Why?

The Rules for Liberal tactics:

  1. If they can't refute the content, attack the source.
  2. If they can't refute the content, attack the poster.
  3. If 1 and 2 fail, pretend it never happened.
  4. Everyone you disagree with is Hitler.
  5. A word is defined by the emotion it elicits and not the actual definition.
  6. If they are wrong, blame the opponent.
  7. If a liberal policy didn't work, it's a conservatives fault and vice versa.
  8. If all else fails, just be angry.
Posted
4 hours ago, gatomontes99 said:

Like I said, I'm waiting for the whole truth. Not some writers slant. You assume that those articles are accurate. Why?

You will never find "the whole truth" on your right wing propaganda sites like FOS LIES, so you're just dodging and waiting forever. 

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