Hassan Ali Kanu
Covering courts/regulatory law/antitrust @politico. Priors @TheProspect @reuters @blaw. Sierra Leonean 🇸🇱. Continuously depressed Wizards fan. Alum @DukeLaw @Morehouse
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuWow — Trump's SG won't agree with Barrett that the admin will always follow appellate court precedent while in that circuit. She asks: If the 2nd circuit finds the executive order unconditional, will the admin respect that? Sauer only says that "generally" they do
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuBarrett: Did I hear you correctly from Justice Kagan that you would reserve your rights not to follow Second Circuit precedent? Sauer says it’s the “general practice” to respect the precedent.
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- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuNew: The Trump Administration Leaned On Poor African Countries to Give Elon Musk’s Company What It Wants www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuNEW: The Supreme Court's unusual arguments this morning could be the most important of the term. Almost all of Trump's 2nd term agenda could be on the line. But this fight goes back more than a decade, to before his 1st stint in the White House www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- NEW: A judge has temporarily blocked President Trump’s "DOGE Workforce Optimization" executive order that enabled the administration to fire tens of thousands of federal workers & eliminate certain agencies entirely. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuNEW: A federal judge ordered the “immediate” release of Rumeysa Ozturk from ICE custody, warning her detention — over an op-ed — could chill the speech of “millions.” w/ Liz Crampton www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuNEWS: Earlier today, the three-judge district court in Alabama again ruled that Alabama's congressional map — with its refusal to add a second majority-Black district — violates the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuNEW: Lawyers for migrants in Texas asked a judge for an emergency order to halt any potential deportations to Libya, saying such a flight without warning would "blatantly" defy court orders. w/ Myah Ward @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuJUST IN: The Trump administration has invoked the "state secrets" privilege regarding the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia andany attempts to return him to the United States. Judge Xinis wants briefing on this development. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuAnd the Jefferson Griffin vs. Allison Riggs race is officially over.
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuJUST IN: The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the Trump administration to transfer Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts student grabbed by ICE and teed up for deportation over her op-ed critical of Israel, back to Vermont for her bond proceedings. www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuBREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration's transgender military ban to take effect.
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuNEW from @joshgerstein.bsky.social: You’ve heard of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Now meet the second man erroneously deported to El Salvador in violation of a legal settlement: Daniel Lozano-Camargo. Until now, he’d only been identified by a pseudonym in court. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- BREAKING: Judge denies Trump admin's bid to bar entry to refugees who already had plane tickets to enter U.S. as of Jan 20. The ruling protects about 12,000 refugees, rather than the 160 that Trump said could enter. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69626...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuRubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
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- Reposted by Hassan Ali Kanu(AP) — Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and possibly a couple thousand civilians, The Associated Press has learned. apnews.com/article/army...
- NEW: Federal judge's ruling draws analogy between Trump's anti-DEI orders & historic government efforts to racially segregate the U.S. Judge Abelson refused to temporarily block Trump's EOs (for a 2nd time), but noted that plaintiffs' arguments "have shown a strong likelihood of success."
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuNo, writes @ddale8.bsky.social, Trump did not warn voters during the campaign that his tariffs would require a “transition period.” He said they would make voters “so rich” and are “not going to be a cost to you,” with none of his current rhetoric about temporary issues. www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/p...
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- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuBREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has barred the administation from removing migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, saying Trump's invocation of that law in the context of Tren de Aragua was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- NEW: "House Republicans backtracked on a plan Wednesday to yank antitrust responsibilities from the Federal Trade Commission and centralize all antitrust enforcement within the Justice Department." via @adragna.bsky.social www.politico.com/live-updates...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuSCOOP: A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government. @davidgilbert.bsky.social @wired.com www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuJUST IN: The full bench of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals votes 9-6 to maintain a block on DOGE's access to sensitive social security records. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuNEW: Trump admin officials revealed today how ICE’s “student criminal alien initiative” led to targeting of 1000s of law-abiding foreign students — sparking a nationwide court backlash and, eventually, a complete reversal Details w @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuNEW: Columbia pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi walked out of court today after a judge ordered his immediate release from ICE detention. His words to Trump: "I am not afraid of you." w/ Liz Crampton www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuSCOOP: The Antisemitism Awareness Act — up for vote in Senate committee tomorrow — now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements by Christian conservatives. New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections. More ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...
- BREAKING: A broad lawsuit alleging the Trump admin is deporting people for holding pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel views can move forward to trial, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- NEW: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to rescind collective bargaining rights from employees at nearly a dozen government agencies and departments. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuA CNN host asked these creeps: “Does it matter to you all who has more babies in America, or is this a universal thing for you?" Eventually the husband came out and said yeah it does. He doesn't support possible "baby bonuses" for low-income people because they are "a drain on tax system"
- BREAKING: Disgraced former congressman George Santos has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for wire fraud/identity theft in a case that capped a colorful flameout for the first-term Republican. via @eorden.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- BREAKING: The Trump admin has reversed its cancellation of thousands of visa registrations for foreign students after a flood of lawsuits & 50+ restraining orders issued by judges. via @joshgerstein.bsky.social @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel wrote in a since-deleted social media post that the FBI arrested a Milwaukee County judge on Friday for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- The DOJ says its recent arrest of a "high-ranking" Tren de Aragua leader in Bogota, w the help of Colombian authorities, represents "an inflection point" in how it'll dismantle TdA & reverse the gang's alleged invasion of U.S. streets. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/high-...
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- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuBREAKING: A dozen states sue the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade over its tariff policies.
- BREAKING: A federal judge seemed ready to block the White House order to strip collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of fed workers during a hearing in D.C. today. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- NEW: The Trump admin is intentionally refusing court orders to answer ?s about how it concluded that a wrongfully deported man is a member of MS-13; or which officials are involved in his imprisonment, judge says. w @joshgerstein.bsky.social @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuStatus obtained the audio of Tuesday’s stunning “60 Minutes” meeting where Bill Owens, fighting back tears, said he’s become “the corporation’s problem”—and made it clear he wasn’t leaving by choice. Details here: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali Kanu🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, 4th Circuit BLOCKS North Carolina from beginning the state court ordered cure process while litigation continues in federal court. www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...
- NEW: Musk said on an earnings call Tuesday that he plans to devote more attention to running Tesla: "Starting next month I will be allocating more of my time to Tesla” & will “continue to spend a day or two on government matters” as long as President Trump wants. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuNEW: Voice of America, silent for the first tiem in 80 years, must resume operations at level prior to Trump's effort to dismantle it, a fedearl judge ruled, concluding that the effort ot gut it likely violated the law and constitution. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuNew: The Supreme Court will NOT block a 6th Circuit decision ordering Ohio to place a measure on the ballot that would abolish qualified immunity for state officers. Ohio officials tried to kill it by falsely claiming its summary was misleading. Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh note their dissents.
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuBreaking News: The executive producer of “60 Minutes” said that he would resign from the long-running program because he had lost his journalistic independence.
- BREAKING: Federal judge in Colorado holds that Trump's proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act exceeds the President's authority. The Act refers to "military actions indicative of an actual or impending war”—not “mass illegal migration” or “criminal activities," judge says. t.co/PYJLEZInSZ
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- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuThe Supreme Court could be poised to hobble the Trump resistance. On May 15, the high court will hear oral arguments on a momentous question: What is the extent of lower court judges’ power to block a president’s policies nationwide?
- NEW: SCOTUS has scheduled oral arguments on a momentous question: What is the extent of lower court judges’ power to block a president’s policies nationwide? The ruling could cripple one of the most powerful wings of the Trump resistance. w @eorden.bsky.social shorturl.at/64QKT
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- NEW: "The Supreme Court’s 1am order followed hours of frantic litigation in Texas, Louisiana & D.C., as ACLU lawyers battled to stave off what they said were more imminent deportations of Venezuelan men detained in northern Texas." www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- NEW: Lawyers representing Venezuelan immigrants rushed to SCOTUS & multiple lower courts this evening, seeking emergency orders to prevent what they said was another round of imminent deportations to an El Salvador prison. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- “This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear," wrote Judge Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee & one of the nation's most prominent conservative judges. via @eorden.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2fdpp4xd
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuSen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."
- NEW: Google violated U.S. antitrust law by “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” over web advertising, Judge Leonie Brinkema rules. Brinkema said Google illegally tied together its products to maintain its monopoly. via @bbordelon.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuLook for admin to try revoking tax-exempt status of churches whose teachings and stances toward immigrants it does not like www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
- A DOGE-aligned lawyer claims he was the sole author – from conception to execution – of the Trump admin's plan to fire thousands of probationary workers. Plaintiffs' attorneys say Noah Peters' testimony should be nixed because he's "simply not credible." politi.co/43VNoSm
- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuVan Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13. “His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”
- Senator Chris Van Hollen is speaking live from El Salvador, where he just met with the Salvadoran VP: www.youtube.com/live/pYZPzHy...
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- BREAKING: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold Trump admin officials in criminal contempt for willfully disregarding his orders to stop transferring deportees to Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador. w @eorden.bsky.social @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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- “To date, what the record shows is that nothing has been done. Nothing,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said at a court hearing Tuesday.
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- Reposted by Hassan Ali KanuNEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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- NEW: A White House rescissions package is expected to cut funding for PBS, NPR, USAID & the U.S. Institute of Peace. A Trump admin document obtained Monday also shows the WH is considering a larger request to revoke funding for the State Department.
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- NEW: El Salvador won't return man wrongly deported by U.S. "Of course I’m not going to do it,” President Bukele said while sitting beside President Trump. Attorney General Pam Bondi, sitting near Trump, said the matter is up to El Salvador. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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