At which point she will have spent nearly two months behind bars for the crime of writing an op-ed.
BREAKING: Second Circuit panel, one day after arguments, unanimously rejects government's arguments and orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be transferred to Vermont no later than May 14.
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May 7, 2025 16:20Co-writing! This is hardly the most significant point and it doesn't deserve THAT much attention. But still! That she was only one of the authors does seem relevant to thinking clearly about the whole thing.
Longer than some convicted rapists
"To honor originalism, we're giving the government seven days because that's how long it would have taken by horse & carriage." Why not fucking overnight?
I hope she (and all of the others) sue the hell out of the government for false imprisonment. Assuming they can.
Yes. Meanwhile, her detention has eroded her health. Her asthma attacks, previously limited by medication to 15 minutes or so, now last up to 45 minutes. Know anyone with asthma? Ask 'em how it would feel to struggle for your next breath for 45 minutes.
I want to know---
Who exactly singled her out?
Where is the email chain for this?
2 months persecuted
Why aren’t they releasing her?
Because as this opinion shows they're still wrangling over the jurisdiction in which her case should be heard.
I appreciate the job that the courts have been doing to secure the release of the hostages.
They were able to disappear her to Louisiana overnight but get a week to get her to Vermont.
They act like opening the door to let her go is a vastly complicated lengthy operation.
One minute in jail feels like a year
The chilling effect is worth so, so much more to them than actually winning.
Not even!! Co-authoring!! It's absolutely criminal what they've done to her!!
And yet David French has done zero!
I kid, I kid.
Fortunately for David French, I love the First Amendment more than I hate him.
Why the fuck wait a week? They got her down there in no time. Don't be reasonable with thoroughly unreasonable people.
Dictator Trump gets offended journalists go to prison for life for writing op Ed against him.
Immigrants get no due process.
US Citizens get no due process.
US constitution shelved give him additional powers remove US Constitution rights upon public
Call him what he is
Nazi Trump dictator of world.
Yeah, she is still being held.
"Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you." ~ George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair wrote under the pen name of George Orwell.
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