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#Righttoprotest

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Steve

"As a Quaker, I hope the raid on our meeting house serves as a wake-up call, a catalyst for the conversations we need to have about the country we want to be. We are at a fork in the road. One way leads to greater intolerance of dissent, repression and ultimately authoritarianism. The other leads to a lively, tolerant and open democratic society. That, surely, is the path our country must take now..."

Paul Parker is recording clerk of Quakers in Britain

#Quakers #PeacefulProtest #RightToProtest

civilsociety.co.uk/voices/paul

www.civilsociety.co.ukPaul Parker: The government must now commit to civil society’s right to dissentIn the wake of a police raid on a Quaker meeting house and a court ruling against anti-protest laws, Paul Parker calls for a change in attitude towards criticism from the sector…
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Nonilex

New filing yesterday in #MahmoudKhalil's case: Petitioner’s Supplemental Brief Regarding Vagueness Claims

The #Trump policy of targeting #noncitizens who speak out for #Palestinian rights & #MarcoRubio's use of the "foreign policy ground" for #deportation are impermissibly vague, & violate #FirstAmendment & #FifthAmendment rights.

storage.courtlistener.com/reca

Pursuant to this Court's order…the petitioner submits this supplemental briefing solely regarding his due process void-for-vagueness claims. These claims focus on the government's announced policy to arrest, detain, & seek to deport noncitizens who engage in protected expression in support of Palestinian rights or critical of Israel (the "Policy"), & its use of 8 U.S.C. 8 1227(a)(4)(C) (the "Foreign Policy Ground) to effectuate the Policy. Mr. Khalil raises two independent but related vagueness arguments. First, he argues that the government has adopted a Policy that is impermissibly vague & should be enjoined for the same reasons courts routinely find that policies, both written & unwritten, run afoul of due process: this Policy provides no notice to noncitizens regarding which of their otherwise-lawful expressive activity will result in the government targeting them for arrest, detention & removal, and it gives government officials unfettered discretion to target disfavored speech. Second, Mr. Khalil argues that the Foreign Policy Ground is itself impermissibly vague as applied to him through the Rubio Determination because neither the statue, past executive practice, nor the legislative history gave Mr. Khalil any notice, in advance of the government's enforcement, that he could possibly be subject to detention & removal for participating -alongside thousands of others
#law#Constitution#immigration
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Nonilex

#NYPD officers, some in riot gear, "responded with force multiple times" while 100+ #protesters #picketed around #Columbia’s campus last night, according to the Columbia Spectator. This followed the arrest of 75+ pro-Palestinian protestors at Columbia's main library.

#law #Constitution #ColumbiaUniversity #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #CivilRights #Dictatorship #AmericanAutocracy #Trump #AbuseOfPower
columbiaspectator.com/news/202

Columbia Daily SpectatorNYPD officers respond with force to protesters picketing around Columbia after arrests at Butler Library<i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.</i>
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Nonilex

#Trump, a [purely self-interested] #Republican, is also trying to #deport some pro-Palestinian #international #students at #US #schools, saying their presence could *harm* US #ForeignPolicy interests [utter crap].

The #protesters in the library also demanded the release of #MahmoudKhalil, a #Palestinian activist & #Columbia graduate student who remains in a Louisiana immigrant #jail after he was among the first to be #arrested for #deportation.

#immigration#law#FirstAmendment
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Paria sans portefeuille

"If history is any guide, rescuing the rights now being rolled back will require a range of tactics, including vigorous #protest itself. It will also require building broad and unwavering consensus about the speciousness of the rationales being offered for today’s draconian crackdowns."

Alex Gourevitch | The Right to Be Hostile

bostonreview.net/articles/the-

#USpol #StudentProtests #FreeSpeechOnCampus #stateRepression #PalestineSolidarity #rightToProtest #civilLiberties #activism @palestine

article in today's Boston Review: text, at right The Right to Be Hostile Crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protest force a reckoning with inflated definitions of harm and harassment. Alex Gourevitch [tags] Democracy, Education, Israel and Palestine, Protest image (photo), at left: Students and pro-Palestinian activists face police as they gather outside Columbia University on April 18, 2024. Image: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Nonilex

Earlier this afternoon, the Second Circuit denied the #Trump #DOJ's request for an immediate administrative stay of the order granting #MoshenMahdawi's release.

The motion for a stay pending appeal will be heard with the motion for a stay pending appeal in #RumeysaOzturk's case. Oral arguments on May 6, 2025.

storage.courtlistener.com/reca

Respondents-Appellants move for an emergency stay of the district court's April 30, 2025 order pending appeal. Appellants further move to consolidate this appeal with Ozturk v. Trump, 25-1019 because "these cases present similar fundamental legal questions and exigencies." Appellants also request that the merits of the emergency stay be argued on May 6, 2025, the date set for argument of a stay pending appeal motion in Ozturk. Case: 25-1113, 05/02/2025, DktEntry: 30.1, Page 2 of 2 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the motion for a stay pending appeal is REFERRED to the three-judge motions panel hearing the Ozturk motion sitting Tuesday, May 6, 2025. An administrative stay pending hearing of the stay motion is DENIED in light of the expedited schedule set for hearing the merits of the stay motion. The motion to consolidate is REFERRED to the May 6, 2025 motions panel. Petitioner's opposition papers are due Monday, May 5, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. Reply papers are due Monday, May 5, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Each side is allotted ten minutes of argument time. For the Court: Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe, Clerk of Court
#immigration#law#Constitution
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Juggling With Eggs

‘Five different judges over two separate hearings have made it clear: these anti-protest laws were a flagrant abuse of power and quite simply should never have existed.

Ministers cannot step outside the law to do whatever they want to shut down causes they don’t agree with.’

#Protest
#RightToProtest
#AntiProtestLaws
#Labour
#Liberty
#ClimateProtest

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · We fought and beat the government in the courts because every Briton has the right to protestBy Akiko Hart
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