The arrest and detention of Rümeysa Öztürk, a child development researcher who has not been charged with a crime, reveals what President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign looks like on the ground. Hanna Allam reports.
Everyone should be free to speak their minds and live without fear of masked men grabbing them for deportation to a hell hole in Louisiana or El Salvador, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
“We must push back” — Retired Army Colonel Ann Wright takes on AIPAC-funded Tom Cotton, charging him with reckless libel.
“An abusive exercise of power accompanied by humiliation” —Katherine Franke, former law professor at Columbia, on the university’s handling of Mahmoud Khalil, for whom she served as disciplinary adviser.
“My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech,” Mahmoud Khalil writes in his letter from ICE detention.
Trump’s disrespect for the law and courts is not the “only question” raised by the disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil. There are several others, from long before Jan. 20.
Chris Hedges, Jill Stein and Kshama Sawant spoke at the Workers Strike Back conference in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday.
Jewish businessmen, entertainers, journalists and religious figures signed a full-page ad in The New York Times saying, “Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing!”
The indictment of the alleged assassin comes as some states expand terror laws to ensnare protesters who block “critical infrastructure,” Schuyler Mitchell reports.
Young protesters face more than a year in prison before going on trial over a break-in at an Israeli arms factory near Bristol, Daniel Tester reports.