New post from Olivia Diaz, Associated Press/Report for America ✉

A Georgetown University scholar from India, detained in the Trump Administration’s crackdown on foreign students, was released after a federal judge’s ruling.

Badar Khan Suri will go home to his family in Virginia while he awaits the outcome of his petition against the Trump administration for wrongful arrest and detention in violation of the First Amendment and other constitutional rights. He’s also facing deportation proceedings in an immigration court in Texas.

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New post from the Associated Press ✉

A federal grand jury indicts a Wisconsin judge in an immigration case, allowing charges to proceed.

Dugan’s case is similar to one brought during the first Trump administration against a Massachusetts judge, who was accused of helping a man sneak out a courthouse back door to evade a waiting immigration enforcement agent. That case was eventually dismissed.

Prosecutors say Dugan escorted Eduardo Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer out of her courtroom through a back jury door on April 18 after learning that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in the courthouse seeking his arrest.

Dugan faces up to six years in prison if she’s convicted on both counts. Her team of defense attorneys responded to the indictment with a one-sentence statement saying that she maintains her innocence and looks forward to being vindicated in court. She was scheduled to enter a plea on Thursday.

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New post from Michael Cohen ✉

Michael Cohen warns that Stephen Miller and Trump aim to dismantle habeas corpus, enabling unchecked imprisonment of critics, as he experienced firsthand.

The government can label you a threat, imprison you without charge, and deny you the right to see a judge without habeas corpus.

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New post from Kathy McCormack, Associated Press ✉

A Turkish Tufts student, Rumeysa Ozturk, detained illegally by ICE in Louisiana for over six weeks after being arrested in a Boston suburb was released by a Vermont federal judge, permitting her to resume her studies.

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New post from MeidasTouch Network ✉

The U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency stay at 1 a.m., halting Trump’s deportation of migrants from Texas to El Salvador’s concentration camp after lower courts and the Fifth Circuit failed to act. Seven justices supported the block, pausing deportation under the Alien Enemies Act.

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