A coalition of prosecutors from across the nation are flying to Washington, D.C. this week to develop an action plan for holding the Trump a
A coalition of prosecutors from across the nation are flying to Washington, D.C. this week to develop an action plan for holding the Trump administration accountable amid its ongoing immigration raids, Ex-White House official Miles Taylor exclusively reported Tuesday.
Those prosecutors are part of the new organization Fight Against Federal Overreach, first revealed last week and established to put together a strategy for holding federal immigration officials accountable for their sometimes violent and arguably unconstitutional actions.
“This week, something unusual is happening in the nation’s capital,” Taylor wrote Tuesday on his Substack “Defiance News.”
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The Trump Admin admitted they mistakenly sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador's mega-prison. They're defying the Supreme Court's order a
Ahmed Baba at Ahmed Baba's Newsletter:
There are moments you read about in history where injustice is rampant, dissent is punished, and authoritarianism is rising, and you think to yourself, What would I have done during this time? Would I have spoken up?
This is one of those moments.
After spending his first months in office gutting the federal government, surrounding himself with loyalists, and pursuing the far-right Project 2025 agenda, President Trump is now weaponizing that government in increasingly depraved ways.
President Trump is escalating his assaults on civil liberties and signaling the ways he wants to take things a step further.
The Trump Administration has been detaining and revoking visas from students who have expressed pro-Palestinian views. President Trump has signed an executive order calling for the Justice Department to investigate former administration officials who criticized him - Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs. Trump has been threatening the funding of universities and schools he feels hold ideologies he opposes, and calling for cable networks he disagrees with to lose their broadcast licenses.
One of the worst areas of authoritarian overreach came into focus this week. As we know, the Trump Administration sent immigrants with no criminal records to a Salvadoran mega-prison, called CECOT (Terrorism Confinement Center), known for inhumane conditions and accusations of torture. They did this with literally no due process.
According to a recent 60 Minutes investigation, 75% of the 238 immigrants that the Trump Administration sent to this Salvadoran prison have no criminal record. This fact runs contrary to false claims from the Trump Administration that they were sending violent criminal gang members to CECOT.
60 Minutes found that, “Among them: a makeup artist, a soccer player, and a food delivery driver, being held in a place so harsh that El Salvador's justice minister once said the only way out is in a coffin.” We’re also learning of a 19-year-old with no criminal record named Merwil Gutiérrez who was taken to CECOT.
One particular case has become the focal point for the fight over these unjust deportations and the Trump Administration’s test of the limits of executive power as they defy a Supreme Court order.
Kilmar Armando Ábrego García was a father of three living in Maryland. Ábrego García entered the United States illegally in 2011 when he was 16 years old, fleeing gang violence in El Salvador. He went on to find work, get married to a U.S. citizen, have children, and settle in Maryland. In 2019, an immigration judge issued a “withholding from removal” order that declared he could not be deported back to El Salvador due to the threats of gang violence. So, henceforth, Abrego Garcia was here legally.
On March 12, 2025, the Trump Administration arrested and sent Ábrego García to CECOT without due process, falsely stating he was confirmed to be a member of MS-13. Ábrego García’s family sued for his return, and the Trump Administration conceded in a court filing that he was removed by mistake “because of an administrative error.” Department of Justice attorney Erez Reuveni explicitly said that “he should not have been sent to El Salvador.”
Maryland District Federal Judge Paula Xinis ruled that his removal was “an illegal act” and that Ábrego García should be returned. The Trump Administration appealed to the Supreme Court, which then issued a unanimous 9-0 ruling ordering the Trump Administration to “facilitate” the return of Ábrego García.
The Trump Administration’s argument has been that they do not have jurisdiction in El Salvador, and they’ve since begun to defame Ábrego García. Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has been lying about Ábrego García and twisting the meaning of the Supreme Court’s ruling. Miller is now claiming that Ábrego García “was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador” and claimed that the Supreme Court actually ruled in their favor.
Miller and other administration officials are claiming the word “facilitate” simply means they would accept the return of Abrego Garcia, but it’s up to El Salvador to return him. Miller also said that the DOJ attorney, Erez Reuveni, who admitted the mistake, has been put on leave.
This Orwellian spin continued in the Oval Office on Monday in a bilateral meeting that every American should pay attention to.
During El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's Oval Office visit, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked directly, “Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return him?”
President Bukele smugly answered while President Trump smirked. “I hope you’re not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” Bukele said. “How can I return him to the United States? Of course, I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous… I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”
As I’ve clearly demonstrated in this article, Ábrego García is not a terrorist. He has no criminal record in the U.S. or in El Salvador. But that hasn’t stopped Bukele and the Trump Administration from lying about him.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, Stephen Miller, Vice President J.D. Vance, and the rest of the Trump Administration have pivoted away from admitting they made a mistake and are now returning to calling Ábrego García a member of MS-13.
Ahmed Baba wrote in his Substack on the injurious attacks on civil liberties under Tyrant 47.
Miles Taylor, a former DHS chief of staff, shared alarming concerns about what a second Trump administration would look like.
“In the first term, what Trump wanted to do ended up being very scattershot,” Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, told MSNBC in an interview on Wednesday. “And not to be too reductionist about it ― it was a little bit like a cat with a ball of yarn when he walked into the Oval Office. Constantly distracted, not a lot of focus.”
