Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.
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John Quiggin 
Here is some good news:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/habeas-corpus-detainee-immigrant-trump-federal-courts.html?searchResultPosition=1
If it’s paywalled for you, what it says is, the federal immigration defense bar is killing it. Because the judges are holding the line. That is, some or many of them are holding to the law.
Hope is alive.
Harrumph. Maybe this link is better:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/habeas-corpus-detainee-immigrant-trump-federal-courts.html
The so called Epstein files has been revelatory, seen together with the #metoo movement it seems that the (male) world leaders are driven by base desires, which they wish to conceal.
What is known as the left has also been exposed, correspondence with Noam Chomsky raises more doubts as does the link with the Kremlin – if you wanted to throw shadow on the west who would be the best influencers?