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Free speech organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief today in the Supreme Court in Trump v. Illinois, the state’s lawsuit challenging President Trump’s attempt to federalize National Guard troops and deploy them into Chicago and surrounding counties.
A photograph published in the November 1 Chicago Tribune shows a federal immigration officer pointing a gun at a crowd of onlookers in Evanston watching the enforcement activities.
This measure allows mentally capable, terminally ill adults with a prognosis of six months or less to live the option of obtaining a prescription medication that they can decide to take so that they can die peacefully and end their suffering.
By blocking access to detainees inside Broadview, Defendants have created a black box in which to disappear people from the U.S. court and immigration systems.
Following a federal judge’s questioning of DHS officials over apparent violations of her restraining order, plaintiffs have filed an amended complaint saying DHS forces “have escalated and expanded their suppression of speech and journalism.”