Neither DeSantis’ nor Uthmeier’s offices responded to Miami Herald questions about whether the state has directed police to continue enforcing the law despite the federal court order.

“When I issued the temporary restraining order, it never occurred to me that police officers would not be bound by it,” Williams said. “It never occurred to me that the state attorneys would not give direction to law enforcement so that we would not have these unfortunate arrests.”

At another point in the hearing, the judge said: “There is no such basis,” for the arrests. ”Why aren’t these people being released immediately?”

Yes despite her stay of the state law, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper arrested the Georgia man in north Florida this week under the statute targeting undocumented immigrants who enter Florida illegally — though it turned out the man is a U.S. citizen, born in Georgia.

A North Dakota federal judge ruled this week that a group of Catholic employers do not have to follow new federal regulations meant to protect workers’ access to abortion and fertility treatment, and to shield LGBTQ employees from discrimination.

The order, released Tuesday by Judge Daniel Traynor, relates to two documents issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last year. One is a rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the other updated non-binding guidance on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlaws workplace discrimination.

https://northdakotamonitor.com/2025/04/18/federal-judge-in-north-dakota-rules-in-favor-of-catholic-employers-on-abortion-protections/

In an opinion issued Tuesday night, a United States District judge ruled that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is entitled to expedited discovery in its lawsuit against the US DOGE Service brought under the Freedom of Information Act and Federal Records Act. DOGE has repeatedly argued that it is not an agency subject to FOIA or the FRA. To determine whether that is in fact the case, the Court ordered DOGE to respond to CREW’s requests for documents and provide sworn answers to CREW’s written questions, and ordered the depositions of Acting DOGE Administrator Amy Gleason and another individual that DOGE will select to testify on behalf of DOGE itself. Following the decision, CREW Deputy Chief Counsel Nikhel Sus issued the following statement:

“We appreciate the Court’s decision, which compels DOGE to provide much needed information on its structure and operations. While publicly available information indicates that DOGE is subject to FOIA, the lack of clarity on DOGE’s authority leaves that an open question. Discovery will help to provide the critical answers the parties and the Court need.”

Judge grants CREW discovery in DOGE FOIA suit - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

CREW is entitled to expedited discovery in its lawsuit against DOGE brought under the Freedom of Information Act and Federal Records Act.

^{CREW admin (CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington)}

Before dawn on Thursday, 17 April, Israeli airstrikes across Gaza targeted displaced families living in tents in three separate places – in al-Mawasi Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Deir al-Balah in the center and in Jabaliya in the north.

Journalists and eyewitnesses reported that the tents were engulfed in flames and the victims, including many children, were burned alive, with bystanders desperately trying to put the fires out.

A physician in northern Gaza, Dr. Ezzideen Shehab, who has been narrating this genocide on social media while caring for his patients, stated earlier this week that “after 556 days, Gaza is no longer a place. It is an experiment, a question posed to humanity: How long can a population be bombed, starved and displaced before it ceases to exist? And how quietly can this be done before the world looks away for good?”

Israel strikes tents full of children

Israeli forces bomb Al-Ahli Arab Hospital for the fifth time since October 2023.

^{The Electronic Intifada}

Immigration officials detained a US citizen for nearly 10 days in Arizona, according to court records and press reports.

As the NPR affiliate Arizona Public Media, first reported, 19-year-old Jose Hermosillo, a New Mexico resident visiting Arizona, was detained by border patrol agents in Nogales, a city along the Mexico border about an hour south of Tucson.

According to a border patrol criminal complaint, on 8 April, a border patrol official found Hermosillo “without the proper immigration documents” and claimed that the young American had admitted entering the US illegally from Mexico. Two days later, the federal court document notes that Hermosillo continued to claim he was a US citizen. On 17 April, a federal judge dismissed his case.

US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days

Official claimed Jose Hermosillo, who was visiting Arizona, was ‘without the proper immigration documents’

^{José Olivares (The Guardian)}

DISCLAIMER: this is not my content that was removed, I just came across it in the modlog and found it to be absurd. If it’s not allowed, I totally understand.

Reason removed was because it’s unrelated.

Unrelated…..

The guy was illegally deported without due process. And yet for some reason, suggesting so is somehow “unrelated” to a meme that is trying to say that because he is affiliated (no charges were ever filed against him for gang-related activity) with a gang, he is by default, guilty.

What’s ironic, is that the entire point of the meme is that the bullshit about him being in MS-13 is unrelated to the fact that people want accountability for this administration illegally deporting a man without due process.

This mod has definitely chosen the correct name.

And even taken into consideration that the instance is essentially a troll haven for wayward 4Chan refugees, they should still have to adhere to the rules of common sense.