Thursday, April 17

Welcome back to The Opposition, where we aim to help you stay up to date on efforts to hold President Donald Trump accountable in the courts. This week, we lay out where Kilmar Abrego García’s lawsuit against the Trump administration currently stands.

Also in this edition: The secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security may be on the verge of recommending that Trump use one of most potent emergency powers available to the president; and an update on the law firms that haven’t bent the knee.

As usual, please email me at [email protected] with any feedback.

Catch up quickly 

• A federal judge said he’d found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt of court for disregarding his orders requiring it to return to the U.S. the hundreds of Venezuelan migrants it sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador using the Alien Enemies Act.
  
  
• The Department of Justice fired a veteran immigration lawyer who earlier this month said in court that Trump officials erred in transferring Kilmar Abrego García to El Salvador — a fact other officials had already admitted in court filings.
  
  
• A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations (NLRB) Board said Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency may have plundered private data on millions of Americans and potentially exposed the sensitive information to criminals and foreign adversaries, NPR reports.

To do list:

• The 50501 Movement, a decentralized grassroots network that started on Reddit, has organized...

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