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Tom Durkin

@TADurkin

National Criminal Defense Attorney. Distinguished Practitioner in Residence & Co-Director National Security & Civil Rights Program, Loyola Chicago Law School.

 Chicago, IL
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Joined September 2012
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I encourage you to read this powerful article by Archbishop John C. Wester from Santa Fe regarding how the current budget reconciliation bill would affect the poor and vulnerable in the USA and beyond. americamagazine.org/politics…
Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ betrays the poor. The church must oppose it.

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ betrays the poor. The church must oppose it.

The church and the bishops of the United States should lead the way in speaking against this bill and calling on Catholics to work for its defeat, writes Archbishop John C. Wester of Sante Fe.

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Chris Murphy is saying what I’ve been screaming about for months. Better late than never. Now, Murphy needs to hammer this message home in an unrelenting fashion…and never stop.
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Anna Bower
@AnnaBower28 Mar 2025
A Skadden attorney resigned today, citing the firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump amid pressure campaign on law firms. “[I]f my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,” the former Skadden lawyer, Brenna Trout Frey, wrote on LinkedIn.
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Every admirable instance of intellectual clarity and moral courage is a sad reminder of how few such there have been.
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Opinion: The US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyism. By @TADurkin and @BernardHarcourt in @guardian theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Just putting this out there but if they can grab anyone they want, stick them on a plane, and then say US law and judicial review doesn't exist over international waters then no one in America has ANY Constitutional rights anymore.
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The Trump administration has again suddenly cleared out all the migrants it sent to the US Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, ostensibly with final deportation orders. But this time it flew everybody back to the USA -- without an explanation. w/ @charlie_savage nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/po…
ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities (Published 2025)

ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities (Published 2025)

A court filing described strip searches and the use of restraint chairs on some of the 290 migrants the Trump administration has cycled through the base.

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A city charter is the reform Chicago actually needs says ⁦@RepKamBuckner⁩ … again, with the case for it only stronger since the last time he (and others) said so. chicagotribune.com/2025/02/2…
Kam Buckner: A city charter is the reform Chicago actually needs, not recall powers

Kam Buckner: A city charter is the reform Chicago actually needs, not recall powers

Instead of fighting over recall power in Chicago, we should be building a modern system of governance that prevents the need for recalls.

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Mark Fallon@glynco15 Feb 2025
Cruelty and staggering financial costs: why expanding Guantánamo is a grave mistake | ⁦@KarenGreenberg3⁩ & Mike Lehnert | The Guardian Guantánamo makes a mockery of our claim that we are a nation of laws, prudence and common sense. #RuleOfLaw theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Cruelty and staggering financial costs: why expanding Guantánamo is a grave mistake | Karen J...

The detention facility is a worldwide symbol of American hypocrisy. It’s majorly expanding again

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Special counsel who investigated Trump says his team 'stood up for the rule of law' ⁦@aedurkinricher⁩ ⁦@etuckerAP⁩ ⁦@ctlong1⁩ apnews.com/article/trump-spe…
Special counsel report says Trump would've been convicted for Jan. 6 'unprecedented criminal effort'

Special counsel report says Trump would've been convicted for Jan. 6 'unprecedented criminal effort'

Special counsel Jack Smith says in a report his team “stood up for the rule of law” as it investigated President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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Robert Reich
@RBReich21 Dec 2024
The largest donor in the 2024 election, who also happens to be the richest man in the world, tried to hijack negotiations over a spending bill and nearly pushed us to the brink of a disastrous government shutdown. Good lord do we need to overturn Citizens United.
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The US's largely unknown imprisonment scandal: how long 16 men still held at #Guantanamo have been held since they were unanimously approved for release by high-level US gov review processes. A scandal that Biden MUST address with a clear sense of urgency before he leaves office.
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Free the #Guantanamo 16: A Message to President Biden as His Time Runs Out - my latest article for Close Guantanamo, calling for urgent action from President Biden closeguantanamo.org/Articles…
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“@theCCR never actually wins cases”
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Photos and Report: Dismay and Determination at the Global Vigils for #Guantanamo’s Closure on November 6, 2024: With Trump heading to the White House once more, Joe Biden has just 2 months to take decisive action & free the 16 men long approved for release andyworthington.co.uk/2024/1…
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For those who want to see #Guantanamo closed, Trump's victory leaves a 2-month window of opportunity for Biden to take decisive action before Trump seals it shut again. We need to demand that the 16 men still held who have long been approved for release are freed before Jan. 20.
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Russian actors made fake video depicting mail-in ballots for Trump being destroyed, FBI says (from @AP) apnews.com/article/d75fdc56c…
Russian actors made fake video depicting mail-in ballots for Trump being destroyed, FBI says

Russian actors made fake video depicting mail-in ballots for Trump being destroyed, FBI says

Russian actors made a widely circulated video falsely depicting mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in Pennsylvania.

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My long-form essay on Marx's Theses on Feuerbach arguing how we can actualize them and intro to #Marx1313 with Étienne Balibar is posted here: the1313.law.columbia.edu/202… | Join us Tues Oct. 15 at 10:30AM NYC time for livestream or 16h30 Paris time in person: marx1313.law.columbia.edu/1-…
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Truly shameful. Today, as campaigners hold global coordinated monthly vigils for #Guantanamo's closure, we're remembering the 16 men still held (out of 30 in total), long approved for release, who haven't been freed because no legal mechanism exists to compel the US govt to do so
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