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Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey has broken his silence after branding a Donald Trump supporter in the audience a “cult” member for waving around a MAGA hat.

The lead singer of the punk band, known for their 2005 signature hit I’m Shipping Up to Boston, confronted a fan during one of three performances at the MGM Music Hall beside Boston’s Fenway Park over St Patrick’s Day weekend.

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“A Member of Congress is organizing political violence and terrorism,” the controversial Georgia congresswoman wrote on X Thursday in response to a live stream titled TeslaTakedown.

The stream included several speakers on Wednesday, including Crockett, who discussed plans for non-violent political protests against Elon Musk’s billion-dollar Tesla enterprise.

Madeline Sherratt reports.

ACLU attorney Lee Gerlent and Judge James Boasberg both agree that a major question about this case is how the administration determines who is a member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which the Trump administration has classified as a foreign terrorist organization.

“This is a very dangerous road we’re going down where the Alien Enemies Act can be invoked against a gang,” Gerlent said.

“The policy ramifications of this are incredibly troublesome and problematic and concerning,” Boasberg said. “It’s an unprecedented and expanded use of an act that has been used … in the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II when there was no question there was a declaration of war and who the enemy was.”

Gerlent also says several people on the flights were returned to the United States because the Salvadoran government wouldn’t take them. There will be incoming affidavits on the docket about those people.

The administration has said that the third plane contained immigrants who were not deported under the Alien Enemies Act. All had final orders for removal from the U.S., according to the Justice Department.

Boasberg asks why, then, were Venezuelans deported to El Salvador. The Justice Department can’t say, just that they had orders for removal.

Boasberg asks if the administration is prepared to tell the court that everyone on the flights was a member of Tren de Aragua.

The Justice Department says they don’t have authorization to do so, and any challenges for their detention would have to be raised in a habeas petition.

Boasberg says under the government’s arguments, if a Chinese fisherman comes into U.S. waters, and the president calls that an invasion and orders the detention of all Chinese fishermen, “that’s fair game, nothing we can do, right?”

“Even you … would agree that’s alarming,” he tells the Justice Department.

The hearing has now concluded.

A judge has rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to block a preliminary injunction that prevents the government from suspending funds to refugee resettlement groups.

And here’s the background to the case :

…which it did in 1898.

And multiple times in the century since.

Here’s Josh Marcus to explain:

At the hearing regarding the El Salvador deportation flights, Judge James Boasberg is asking government lawyers, essentially, how this all works.

“Are you going to tell each person that’s going to be deported” that they have rights to challenge their detention by filing a habeas corpus petition?, he asks.

He also reminds the government that there is a court — the Alien Terrorist Removal Court — set up explicitly for this reason, and it’s never been used before.

Who was the chief judge of that court, until recently? Boasberg, of course.

The plaintiffs argue the idea that immigrants being removed have the option to challenge their deportation is “illusory.”

Boasberg is asking what removal proceedings could look like under the president’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, but lawyers for plaintiffs aren’t sure, as we are in “uncharted territory.”

At a minimum, there should be an opportunity for a hearing, and the government could establish a kind of board or court to hear challenges rather than summarily removing people without due process, attorneys for plaintiffs said.

Alex Woodward reports.

Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, who never seems far from a TV camera, made a solid play for possibly the worst piece of political messaging of the year to date.

Talking about weeding out Social Security fraud, Lutnick said that if the government stopped sending out checks for a month, people like his mother-in-law wouldn’t call to complain.

He went on to say that if you are the sort of person who calls to complain — you know, the type who depends on a Social Security check to buy food or pay your electricity bill because their son-in-law isn’t a billionaire — then that’s an indicator that you are possibly a fraudster.

Watch the moment below:

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Judge James Boasberg immediately rebuked Justice Department lawyers for “intemperate and disrespectful language I’d never seen” from attorneys for the United States.

He then asked how they interpreted his oral ruling and what they told the Trump Administration after he ruled from the bench to block deportations under the Alien Enemies Act last weekend.

“Did you not understand my statements in that hearing?” he said. “You did tell them that it was an order from me to turn the planes around … to bring back people to the United States. You understood that?”

A Justice Department lawyer started to say he thinks that conversation is covered under attorney-client privilege, but Boasberg cut him off.

“I’m asking what you understood. Did you think it was hypothetical, not serious, was going to be modified?”

Boasberg notes that his orders did not stop the government from deporting anyone under normal proceedings and didn’t order anyone to be released into the U.S. It only applied to deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.

“I think it’s important to the public to make sure those facts are clear,” he said.

Boasberg then got to the center of the matter at hand, namely, what happens if the U.S. deports someone who is not a member of Tren de Aragua?

[Trump’s order says “all Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older who are members of TdA, are within the United States, and are not actually naturalized or lawful permanent residents of the United States are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as Alien Enemies.”]

DOJ says detention challenges can be addressed through the normal habeas corpus process, though doesn’t explain how that would work in a prison in El Salvador.