Appeals Court Pauses Tufts Student's Transfer to Vermont in Immigration Detention Case

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Tuesday, 29 April 2025 07:29 AM EDT

A federal appeals court has paused a judge's order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England this week so it can consider an emergency motion filed by the government.

The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New York, ruled Monday that a three-judge panel would hear arguments on May 6 in the case of Rumeysa Ozturk. She's been detained for five weeks as of Tuesday.

A district court judge in Vermont had earlier ordered that the 30-year-old doctoral student be brought to the state by Thursday for hearings to determine whether she was illegally detained. Ozturk's lawyers say her detention violates her constitutional rights, including free speech and due process.

The U.S. Justice Department, which is appealing that ruling, said that an immigration court in Louisiana has jurisdiction over her case.

Congress limited federal-court jurisdiction over immigration matters, government lawyers wrote. Yet the Vermont judge's order "defies those limits at every turn in a way that irreparably harms the government."

Ozturk's lawyers opposed the emergency motion. "In practice, that temporary pause could last many months," they said in a news release.

Immigration officials surrounded Ozturk as she walked along a street in a Boston suburb March 25 and drove her to New Hampshire and Vermont before putting her on a plane to a detention center in Basile, Louisiana.

Ozturk was one of four students who wrote an op-ed in the campus newspaper, The Tufts Daily, last year criticizing the university's response to student activists demanding that Tufts "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide," disclose its investments and divest from companies with ties to Israel.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in March, without providing evidence, that investigations found that Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group.

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Supreme Court Fight May Shape Trump's Ability to Fire Fed Chair

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Tuesday, 29 April 2025 07:21 AM EDT

When the U.S. Supreme Court rules on President Donald Trump's effort to remove two federal labor board members, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will be watching for clues about his own job security.

The court fight over Trump's firings of two Democrat labor board members despite legal protections for these positions has emerged as a key test of his efforts to bring under his sway federal agencies meant by Congress to be independent from a president's direct control.

At issue in the dispute over Trump's dismissals of Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board and Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board is whether safeguards passed by Congress to prevent officials in these posts from being fired without cause encroach on presidential authority set out in the U.S. Constitution. Harris and Wilcox were appointed by the former President Joe Biden, and both had years left in their terms in office.

The cases are being watched as potential proxies for whether Trump has the authority to fire Fed officials, particularly after his recent criticism of Powell shook financial markets and fueled questions about the U.S. central bank's ability to pursue monetary policy free from political interference.

Powell began a four-year term as Fed chief in 2018 after being nominated by Trump during his first presidential term and was reappointed by Biden to serve in that post to May 2026. His 14-year term on the Fed's Board of Governors is set to run through January 2028.

Members of the Fed's Board of Governors, like the labor board members, have "for-cause" removal protections meant to let a president fire them only for reasons such as inefficiency or malfeasance, not policy disagreement.

Legal experts said if the Supreme Court decides to eliminate removal protections for the two labor boards, it might try to create an exception that would insulate Federal Reserve officials like Powell in a bid to preserve the Fed's independence.

The court gestured in this direction in a footnote to a 2020 ruling that suggested, but did not decide, that the Fed may be able to "claim a special historical status" entitling it to a greater degree of distance from presidential control than some other independent agencies.

>>22969133

48,000,000 in 4 years…not bad.

>>22969167

Not everybody has….I said fuck'em all and haven't watched any of their bullshit since.

>>22969165

Is this a re-write of history as well?

First time I've ever heard of this.

Black Female WWII Unit, 'Six Triple Eight,' to Receive Congressional Honor

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Tuesday, 29 April 2025 07:22 AM EDT

The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, commonly known as the "Six Triple Eight," will be presented Tuesday with the Congressional Gold Medal, following a long-running campaign to recognize their efforts.

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was credited with solving a growing mail crisis during its stint in England and, upon their return, serving as a role model to generations of Black women who joined the military.

They cleared out a backlog of about 17 million pieces of mail in three months, twice as fast as projected. The battalion would go on to serve in France before returning home. And like many Black units during World War II, their exploits never got the attention afforded their white counterparts — until now.

At a ceremony scheduled to be held in Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitor Center, House Speaker Mike Johnson and others will present the medal to the family of the unit commander, Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley.

Kim Guise, senior curator and director of curatorial affairs at the National WWII Museum, said there are only two women living from the 855 who served in the unit.

"That really shows how long this recognition took," Guise said. "It is really important to recognize the accomplishments of these women and what they went through to serve their country in war time."

Wisconsin Rep. Gwen Moore, who co-sponsored legislation to award the medal to the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, called it a long overdue honor for the women in the unit.

"These heroes deserve their dues; and I am so glad their story is being told," Moore, a Democrat, told The Associated Press on Monday. "I am especially honored to ensure my constituent Ms. Anna Mae Robertson and the many others who served with her, are recognized for their selfless service."

In 2022, Congress voted 422-0 to bestow its highest honor on the 6888th.

"It's overwhelming," retired Maj. Fannie Griffin McClendon, who lives in Arizona, told the AP after the vote. "It's something I never even thought about it."

McClendon joined the Air Force after the military was integrated and retired in 1971. She was the first female to command an all-male squadron with the Strategic Air Command.

The 6888th was sent overseas in 1945, a time when there was growing pressure from African-American organizations to include Black women in what was called the Women's Army Corps, and allow them to join their white counterparts overseas.

"They kept hollering about wanting us to go overseas so I guess they found something for us to do overseas: Take care of the mail," McClendon said. "And there was an awful lot of mail. … They expected we were gonna be there about two or three months trying to get it straightened out. Well I think in about a month, in a month and a half, we had it all straightened out and going in the right direction."

The 6888th toiled around the clock, processing about 65,000 pieces of mail in each of the three shifts. They created a system using locator cards with a service member's name and unit number to ensure mail was delivered.

Over the years, the unit's story started to gain wider recognition. A monument was erected in 2018 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to honor them, and the 6888th was given the Meritorious Unit Commendation in 2019. A documentary "The Six Triple Eight" was made about their exploits. In 2024, Tyler Perry directed a movie for Netflix about the unit, starring Kerry Washington.