John Hawkinson
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Cambridge, MA freelance reporter, usu. @CambridgeDay. MIT; public recs; data; legal news #appellatetwitter Lately: immigration. [email protected] 617.797.0250
Cambridge, MA, USA
Joined April 2009
#cambma municipal 2025 election realtime results from me:
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The top U.S. immigration judge has told her colleagues that they are not bound by a federal court ruling that declared the Trump administration cannot place thousands of people in mandatory detention without an opportunity to be released on bond.
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The top U.S. immigration judge has told her colleagues that they are not bound by a federal court ruling that declared the Trump administration cannot place thousands of people in mandatory detention...
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Reagan-appointed Judge William Young in Boston today: "It's fairly clear that this president believes, as an authoritarian, that when he speaks, everyone, everyone in Article II is going to toe the line absolutely."
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Describing President Donald Trump as an "authoritarian," a federal judge said on Thursday he will issue an order aimed at protecting academics who challenged the arrest and deportation of non-citiz...
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HAPPENING NOW; Judge Young is picking up where he left off in his remarkable opinion describing an unconstitutional scheme to arrest/deport pro-Palestinian activists in violation of their constitutional rights: "There was no policy here. What happened here is an unconstitutional
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JUST IN: As deadline nears, Trump administration appeals judge's ruling blocking attempt to cut off Harvard's federal funding. Doc: https://t.co/cmSgupnvfH cc: DOJ slow-walk maven @chrisgeidner
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#BREAKING: Anthony Campbell will leave his post as Yale University’s police chief to serve as the next chief of the Harvard University Police Department, the University announced Thursday. @matanjosephy and @laurelmshugart report. https://t.co/4vF4WBgb67
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Harvard Brings On Yale Police Chief Anthony Campbell To Lead HUPD | News | The Harvard Crimson
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Just before midnight, my @CambridgeDay followup article on #cambma Election disclosure errors posted: https://t.co/u5b7XsCMGs
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It remains uncertain how Eugenia Schraa Huh was mistakenly announced as one of the candidates elected to School Committee.
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FYI, I'll be doing my 2025 #cambma realtime municipal election results tonight over on Bluesky,
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BREAKING 6:02pm: Judge Murphy denies the TRO order in Phan:
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#cambma City Council thread for June 30, 2025, elaewhere:
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Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday on three criminal counts. @williamcmao and @laurelmshugart report. https://t.co/jUG7ewQaoC
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HMS Researcher Kseniia Petrova Indicted on 3 Criminal Counts | News | The Harvard Crimson
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My #cambma City Council thread for tonight (June 23, 2025). A respite from the inundation! https://t.co/h5aEwtWCDf
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Oh yeah, distracted earlier. Tonight (June 16)'s #cambma City Council live thread, elsewhere:
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My writeup of Kseniia #Petrova's release today for @CambridgeDay : https://t.co/iQM9E9gO6v More details, see
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Harvard researcher Kseniia Petrova was released on bail after a 10-minute hearing in her criminal smuggling case – of frog embryos meant for scientific use.
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Harvard frog researcher KSENIIA PETROVA was released on pre-trial probation in Boston federal court this afternoon: https://t.co/KAEDrqol8l
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Tonight's (June 9, 2025) #cambma City Council thread, by me elsewhere:
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Not sure where the usual suspects are tonight, but: Judge Murphy has has HAD IT with the Government's behavior in D.V.D. v. DHS. You just need to read his order on their motion for reconsideration, it's just…seething. My thread elsewhere:
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Tonight's #cambma city council hearing thread elsewhere:
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BREAKING: ICE agents briefly detained a U.S. citizen outside of the Cambridge District Court in Medford after allegedly confusing him with an undocumented immigrant, the latest in a string of immigration-related arrests across the state. w/ @matanjosephy
https://t.co/cfzp1bBKtl
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Naturalized U.S. Citizen Briefly Detained by ICE Outside of Cambridge District Courthouse in Medford | News | The Harvard Crimson
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