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State REVOLT Delivers DEVASTATING BLOW to Trump SCHEME

2026-04-17 Entertainment
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State Futures founder and president Gaby Goldstein returns as part of State Futures’ monthly appearance on Court Accountability Action. Today, she talks with Alex Aronson about how state leaders are holding detention facilities accountable by joining together to limit cooperation with the federal government and even blocking the construction of facilities. Alex and Gaby also talk about a recent letter from Minnesota House Democrats and signed by over 200 state legislators pushing for invoking the 25th Amendment and for the War Powers Act to be enforced. Court Accountability Linktree: https://linktr.ee/courtaccountability?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=881bc6af-083b-4280-af93-8b285babf534 State Futures, “State Legislators Address Immigration Detention Facilities” https://www.statefutures.org/research/issue-brief-detention-centers We NEED your help! Legal AF and The Intersection podcasts are both FINAL 5 Finalists for the Webby Awards Best Podcasts! Voting is open for only the next 2 weeks. Show your support for our shows by voting for free for the Webby Awards, and gets friends and family to do the same! Vote for Legal AF (Podcasts – News & Politics) https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2026/podcasts/shows/news-politics Vote for The Intersection (Best New Podcast) https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2026/podcasts/features/best-new-podcast-news-business-society Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unprecedented-by-legal-af/id1867023089 Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-court-of-history/id1867022920

Top Comments (10)

@PaganMeg 2026-04-17

We need to ban private prisons, period.

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@tamararountree4185 2026-04-17

Anything that Devastates a Trump scheme is aces in my book!!! I want more of it there can’t be enough

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@Aedcfd 2026-04-17

Are detained individuals able to sue the private prisons themselves instead of just fighting the government? Or are the private prisons untouchable?

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@maryjohartwell5580 2026-04-17

They are not only be detained they are being punished and harmed? Why? These are not criminals.

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@maryjohartwell5580 2026-04-17

It hard to believe so many people do not care about other people.

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@juanitaross5492 2026-04-17

These private detention camps and prisons are the only jobs trump has created. He really is our Hitler.

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@old_grey_cat 2026-04-17

Note that the Republicans blocked the Biden Congress' move to fund more immigration courts and judges, because of the then-overload and backlog of the courts now handling the additional cases these detentions raise. "They can call on the courts if they are mistreated, wrongly detained, or have a reasonable case for asylum/citizenship application" is sickening when access to lawyers is made very difficult and the courts have huge backlogs.

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@tinanoll4100 2026-04-17

It’s so sad that we have fallen on the state’s to defend.

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@josephstacy3309 2026-04-17

We live in a country that no longer has humanity. It's a very sad times for America.

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@cathleenc6943 2026-04-17

They should also highly tax the private prisons. The only problem I have with this is that it gives an incentive for the state to keep allowing the existence of these facilities.

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