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February 27, 2026 12:00 pm EST Halodoc Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
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It’s Friday …

President Shit’s public schedule …

Friday, February 27, 2026
TBD: The President participates in a local TV interview Port of Corpus Christi, Texas  Out-of-Town Travel Pool
TBD: The President departs Corpus Christi, Texas, en route Palm Beach, Florida Corpus Christi International Airport  Out-of-Town Travel Pool
9:00 AMIn-Town Pool Call Time The White House  In-Town Pool
10:00 AMOut-of-Town Travel Pool Call Time Joint Base Andrews  Open Press
4:05 PMThe President receives an Energy Briefing [3:05 PM Local] Port of Corpus Christi, Texas  Out-of-Town Travel Pool
4:35 PMThe President delivers Remarks on Energy [3:35 PM Local] Port of Corpus Christi, Texas  Out-of-Town Travel Pool

Coffee Talk news …

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Short answer: This job sucks, I resign …

Backstory from senior editor, Lawfare …

Short answers: It’s the constitution, Stupid and Gfy, Trump, Bondi, Noem, Homan …

Federal judges may have found a workaround to reject the Trump administration’s mass detention policy after an appeals court backed the approach.

A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday blessed the administration’s interpretation of the government’s power to systematically detain people targeted for deportation — even if they have no criminal records and have lived in the country for decades.

But two federal district court judges in Texas, who are bound by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit’s ruling, said the 2-1 decision left an opening for them to continue granting immigrants’ release on other grounds, primarily constitutional arguments against detaining people who have established roots in the U.S. without due process. Those roots amount, in legal parlance, to a “liberty interest” that the Constitution says cannot be taken away without at least a hearing before a neutral judge.

“This conclusion is not changed by the Fifth Circuit’s recent decision,” Judge Kathleen Cardone, an El Paso based appointee of George W. Bush, ruled late Monday in at least five cases, concluding that the circuit’s decision “has no bearing on this Court’s determination of whether [the petitioner] is being detained in violation of his constitutional right to procedural due process.”

Judge David Briones, an El Paso-based Clinton appointee, reached a similar conclusion.

“The Court reiterates its original holding that noncitizens who have ‘established connections’ in the United States by virtue of living in the country for a substantial period acquire a liberty interest in being free from government detention without due process of law,” Briones wrote.

The decisions from the Texas-based judges are notable in part because the administration has often rushed detainees there after their arrests in other states such as Minnesota.

Politico – 02/10/2026

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