If you're looking for a totally unscripted podcast where people who genuinely enjoy each other's company get into deeply researched analysis of the stuff that matters most right now with the perspective of a full-time immigration attorney *and* jokes you are looking for @openargs.bsky.social

This Friday's footnote: did Delaware really just let corporations do this?

Um, @openargs.bsky.social ? news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/corporat...

i was just listening to a recent @openargs.bsky.social about how Alito's precedent of "egregiously wrong" in Dobbs is just Kavanaugh's reheated nachos, and reading this i cannot help but think this fuckin "casus belli" shit is next into the microwave. Civil War II here we come i guess

Did USCIS really just end greencard applications for everyone in the US and force non-citizens back to their home countries? @mattcameron.bsky.social takes us through what social and traditional media got wrong and why it matters youtu.be/9NopOkKSOiE?...

Newest episode of Opening Arguments @openargs.bsky.social should be required listening for everyone currently in the US or thinking about being in the US... tr.ee/rSvbAdYqDo

🎤𖥠 ANTE UP, FOOLS! 🎤𖥠 In the spirit of Friday's footnote on Boston attorney Joe Resnek's 🔥 Top Dog Law diss track, OA is ready to throw down with every other legal podcast that anyone actually listens to.* 10 RTs on this and @legalafmtn.bsky.social gets the business first -- *and also Law & Chaos

This week on OA: Matt breaks down the biggest shock to the legal immigration system in decades--and how this will be much better for some people and much worse for others than the media coverage has conveyed so far

This footnote was one of my favorites in a long time! Extra credit to OA researcher Olivia (@mangolover808.bsky.social) for bringing this one in, and for securing what might be the coolest thing a lawyer has ever said to the media when called for comment on something

As noted in the footnote for today's episode, we did a journalism and called Boston lawyer Joe Resneck for comment on the diss track he recorded about national PI firm Top Dog Law. We print his comment in full below: "Fuck Top Dog! They ain't on the block dawg" share.google/Jcg55yCBhLeH...

Matt in the Bull glasses

Most media is not grappling w/ the full gravity of this. It’s about so much more than which party wins. A gerrymandering ban to increase white liberal representation is no answer. Callais rings the death knell for all corrective anti-discrimination policy Web: directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...

Callais broke my heart. Being able to share this with our audience over at @openargs.bsky.social, to provide education and space for collective grief, was a great comfort. Thanks for listening everyone. Knowing this rage doesn’t just go into the void gives me the energy I need to keep fighting

@openargs.bsky.social great episode! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

We amended the Constitution so the people instead of state legislatures elect senators because the old system resulted in corruption and dysfunction, and now we have a system where state legislatures functionally decide the composition of their House delegations before a single vote is cast.

Every headline is missing this: Callais isn’t restricted to voting. Or race. Alito says it’s always unconstitutional to use group classification. Not even Congress, empowered by the constitution to correct discrimination in this exact context, can do that. Gutted the VRA? No. Gutted Equal Protection

I’ll cover likely impacts & broader context of the Callais decision soon on @openargs.bsky.social. Basically the worst possible outcome. Find our previous coverage of oral arguments in episode 1199 & the Texas redistricting case (will likely be affected) in 1209: directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...

The subject of this month's Law'd Awful Movies episode was a true classic: a uniquely terrible show which we all hated watching but loved talking about. Here's a visual hint! (coming soon to our coolest patrons at patreon.com/law)

Wrong answers only

Guy who promoted fake history of birthright citizenship in bad faith to disenfranchise children of immigrants backs up guy who promoted fake history of the 2020 election in bad faith to disenfranchise Georgia in defense of guy who designed fake elector scheme in bad faith to disenfranchise America

Probably just a coincidence that the law professors defending insurrectionist John Eastman are the same guys arguing against birthright citizenship, in no way reflective of a world view on who the law protects vs binds

Worried about birthright citizenship + still worried that SCOTUS might reverse it? Was this truly the worst argument they have ever heard from any Solicitor General? Also: why the answer to Gorsuch's questions re Native Americans was even worse than you thought, and so much more only on today's OA

important point! As discussed on today's @openargs.bsky.social, Johnson was well aware that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 would extend birthright citizenship to EVERYONE -- and that is exactly why he vetoed it. Not great for Saeur at all!

Today would be Renee Good's 38th birthday. Let's never forget that Renee & Becca Good were a loving, lovely, lovable couple who should have celebrated many birthdays together.

Tune in Friday for our full breakdown of the stupidest argument ever brought to the US Supreme Court by the federal government--this is going to be a fun one!

43/ pro tip: "you have a number of hurdles here" is a very funny way for a judge to say "you have the shittiest case I have ever seen"

42/ KBJ: we would have to believe that (1) Framers were not actually importing the common law birthright citizenship rule and (2) what they were doing was departing from the rule in the way that you suggest -- they were seeking to have this turn on domicile. You have a number of hurdles here.

35/ Sauer: a ruling in our favor would leave "room for Congress" lol this is exactly like saying that burning my house down gives me the room to build a new house, if the only people who could rebuild my house were a white shoe law firm with no hired labor who all hated each other

Sauer goes on about "birth tourism," a problem which is approximately as urgent as undocumented people voting. His brief relies heavily on these kinds of policy arguments, which is not usually the kind of thing that someone who expects to win a legal argument does

Sauer cites Ilan Wurman's brief, a sign that he is truly on the ropes

Also weird but true fact: many people do not know this but Wurman's show with a former chair of the MN young Republicans (Rationally Based) is the closest thing to @openargs.bsky.social that is available to podcast listeners in hell

Feels appropriate to point out on No Kings day: Allowing Trump to selectively pay employees he likes, when he feels like it, rather than having Congress solve the problem, is a real constitutional threat. From @joshchafetz.bsky.social donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mike-johns...

An important reminder of the cost of the most dangerous labor done by people we keep in a state of permanent vulnerability This OA episode honoring the dead, explaining their situation, + dogwalking our national anthem into the sun was one of my favorites of 2024 open.spotify.com/episode/3BIk...

helicopter lawyering

Vital thread. More on @openargs.bsky.social this Friday, but DOJ's successful prosecution of the Prarieland "Antifa" (with 52-point quotation marks there) defendants for clearly 1A-protected beliefs, speech, & associations is a major inflection point in American fascism prairielanddefendants.com

SAVE Act coming up for a vote, today or tomorrow! Call your Senators, again! The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. (Tip: put it in your Contacts.) For direct phone numbers, see this: bsky.app/profile/cdpo...

New to OA? Here's how to listen: MONDAYS: deep dives into legal topics in the news w/Jenessa Seymour WEDNESDAYS: Thomas, Lydia, + Matt read + respond to the stupidest legal takes we can find (now also on Youtube!) FRIDAYS: Matt goes beyond the headlines to explain the law behind the news

Thanks Janet! Some recent favorites: Our reading of a 1997 Dersh oped about how the age of consent is just too damn high (2/18) An interview with the director of the largest immigration law nonprofit in the US (3/2) A deep dive on how gymnast Jordan Chiles might get her Olympic medal back (2/9)

counterpoint: if your main law podcasts are OA and @fivefourpod.bsky.social, you are listening to exactly the right number of law podcasts. But thanks!

Thanks to @aywarhiannon.bsky.social & @fleerultra.bsky.social rultra.bsky.social for having me on @fivefourpod.bsky.social to talk about the practical hope of knowing where in immigration law we can win, where we are winning, & how we will win open.spotify.com/episode/3zWN...

Thanks to @acaciajustice.org's Shaina Aber for joining us on today's show to discuss the special challenges facing immigration nonprofits and their clients in the second Trump term! Please consider a donation to help cover Acacia's lost federal funding here: acaciajustice.org/donate/

@annabower.bsky.social is doing one of the most important jobs in American journalism right now: showing up to federal courts and telling us exactly what is being said and done in there in our names as it happens 🫡

As discussed on Friday's show (2/13) the secret memo telling ICE that they can do this literally just says that their lawyers have told them that neither the Constitution, the regulations, nor the law prohibits warrantless entry to arrest someone with a prior deportation order

introducing our newest patron tier (true masochists only)

Believe that they're really ending the surge in Minnesota when people on the ground say it's happened but also *even* if this is nothing but more face saving, it's a huge acknowledgement that they know they're losing and that the people of Minnesota are never going to stop protecting their neighbors

Here is the episode where we go through the emails in which the only woman on the 2007 Epstein prosecution team tries to push for real justice for survivors--known and unknown. youtu.be/-V4YPl2uB1M?...

This was such a great convo!

@seriouspod.bsky.social and I had a FANTASTIC convo with @letsgomathias.bsky.social on @wokepod.bsky.social about all things antifa and he has some really inspiring stories to share on the pod AND in his new book, out now! www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...