Jackson asked at oral argument if there needed to be a racial epithet to conclude that the comments were racist. Alito’s answer is a resounding yes.

Breaking News: the algae has agreed to accept $300 billion to consider vacating the reflecting pool

#OnThisDay in 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Karlos K. Hill investigates the disturbing photographic legacy of the Tulsa race massacre: publicdomainreview.org/essay/p...

History of Jazz at Kstate with Wayne Goins. Far outside of my philosophy major but I still remember way more about jazz history than a bunch of the philosophy I read that year.

i was reminded that i made a helpful tool if you're somebody who files FOIA requests for email logs (as a spreadsheet) upload them to GraphEmails.com and you can generate network graphs of who's emailing each other, which you can style and filter (or use to filter the log)

AI slop comes to OCAHO, a tiny, typically opaque agency within the Department of Justice that fines employers for unlawful employment, I-9 violations, etc. This document is a "notice of case assignment," which isn't normally published. But this one addresses AI. www.justice.gov/eoir/meet-ad...

This visualization is the asylum grant/denial/withdrawal rate since the start of the Trump administration. They've got the grant rate down to 2% since last summer. The average before that was about 20% pretty consistentlyover Trump I and Biden. www.mobilepathways.org/dashboards/a...

In yesterday's BIA decision about deporting children, the BIA decided that even though an agency regulation allows discretionary administrative closure, an IJ can't follow a regulation when it conflicts with the underlying statute. That is a new position for the BIA. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

chat roulette but for oral argument recordings, is this something?

This attorney got sanctioned last year for filing two motions with fake citations hallucinated by AI. So now they’ve done it *again* and have been sanctioned again. Is $5k a substantial enough sanction for a second offense? www.nj.com/camden/2026/...

In this clip, Kash Patel says the grand jury heard evidence that Comey deleted the '8647' post and apologized. Neither fact appears in the indictment. Hmm. Did the FBI director just disclose evidence presented before a grand jury?

Why does the Comey indictment contain a forfeiture notice? What property would they be seeking to forfeit? The seashells? That’s the only property described in the indictment…

EOIR followers - EOIR has updated its list of Assistant Chief Immigration Judges to remove Brian Counihan, Eric Dillow and Todd Masters from the courts in Batavia, Boston, Buffalo, Chelmsford, Elizabeth, Fort Snelling, Newark, and Omaha. Those courts have no ACIJ now. www.justice.gov/eoir/acij-as...

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

These new bi pride uniforms the Royals are wearing are pretty great.

Can I tell y'all what a goddamn waste of resources this stupid appeal is? DHS doesn't show up to their own hearing to prosecute this woman. The judge terminates WITHOUT PREJUDICE for failure to prosecute. DHS can just file a new NTA, which takes all of five minutes www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

Sullivan & Cromwell apologizing for AI hallucinations while their letterhead is clearly hallucinating tab stops. What’s going on here

Just got a BIA Briefing Schedule in a case where the Board received the transcript in May 2023. Three years ago. The case has just been sitting at the BIA waiting for the clerk's office to issue this two-page briefing schedule for three years. For no reason. We get 21 days to file our brief.

There is a hearing tomorrow at 11 AM in the lawsuit where the AUSA in March informed the court that ICE had been lying to them all along about the import of their court arrests memo. The case is African Communities Together v. Lyons (1:25-cv-06366).

Ha the BIA decides that not letting noncitizens give any closing or opening argument in immigration court isn't a due process violation, but... it still reverse the IJ's negative credibility finding. That's what he says he wanted to give a closing argument on. So... www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

I finally finished reading Ed Martin's "Notice of Removal" asking a federal court to take over his D.C. Bar disciplinary proceedings. Earlier I noted that the exhibits he filed make him look very bad. But on a deeper level, what he's asking for is itself totally unlawful. Here's how removal works:

This Ed Martin "removal" notice and the attachments are big time yikes for Mr. Martin. It appears that he tried to use his position as fake US Attorney of DC to strong-arm the Office of Disciplinary Counsel, which then opened an investigation of him. And he looks like a big dummy in the exhibits. 🧵

Another nonsense decision from the BIA, abandoning the standard of review. IJ finds credible testimony and grants cancellation. BIA reverses, says expert evidence is required, & ignores the IJ’s accepted explanation. No clear error finding. 🧵https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1434771/dl?inline

DHS forgot to apply the redactions in this doc released to @weareoversight.bsky.social via #FOIA BUT this is also an example of how DHS intended to use one of FOIA's most abused exemptions, b5, to hide embarrassing info in violation of the law americanoversight.org/featureddocu...

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement. The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.

Another awful decision from the BIA, this time saying that Immigration Judges aren't allowed to address obvious problems with the charging document. So, even if it doesn't comply with the statute (including informing the noncitizen of the date and time of the hearing), the IJ can't do boo.

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

It's also just a bad brief. Formatting errors, weird font changes mid-sentence, some case citations are fully italicized and others just the case title is. Some URLs are embedded, some aren't. But I found a few more examples of completely miscited cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So ICE lied to its attorneys in the litigation over immigration court arrests. They claimed their courthouse arrest policy applied to immigration courts. The court denied an injunction on that basis. Now they're admitting that that was never true. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Turns out that when every Somali case I have in court suddenly got expedited and reassigned to a new judge, it wasn't just me! The DOJ has officially denied that there is an expedited "Somali Docket," but now the public data refutes their denial. Here are the highlights: 🧵 bklg.org/blog/somali-...

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf, then punishing them when they didn't pay up. Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.

As the Senate preps to debate the SAVE Act, some research I've done w @brennancenter.org to add context 1. We surveyed (with UMD and VoteRiders) Americans to understand who doesn't have easy access to proof of citizenship. The answer? 21.3m! (This number has gotten a lot of play; this is the source)

I don't know what exactly caused Liam's asylum case to get dismissed, but this is going to be happening way more often (and it won't be in the news). Two recent BIA Decisions give Immigration Judges authority to dismiss an asylum claim before trial for especially trivial reasons. 🧵

The buried lede here - the dispute involves questions about why the US Attorney's Office in New Jersey is agreeing to sentence someone for possessing child pornography well below the sentencing guidelines. Trial counsel had no idea and stand-in counsel hadn't entered an appearance. Actual yikes.

This is your criminal government, Americans. A rogue bandit state stealing Venezuela's oil, massacring Iranian schoolgirls and now planning to "take" Cuba because Trump says "I can do anything I want with it." Patriotic Americans must end this madness.

"The president had DOJ illegally cover up documents about allegations he sexually assaulted a child after Congress specifically passed a law requiring they be disclosed" is, in and of itself, enough to merit rapid removal from office regardless of how true or credible the underlying allegation is.

JUST IN: Judge Murphy has ruled that the Trump administration's policy of sending deported immigrants to third countries without notice or a chance to challenge is illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This post mentions me in a story about the new “Somali dockets.” To clarify: I have not accused any judge of rigging cases. What I reported is that multiple Somali clients had hearings canceled and reassigned to the same out-of-state judge. I don’t yet know why.

I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

Homan's message: When we kill you, you have to be especially nice to us. Or else we will keep killing you.

Always wonder who buys the "paid disrupter" thing and how they manage to get through the day without accidentally sticking a fork in their eye.

Looks like they've lost another ACIJ this week, Claudia Cubas, who was managing the Baltimore and Hyattsville courts. So now there are 28 ACIJs (down from 39) to manage Immigration Judges at 76 immigration courts. www.justice.gov/eoir/acij-as...

There hasn't been much reporting on the absolute mess at EOIR (so much else going on), but it's genuinely frightening how hobbled this agency is. I've seen reporting on the judge firings and subtly racist IJ recruiting, but here's where we stand on the leadership vacuum at EOIR 🧵

Man, find someone who loves you as much as Donald Trump loves bribery.

This guy trafficked 400 Tons of cocaine into the United States. At least he didn't do it by boat is I guess the distinction?

Has there been any reporting on whether the Asylum Cooperative Agreements the US claims to have entered into with Guatemala and Honduras actually exist? In June Noeam claimed both had agreed to accept asylum seekers from the US. But both denied it. 🧵 apnews.com/article/guat...

Followup on my last skeet, here's a little explainer on why the DOJ's "Deportation Judge" page is so stupidly coded. Since the early 1990s the norm has been for images on websites to link (tag <a href=) to the file offsite. It uses very little code & loads fast. They did this instead:

So if the DOJ’s ‘Become a Deportation Judge’ page won’t load on your phone, here’s why: they Base64-encoded multi-megabyte images directly into the HTML. Nothing says ‘tech savvy’ like shipping a 7-million-character <img> tag.