This is a really important reminder that the import of the Epstein files goes beyond sex acts and abuse and looking for Trump gotchas but exposes an elaborate, dark, and independently newsworthy world of access and influence in vivid detail.

Andrew Garfield

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

I'm starting to think maybe not all free expression constitutes "debating" "ideas".

Stuck on that line about a speaking invitation being an “advance.” Yikes!

The real question is does Dalen Terry get the OAKAAK treatment?

We are already well on the way there, but Article III courts should not assume that anything that happens before the immigration "courts" provides constitutionally adequate due process. DHS is all but announcing it will not provide neutral decisionmakers.

This is endurance. bsky.app/profile/alex...

The thing is, for businesses that are public goods and not just profit centers, and whose missions include holding government and other powerful actors to account, "enduring" without "thriving" is a badge of honor, not a bug.

Timeline cleanse.

(1) Most respondents approved, (2) the margin of error for this 58-player poll is a double-digit number, (3) we don't know how many players approved of other halftime acts, and (4) the players are not the audience. Nothingburger.

"Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely."

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Some post-apocalyptic social historian is going to discover this clip and tear up their dissertation.

I would add that anyone trying to “take over the voting” would be involved in a criminal conspiracy. Anyone whose mind such a thing might enter should constantly be made aware of that fact and its consequences. Especially those who do not enjoy SCOTUS-conferred immunity (i.e., everyone, save one).

If you’re a tenured con law prof interested in election law, Ga State is looking for you to join @anthonymkreis.bsky.social, @andrewwillinger.bsky.social, Neil Kinkopf and me. Exciting new Con Law/Democracy Center opening soon! Here’s the Ad: nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

In the days before the presidential inauguration, an Emirati sheikh paid $187 million to entities controlled by Donald Trump’s family to take a major stake in one of the president’s crypto companies, World Liberty Financial. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm." A must read.

Liam Conejo Ramos is not alone. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

I realize this kind of casual lawlessness has become par for the course, but let's not lose sight of the fact that AUSAs are civil servants who should not, of course, be hired based on whether they support the President.

The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny! I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti

Messages to ICE from students at Liam Conejo Ramos's elementary school. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

Spent 24 years in Criminal Division and as an AUSA in Massachusetts. I am not aware of this ever happening.

Would be curious from those who know DOJ history better to know how often historically the AG has personally signed an indictment.

Looks like we have our first broad-based lawsuit challenging the ICE memo authorizing home invasions that violate the Fourth Amendment. Filed by Lawyers for Civil Rights in Boston on behalf of two nonprofits serving Latino and immigrant communities. lawyersforcivilrights.org/wp-content/u...

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

January 30 is, on average, the coldest day of the year in my part of the country (NYC). May the tomorrows be a metaphor for life.

On the professional morality of legal scholars in a time of crisis.

"At my direction" tells the whole story.

The constitutional prohibition on using federal law to abridge the freedom of the press is unusually explicit and really does mean what it says.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans and Haitians was unlawful, a Ninth Circuit panel found. It’s the first time an appellate court has ruled on the substance of Trump efforts to dismantle the TPS program.

Revealing a more nuanced understanding of administrative warrants than many stateside.

I am relieved that Rep. Omar was not hurt in that terrifying attack and marveling that her instinct was to throw hands. Brave woman.

That third one needs to come with a statutory cause of action.

In light of the Administration's conduct over a range of areas, including its staffing of immigration courts, one of the demands on Congress should be reform of IIRAIRA to unambiguously allow greater federal court oversight of immigration detention (at minimum).

Nothing to say about Ye other than I hope he is sincere and gets the help he needs.

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

It will not surprise me if this is the framing of the eventual pullout.

What the judge describes is literally criminal behavior.

BREAKING: A young doctor who lives near where Alex Pretti, a nurse, was killed by ICE says in a declaration he saw the shooting, went out to help, was not let through at first then patted down before being let by, and was apparently the first to try and provide any medical assistance to Pretti.

"He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, . . . .

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Weird framing. How about: "A federal judge has rejected claims by a conservative group that Northwestern University's law school discriminates against white men in faculty hiring"?

This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home! Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.

Didn't the DOJ specifically say that they're *not* looking into this? I'm pretty sure Todd Blanche gave a press conference confirming there would be no federal investigation.

Always worth reading @orinkerr.bsky.social on criminal procedure issues. On remedy, I think you seek damages via Bivens in a friendly circuit and dare the Court to say it’s unavailable. If they do, it’s another argument for statutory or court reform.