i’m not seeing here in the constitution where it says every single day must be insane

Client to me in USCIS this morning, pointing at pic on the wall of Noem: "Who is that lady?" Me: "The Secretary of Homeland Security. Unfortunately." Guard: *trying valiantly not to laugh.*

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

Immigration lawyering under Trump 1 was kafkaesque. This time it’s more like Dante’s Inferno.

I think this shift in opinion has to be credited to Stephen Miller's absolute commitment to making ICE a public spectacle horror show.

Fellow immigration lawyers know why I'm excited to see this.

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

ICE arresting people at deportation hearings encourages people not to go and keep up with their legal status. they’re literally creating more people in an undocumented status on purpose.

Judge Boasberg's intro to the J.G.G. class cert. starts with Kafka. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Researching for a motion and came across a familiar name... @profvaleriagomez.bsky.social this article is awesome. wlr.law.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...

On the third day of Pride month USCIS sent to me... four biometrics notices for three different days for two married people... and a notice to reuse biometrics for a case they rejected last week.

Once again, it's not "doxxing" to report the name of a government employee.

Running a law firm is hard but on the other hand I get to spam the team chat with whatever song is stuck in my head, and now it's stuck in everyone's heads.

The Supreme Court does NOT decide whether the Trump administration can remove migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, but holds that its efforts to do so violate due process. It instructs the lower courts to decide exactly what deportation procedures *would* comply with the Constitution.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

slow clap. 👏🏾

"I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil...

The Constitution is a living document and that is why it incorporates the rule that you must repost this.

The rule is every time you see it

This shows is that is easy to fall quickly into extreme dehumanization in immigration enforcement. The same officers that were processing people for CBP One appointments 4 months ago are now treating families w/children who ask for asylum at ports of entry like absolute garbage.

It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves. Samuel Adams

Incredible scoop! Career officials inside the Trump administration first viewed the case of Mr. Abrego like any normal case of a wrongful deportation — they began looking for ways to bring him back, as happens normally when ICE makes mistakes. Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.

NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…” Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin… docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In my adult lifetime the Republicans went from “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” to “Vladimir, STOP!”

1/ To be clear: This is Homeland Security (a named defendant) deliberately evading an injunction preventing the admin from renditioning detainees anywhere other than their country of origin/removal - i.e., El Salvador - by first sending them to Gitmo & then having Defense Dept send them to CECOT...

I will say this once again, the deportation fever is meant to send Hispanics out of the public sphere. To make them hide or to make them leave.

Watch out, fellow immigration lawyers. Know your rights, record anyone claiming to be law enforcement, train your staff to do the same.

The decision is clearly intended to foreclose the slew of former/imputed gang member X deportee CAT claims that are about to be unleashed. Can also be used to kick Kilmer back to El Salvador in the event he is somehow brought back and allowed to make a DCAT claim.

This is a really strong brief that’s worth your time if you’re interested in these issues. I was a bit skeptical of the concept of habeas class actions, but I think this brief decisively demonstrates that they are legally sound. Whether SCOTUS will agree is another story. But it should!

Possible signs of change? "the full Court didn’t wait for the Fifth Circuit—or act through the individual Circuit Justice ... didn’t hide behind any procedural technicalities... seemed to not be content with relying upon representations by the government’s lawyers"

Anyone debating or analyzing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's life or record is doing a grave disservice. He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama. It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.

It is SO unusual for the Supreme Court to issue an order this late at night and honestly incredible only Thomas and Alito noted their dissents. Also fascinating that SCOTUS rushed out the order before Alito could finish writing his dissent. That basically never happens! Again—majority seems pissed.

These are the birthright citizenship cases, which present honestly the single best argument for nationwide injunctions I can think of; that it would be absolutely insane to have a system where a person’s US citizenship could change when traveling from one state to another.

Make *no* mistake, it wasn't an 'accidental' deportation, it was a test. Failing to abide by a court order sets up the precedent to ignore future court orders. This is not a drill.

Right wing Star Wars fans at some level realize that throwing a wrongly accused man into an off shore mega prison where no one leaves is literally what the Empire does in Andor, right?

1. Deport KAG illegally. 2. Claim you can't fix it bc he's abroad now. 3. Send "you must leave the country" notices "accidentally" to US citizen immigration lawyers. 4. Prosecute critics of illegal deportation & torture. 5. "Oops, we disappeared US citizens to CECOT. They were terrorists though. 🤷‍♂️"

"You have 34 days to respond to this request for evidence, which is the maximum time according to this specific regulation [which says the maximum time is 12 weeks]. Oh and we've been sitting on your application for 2.5 years, so better hurry up and respond!"

Lawgeeks, here's an interesting one. Guy had a pro se habeas petition pending when he was moved to CECOT. Asserts venue in Georgia.

If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

NEW: If you paid taxes for 2024, you likely paid $3,707 for weapons and war, from Pentagon contractors to nuclear weapons. That's more than you paid for Medicaid ($1,823), the Department of Education ($787), and the National Institutes of Health ($149) combined. We need to reprioritize. #TaxDay

We wouldn't be where we are today without the Patriot Act, which created ICE in 2003

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Proud of Harvard today. If that massive endowment is good for anything, it’s this.

Wanna emphasize. We did this to ourselves over DECADES. Congressional delegation after delegation, Supreme Court case after case, we created a body of pseudo-law where just labeling anything "foreign affairs" allowed a president to claim absolute power. Just sitting there waiting for Trump.

US Marshals are going to need to decide if they support the rule of law or not

Stakeholders have to raise the cost of folding. Tell every institution you work for/with or support that it is not acceptable. And then follow through with actions.

“BRING HIM HOME” (via @moreperfectunion.bsky.social) www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjRMc64s/