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Haiyun Damon-Feng @hdamonfeng.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Sharing my latest article, Agency Fact-Making, forthcoming in the @yalelawjournal.bsky.social! The paper describes the fact-making, or epistemic, function of the administrative state and identifies how political control over fact-making undermines democratic norms. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

SIX HOURS. "Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own even if officials have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens

The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

New, from me: They are trying to shove through the massive reconciliation bill as quickly as possible. Stepping back, the bill is: *an assault on the poor to benefit the richest *an assault on freedom *an assault on the future donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-re...

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How the reconciliation bill would change America

An assault on the poor, on freedom and the future

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Haiyun Damon-Feng @hdamonfeng.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

How do the lawyers prosecuting family regulation matters think about the nature and goals of their job? Turns out - it depends - and it doesn’t necessarily align with judgments about what’s best for the kids the system is purporting to protect. @annaarons.bsky.social new paper out in Penn Law Review

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

1/2 On left: Trump administration might have just moved detainees from SD Texas to ND Texas to deport them under Alien Enemies Act Proclamation On right: Standing SD Texas judicial order prohibiting detainees removal from SD Texas under the Alien Enemies Act Proclamation

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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison

The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/03/2025

Breaking News: The law firm Jenner & Block sued the Trump administration, making it the second firm recently targeted by President Trump to fight back in court.

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Jenner & Block Sues to Stop Trump’s Executive Order Against Law Firm

President Trump has targeted big law firms that he said have “weaponized” the legal system.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 26/03/2025

Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The President does not have the constitutional or statutory authority to dictate the content of voter registration forms. This EO is an incredibly dangerous power grab. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

And here we go -- Fox News is now saying we should get rid of "due process" because it's too cumbersome. Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people." www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilmea...

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Fox's Brian Kilmeade: “It's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people” Co-host Lawrence Jones: Constitutional rights “are afforded to illegals in this country. We should re...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"While the Government enjoys significant discretion in administering [the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program], that discretion does not extend to abandoning statutory obligations or rendering the program effectively inoperative." Opinion and order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1. INTRODUCTION
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This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary
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Injunction on Supplemental Pleading. Dkt. No. 57. After carefully reviewing the
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Parties' briefing, the record, and the law, the Court grants Plaintiffs additional
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preliminary relief as stated below.
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Through this lawsuit, Plaintiffs challenge Executive Order 14163,
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"Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program," and various agency
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actions that have effectively dismantled USRAP's infrastructure. Hours after this
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Court enjoined implementation of the USRAP Executive Order, Secretary of State
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Marco Rubio began terminating every resettlement agency cooperative agreement
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for domestic reception and placement services and all but one agreement for
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USRAP processing support abroad. The Termination Notices offered a single
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rationale: the agreements "no longer effectuate agency priorities."

Administrative law rests on the foundational principle that agencies must act
within the bounds of their statutory authority and provide reasoned explanations
for their actions. Plaintiffs have made a strong showing that the Government's
termination of these agreements violates these basic requirements and contravenes
Congress's express mandate to establish a "permanent and systematic procedure" for refugee admission and resettlement. While the Government enjoys significant
discretion in administering USRAP, that discretion does not extend to abandoning statutory obligations or rendering the program effectively inoperative. The
Government's sudden termination of decades-old agreements without reasoned
explanation likely constitutes arbitrary and capricious action that must be set
aside. Without immediate relief, refugees remain stranded abroad, families
separated, and resettlement agencies shuttered.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

BREAKING: After a federal judge issued an injunction ending the refugee resettlement funding freeze, Rubio just started terminating all of the contracts. Judge Jamal Whitehead issues a follow-on injunction tonight ordering the terminated agreements reinstated unless Rubio actually follows the law.

(c) Defendants are ordered to reinstate all cooperative agreements terminated pursuant to the Termination Notices to their status as they existed immediately before February 26, 2025, including but not limited to agreements to provide reception and placement services and to provide USRAP processing support abroad.
(d) Defendants are prohibited from terminating any USRAP cooperative agreements without complying with applicable statutory requirements
and administrative procedures mandated by the Administrative
Procedure Act, as described herein.

Defendants' attorneys shall submit a status report detailing their efforts to comply with this Court's preliminary injunction on the supplemental pleadings by March 31, 2025, and the Parties shall submit a joint status report on the steps taken to comply with the
Court's preliminary injunction on the supplemental pleadings by
April 7, 2025.
(g) No security bond is required under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure
65(c).
(h) This preliminary injunction remains in effect pending further orders from this Court.
It is so ORDERED.
Dated this 24th day of March, 2025.
Cal it
amal N. Whitehead
United States District Judge

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 24/03/2025

NEW: The Trump administration invokes the state-secrets privilege, saying it will give Judge Boasberg no more information about deportation flights to inform his decision about whether the gov't defied his orders storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NOTICE INVOKING STATE SECRETS PRIVILEGE
The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be
provided in response to the Court's March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege and the concurrently filed declarations of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of
Homeland Security.
This is a case about the President's plenary authority, derived from Article II and the
mandate of the electorate, and reinforced by longstanding statute, to remove from the homeland designated terrorists participating in a state-sponsored invasion of, and predatory incursion into, the United States. The Court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before
it. Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the
Court lacks competence to address.
Accordingly, the states secrets privilege forecloses further
demands for details that have no place in this matter, and the government will address the Court's order to show cause tomorrow by demonstrating that there is no basis for the suggestion of non-
compliance with any binding order.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Here is Trump's full memo to Bondi and Noem lashing out at the legal system, which includes significant attention on immigration litigation: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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032125-TrumpMemo-Lawyers

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Federal judges are increasingly at their wits' end with the disingenuous, bad faith representations of the Trump administration in court. Today, one judge told DOJ lawyers, “The court is not going to be gaslit."

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Judge smacks down Trump DOJ: This court will not be ‘gaslit’

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism. Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.

Last night at 12:52 AM, the Department of Justice contacted the undersigned via email. Under the subject line “Momodou Taal et al v. Trump, 25-cv-335 (NDNY),” the government informed the undersigned for the first time that the government intended to serve Mr. Taal with a Notice to Appear (NTA), and that they intended to take Mr. Taal into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Given that this information confirms the factual basis for Plaintiffs’ request for an emergency temporary restraining order, ECF No. 23, and the increased urgency with which the Court’s intervention is needed, we respectfully request the Court construe this letter as any procedurally appropriate vehicle to obtain the same. Plaintiffs’ counsel is immediately available to follow up with any submissions the Court deems appropriate in this extraordinary situation. Attached to this letter is an affidavit from Counsel Eric Lee (Exhibit 4), the government’s 12:52 AM email (Exhibit 5), and Plaintiffs’ counsel’s reply (Exhibit 6). The email reads: My colleagues and I represent the United States in this matter. The applications for admission of Messrs. Stone, Moss, and myself to the bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York are pending, so we have not noticed our appearances yet. But we wanted to reach out to establish a line of communication, and relate some information concerning your client. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has asked us to convey to you the following. ICE invites Mr. Taal and his counsel to appear in-person at the HSI Office in Syracuse at a mutually agreeable time for personal service of the NTA and for Mr. Taal to surrender to ICE custody. Accordingly, if you are interested in proposing such a date and time, we will promptly forward it to ICE for consideration

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com, me on “The Tom and Daisy Presidency,” and how there’s only so much courts can do, especially under current law, when at least part of the administration’s goal is to break things—and “let other people clean up the mess they had made.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/o...

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Opinion | Trump Is Breaking Things. They Can’t All Be Fixed by the Courts. (Gift Article)

Trump’s goal isn’t necessarily to win. It’s to break it all.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Rubio’s position seems to be: - We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us. - Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges. - After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

“Linked to pro-Palestinian views” is apparently now grounds for arrest and due-process-free deportation.

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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

CAN’T DO THAT

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

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EFF Border Search Pocket Guide

border-pocket-guide-2.pdf

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

NEW: The FDA largely protected food inspectors from staff cuts. But the credit card freeze in food science labs, the axing of a key food safety committee and funding cuts to state inspectors all limit efforts to keep food safe: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/h...

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Food Safety Jeopardized by Onslaught of Funding and Staff Cuts (Gift Article)

The Trump administration halted some food testing and shut down a committee studying bacteria in infant formula. Earlier funding cutbacks under the Biden administration now threaten state labs and ins...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

New, from me: Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America. Here is a partial inventory. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

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Whitewashing American history

The Trump Presidency as a project of erasure

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

NEW STATEMENT FROM CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: "For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose."

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

2/ This does not instill confidence that the Government has accurately or properly identified individuals under the Alien Enemies Act: Government declaration: "[T]he lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose." Full context:

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The government's argument about these alleged gang members boils down to: "Our precogs say they're going to commit crimes soon so we have to imprison them before they do." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/03/2025

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex

Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.

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Haiyun Damon-Feng @hdamonfeng.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

So the DOJ is basically refusing to engage in questioning over whether the administration (as it appears) violated a direct federal court order, while “border czar” Homan says that, despite the injunction, “We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think…We’re coming.” Just wow.

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Trump Lawyer Stonewalls Judge on Deportation Flights: Live Updates (Gift Article)

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Imagine the possibilities with this criterion for immigration exclusion, deportation, and beyond

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

“A New York Times review of the flight data showed that none of the planes in question landed in El Salvador before the judge’s order and that one of them did not even leave American soil until after the judge’s written order was posted online.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

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Timeline of Trump’s Deportation Flights, From Alien Enemies Act to Judge’s Order

A New York Times review of flight data showed that at the time of a federal judge’s order, two flights were in the air, and one had not yet taken off.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

DOGE is trying to layer on administrative burden to prevent disabled people and older adults from accessing Social Security benefits to which they’re entitled. People in rural communities will be hit especially hard. Field offices are already overwhelmed.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

DOJ replies that because the oral language was not included verbatim in the written order, it was ok to ignore what the court announced in court from the bench. DOJ then tells a federal judge that their client has instructed him to make that argument. [sidenote: that is nuts]

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on the many implications—all horrifying—of the Trump administration reviving seemingly unconstitutional Red Scare–era laws to abduct and disappear Mahmoud Khalil, without due process, in retaliation against his protected speech. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I want to reiterate something you said, because it's deadly serious: No matter what you think of what Khalil said and did, he was charged with no crime. He was given no notice. He was simply taken from his home and disappeared.
And we have to be really, really afraid when there isn't even an attempt on the part of government lawyers to say there was a crime-when, instead, they simply hang everything on a dusty old statute and a dubious claim that we think he's dangerous to the United States.
Because if they're coming for that, they're coming for all of us.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

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Lindsay Toczylowski @l-toczylowski.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Our client worked in the arts in Venezuela. He is LGBTQ. His tattoos are benign. But ICE submitted photos of his tattoos as evidence he isTren de Aragua. His @ImmDef attorney planned to present evidence he is not. But never got the chance because our client has been disappeared.

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Lindsay Toczylowski @l-toczylowski.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Posting tonight ti shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our @immdef.bsky.social client fled Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained upon entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not. 🧵

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This is Marco Rubio retweeting El Salvador’s president mocking the Trump administration’s open defiance of a judge’s order. Every single Democratic senator voted to confirm Rubio. Some like Tina Smith, in her interview with me, now say they got it wrong and regret it. They all should say it.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

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Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"

The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Yet another story reporting Musk/DOGE "reform" efforts involving the cutoff, program or contract cancellation of existing fed spending only to have them replaced by Musk's own companies as the recipient/beneficiary of fed program funds. /1 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...

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Federal Grant Program Opens Door to Elon Musk’s Starlink

Under new rules from President Trump’s Commerce Department, a $42 billion high-speed internet effort will no longer favor fiber-optic cable.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

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Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I've written about the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Fun trivia: When the administration that signed it tried to stop what it xenophobically called an "invasion" of French immigrants, James Madison argued deportation was unconstitutional absent war: repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol120/i...

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"The Imaginary Immigration Clause" by Nikolas Bowie and Norah Rast

The political convulsions of the past decade have fueled acute interest in constitutional For the past century, the Supreme Court has skeptically scrutinized Congress’s power to enact healthcare laws ...

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