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Peter Margulies @pmargs.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Talking noncitizens’ free speech & judicial deference at @TheAALS New Orleans Wed. @ 8 am in the Nat’l Security section program, w/ more on deference from @ssinnar@bsky.social, John Dehn, Nahal Kazemi & Rachel VanLandingham

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Peter Margulies @pmargs.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

1) The immigration case of LPR Mahmoud #Khalil is in opening rounds; Immigration Judge Jamee Coman’s finding of removability under the INA’s foreign-policy provision does not herald the case’s outcome: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/n...

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Peter Margulies @pmargs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

1) One issue in #HumphreysExecutor case Trump v. Wilcox is nature of power exercised by @NLRB and @USMSPB, which SG raised in stay request to SCOTUS (admin. stay by CJ): www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24... from 2_Wilcox-Harris%20Appl.pdf (🧵from X)

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Peter Margulies @pmargs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

1) In case of LPR protester Mahmoud #Khalil, vagueness and lack of notice still mar the government’s immigration filings

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Peter Margulies @pmargs.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

1) #HumphreysExecutor seems headed for #SCOTUS as en banc CADC denies stay of orders curbing dismissal of @NLRB & @USMSPB members: media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/... 🧵(also on X)

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Peter Margulies @pmargs.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

1) On removal of MSPB & NLRB members, CADC stay of injunction www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u... offers three windows on executive & legislative power: foggy (Walker) and clear but partially obstructed (Henderson concurring & Millett dissenting)🧵

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Peter Margulies @pmargs.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

1) There’s a major gap in statutory authority for removal efforts re LPR & Columbia student protester Mahmoud #Khalil, which rely on the “foreign policy” provision of INA, § 1227(a)(4)(C)🧵

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Peter Margulies @pmargs.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

1) 🧵from X: Rethinking removal power’s scope re agencies such as @NLRBgov.bsky.social & FTC can prompt specific account of each agencies’ origins & role, per my forthcoming @AmULRev piece “Structuring #POTUS’s Removal Power” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Peter Margulies @pmargs.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

1) {reposted from X} #Birthright citizenship ruling Thursday by Judge Coughenour cites Mike Ramsey’s Originalism & Birthright Citizenship, www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-l...: broad public meaning of 14th Amend. phrase, “subject to the jurisdiction” of U.S.

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Noah Chauvin @noahchauvin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today in @justsecurity.org, @davidaaron.bsky.social, Courtney Otto, and I have a piece on the legal, operational, and political significance of the recent EDNY ruling that U.S. person queries of Section 702 information require a warrant. Check it out!👇 www.justsecurity.org/106895/warra...

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Court Says Warrant Needed for U.S. Person Queries of FISA Section 702 Data

Judge Hall’s Hasbajrami decision marks the first time a court has ruled that U.S. person queries of FISA Section 702 data must be performed pursuant to a warrant or an exception to the warrant require...

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Peter Margulies @pmargs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

1) 9/11 plea litigation at #Guantanamo in D.C. Circuit raises complex issues, including role of Appointments Clause (AC); plea deal is binding, as I discuss here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/can-... 🧵

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