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Scott Shuchart

@scottshuchart.bsky.social
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Resigned under T before it was cool. Head of ICE policy, 2023-25. Before: KIND, DHS, litigator. It really was better in the Before Times. shuchartlaw.com, scottshuchart.com

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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not sure how to test this shortcut but glad to have it around just in case www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ad9e629d89…
Purple rounded rectangle with red music icon and play button icon. Text reads Plays Ewok Celebration and Finale when a notification from News contains “Trump is dead”.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If he wants to name something after himself, how about decking over the stupid highways to Virginia and connecting the Kennedy Center to the street grid? Happy to call it Trumpytown or Donnville or Epstein-Trump Virus or whatever he wants.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ahem ARTHUR DENT style
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I like that Condoleeza Rice is still alive so that I can imagine having a chance to tell her off in person.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can’t believe it’s been 25 years since a hereditary imbecile who accidentally stole an election ignored clear warnings so as to allow terrorists funded by his friends to break the spirit of the country.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“When Your Security Counts – Take a Mulligan”
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s weird being on the lookout for time-traveling assassins. Always thought it was a sort of 1910s thing.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sec. 1. <Law> Sec. 2. Severability. If a court declares any part of sec. 1 unconstitutional, the entire section is invalid. Sec. 3. If any part of this law is declared unconstitutional, all appropriations for the Supreme Court for the current fiscal year, apart from salaries, are rescinded.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Glad to be quoted in the Times story on ICE’s ludicrous Shocker gloves but preferred my original proposed quote. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u...
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Last year the beach arcade had a cardboard Trump to stand next to and this year it has a game about high gas prices. Whatever could it mean.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is good framing. Abolish the rancid, existing agency but build something viable to perform its necessary functions.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
At this point I’m borderline offended ICE OPR hasn’t tried to hint me down. (They were a lot less… forward-leaning when I was one of the ICE employees getting threats.) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
You can tell HoMan has always been a bully bc he doesn’t know about the sticks and stones
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why do people describe things as "a 'dear colleague' letter"? What does that add to "a letter"?
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
John Kerry: How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? Donald Trump: He won't be the last man if I keep making the same mistake every day.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I will admit I did not know it was possible to lose the same war twice.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
You have to respect that McConnell unlives as he brain-died.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I have neither been to Maine nor assaulted any women. Not sure where that puts me on the list.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I believe women (who have been saying for months that Schumer was a fool to recruit Mills rather than letting someone younger knock off Platner).
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Bolton is both a target of an unconstitutional retribution campaign AND a monstrously destructive figure in American foreign policy who clearly and flagrantly violated the law.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Taps sign
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I simply would not invest in a pogroms advertising company, even if its small telecoms and government contracting subsidiaries are marginally profitable
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
All these “Europeans love our free chips and salsa, haha 64 oz sodas” posts are going to feel a lot different when they’re about the food in ICE detention in a couple weeks.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
You can just hate soccer. All the time. All four years. There is no reason to let them have power over you. You can watch people not score playing soccer literally for free in every park if you need a fix.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Combining your 80th birthday with a 250th anniversary really makes it hard to ignore that you’re 1/3 the age of the country. Like, incredibly old.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Preparing for the avalanche of Skeletor memes once ~that part~ of Masters of the Universe is available for screen capping
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
“Most people don’t want data centers near them” is a pointless fact. Most people live in cities or relatively dense suburbs. Thats not where anyone thinks the data centers should be!
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Trump appears to be completely passed out asleep during his 3pm Oval Office announcement
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Tfw you walk out of a conference, throw your lanyard away, and step on to the sidewalk like Catwoman just vanishing in the crowd
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 02/06/2026
the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
So, so glad we got zero support from DHS and White House when ICE appointees spent years trying to get a First Amendment policy in place at ICE.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Is little Marco still wearing the clown shoes
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yes, first-time unlawful entry is a MISDEMEANOR, like indecent exposure in a furniture store. Sexual assault in a department store dressing room, accepting billions in bribes, and conspiring to overthrow the government and murder the vice president, by contrast, are FELONIES.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Not that Dems need more election issues, but "ban voting by corporations" probably polls at 99.5%? www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Delaware court upholds voting by companies in small town's election
A judge in Delaware, where many big U.S. companies are incorporated, ruled ‌on Tuesday that a small town that allows corporations to vote in municipal elections was not violating the state's constitut...
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I love NYC more than anything but this is good news. Foreign travel *should* be collapsing. If Marriott and Hyatt don’t like it they know who to blame.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.
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‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is reassuring. No sport is worth risking death in ICE custody. Noncitizens would be nuts to come.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The most unrealistic thing about Star Wars is that only Lobot is wearing giant headphones.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
No, Autocomplete - when I type APA I do not mean “apartheid.” Ok almost never. Ok never in all caps.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Community service: Download the track "Ewok Celebration and Finale" a/k/a "Yub Nub" from the Return of the Jedi soundtrack to your phone NOW so you have it ready. Press play when it happens. music.apple.com/us/album/ewo... open.spotify.com/track/4f6pN7... music.youtube.com/watch?v=QEq-...
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Ewok Celebration and Finale by John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra on Apple Music
Song · 1983 · Duration 8:01
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This is the kind of thing people should be disbarred for as quickly as possible. Not these poor stooges in SDNY, I wouldn’t think, but the political lawyers at DHS and ICE that fed them lies and approved the briefs.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This is such a relief. I’m sorry for the hospitality industry but no foreign visitor should risk death in an ICE camp to watch soccer. (Disclosure: Former head of ICE policy, back when that was a thing.)
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Does anyone know a funder who would run ads overseas explaining the lethal risk of vacationing in the US right now? Like for say FIFA
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I don’t care how much you like football, no foreigner should risk dying in ICE detention to travel to the U.S. for a match. The stadiums should be empty anyway.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
He's not going to run for a third term; "John Barron" is going to run for his first!
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Former head of ICE policy here. Not to defend it *at all* but hoaxes like this are how police work every day. ICE settled a Los Angeles-area lawsuit to limit its use of false "missing cat" and "missing kid" stories, and impersonating real police. I am baffled this is being treated as a new problem.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Hmm where did Sam Ezersky go to 4th grade?
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I sent mail.
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Scott Shuchart @scottshuchart.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Is there no point in writing and reviewing the sentence "There is no major questions exception to the major questions doctrine" that Roberts wondered if perhaps he'd wandered down the wrong path? www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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