The abstract of the article, setting out the general findings.
The strongest arguments against qualified immunity reform are that lawsuit costs would skyrocket and officer retention would plummet. Alex Reinert, Jim Pfander, and I studied qualified immunity reforms in Colorado and New Mexico and can report: the sky is not falling. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
Grateful to @stevevladeck.bsky.social It is time for state and local prosecutors to start building cases against federal agents violating rights. And not just when people are killed. Also excessive force and destruction of property. The Constitution speaks to it all.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
This country is in the middle of a third Red Scare, as @qjurecic.bsky.social wrote in the Atlantic a few weeks ago. There's no better evidence for it than the trial record from this case. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
It is continually astonishing to me the lengths the US government goes to in order to protect Israel from criticism. This journalist would have been left alone if he’d criticized the United States, but criticism of Israel is treated as lèse-majesté.
This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
Thorough & disturbing reporting from @sammysussman.bsky.social that highlights New York's desperate need for decertification reform, so that a NY state agency could strip police officers of their license for serious misconduct even when their employing agency imposes little to no discipline
Sincerely wondering: what remedies does Justice Kavanaugh believe are and should be available in federal court these days for excessive force violations by federal immigration officials?
Clark can (and surely will) appeal the D.C. Bar’s determination to the D.C. Court of Appeals (not to be confused with the D.C. Circuit).
But Ryan is 100% correct—this is a big deal.
A vital precedent just set by the D.C. bar that it and other state bars should follow, including with respect to current DOJ lawyers making knowing misrepresentations to court, ordering inferior colleagues to defy court orders, etc.
NEW visual investigation:
ICE agents are smashing car windows & grabbing the people inside
There's footage of sobbing kids, pregnant women, & bloodied faces
We found ~50 cases but no civilians w/ sig criminal records
Insiders told us this used to be rare
projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
a *third* whistleblower
🚨Now that the men imprisoned by the Trump admin in El Salvador are free, their stories are coming out; and they are horrific.
One man describes how Salvadoran officials at the prison beat them regularly, stole money from them, and denied them medical care — even painkillers.
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
Citizens being assaulted, arrested, and sent to jails. Military-style sweeps of Hispanic neighborhoods. This is what Congress just gave President Trump $150 billion to do to Americans in every state. www.aclusocal.org/sites/defaul...
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
“Descending on a person in public, laying hands on them, and taking them to a distant prison is a naked expression of state power. For it to be tolerated in a democracy, it cannot be done by shadowy, masked agents,” Brandon del Pozo argues:
With the rule of law under near constant assault, lawyers can play a key role in its defense. We’re proud to co-sponsor a webinar series to equip lawyers with the tools & resources to get involved locally and nationally. Register: www.checksandbalancesnow.org/webinars
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
We went full black mirror. Tracking anyone, anywhere, at any time using their face is simply incompatible with democracy. Terrified to think how cops will weaponize this against protesters, religious groups, and anyone else law enforcement wants to target. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Important, detailed reporting from @samstecklow.bsky.social on the harmful consequences that flow from RI being the only state in the country that doesn't vest a state licensing agency with statutory authority to revoke or suspend a police officer's license after they engage in serious misconduct
As Trump invokes gang membership to justify deportations, a new lawsuit paints a damning picture of the NYPD's secret gang database, which is 99% Black and Latino, and which you can get added to, it seems, for posting "Happy birthday, gang" to social media: hellgatenyc.com/nypd-gang-da...
🚨 @nysfocus.bsky.social scoop:
The State Police maintain a gang database that gets shared with ICE.
It contains over 5,100 names and uses hazy criteria like tattoos, clothing, and social associations to label people as gang members. It hasn't been audited by an outside entity.
full story⬇️
2/2 The story I link to provides yet more evidence that New York (and other states) need pretextual traffic stop reform now more than ever
1/2 Legislation introduced in New York would prohibit officers from conducting traffic stops for low-level traffic infractions that bear little relation to traffic safety: www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...
Seeing a lot of anger over people in ICE detention having to eg file habeas claims on their own.
There are existing efforts to support these folks: not just full legal rep, but partial assistance (easier to scale).
Here’s one volunteer network (full disclosure: my org) immigrationjustice.us
