Any chance you could use a different analogy than the Mets? Some of us are hurting right now.

I would have gotten a hit off a major league pitcher if I were in the MLB. Look at ping pong. I hit the ping pong ball with my paddle almost every time.

When people ask me about my mental health as an immigration lawyer in 2026, I wish they understood that I am an immigration lawyer who is also a Mets fan in 2026.

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Well, they're always claiming that "immigrants don't pay taxes." Maybe getting high on their own supply?

I don’t wanna brag but I made it through half a day of work and I have not posted any memes of myself as Jesus and I love Bruce Springsteen. But I guess the day is not over yet.

Paprikash update. 🇭🇺
(I know it’s not the right kind of noodles, but it’s what we had in the Antifa panty.)

The Mets can’t win but at least the Hungarian opposition can.

what else can we get JD to do this weekend

They have been defeated before.
They are being defeated now.
They will be defeated again.

My succinct Strait of Hormuz synopsis:

It would have to be raised in an actual court ultimately. But I’m not going to hash out litigation strategy in public.

Not a direct answer, but the immigration courts are part of DOJ, not in the Article III judiciary

Yes. We are at the point where respondents may have to brief fundamental due process challenges on the grounds of a rigged system.

/it will be a very, very hard challenge to win, but we’re reaching the point where it might become winnable.

Everything is fine

Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

I think we are far beyond the point where a serious person can plausibly claim that the immigration courts are offering a fair adjudication consistent with foundational principles of the American legal tradition. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.

NYT: Trump Calls for kill a 'Whole Civilization'

This is the intent element of the crime of genocide

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A Trump administration rule blocked immigrant detainees from seeking release on bond. What’s next after a judge in Nevada struck it down?

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Hot take

No Attorney General at least since the 1920s has presided over as much damage to DOJ as an institution and to rule of law in the United States as Pamela Jo Bondi. Including the Watergate era.

(Reserve the right to revise my opinion.)

I'm a birthright citizen, too. So are my parents. If any of us had to prove our citizenship, we would use our birth certificates.

Everything is fine

We have reaching that point in the semester

Everyone needs to just keep repeating this, over and over.

The politics of a case is NOT JUST ABOUT THAT CASE. There is a meta-game here too.

This case is surely going to be used as cover for gutting the VRA. And too many pundits are going to fall for it.

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

In her Article, @lindsaycnash.bsky.social draws on archival research to recover the lost immigration history of pretrial detention and release during deportation’s founding and formative years. Her findings undermine the historical argument for mandatory immigration detention today.