really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.
This. In fact, we wrote a whole report on the Western District’s immigration habeas cases because before Angola, *all* immigration detention centers were located within the Western District. And that might not be a coincidence! law.tulane.edu/content/no-e...
He talks about how his nephew was deported after being here for 44 years.
ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.
It's that time of year!
Tulane Law School invites applications for its Forrester Fellowship position, which is designed for promising scholars who plan to apply for tenure-track law school positions. The Forrester Fellow is full-time faculty in the law school and... 1/4
Larger context on the ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota:
Fed. officers have fatally shot at least 3 other people in the last 5 months & wounded or threatened others. We describe a few of the recent incidents and patterns we've noticed here.
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...
"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Juice.
While Maryland presents itself as a progressive haven, a quiet but significant rebellion is brewing within its counties. Data reveals a surge in collaboration between local sheriffs and ICE.
www.memesita.com/maryland-she...
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
Peter Drucker, a lecturer at Frankfurt University when the Nazis took over, recalled a faculty meeting where the new Nazi boss said Jews were banned and anyone complaining would be sent to a concentration camp. A professor then asked a question: “Will there be more money for research in physiology?”
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout.
Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
Well, this is, indeed, really fucking bad
An astonishing figure in this piece:
Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing.
This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers.
That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.
We @lawfaremedia.org will hopefully publish something on this soon but fwiw the legal authority invoked is NOT the Insurrection Act — it’s 10 USC 12406, which is much more limited than an Insurrection Act invocation.
(Reporters: Chris Mirasola is the expert to talk to about this)
The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy.
The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.
“Less noticed at the time, but arguably more prophetic, was how the mechanics of her firing trammeled yet another longtime standard in the academy, that of professors’ deciding among themselves when and if a colleague should be fired.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...
It is very good question and one I’ve been asking for months.
If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for these renditions, the Trump administration is legally required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with Congress.
To my knowledge, they have not done so.
After controversial sweeps in Kern County and a CalMatters investigation, the federal government will train agents on when they can stop and arrest people. (Maybe should have done this FIRST.) By the excellent Wendy Fry and Sergio Olmos.
calmatters.org/justice/2025...
The first person to alert the public that the Trump administration was preparing to send planeloads of Venezuelans to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was a retired J.P. Morgan executive in Ohio named Tom Cartwright, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports:
Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding @Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike. @johnwrogers @peterblairhenry @michelleapeluso
x.com/global_labor...
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
I don't mean to be flippant, but something to think about as you signal-boost and consume reports/posts:
when you see something about ICE being spotted somewhere, insert the word "cops" instead and see how it reads.
If "Cops spotted in (state)" isn't a helpful warning, "ICE" isn't either.
What Just Happened: Sanctuary Policies and the DOJ Memo’s Empty Threat of Criminal Liability
by Ahilan Arulanantham (@ahilantoolong.bsky.social)
#SanctuaryCities #immigration #Federalism
Birthright Citizenship Complaint Page 1
Birthright Citizenship Complaint Page 2
Birthright Citizenship Complaint Page 3
The just-filed complaint challenging Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship.
Filed in the D.N.H. by the national ACLU, ACLU-NH, ACLU-MA, ACLU-ME, NAACP LDF, State Democracy Defenders Fund, and the Asian Law Caucus.
www.aclu-nh.org/en/press-rel...
We have to keep in mind that Trump is good at spectacle and has a tight grasp on both large-scale propaganda networks and more mainstream media organizations. He will make sure Fox News cameras are there watching flashy raids. They want people to panic and leave, even if the reality is different.
As many people have said, it is going to take time for the Trump administration to ramp up immigration enforcement. In the meantime, however, they are going to basically slap a “mass deportation” logo on the side of every regular ICE operation.
We have to keep that fact in mind.
The Wall Street Journal says there will be a splashy ICE operation in Chicago on Tuesday.
While the headline is lurid, the actual operation described in the piece (100-200 agents) seems not that unusual for ICE (google Operation Cross-check). Expect a PR blitz, though.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...