i hope they've already cast jeremy irons as pam bondi for whatever movie comes out of all this.

One day you're young and then the next the social platform you're getting most engagement on is LinkedIn.

Immigration detention on track for deadliest fiscal year since 2004 Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access.

Average immigration detention deaths per month from FY 2010 to FY 2024:

0.69

Average immigration detention deaths per month in FY 2025:

1.75

Average immigration detention deaths per month so far in FY 2026:

4.6

www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...

Third: there's a legal test — Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez — and third-country removals check every box.

Here's the abstract.

The paper makes 3 arguments. First: in immigration, where the executive has been given near carte blanche, courts should look at what the executive intends, not Congress.

Second: I catalogue how the admin has shown it's trying to punish people. "We will hunt you down" language, etc.

Courts have spent decades refusing to call anything immigration enforcement does "punishment." Detention? Not punishment. Deportation? Not punishment. But is this different?

I think so and I argued it here:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

(full text will be up shortly)

As most people know, the Trump admin is deporting people to foreign prisons, war zones, and countries they've never set foot in. A Jamaican man sent to a prison in Eswatini.A Guatemalan man deported to Mexico, then sent back to Guatemala — the one place a judge said he couldn't go. 1/4

Will be up soon at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I thought I'd never write a constitutional law paper but here we are. New paper coming out in 2027 in the Denver Law Review arguing that at least some third country removals are unconstitutional.

I hear you brother/sister!

Big congrats too to @billfrelick.bsky.social @jonathanhafetz.bsky.social looking fwd to reading their work!

Deeply honored (and mildly bewildered) to receive the Cabrini Mercy Prize for my paper on decriminalizing migrant smuggling. Grateful that there are people out there who're still open to engaging with these ideas.

You can find the paper and the other winners here:

cabriniprize.org/winners/

writing a complicated exam problem

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realizing that cameron winter's mom is the woman who wrote the brooklyn open-marriage memoir from a couple years ago, and mentally adjusting to the fact that basically any way you slice it i am a member of her cohort and not his

Maybe it's happening more now, but people have been accepting this for over a decade.

Don't know if this is too 3D chess for them but really feels like everything (Harvard news re int'l students, tariff threats, complaints re: Apple) is to distract from the "Big Beautiful Bill" that will enact historic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP benefits.

how dare you not know all the bands?

Trump presidency is crazy bc it’s like “oh great the baby is asleep now I can finally get around to reading that 45 page opinion from the DC circuit.”

In light of todays announcements I think this debate is relatively settled
@adamtooze.bsky.social @gilliantett.bsky.social

Deporting people to torture camps where they have no recourse to get out even with due process is wrong.

That would make sense with what Columbia is reporting about their own policies. But also if they were arrested in the public space (ie building entrance) security would be useless.

Very happy that my new article "Decriminalizing Migrant Smuggling" will be coming out in the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal

Will be on SSRN soon, if you want to see it before now lmk.

It just so happens that everyone on left & right who has looked at this has concluded that the constitution means what it says. They're asking you to believe something else b/c they want to disenfranchise millions and create an entire population of stateless people. Whether they realize that or not.

Now of course one could say that about all originalist claims or arguments that go against the grain but I don't think that's the case. The issue here is a matter of degree and direction of agreement...7/n

But they don't want to defend that policy, they just want to hide behind originalism. "I'm not saying that it should be that way, it's the constitution." But that's BS. We all know it and it would be honest if they just laid out their cards on the table...6/n

In other words, they want to find evidence for the position that the children of undocumented noncitizens are not American but they pretend that they don't actually care about it. Of course they do, the fact that they are reaching for legal straws just proves it...5/n

Now you could just be interested in stone turning, but as academics we're generally more interested in looking for places where there appear to be stones to turn. So if you're going back to the rock garden that has been thoroughly ransacked you are looking for something...4/n

However, one has to wonder when everyone from across the aisle has conclusively determined that under any interpretation birthright citizenship includes the children of all noncitizens, you have to wonder what the motivation is behind turning more stones...3/n

Their position is one of feigned neutrality where they pretend not to have a particular view about whether jus soli is right or not but only about what the history says about br citizenship. This allows them to pretend they are neutral wrt to the outcome and therefore trustworthy... 2/n