The implication of not applying the unknown custodian exception here is that, as of March 9, the Petitioner, detained in the United States, would not have been able to call on any habeas court. Not in Louisiana, New York, or New Jersey. And not anywhere else, either.

That is too far. Our tradition is that there is no gap in the fabric of habeas — no place, no moment, where a person held in custody in the United States cannot call on a court to hear his case and decide it.

Judge Michael Farbiarz, Khalil v. Joyce, et al., April 1, 2025

France taking it back to 1798 with the Quasi War.

This exact judge previously shot down an attempt to obtain Trump’s tax returns.

It’s like he must be looking at something besides the caption to decide these cases. I wonder what that could be?? So mysterious. </s>

Seems about right: it’s just a small loan, after all.

I’m now imagining a guy going in to pick up a head, and coming up with nothing but wig.

Yes. I too would like to unsubscribe from the Baker Mayfield school of international relations.

But what about Putin killing people Putin-style?

By the time we’re selling this jet for export, we’ll be flying the next jet in public and the one after that out at Groom Lake.

The Act itself requires a Presidential proclamation before the powers can be invoked.

Petition was filed around 24 hours ago, but no summons, no other evidence of service, and no bail motion ready to go. Plaintiff is certainly not bringing to bear the same kind of litigation resources that Khalil gets from the ACLU.

Basically. Every time this district court judge does a new thing, they file a whiny motion, basically tattle-tale-ing, with the appeals court. The appeals court hasn’t said anything about the tattle-tale letters yet. They set a very expedited briefing schedule on the appeal, but not as fast as the government wanted.

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At this point it seems pretty clear that no more planes are actively planned. I don’t think the judge is going to try to claw those poor people out of the Salvadoran prison.

Might as well slow down a bit, litigate the appeal, and litigate the preliminary injunction to get something more permanent. Then move for sanctions and/or contempt. Let the news cycle recycle, then hit it.

1. The judge was really pissed off. He is requiring sworn affidavits that prove that everyone on plane #3 has some valid basis for removal that is not AEA.

2. The government argues that planes #1 and #2 departed before the written order was entered (judge gave the oral order in court at around 6:45, written order about 45 minutes later). They listed some cases about validity of oral bench injunctions.

3. The government is pissed off with the judge. They filed these really extraordinary emergency appeals in the middle of the night in the weekend. Normally, you can’t appeal a TRO, because they’re so temporary. They wanted the appeals court to judicially bitch slap the district judge, but that didn’t happen. The appeals court is instead going to consider the appeal on an expedited, but still normalish briefing schedule.

Overall, some very exciting litigation filings going on in all of these cases, and a bunch of pissed off judges.

You can check out the Venezuelan case here and here. And Mahmoud Khalil’s habeas petition here, where Khalil’s lawyers just seriously impeached the credibility of Joyce’s sworn affidavits.

The entirety of Indian Removal (aka the Trail of Tears) was ruled to be illegal by the Supreme Court, but it still happened anyway.

80,000 non-alien US citizens of Japanese descent were sent to concentration camps for years, under this exact same Alien Enemies Act. This was also illegal (Ex Parte Endo).

Somehow, “American Democracy” and “Constitutional rights” are deemed to have survived those incidents.

For any non citizen, non LPR (green card), the border official at the desk holds the final authority on whether to admit. This is true with a visa or without one. US visas (not green cards) can be effectively cancelled at the border with no notice.

All visitors to the US, visa or no, must overcome a presumption of immigrant intent at the border interview each time they visit.

Unfortunately, the whole story seems to be legal. I would recommending thru hiking in some less shit hole countries.

Hahahaha, “The King makes his own decisions…”

In their constitutional system, I’m not believing that for a hot second.

In reality, there are all sorts of unique requirements to be an air traffic controller, but I don’t think “college degree” is one of them.

These Vital Farms eggs come with an insert with a QR code that allegedly shows you pictures of the specific farm your eggs came from. I’ve never bothered to look it up though.

It’s not just lawmakers. There’s a bunch of lawsuits trying to use the federal courts to figure out:

• What is DOGE in the federal government?
• What is the nature of the “DOGE Temporary Organisation?”
• Who is in charge of DOGE? (Definitely not Musk, officially…)
• Why can DOGE make all these consequential personnel decisions up and down the federal government?

These are all things that have been shrouded in secrecy, obfuscation, and contradiction. Because the truth is that the real answers are not legally sound. The fact that these people are scared to say the real truth is a good sign, because it means they still have some fear of the courts and institutions. Those institutions still have some power to mess up the plan.