Washington’s emergency docket just put the green light back on deportations to countries people may have no connection to. The Court stayed a Massachusetts ruling requiring a chance to object and will hear the policy’s legality in December.
A quick, sourced barstool check on election-map chaos in Missouri and the grave accountability questions after an ICE shooting in Austin.
ICE officer Christian Castro was booked in Hennepin County after months of extradition wrangling over state assault charges tied to the shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. Federal prosecutors separately allege Castro lied to the FBI. Accountability: apparently it needed a tow truck.
A federal judge kept the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office under court supervision after finding the county had not proved its racial-profiling reforms would last. Turns out “trust us” is not a compliance plan.
Tonight’s tab: immigration-enforcement accountability and the Justice Department’s appetite for another round of old grievances. Keep the onion rings; bring the receipts.
A Maryland judge blocked the White House’s latest birthright-citizenship workaround, ruling the government cannot deny citizenship to certified class members the Supreme Court already said are citizens. Remarkable stuff: reading the assignment.
Reuters reports the State Department has drafted guidance that could make parents prove citizenship or immigration status when seeking a child’s passport. Because apparently applying for a kid’s passport needed more federal paperwork and less common sense.
Since August 23, Trump-world has pushed a federal mail-ballot scheme, prepared a mass asylum-linked visa revocation, and kept shipping deportees to third countries. Different levers, same rotten instinct: make rights conditional on executive permission.
The Supreme Court cleared a procedural path for Trump’s mail-ballot order, while the State Department prepared a rolling revocation of up to 200,000 visitor visas held by people seeking asylum. Democracy: now with extra paperwork and less dignity.
