The government's arrest and detention of a pro-Palestinian Columbia student (and green card holder) raises difficult questions about both technical immigration statutes and the First Amendment.| www.stevevladeck.com
A quick take on some of the questions raised by President Trump's ... dubious invocation of a 1798 statute as a basis for arresting, detaining, and removing non-citizens with ties to Tren de Aragua.| www.stevevladeck.com
The Trump administration's geographic gamesmanship with immigration detainees crystallizes the need for the Supreme Court to preserve (at least some) nationwide injunctions.| www.stevevladeck.com
The Trump administration isn't defying the letter of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling. But it's daring the federal courts to take much more aggressive steps to block its immigration policies.| www.stevevladeck.com
President Trump and his supporters are mounting increasingly noisy attacks on lower-court judges. But their claims combine shameless hypocrisy with shameful distortions of the facts.| www.stevevladeck.com