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Gillian Brockell
@gillianbrockell.com

SCOOP: ICE is trying to ignore the appeals court decision striking down its third-country removal policy, using the thinnest of legal technicalities as a justification. It wants to expel a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic tomorrow. prospect.org/2026/09/23/i...

prospect.orgICE Is Trying to Ignore Court’s Decision Striking Down Third-Country Removals - The American ProspectImmigration officials want to send a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic within hours, court filings show.

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Gillian Brockell
@gillianbrockell.com

Please stop with this. Just because MAGA thinks Africa is a dumping ground doesn’t mean we should treat it like one, too. Miller and his ilk are our problem to deal with.

Desert Mage
@desertmage65.bsky.social

Borneo is not in Africa. Also, my point was not to denigrate those places but to highlight just how difficult it would be for those two racist scumbags to deal with being relocated there. I realize folks on this app have a hard time with reading comprehension, though. 

Sean
@martinamcchicken.bsky.social

This is important reporting, thank you. One (very lawyerly) framing issue: until the “mandate” comes down from the First Circuit (different legal instrument than the opinion and judgment, which have already issued), their February stay on the district court judgment is still in effect.

Sean
@martinamcchicken.bsky.social

Mandates typically issue 21 days after a COA decision to allow time to seek reconsideration from the full panel (en banc) or cert from SCOTUS.

Sean
@martinamcchicken.bsky.social

FRAP 41 explains that the mandate (a “certified copy of the judgment . . . [and] opinion”) is the operative document from an appeals court and that it “must issue 7 days after the time to file a petition for rehearing expires.” FRAP 40 sets a default 14-day deadline for rehearing petitions.