Clay H. Greenberg

The Trump admin is planning to say that being from Cuba (or any other travel ban country) is a "significant negative factor" that could lead to a denial of any of several discretionary immigration benefits (like green cards). Seriously; national origin discrimination as official government policy.

BREAKING: The full Ninth Circuit vacates last week’s 2-1 order granting DOJ a stay of the district court’s TRO in the case over Trump’s National Guard effort in Oregon. The court will rehear DOJ’s stay request w an 11-judge panel. Today’s order means Judge Immergut’s TRO remains in effect for now.

Remember when it was a national scandal on the right that the White House pushed to take down a few tweets?

This video brought tears to my eyes. There is no justification for this behavior.

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NY Times Quote of the Day from yours truly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/p...

Judge Crawford, summing up his finding on due process: "If the Government detained Mr. Mahdawi as punishment for his speech, that purpose is not legitimate, regardless of any alleged First Amendment violation. Immigration detention cannot be motivated by a punitive purpose."

Another horrible story of family separation. "The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...

Poignant opinion by Judge Wilkinson in the Fourth Circuit.

This is literally DEI.

Just making up the rules as they along, despite the fact that there already rules in place about this.

More use of “tech” to enforce the whims of government. Not all that different from the strategy used in the recent SEVIS terminations. Forget about the law, just “delete”.

As a jew, I do not like this one bit.

The Notice to Appear filed by DHS against Mahmoud Khalil contains a glaring error in its factual allegations. Embarrassing error for such a high-profile case.

My clients, colleagues, and I were blindsided by the sudden and immediate change in USCIS forms this week. Tens of thousands of applications could be affected. Thank you @aila.org and Benach Collopy LLP for bringing litigation to try to right this wrong. bit.ly/4itlvEV

So let me see if I have this right. Cancer research out, dictatorial control of the arts in? Afghans who assisted the U.S. out for refugee resettlement, white Afrikaners in? FEMA out, paper straws in?

We told you it was about whiteness. If it was clear enough before, it’s clear now. Trump paused the refugee program, but when it comes back online, it will focus on resettling white South Africans (Afrikaners) who are “victims of racial discrimination.” (Camilo/CBS) America has gone off the rails.

No words for this one. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

I made this point earlier about the birthright citizenship EO. By adopting the Heritage Foundation's maximalist position to also include children born to those here on nonimmigrant visas, they sabotaged the possibility some more NewsMax-pilled judges might buy some kind of "invasion" argument.

Musk’s use of the word “delete” is so disrespectful, flippant, and smug.

Worth nothing that Judge Liman is a Trump appointee.

Between RFK Jr. and Bhattacharya, I really hope there’s not another outbreak of any kind.

So true.

Breaking: Merrick Garland's reputation and our rule of law.

Brilliant

And just like, because of the outrageous Gaetz nomination, folks will now fall in line and say “this is much better”. But Bondi is still hyper-partisan and given to indulge Trump’s every whim.

Breaking News: After Matt Gaetz withdrew, President-elect Donald Trump’s new choice for attorney general is Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general.

It fits in with a faux image of neutrality that FedSoc likes to project, and it exactly parallels the false claims that originalism is about "finding law" not making it and that is is somehow politically neutral. That's why.

Is Trump now going to appoint Gaetz to some position that does not require Senate confirmation?

Elections do not—cannot—act as a substitute for criminal prosecution of a single person. That’s not what they’re meant to do. A campaign is not the same as an evidence- and rules-bound trial. The voters are an electorate, not a jury, and someone who runs a law blog should know the difference.

If, as many predict, Trump issues an EO prohibiting fed agencies from issuing passports to children born of undocumented immigrants, how would that work in practice? How many generations back will it go? Would anyone applying for a passport have to trace their ancestry back to Ellis Island, etc?

So important …