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Senior Legal Correspondent @FDRLST, Of Counsel @NCLALegal, ~25 yrs 7thCir law clerk, former full-time univ. faculty, Catholic conservative, wife to DH/mom to DS

Aug 2, 14 tweets

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: 9th Cir. denies Trump Administration stay regarding district court's efforts to micromanage ICE "except as to a single clause" but that single clause is what allowed ICE to do it's job! Still reading so clarity to follow. 1/

2/ As I noted before one of the problems with the court's injunction is that you can't enjoin a situation where the situation depends on all of the facts and circumstances, for instance, if a voluntary encounter which needs no reasonable suspicion.

3/ On that point: That is exactly what the training is. You can see from this language the specific details needed to know whether there is or isn't reasonable suspicion.

4/ This is BS. Trump Administration stressed that it was a totality of the circumstances.

5/ On standing issue, decision concludes individual plaintiffs and those organizations help will be victims because of breadth of ICE efforts. This seems inconsistent with case law.

6/ As I noted at start the "except as permitted by law" is what made the injunction a nothing-burger because those facts can be considered as part of totality of circumstances. But now the appellate court by removing that language is making legal factors illegal. . . unless it is caveated later. (Still reading).

7/ Okay, so this gloss by the court allows ICE to continue it's arrest because it will never be just those 4 factors...it will also include, for instance, that presence at a particular location was a location where evidence showed past violations by employers.

8/ And it says "detentive stops" which means any one of those 4 factors alone can be use to decide whether to have a consensual encounter.

9/ So, this discussion explains my point re that this doesn't really handcuff ICE because fact that past violations by employer is another factors.

10/ This is problematic and wrong!

11/ YIKES! So NOW the 9th Cir. is changing the injunction to say they can't consider other factors!!!

12/ And the court then contradicts itself by citing law that makes clear that those factors do count!

13/ So court again contradicts itself recognizing it is a factor here:

14/14 Here's the entire opinion. I'll do a high-level summary shortly to this play-by-play. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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