Justice Stevens wrote one of the most important (and immigrant-friendly) decisions in the history of crimmigration law at the age of 90, and for whatever others problems I might have with #SCOTUS as an institution that just absolutely rules
Padilla was clearly more than just an ordinary case for Stevens, and it shows in the degree of care and concern in his public statements on how the court continued to interpret it 5 years later
A lot going on rn but N.B.: these extremely damning 25-yr-old BPD records were released at pretty much the exact point at which we knew the #DerekChauvinTrial verdict was imminent
Samuel Maverick was one of the first slave-owners in MA, and it's past time #EastBoston disowned him. I've been proposing for yrs that we re-dedicate the square to a different Maverick: the youngest victim of the Boston Massacre.
man featured in this (paywalled) investigation on credible #MeToo allegations in the #immigrationcourt system has opinions about "reprehensible conduct"
Yes, the guy who gets to pass judgment in the name of "moral turpitude" is a known sex pest to the degree that he is literally not allowed into the building to rubber-stamp deportations with his colleagues
Let me say that again: the judge who just ruled that driving under the influence with a suspended license is "reprehensible" enough to bar immigrants from residency and/or serve as a basis for deportation was #MeToo'd so effectively that he isn't welcome in his own office
🎵 'Cause we're young and feckless
We'll take your filing fee
And reject your application
Or send an RFE
Got a long list of applicants
who think USCIS is insane
But we've got a blank space, baby
And don't need your full name 🎵
and yes, this was the best possible use of my time during this conference call why would you even ask that
LEFT: USCIS service centers during the tenancy of the "blank space" policy
There's no easy way to know how many ppl would be harmed by this directly, but #TPSElSalvador protects ~200,000 alone, and very few of those came with inspection.
And we're not talking about cutting off some general "line" or pathway to citizenship here. If adopted by SCOTUS this argument would most directly harm immigrants married to US citizens and/or with adult US citizen children who would otherwise be able to file for them.
If you've never had the pleasure of living in a place where undocumented people vastly outnumber Trump voters I just can't recommend it enough
I've met thousands of undocumented people & not a one of them has told me that I am a traitor to my race and/or country or fantasized about seeing me hang from the neck until dead, something which was a pretty regular part of my life on this website until the last few purges