Civil rights advocates acting as private attorneys general represent *injured* parties against people who *violated* their rights.
They don't bring suits by *uninjured* parties to punish others for *exercising* rights. That's what SB8 allows.
More fundamentally, there is no "progressive playbook" of suing people for exercising rights and then contriving to prevent courts from deciding whether that's lawful.
Not yesterday. Not today. Not ever.
Not even with the door to this mischief thrown open by the Supreme Court.
BREAKING: Judge Wolf has issued a temporary restraining order requiring ICE to release our class member “forthwith” so that he can be reunited with his family for the holidays! 🙌🙌🙌
COURT: the law required ICE to interview Mr. Kim to determine whether his detention should continue, but ICE detained him for NINE MONTHS without interviewing him once.
COURT: when ICE intends to deport someone, their opportunity to spend time with family is “especially precious and irreplaceable.”
Today an ICE “Removal & International Operations Chief,” who makes decisions to detain people all over the US, testified that ICE has been REPEATEDLY VIOLATING a regulation designed to give detainees a chance to explain why they should be released.
The law (8 CFR 241.4(i)(3)) requires a personal interview for “post order” custody past 180 days.