Lee Kovarsky
Professor of Law, University of Texas. Habeas corpus, death penalty, some other law stuff, sentient space robots, kids who don't listen to me, and hot sauce.
- These are the dumbest people alive
- QUICK HIT OBSERVATIONS ON BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP (BC) CASE: (1) Don't call it that, they aren't going to reach the merits of the BC issue; they're going to focus on whether there can be nationwide relief. 1/
- SKEETING THE NATIONWIDE INJUNCTION (BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP) CASE HERE Yes, skeeting. Intro from USSG is pretty wonky, not focused on the underlying merits of POTUS order on Birthright (unsurprisingly). 1/
- A NEW ALIEN ENEMIES PROBLEM (DENIAL OF HABEAS CLASS TREATMENT) Remember when SCOTUS issued a 1 am order “not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees … until further order of this Court?” 1/
- THEY ARE NOT GOING TO DECIDE IT BECAUSE THE EXECUTIVE DOES NOT SUSPENSION POWER, IT BELONGS TO CONGRESS.
- I DESPERATELY beg media in advance to not ever EVER report this without noting that the president doesn't have suspension power. The "Suspension Clause", which bars the suspension of habeas corpus except in times of "rebellion" and "invision", is in Article I, Clause 9, 1/
- JUDGE SESSIONS IS ORDERING OZTURK DISCHARGED. Gov's main opposition is preserving objection that it is calling jurisdictional. (It's actually a venue objection.) DOJ counsel makes VERY clear that he's not suggesting that feds will disobey release order. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69845... 1/
