Michael Kagan

Exclusive: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area More than 100 federal agents, including some from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to Alameda base.

BREAKING: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Kavanaugh stops going super smoothly

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

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It would be nice if people would stop stereotyping the Ninth Circuit as super lefty or something because they learned that stereotype in law school 25 years ago

"No, we don't want a monarchy, we want a theocracy" is a not the flex they think it is.

Canvas is down. Repeat: Canvas is down.

Cool! I'll register!

The NYT coverage might not matter for swing voters. But it does matter for elites. We've seen that leaders of elite institutions are capitulating in advance. Media coverage that makes MAGA seem unstoppable likely impacts that. More attention to the scale of opposition might stiffen spines.

It's Oct. 18. The number of immigration habeas petitions in Nevada in October has already exceeded the number filed in September, which itself was likely a record. These cases represent a critical frontline in the battle over by Trump's mass detention policies. habeasdockets.org/dockets/cour...

Memo to universities

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Dear Secretary McMahon, Ms. Mailman, and Mr. Haley, I appreciated the opportunity to speak with you yesterday. I welcome further engagement around how we can (a) enhance the long-standing partnership between the federal government and this country's leading research universities and (b) ensure that higher education stays focused on academic excellence. As I shared on the call, I do not believe that the involvement of the government through a compact--whether it is a Republican- or Democratic-led White House- is the right way to focus America's leading colleges and universities on their teaching and research mission. Our universities have a responsibility to set our own academic and institutional policies, guided by our mission and values, our commitment to free expression, and our obligations under the law. Staying true to this responsibility is what will help American higher education build bipartisan public trust and continue to uphold its place as the envy of the world. We remain open to other ways to work with the federal government to enhance higher education. Best, Sian Leah Beilock President

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...

Take a few minutes to actually read the Declaration of Independence today. It's unsettling how much of it resonates with what's going on today.

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Cheyenne High School students protest ICE in school walkout Around 20 to 30 students from Cheyenne High School walked out of class on Thursday to protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).The studen

The kids are all right. news3lv.com/news/local/c...

The Latest Data on ICE Detention in Southern Nevada; 72 Percent Have No Criminal Convictions Ten percent more detainees than in July

I posted some new data about ICE detention in Southern Nevada.

It's up 10 percent since July. open.substack.com/pub/behindth...

We found the antisemitism

But Sassoon seems weirdly blind to the numerous cases of people on the left paying a steep price for speech condemned by the right. Especially after the murder of Charlie Kirk. This one-sidedness, whether from left or right, ends up undermining free speech rather than defend it.

Sassoon makes a deeply important point when she says that principles of academic freedom and debate “must be defended even when doing so is inconvenient or costly.” It’s more profound than she may realize.

Sassoon is right that there have been hecklers vetos of right wing speakers on campuses. That’s contemptible, and against principles of free debate.

Opinion | I Resigned as Manhattan’s U.S. Attorney. Law Schools Are Missing the Point of My Story.

This op-ed from Danielle Sassoon makes two really important points about free speech on campus, but sadly is infected by the same disease the author diagnoses in others. She seems to think that people on the left face no threats to their free expression. Nope. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

Everything is fine

An immigration enforcement agreement between Las Vegas police and ICE is being challenged by the ACLU, which argued in a lawsuit that the partnership is unlawfully using state and local resources.

Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/aclu...

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

Morais-Hechavarria v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department - ACLU of Nevada We filed a lawsuit challenging the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s (LVMPD) 287(g) agreement with ICE. That agreement allows ICE to use local law enforcement to assist in carrying out its fe...

And now the link. live-awp-nevada.pantheonsite.io/cases/morais...

ACLU says LVMPD is allowing ICE holds to overrule judicial decisions.

ACLU argues more broadly that the state legislature never gave the authority to local police to enter into these kinds of programs with ICE.

Their client was ordered by a Nevada judge to a treatment program, but LVMPD won't release him to the program because of an ICE hold, effectively defying a state court judge.

@aclunv.bsky.social is suing to challenge the 287g agreement between LVMPD and ICE, arguing it violates Nevada law.

Everything is fine

Monday