Scott Shuchart

Note that when ICE hires back a federal law enforcement retiree, the “rehired annuitant” will be allowed to double-dip, getting paid a pension *and* a salary.

But wasting taxpayer money on low-yield immigration enforcement is very on-brand for this administration.

a man with a mustache is wearing a striped shirt and a tie ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a striped shirt and a tie

Compared to hiring a Proud Boy tweaker who couldn’t get hired as a sheriff’s deputy, I guess a 75-year-old ex-cop is a step up.

ICE's new plan is to hire retired cops.

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ICE is recruiting agents with incentives, massive ad campaigns. Sheriffs aren't happy. ICE just made it more attractive to become an immigration agent, with a $50k signing bonus. But are they hurting local law enforcement in the process?

I say this as someone who worked at ICE: If you don’t already work there, you absolutely should not start! Want to work in public safety? Plenty of good police departments are hiring for that worthwhile work. Or sheriffs:

I had been enthusiastic about the rise of younger politicians like Mamdani but jfc “and I’s marriage” is going to be the goddamn death of me. What is wrong with “my”?

The foundling exception at 8 USC 1401(f) remains his best hope. Assume he kept his place of birth unknown until age 21. And that despite having been in transit for hundreds of years before arriving still below age 5?

Great review

South Carolina has some senate seats

A Former ICE Official Is Worried That the Agency Is About to Go on a Hiring Spree of Proud Boys “What self-respecting person who wants a meaningful career in law enforcement would go to work" at ICE "right now, knowing the way [it] comports itself?"

I guess I said some spicy things in this interview. To be clear: 21,000 people work at ICE. A great many of them are committed, good people doing vital work. But why would you sign up to go there now, knowing what it’s about to become?

Something tells me Loper-Bright will turn out to have a silent exception and there is deference to the AG on interpreting the INA (so long as she’s a Republican).

Sorry, *she’s not a court. She has pronouns.

The statute doesn’t require that. The AG can always scoop up a case and direct OPLA to brief it tomorrow and “rule” Thursday. He’s not a court.

That’s true, but it flags a larger question- Why was this done as a change in OPLA interpretation rather than as an AG opinion? I’m sure Miller directed it so why use the lesser authority? (Yes, Miller is a nonlawyer who makes many mistakes, but surely someone pointed this out.)

Someone needs to ask Obama to confirm he will run for a third term if Trump does. Not to do it, of course. But to call Trump’s bluff.

This is an amazing thread but you need leopards eating people’s faces

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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Sure hope nobody put their horcrux in a Chemex

Four Fears about ICE, Trump's New Masked Monster We're about to pour $200 billion into immigration enforcement—it's a terrible idea, sure, but understanding *specifically* why is important.

We should be terrified of who the next new 19,000 ICE and CBP officers will be. Are you watching the news and excited to rough up abuelas, hog-tie the guy cutting the lawn down the street, or manhandle a member of Congress? Apply today! www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...

What was the answer?! It is hard to fathom a CV that is ambiguous between the two

How is anyone still on Twitter

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

If you are an elected Dem talking about *anything* other than how the Trump/Musk cuts killed those campers, resign.

Is there a sociological term for the tendency of ancient public service messaging to stick around forever? This is a spring 2020 COVID message still on a tv in July 2025.

Maybe ICE will finally be able to afford badges and uniforms.

Why would you name a law after what it's going to make your credit rating

Why Is ICE Masked Up? ICE agents in plainclothes pose a danger to civilians—and potentially to agents themselves.

I was glad to have the chance for an in-depth conversation with @maryharris.bsky.social about ICE officers conducting operations masked and without uniforms on Slate’s “What’s Next” podcast today. ICE needs to fix this before people get badly hurt.

The oral argument made clear that Kavanaugh at least was going to say this had to be a class action. Good lawyering but not precognition to have had this in their pocket.

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

Insight on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement There are a number of recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests that have garnered national attention.

Had a great talk today with Shannan Ferry on NY1 on ICE mission and tactics. It's time to lower the temperature and reduce the risk masked, plainclothes officers performing at large operations pose to themselves and everyone else.

Just completed a Manhattan morning trifecta:
- Waiter appreciated my disdain when he asked if I wanted the bagel toasted
- Taped a segment for NY1
- Tourist asked me for directions