Jonathan M. King

Legislating Peace Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Legislating Peace

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No. No. A thousand times no. The 1st Amendment means *exactly* that you can call government agents the Gestapo, characterize their actions as kidnappings, tease them for their ridiculous clothes, or say just about any damn thing you like, and there must be no consequences from the government.

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

May 12, 2025 MEMORANDUM FOR: All ICE Personnel FROM: Todd Lyons Acting Director SUBJECT: Utilizing Form I-205, Warrant of Removal On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to "ensur[e] the successful enforcement of final orders of removal." 90 Fed. Reg. 8443, 8444 (Jan. 20, 2025) (E.O. 14159). Essential to the removal of aliens subject to final orders of removal is the ability to locate and arrest them. To this end, certain supervisory immigration officers within both Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are authorized to issue an administrative warrant, Form I-205, Warrant of Removal (Form 1-205), for the arrest of an alien with a final order of removal. 8 C.F.R. § 241.2(a)(1). All U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and deportation officers are authorized to execute Forms 1-205. 8 C.F.R. § 287.5(e)(3)(iii) - (y) Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose. Accordingly, in light of this legal determination, ICE immigration officers may arrest and detain aliens subject to a final under of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or a U.S.

Arrow) district court judge or magistrate judge in their place of residence.23 ICE immigration officers should consider all available enforcement mechanisms, including the use of a Form 1-205 to arrest an alien in their place of residence, to achieve the requirements of E.O. 14159 in accordance with applicable law and policies. This guidance informs the use of Forms 1-205 and provides to ICE law enforcement personnel a reminder of the general limitations and exceptions that may apply when effectuating arrests in an alien's residence. General Guidelines ICE law enforcement officers receive extensive training on the legal and procedural requirements for making administrative and criminal arrests. ICE personnel must remain cognizant of all existing laws and policies pertaining to arrests when carrying out civil immigration enforcement actions. Prior to entering a residence to conduct an administrative immigration arrest pursuant to Form I-205, officers and agents must ensure the Form 1-205 is properly completed and is supported by a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge, the BIA, a U.S. district court, or a magistrate judge. This is essential because that order establishes probable cause. Officers and agents must also have reason to believe that the subject alien resides at and is currently located in the address where the Form I-205 is to be served.

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.

It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!

An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court by Miles T. Armaly, Jonathan M. King, Elizabeth A. Lane, and Jessica A. Schoenherr is now available in Early View. @jonathanmking.bsky.social @elizabethlane.bsky.social @jessicaann87.bsky.social t.co/lE9STMjDNk

Research article titled "'You Reached Out to Me to Help'": Female Attorneys, Anti-Feminist Causes, and Their Effects on Symbolic Representation" by Jonathan M. King, Jessica A. Schoenherr and Katelyn E. Stauffer.

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

In "'You Reached Out to Me to Help'", @jonathanmking.bsky.social, @jessicaann87.bsky.social & @kstauffer.bsky.social use a survey experiment to test how views on courts and anti-woman outcomes are shaped by attorney gender.

🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟

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New article out in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social with @jonathanmking.bsky.social and @kstauffer.bsky.social!

We look at harassers' decisions to employ female attorneys to fortify their arguments. Fun fact: people do not respond positively to these strategic moves.

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And, importantly, it's the nominee cue that matters. R senators affiliated with the FedSoc do not differ in their voting compared to non-affiliated R senators. Its a cue that isn't simple an in-group message.

Really excited to see this in print!

Specifically, we find it serves as an important partisan cues with D and R senators diverging in how they vote for these noms.

Further, these results are conditional on senator ideology -- including more moderate Dem senators more likely to vote for FedSoc affiliated noms.

Check out this cool new work!

As senators work through hundreds of nominees/Congress (in addition to all their other work), we argue nominees FedSoc affiliation serves as an important cue for senators when voting on judicial nominees.

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The Influence of Federalist Society Affiliation on Senator Voting in Federal Judicial Nominations - cup.org/4meYp7l

- ‪@christinecbird.bsky.social, @jonathanmking.bsky.social & Zachary A. McGee

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We are hiring! UGA Political Science is looking for an Assistant Professor in American Politics (any subfield).

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Deadline is 9/15.

I just got here BUT I already got to meet Hairy Dawg at orientation, so I can confirm it's a great place to work!

Mixed Signals? Rethinking How Ideology and Institutional Motivations Shape the Solicitor General’s Positions - Kirsten Widner, Elizabeth A. Lane, 2025 The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) wins more cases before the US Supreme Court than any other party. Recent scholarship shows that justices are most like...

New publication alert! @elizabethlane.bsky.social and I examine how the institutional interests of the Office of the Solicitor General shape its positions and the justices' reactions to them 1/3 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Some professional news:

I'm incredibly excited to announce that I will be joining the University of Georgia Dept of Political Science in Fall 2025.

I will miss my colleagues and students at WVU but am looking forward to joining an amazing department in Athens!

Overall, we show that changes to norms and rules in one branch of government (the Senate) can fundamentally alter the process of staffing another branch (the federal judiciary).

Look out for it soon in APR!

Furthermore, in this "post-nuclear" era, we see implications that -- with the cloture mechanism being the main driver of confirmation success -- it is *essential* to have unified government. Under divided government, presidents may not get many (if any) of their nominations confirmed

This, in turn has led to successful nominations moving quicker than recent confirmations but with a key caveat -- nominations are being prioritized by their position in the judicial hierarchy.

That is, circuit court confirmations are being prioritized over district courts.

We demonstrate that the 2013 nuclear option -- where the Senate reduced the cloture threshold (or, ending a filibuster) to a simple majority dramatically changed how the confirmations process works.

Now, nominations are almost exclusively proceeding to confirmation via cloture

Newly accepted at American Politics Research (w/ the twitterless Ian Ostrander)!

Like judicial confirmations?
Like Senate rules change?
Want to know how the 2013 nuclear option changed judicial nominations?

Then do I have the paper for you!

My toddler's book on the Supreme Court inadvertently explaining the current political situation (looking at you Article I)

Notice announcing that effective THIS MONDAY, all existing and new NIH awards will be capped at 15% indirects: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Most universities currently have indirect rates that are over 50%....so this will decimate research universities' budgets #WomenInSTEM #DataScience #PoliSky

wow NIJ announces they've cancelled all current RFPs

Out today online! I analyze the effect radical right parties have had on voter turnout in Europe. While some have argued the radical right can mobilize voters, I find radical right parties contesting an election -> decrease in trust -> lower voter turnout. t.co/mCC6YdZDmE

Happy @apsrjournal.bsky.social publication day for our very timely piece "How the Trump Administration’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging" (w/ @enblasingame.bsky.social,
@robertocarlos.bsky.social, @joeornstein.bsky.social). Open access here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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