PREA is the Prison Rape Elimination Act.

I don’t see how the judge could possibly be right that she lacks authority to release him. As best I can tell (though I’m no expert), ICE immigration detainers are purely voluntary—state courts don’t *have* to honor them. And anyway, they require probable cause—judge found none here.

An absolute banger of an opinion.

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”

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Under this theory, there is also nothing that prevents them from shipping *American citizens* to a gulag in El Salvador and saying "nothing we can do."

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Judge Willett’s Wilson v. Midland County gives a lot to unpack.

It’s also, as far as I can tell, only the second opinion in which a federal court has chosen the word “bonkers.”

How do we feel about contractions in legal writing?

Used judiciously, I think they help pull the reader through the brief or opinion.

Here’s a great paragraph from Chief Judge Sutton. He uses three contractions (“there’s,” “that’s,” and “it’s”) to streamline a potentially unwieldy subject.