Meredith Goodleaf (好葉綠話)
@mgoodleaf.bsky.social
Currently sewing🧵not quite yet suing, biding my time at HLS waiting to see what law still exists in 2026 before committing to a practice area
N de "Ni se te ocurra ni pensarlo"
N de "Ni se te ocurra ni pensarlo"
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The anti-birthright citizenship element in the legal academy has all the hallmarks of a high school debate club and none of actual scholarship.
December 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The anti-birthright citizenship element in the legal academy has all the hallmarks of a high school debate club and none of actual scholarship.
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fascinating new birthright citizenship research from Amanda Frost and Emily Eason — in a reconstruction period rife with eligibility challenges, nobody challenged 12 members of Congress who would fail Trump’s citizenship clause test
Paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
fascinating new birthright citizenship research from Amanda Frost and Emily Eason — in a reconstruction period rife with eligibility challenges, nobody challenged 12 members of Congress who would fail Trump’s citizenship clause test
Paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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NEW: 6th Cir upholds the fed law barring undocumented immigrants from having guns.
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov
December 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
NEW: 6th Cir upholds the fed law barring undocumented immigrants from having guns.
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
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Whren greenlit racial discrimination as long as police could articulate some race-neutral reason for the stop. It is literally the silliest case you could cite if the point you were making is that the Fourth Amendment constrains race pretext.
I have no idea what the clerks/BK were thinking.
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I have no idea what the clerks/BK were thinking.
/e
December 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Whren greenlit racial discrimination as long as police could articulate some race-neutral reason for the stop. It is literally the silliest case you could cite if the point you were making is that the Fourth Amendment constrains race pretext.
I have no idea what the clerks/BK were thinking.
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I have no idea what the clerks/BK were thinking.
/e
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the inexplicable reality of Gorsuch has always been that he has a deep well of empathy for the victims of atrocities as long as those atrocities are at least 150 years old and no interest in stopping exactly the same behavior if it’s happening currently.
He still seems weirdly correct about big natives cases (Brackeen, San Carlos Apache, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, Herrera v. Wyoming, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians)
December 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
the inexplicable reality of Gorsuch has always been that he has a deep well of empathy for the victims of atrocities as long as those atrocities are at least 150 years old and no interest in stopping exactly the same behavior if it’s happening currently.
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A disturbing update to this story: Despite the fact that he was about to be released from a US prison after completing a sentence here, when Kelvin Membreño was deported to El Salvador he was sent to CECOT prison and remains there. The family has not heard from him since.
NEW — Kelvin Membreño will be deported to El Salvador by ICE tomorrow. He’s the birth father of three US citizen daughters and has become an important part of their lives.
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
A mother's urgent plea to stop ICE from deporting her daughters’ birth father tomorrow
He served his time in the US. He deserves to heal here, too.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A disturbing update to this story: Despite the fact that he was about to be released from a US prison after completing a sentence here, when Kelvin Membreño was deported to El Salvador he was sent to CECOT prison and remains there. The family has not heard from him since.
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Miller is a deranged racist commanding a federal police force J Edgar Hoover could scarcely have imagined in his worst fever dream. Home Depot has become both a site of domestic human rights violations and a town square where thousands of people are defending democracy. It must choose a side. /10
December 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Miller is a deranged racist commanding a federal police force J Edgar Hoover could scarcely have imagined in his worst fever dream. Home Depot has become both a site of domestic human rights violations and a town square where thousands of people are defending democracy. It must choose a side. /10
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This morning at the airport, the TSA officer’s nameplate said “Bivens.”
I was so excited/distracted that I nearly walked right through the metal detector with my phone in my pocket.
I was so excited/distracted that I nearly walked right through the metal detector with my phone in my pocket.
December 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This morning at the airport, the TSA officer’s nameplate said “Bivens.”
I was so excited/distracted that I nearly walked right through the metal detector with my phone in my pocket.
I was so excited/distracted that I nearly walked right through the metal detector with my phone in my pocket.
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When you add this to Judge Matey's similar dissent earlier this year, you can see that there is an emerging strand of thought among the more radical right-wing jurists that would aim to strip basic rights and freedoms from noncitizens. It's not had any success yet, but its adherents are growing.
NEW: 6th Cir upholds the fed law barring undocumented immigrants from having guns.
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov
December 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
When you add this to Judge Matey's similar dissent earlier this year, you can see that there is an emerging strand of thought among the more radical right-wing jurists that would aim to strip basic rights and freedoms from noncitizens. It's not had any success yet, but its adherents are growing.
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especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
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Almost a year ago, a great light went out: Sarah Lee Best, Penn Law '21, was one of 67 souls aboard the flight that collided with a military helicopter and crashed into the Potomac. Sarah was my student and I am honored to join in a dedication to her memory: pennlawreview.com/2025/12/23/f...
December 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Almost a year ago, a great light went out: Sarah Lee Best, Penn Law '21, was one of 67 souls aboard the flight that collided with a military helicopter and crashed into the Potomac. Sarah was my student and I am honored to join in a dedication to her memory: pennlawreview.com/2025/12/23/f...
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The recent trans rights cases--Skrmetti on health care, the shadow docket passport order, and the pending athletics cases--should be seen in this context, as vehicles for chipping away at the promise of equal protection
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The recent trans rights cases--Skrmetti on health care, the shadow docket passport order, and the pending athletics cases--should be seen in this context, as vehicles for chipping away at the promise of equal protection
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so we’re at the part of V for Vendetta when the news channel aggressively denies they broadcast the thing they just broadcast
December 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
so we’re at the part of V for Vendetta when the news channel aggressively denies they broadcast the thing they just broadcast
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The culture war is consuming the Supreme Court www.vox.com/politics/473...
The culture war is consuming the Supreme Court
The Court’s overall docket is shrinking, even as it hears more and more cases dealing with Republican cultural grievances.
www.vox.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The culture war is consuming the Supreme Court www.vox.com/politics/473...
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‘How the South Won the Civil War’ 💯🎯
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
‘How the South Won the Civil War’ 💯🎯
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.
December 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.
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My mom is a Vietnamese immigrant and on her immigration papers, she has her name written the Vietnamese way (Last Middle First.) On her Social Security card and driver's license, she has it the European way (First Middle Last.) That would likely be enough for Republicans to strip her citizenship.
What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
My mom is a Vietnamese immigrant and on her immigration papers, she has her name written the Vietnamese way (Last Middle First.) On her Social Security card and driver's license, she has it the European way (First Middle Last.) That would likely be enough for Republicans to strip her citizenship.
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Sure, Trump "can't" invoke the Alien Enemies Act to start deporting random Latinos after invading Venezuela absent the actual declaration of war the law requires, but all he really needs to do is convince the 5th Circuit--which is already mostly on board
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/docs/default...
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/docs/default...
www.ca5.uscourts.gov
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Sure, Trump "can't" invoke the Alien Enemies Act to start deporting random Latinos after invading Venezuela absent the actual declaration of war the law requires, but all he really needs to do is convince the 5th Circuit--which is already mostly on board
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/docs/default...
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/docs/default...
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This is absolutely wild. “hey remember six years ago when there was no final order of removal? Sorry about that there is one now”
A federal judge ruled Thu morning that no order of removal for Abrego Garcia had ever existed. By Thu evening, an immigration judge had conjured a “Immigration Court’s Sua Sponte Order Correcting Scrivener’s Error," Abrego Garcia's lawyers tell the judge in the emergency overnight filing:
December 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is absolutely wild. “hey remember six years ago when there was no final order of removal? Sorry about that there is one now”
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It's hard to know exactly what will happen now, given how unprecedented this is. But Trump and Miller envisioned this as a test of their ability to spread fear of lawless state terror. For now, the lower courts are admirably defending the rule of law. 5/5
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It's hard to know exactly what will happen now, given how unprecedented this is. But Trump and Miller envisioned this as a test of their ability to spread fear of lawless state terror. For now, the lower courts are admirably defending the rule of law. 5/5
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
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ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.
December 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.
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there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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Secretary Noem being investigated for contempt for violating court order to turnaround planes headed to El Salvador.
She admitted doing it but played the bullshit "activist judges" card. This won't end well for her.
She admitted doing it but played the bullshit "activist judges" card. This won't end well for her.
Judge expands criminal contempt probe over deportation flights, saying Kristi Noem failed to provide answers | CNN Politics
Days after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem provided little information about her actions in a high-stakes deportation case, a federal judge on Monday expanded his criminal contempt probe into ...
www.cnn.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Secretary Noem being investigated for contempt for violating court order to turnaround planes headed to El Salvador.
She admitted doing it but played the bullshit "activist judges" card. This won't end well for her.
She admitted doing it but played the bullshit "activist judges" card. This won't end well for her.