Shawn Musgrave
@shawnmusgrave.bsky.social
Media attorney | Journalist
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A truly extraordinary dissent from a judge who basically never writes like this. bsky.app/profile/stev...
Divided Ninth Circuit panel stays injunction against President Trump’s federalization of National Guard troops in Portland:
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Judge Graber, who is no firebrand, wrote quite a dissent—encouraging en banc review and some patience on the part of the public:
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Judge Graber, who is no firebrand, wrote quite a dissent—encouraging en banc review and some patience on the part of the public:
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A truly extraordinary dissent from a judge who basically never writes like this. bsky.app/profile/stev...
A couple years ago, I pitched this hybrid role to a few different outlets. Some thought it sounded interesting, most gave me only blank stares or asked if I'd ever seen it done before. Only The Intercept took it seriously — and I'm so grateful we showed this is a viable model.
October 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A couple years ago, I pitched this hybrid role to a few different outlets. Some thought it sounded interesting, most gave me only blank stares or asked if I'd ever seen it done before. Only The Intercept took it seriously — and I'm so grateful we showed this is a viable model.
Lately, DHS agents have been using a different variant of administrative subpoena to target anonymous accounts that share info about ICE raids and agents. Those subpoenas are also being challenged in court theintercept.com/2025/09/24/c...
Courts Block Meta From Sharing Anti-ICE Activists’ Instagram Account Info With Feds
For now, Meta cannot disclose to federal investigators the identities of Instagram users who named and shamed a Border Patrol agent.
theintercept.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Lately, DHS agents have been using a different variant of administrative subpoena to target anonymous accounts that share info about ICE raids and agents. Those subpoenas are also being challenged in court theintercept.com/2025/09/24/c...
In 2022, Senator Wyden found that ICE/HSI used customs summonses to suck up data about millions of global wire transfers (which was then fed into the TRAC database). The agent who did it later got a White House award theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
The Unusual Nonprofit That Helps ICE Spy on Wire Transfers
TRAC, a little-known database, logs hundreds of millions of wire transfers sent to or from Mexico, Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas.
theintercept.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
In 2022, Senator Wyden found that ICE/HSI used customs summonses to suck up data about millions of global wire transfers (which was then fed into the TRAC database). The agent who did it later got a White House award theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
A few years back, @sarahjeong.bsky.social and I wrote a bit about the history and dubious uses of the customs summons (aka "1509 summons," for its legal citation: 19 USC 1509) www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/15...
How ICE used an obscure rule to pursue the owners of a Korean porn site
How did US customs officials get involved in taking down a South Korean porn site?
www.theverge.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A few years back, @sarahjeong.bsky.social and I wrote a bit about the history and dubious uses of the customs summons (aka "1509 summons," for its legal citation: 19 USC 1509) www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/15...
I've been watching for signs ICE/HSI was still abusing customs summonses, one of their go-to tools — despite a 2018 DHS inspector general report that determined this species of administrative subpoena is basically only good for merchandise inspections theintercept.com/2018/05/07/c...
How Customs and Border Protection Illegally Tried to Unmask a Rogue Twitter Account
A CBP agent demanded that Twitter turn over all its records on the @ALT_USCIS account. Problem was the order had no legal justification.
theintercept.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I've been watching for signs ICE/HSI was still abusing customs summonses, one of their go-to tools — despite a 2018 DHS inspector general report that determined this species of administrative subpoena is basically only good for merchandise inspections theintercept.com/2018/05/07/c...