Immigration

Irony was deported long ago.

Another day, another way to bash immigrants.

Can Trump's decision to blow up the Moon in order to eliminate werewolves be far behind?

Doctors believe the problem is that CBP does not bother defrosting the burritos properly.

Seventh Circuit is not having any of this.

Federal judge laments that no one listens to him.

According to reports, she recently turned down a plea offer that would not involve jail time.

No evidence, or economic motive, justifies restricting immigration to the United States.

Diversity and inclusion is a critical value and goal, both within the legal profession and within the immigration bar.

She tells us about the realities of practicing immigration law under the current administration.

The Immigration and Naturalization Act was intended to serve the best interests of the country, and specifically to keep families together. But the current interpretation is doing the exact opposite.

* Faster lawyers don’t necessarily mean better lawyers sounds like something a client would say just before demanding an overnight answer. [Law.com]

* Jurists rallying behind judge charged with obstruction for not letting ICE demean the judicial system by turning it into stakeout location. [National Law Journal]

* Prosecutors seek 15 year sentence for Manafort’s former son-in-law. Maybe Skadden can write a report justifying his actions? [Politico]

* Shenzhen is coming and Biglaw has a new market to figure out. [American Lawyer]

* JP Morgan traders accused of 8-year racket. This is in contrast to the more broadly defined 220-year racket the company’s been up to. [Law360]

* White House ordering more people to ignore subpoenas, so that’s a super development for the rule of law. [Courthouse News Service]

* While the UK endures a constitutional meltdown, here are fun facts about their Supreme Court. [Legal Cheek]

It's not illegal 'cause... ARTICLE II.

Great opportunities for graduating law students and young lawyers to enter government service -- and serve into the next presidential administration.

The government's argument here is frankly shocking.

* The DOJ sent a newsletter to the nation’s immigration judges including links to a white nationalist website. Bill Barr is running a real crackerjack organization. [Buzzfeed News]

* A deep question and answer exchange with Penn Law’s Amy Wax and she comes off just as loony as you’d expect. [New Yorker]

* It looks like Michael Avenatti is going to put Nike on trial in his upcoming extortion suit. [Law360]

* A Brad Pitt role holds the key to being a good prosecutor. It’s not Tyler Durden and that’s a little surprising. [ABA Journal]

* Weil Gotshal may have cost investment bankers millions, leaving them mere multimillionaires. [NY Post]

* Ed Whelan seems to have no idea how law review articles are written in this tortured effort to defend Trump circuit appointee Steve Menashi’s reputation. Essentially, Whelan says because Menashi’s controversial article was cited by real academics it must be real scholarship — as opposed to a 2L randomly inserting Menashi into a string cite. [National Review]

* Nicholas Sparks won that fight he’s been having with the former headmaster of his vanity school. [Deadline]

Frankly, this opinion is a model of restraint.

* Jones Day partner Don McGahn sued for failing to comply with House subpoena. [National Law Journal]

* Short seller argues that Burford is out of money in move that pits highly sophisticated calculated gamblers against highly sophisticated calculated gamblers. [American Lawyer]

* A reminder that the Supreme Court is going to hear a case that could allow employers to fire women for not acting feminine enough. [Vice]

* ICE deported a guy to Iraq who had never lived there, didn’t speak Arabic, and who subsequently died unable to secure insulin. [Slate]

* Biglaw is making the diversity officer role more senior and more powerful. [American Lawyer]

* MGM complaining that federal government gives tribes “monopoly” over casinos. That’s… that’s not how this works. [Courthouse News Service]

* National Review is arguing for “red flag laws” in an editorial that it will deny ever publishing once the GOP quietly kills this issue. [National Review]

* Two back-to-back mass shootings were committed by domestic terrorists this past weekend, killing at least 29 people with dozens more injured. Lawmakers must do something, anything about America’s gun problem. [Wall Street Journal]

* Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claims that he “saved the Supreme Court for a generation” by denying Judge Merrick Garland a confirmation hearing because those shouldn’t be held during presidential election years — unless the president up for election is Donald Trump. [Bloomberg]

* In other news related to Senator McConnell, he’s currently recovering from fracturing his shoulder this weekend, but plans to “continue to work from home” on not doing anything about gun control. We’d offer some thoughts and prayers, but you know how meaningless those are. [CBS News]

* Per this D.C. judge, the Trump administration’s latest move to bar those who did not cross the border at a designated port of entry from seeking asylum violates the Immigration and Nationality Act. How many strikes will it take for this one to get appealed to SCOTUS? [CNN]

* Louis Vuitton wants to keep senior in-house attorney Andowah Newton’s sexual harassment claims in arbitration, while she’d prefer to have her voice be heart in court under New York’s new #MeToo law. [Big Law Business]

* Spinderella, sue it up one time: the famous DJ is suing Salt-N-Pepa alleging not only that the group failed to pay her hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties, but that she was underpaid for appearances and sometimes wasn’t even paid at all. [Showbiz CheatSheet]

Is the State Department applying these immigration provisions selectively in order to discriminate against LGBT couples?