Fighting ICE since 2006, cohosting @openargs.bsky.social since 2024, playing your piano since 1987. Read my journal at http://deportnation.com
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Got to appreciate the honesty of an immigration judge who indirectly corrects an attorney before him who has asked him to take "judicial notice" of a Department of State report without any other comment that he will be taking "administrative notice" of it
c'mon First Circuit be serious www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
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As an attorney who is all too familiar with the law of asylum, I understand why an immigration judge has to grill an asylum seeker about *why* a family member assaulted her. As a person who is all too familiar (if only by proxy) with lifetime mental health consequences of SA this is hard to watch
I don't have the energy for it tonight but Friday is my birthday and if after my dinner plans any especially cool units of the #tartanarmy were up for adopting an American Cameron who has lived in this town for nearly his entire adult life well yes sir I can boogie (TM)
(for non-lawyers, judicial notice is how judges can incorporate undisputed facts/sources not in the record. The immigration judge can't do that because he is a Department of Justice employee, rather than a judge)
Levels of 🏴 are rapidly intensifying here in Boston and I am absolutely here for it
it is also particularly telling that they didn't tax all printed matter, but specifically print *journalism* which was already being used to spread dissent
Have you ever read the Stamp Act of 1765? I'd always assumed it was some kind of regular tax/tariff on goods, but it was much more pernicious than that. Among other things, it taxed the paper that all government licenses & private news were printed on. (10 pounds was thousands in today's USD!)
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it must have been really painful for independence-minded lawyers, liquor salesmen, journalists, and publishers to know that they were sending a substantial amount of their money to the distant king they were trying to wrench the colonies away from
