One irony of all this is that now Texas, at Donald Trump’s urging, has gerrymandered Al Green out of his district, which he has challenged as an illegal racial gerrymander.

And any minute now, the Supreme Court is expected to say, “No, no, that wasn’t racist, it was just a political gerrymander.”

The House, which voted to condemn Trump’s statements against Omar and others, tabled the resolution.

Here’s the text: www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr...

Memorandum in support: algreen.house.gov/media/press-...

Al Green should try again.

AP story:
apnews.com/article/just...

Another related case I’m watching but hasn’t yet been ruled on: A challenge in Alabama to an ICE policy/practice of warrantless raids at construction sites where many immigrants work.

Preliminary injunction briefing there ends later this month.

Docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71498...

The related Colorado ruling in the thread gets into the relevant authorities, which are currently in litigation and subject to a settlement out of Illinois (see pp. 3-10): www.aclu-co.org/app/uploads/...

And that Colorado case was not a Fourth Amendment challenge, but one premised on federal law and relying on ICE guidance issued in response to a civil settlement from longstanding litigation out of Chicago.

TL;dr

SCOTUS aside, advocates are employing multiple strategies to protect communities.

Notably, just last week, another federal judge in Colorado issued a similar statewide order certifying a class and forbidding immigration agents from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause of flight risk.

Judge there specifically distinguished the current practice from Lyons.

The whole play here on appeal will be standing under a terrible case called Lyons—look it up, you’ll hate it—and to what extent the policy being challenged here is different from the practice challenged in the Los Angeles area in Noem v. Perdomo, another Fourth Amendment case from September.

Nobody said big win, and I’m a reporter, not a lawyer. In any event, ruling not stayed and pretty broad Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The judge also provisionally certified a class: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When I wrote about Noem v. Perdomo, I predicted Brett Kavanaugh’s word, and the Supreme Court‘s silence, wouldn’t be the last word. nymag.com/intelligence...

“This is the week to own the story” is boring/low energy tbh. I personally use “this pitch will self-destruct in a few days.” Works like a charm.