On Tuesday evening, DHS announced that it would expand expedited removal to the full extent authorized by statute. Expedited removal empowers the government to remove an alien with far fewer processes and protections. Now, expedited removal would apply regardless of where the alien is apprehended. The order provides: I designate for expedited removal the following […]
Much has been written about President Trump’s executive order concerning birthright citizenship. I’ll add a few thoughts here. First, this order did not tie the denial of birthright citizenship to the invasion order. Rather, it is far broader. A child born to any mother who is not lawfully present, or a mother who only lawfully […]
An excerpt from today’s Virginia Court of Appeals decision in Patel v. CNN, Inc., decided by Judge Rosemarie Annunziata, joined by Judge Vernida Chaney (the opinions weigh in at over 12,000 words, so I only excerpt some key passages): Generally, Patel alleged in an amended complaint that CNN defamed him by reporting that the House […]
In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie react to the second inauguration of President Donald Trump. The gang parses some of his contradictory ideas before touching on the saga of banning TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media application, in the United States. 01:46 – Donald Trump’s second inauguration 14:20 – Trump’s Day 1 […]