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Corinna Vecsey Wilson

@corinnawilson.bsky.social

Partner and member of the transparency team at Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, LLP. Public and government affairs professional. Co-founder and presenter of the Capitol All-Stars Game. Named one of Fifty Over 50 by City & State PA.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer@natcad.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Emily Ryo, on of the foremost scholars on immigrant detention in the US, is speaking at the University of Arizona this Friday. She’ll be discussing research on transfers between ICE facilities. There is a Zoom conferencing option. If interested in attending via Zoom, send me a DM.

The School of Sociology Spring Colloquium Series Friday, April 3rd, SS 415 12:00-1:15pm AZT Dr. Emily Ryo, Professor, Duke University Speaking on: Weaponizing Immigration DetentionWeaponizing Immigration Detention Immigrants, like all individuals, exist within networks of social relationships that shape their identities, inform their decision-making, and guide their behavior. Certain areas of substantive U.S. immigration law—the body of law governing who may enter or remain in the United States—explicitly acknowledge this social embeddedness by protecting or privileging valued social relationships. In contrast, procedural immigration law—the set of rules governing how substantive immigration law is implemented and enforced—undermines or destroys those very relationships. The U.S. government’s practice of transferring immigrant detainees across multiple detention facilities and confining them in remote locations is a paradigmatic example of such destructive procedural immigration law in action. This Article presents the first systematic empirical analysis of interfacility transfers and remote detention in the U.S. immigration detention system. Our empirical findings show that in the past fifteen years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has routinely relied on long‑distance transfers that cross state lines and federal judicial circuits, as well as confinement of individuals in remote locations. Our analysis, however, also reveals that certain practices, such as transferring individuals multiple times throughout their detention, have sharply accelerated during the second Trump administration. We argue that procedural immigration law should recognize the social embeddedness of immigrants, and that doing so with respect to immigrant detainees requires strictly limiting and regulating the use of interfacility transfers and remote detention. Bio: Emily Ryo is the Charles L. B. Lowndes Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at Duke Law School. She was previously a professor of law and sociology at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, and prior to that, a research fellow at Stanford Law School. She received a JD from Harvard Law School and a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced law at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, and Hamilton. Professor Ryo’s current research focuses on immigration, criminal justice, legal attitudes and legal noncompliance, and access to justice. She approaches these issues through innovative interdisciplinary lenses, using diverse quantitative and qualitative methods. As an empirical legal scholar, she has published widely in both leading sociology and law journals. Her article with Ian Peacock, “A Study of Pandemic and Stigma Effects in Removal Proceedings,” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 19(3): 560-593, received the 2023 Article Prize from the Law and Society Association.
Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Judge Rufe's opinion ordering the Trump administration to restore truthful panels about Washington's ownership of enslaved persons from the President's House site in Phila is here. (I jailbroke it from PACER.) TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Some escaped to freedom, including Oney Judge. The President’s House displays recognized Oney Judge and focused on how her struggle for freedom represented this country’s progress away from the horrors of slavery and into an era where the founding ideals of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” 165 could be embodied for every American. And yet, in its argument, the government claims it alone has the power to erase, alter, remove and hide historical accounts on taxpayer and local government-funded monuments within its control. Its claims in this regard echo Big Brother’s domain in Orwell’s 1984, where: The largest section of the [government’s] Records Department . . . consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction. A number of the Times [a newspaper] which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophesies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it. Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had been made. Even the written instructions [for workers in the Records Department] . . . never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed; always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.166 The government here likewise asserts truth is no longer self-evident, but rather the property of the elected chief magistrate and his appointees and delegees, at his whim to be scraped clean, hidden, or overwritten. And why? Solely because, as Defendants state, it has the power. At oral argument, Defendants insisted: Although many people feel strongly about this one way, other people may disagree or feel strongly another way. Ultimatel…. . . [T]he message that the Government chooses to convey is for the Government to choose. I don't get to choose what that message is. And it's our position that the City doesn't either.167 An agency, whether the Department of the Interior, NPS, or any other agency, cannot arbitrarily decide what is true, based on its own whims or the whims of the new leadership, regardless of the evidence before it. Accordingly, the City is likely to prevail on its claims that the removal was arbitrary and capricious
Adam Steinbaugh@adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia. Happy Presidents Day.

MEMORANDUM OPINION February 16, 2026 “All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.” George Orwell, 1984' As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto "Ignorance is Strength," this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not. The President's House is a component of Independence National Historical Park that commemorates the site of the first official presidential residence and the people who lived there, including people enslaved by President George Washington. On January 22, 2026, the National Park Service ("NPS") removed panels, displays, and video exhibits that referenced slavery and information about the individuals enslaved at the President's House. Plaintiff City of Philadelphia ("the City" filed this lawsuit under the Administrative Procedures Act ("APA") against the Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum…
National Immigration Law Center@nilc.org · last yr.

100 days ago this week, the Trump admin began disappearing immigrants to El Salvador’s mega-prison, CECOT. Over 280 people remain detained today. We've compiled everything we know so far about the disappearances, including personal stories from those impacted. Learn more: nilc.org/cecot-disapp...

Tracking the CECOT Disappearances

More than 280 men and boys have been secretly transferred by the U.S. to El Salvador’s CECOT prison without due process. Read our latest report exposing this human rights issue.

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Sarah Posner@sarahposner.bsky.social · last yr.

Reuters Exclusive: DOGE staffer, 'Big Balls', provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

Exclusive: DOGE staffer, 'Big Balls', provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show

The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.

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C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE@casmudde.bsky.social · last yr.

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · last yr.

5pm ET, hearing on Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act and the defiance of court order. The public can listen by telephone. Let the number of callers show we are paying attention.

Adam Klasfeld@klasfeldreports.com · last yr.

It's open both in person and through a telephone audio line: "The hearing will proceed by videoconference for the parties and by telephone for members of the public. Toll free number: 833-990-9400. Meeting ID: 049550816."

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · last yr.

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

Corinna Vecsey Wilson@corinnawilson.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is a stunning departure from all government administrative norms. Appalling, disgraceful, illegal, unconstitutional, and enraging.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2y ago

A bit of professional disappointment that Wired beat me to it. But glad the info is out. I can confirm the key details of this report based on my own reporting -the name of the DOGE operative and that yes the reports about read only access is categorically false. Not only does Marko have full …