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Lawyer turned writer, editor, and speaker. Founder, Above The Law (@ATLblog) and Underneath Their Robes. Author, Supreme Ambitions: A Novel (@SCOTUSambitions).

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    David Lat‏Verified account @DavidLat Aug 1

    David Lat Retweeted Elie Mystal

    I will find out from @TheJusticeDept how many of these EOIR hires are going to be immigration law clerks rather than "deportation forces," and I'll get back to you (cc: @whignewtons). Let's rely on facts, not speculation.https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1024737131711877121 …

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    Elie Mystal @ElieNYC
    Replying to @DavidLat @CornellLaw
    Actually paying attention to what Jeff Sessions is doing to asylum seekers now counts as #TrumpDerangementSyndrome. Okay buddy. "Reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
    12:25 PM - 1 Aug 2018
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      2. Sean Marotta‏ @smmarotta Aug 1
        Replying to @DavidLat

        Sean Marotta Retweeted Sasha Samberg-Champion

        We talked a bit about this here. https://twitter.com/ssamcham/status/1024408983807909890 … These are IJ law clerks, primarily. Prosecutors at the agency level are with DHS and in the district court and court of appeals are with Office of Immigration Litigation, a separate component that is getting six slots.

        Sean Marotta added,

        Sasha Samberg-Champion @ssamcham
        Of those 131 slots, 120 go to the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge. Thus, DOJ's main entry-level hiring this year is going to be for help adjudicating cases in Immigration Court. pic.twitter.com/SccIkk0Qjh
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      3. David Lat‏Verified account @DavidLat Aug 1
        Replying to @smmarotta

        Thank you, @smmarotta and @ssamcham; you have settled my argument with @ElieNYC. Ninety-one percent of the EOIR hires are going to be IJ law clerks, who will help clear up the huge backlog that leaves so many immigrants in limbo for such long periods of time.

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      4. Elie Mystal‏ @ElieNYC Aug 1
        Replying to @DavidLat @smmarotta @ssamcham

        The "backlog of immigrants in limbo" is CODE for "deny all these brown people and send them back for torture and death for as much as we care." I stand by my statement, if you help them do this, you are complicit in their crimes.

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      5. Andrew Kim‏ @akhoya87 Aug 1
        Replying to @ElieNYC @DavidLat and

        . . . Would you prefer that the IJs had no law clerks and instead rubber-stamped denials of asylum applications and other requests for relief?

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Elie Mystal‏ @ElieNYC Aug 1
        Replying to @akhoya87 @DavidLat and

        Oh, look at false choice man here. Schindler had a list of people he tried to save. Anybody at Justice better be able to provide the same, because the time for honoring themselves *will* come to an end and there will be a reckoning, in this life or the next.

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      1. Elie Mystal‏ @ElieNYC Aug 1
        Replying to @DavidLat @TheJusticeDept @whignewtons

        I would not call a single damn thing coming out of Jeff Sessions's Justice Department a "fact." We literally already know that Sessions is interested in denying as many asylum applications as possible. We have his *actions* we do not need his statements.

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