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Matthew Hoppock @hoppock.bsky.social

In short: asylum law is made up. It's not actually law. You don't have to enforce it if you don't feel like it. It's just vibes. Ignore the law if you want, IJs, and your Acting Director has your back. We'll come up with some tortured rationale about how precedent isn't really precedent.

jul 7, 2025, 2:05 pm • 6 0

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Matthew Hoppock @hoppock.bsky.social

To be clear, the Attorney General definitely has the authority to say these things in a published precedential decision. Then, folks agrieved by that lawlessness can take those decisions to federal court and the AG's lawyer will show up to defend it. But the acting EOIR Director?

jul 7, 2025, 2:05 pm • 6 0 • view
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Matthew Hoppock @hoppock.bsky.social

She has no authority to "guide" IJs in how to apply BIA precedent, no authority to set precedent herself, no authority to pick out unfortunate decisions she wishes didn't exist and come up with ways to ignore them. Lawlessness.

jul 7, 2025, 2:07 pm • 6 1 • view
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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social

The play is likely to have at least one case where the IJ/BIA follow this garbled roadmap to result in an unpublished decision, let the 30 days for PFR expire, then have Bondi declare it the law of the land.

jul 7, 2025, 2:55 pm • 1 0 • view