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- 0:10Speaker 3: Congress can have no saying making an office independent. I
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- 0:28Speaker 2: And analysis of important legal issues, cases and headlines.
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- 0:38Speaker 2: Bloomberg Law with June Grosso from Bloomberg Radio.
- 0:45Speaker 5: Welcome to the Bloomberg Law Show. I'm June Grosso. Ahead
- 0:48Speaker 5: in this hour, the Supreme Court allows Trump to fire
- 0:52Speaker 5: independent agency officials and immigration law roundup from challenges to
- 0:58Speaker 5: ice agents, waiting and Immigration court hallways and do geofence
- 1:03Speaker 5: warrants violate your right to privacy A ninety year old
- 1:10Speaker 5: legal precedent setting up independent agencies isn't dead yet, but
- 1:15Speaker 5: after the Supreme Court's emergency order allowing President Trump to
- 1:19Speaker 5: fire members of two independent agencies, the effect may be
- 1:24Speaker 5: the same The Court's nineteen thirty five ruling in Humphrey's
- 1:27Speaker 5: executor said that Congress in some instances can set up
- 1:31Speaker 5: agencies that are independent from the executive branch and whose
- 1:35Speaker 5: members can only be fired for cause. But in recent
- 1:39Speaker 5: years the Supreme Court has significantly cut back on Humphreys.
- 1:44Speaker 5: Over the dessense of three liberal justices, the Court allowed
- 1:47Speaker 5: Trump to fire National Labor Relations Board member Gwynn Wilcox
- 1:51Speaker 5: and Merits Systems Protection Board member Kathy Harris without cause
- 1:56Speaker 5: as their legal challenges play out. My guest Isauren McFerrin,
- 2:00Speaker 5: senior fellow at the Century Foundation and former chairman of
- 2:04Speaker 5: the NLRB in the Biden administration.
- 2:07Speaker 4: So what the Supreme Court did was stay and order
- 2:11Speaker 4: of the District Court which had ordered the reinstatement of
- 2:14Speaker 4: Gwynn Wilcox and Kathy Harris. And the removal of Gwynn
- 2:19Speaker 4: and Kathy from office was clearly contrary to statute. The
- 2:23Speaker 4: President is prohibited by both the National Labor Relations Act
- 2:27Speaker 4: and the law governing the Merit Systems Protection Board from
- 2:30Speaker 4: removing people from office except for cause, and no qualifying
- 2:34Speaker 4: cause was given to either of these officials, so the
- 2:38Speaker 4: action was clearly contrary to law, and so the President
- 2:41Speaker 4: kind of took the law into his own hands here
- 2:42Speaker 4: and basically said, I don't care what Congress wanted, and
- 2:45Speaker 4: I don't have to follow Supreme Court precedent, and he
- 2:47Speaker 4: removed them from office anyway. The Supreme Court then stepped
- 2:51Speaker 4: in and on what's called the shadow dockets, which is
- 2:54Speaker 4: supposed to be for emergency relief and emergency orders, indicated
- 2:59Speaker 4: that the President is right to do that, but it
- 3:01Speaker 4: is okay for him to ignore Congress and to ignore
- 3:03Speaker 4: Supreme Court precedent, and kind of went to extraordinary length
- 3:06Speaker 4: to keep that result in place because they basically think
- 3:09Speaker 4: the President took a good gamble about their plans to
- 3:11Speaker 4: revisit precedents. So it was very unusual from a court
- 3:16Speaker 4: process perspective, the so called shadow dock that is supposed
- 3:19Speaker 4: to be used for, like I said, emergencies, it's typically
- 3:22Speaker 4: also used to preserve the doctrinal status quo, not to
- 3:27Speaker 4: overrule it. You're certainly not supposed to use the shadow
- 3:29Speaker 4: docket to effectively change precedent without the benefit of full
- 3:33Speaker 4: briefing and careful consideration, which is what the descent pointed out.
- 3:37Speaker 4: So it was a procedurally very odd thing to do.
- 3:41Speaker 4: But it certainly sent a very strong signal about where
- 3:44Speaker 4: the Supreme Court is headed in terms of whether it
- 3:48Speaker 4: plans to overrule Humphrey's Executor, which is the decision that
- 3:53Speaker 4: had originally upheld Congress's ability to create positions like this
- 3:57Speaker 4: that can only be removed from office by the pre
- 4:00Speaker 4: resident for cause.
- 4:01Speaker 5: So, according to the dissenting justices, the effect of this
- 4:05Speaker 5: is essentially to overturn Humphrey's Executor.
- 4:09Speaker 4: I think that will be the practical read that a
- 4:11Speaker 4: lot of people take away from it.
- 4:13Speaker 7: Now.
- 4:13Speaker 4: The Majority did ultimately hedge on that question. The Majority
- 4:16Speaker 4: said that they're not ultimately deciding whether these two agencies
- 4:20Speaker 4: fall within the recognized exceptions of Humphrey's Executor. That does
- 4:25Speaker 4: suggest that there still will be some recognized exception, but
- 4:31Speaker 4: they signaled pretty clearly that they didn't think either the
- 4:34Speaker 4: National Labor Relations Board of the Merit Sista's Protection Board
- 4:37Speaker 4: would fall within that exception.
- 4:40Speaker 5: Tell us about Humphrey's Executor, it's sort of been on
- 4:43Speaker 5: the way out, or people have been calling for its
- 4:46Speaker 5: demise for a long time.
- 4:48Speaker 4: I mean, Humphrey's Executive. There's no question that it is
- 4:50Speaker 4: still good law. The case that everyone cites for the
- 4:55Speaker 4: proposition that Humphrey's executor is on the way out the
- 4:58Speaker 4: door is a case called steal a law and see
- 5:01Speaker 4: a law. Was very careful to say that Humphreys still
- 5:05Speaker 4: is good law and that they were not revisiting Humphreys.
- 5:08Speaker 4: But what they did was that they certainly said they
- 5:10Speaker 4: were not expanding Humphrey's executor, who encompassed independent agencies that
- 5:16Speaker 4: aren't like the Federal Trade Commission that was the original
- 5:20Speaker 4: subject of Humphrey's itself. So they were unwilling to expand
- 5:24Speaker 4: the reach of Humprey's executor. This exception that allows Congress
- 5:28Speaker 4: to create entities whose leaders can't be removed except for cause.
- 5:34Speaker 4: They were going to expand that exception to a single
- 5:38Speaker 4: headed agency like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But it
- 5:42Speaker 4: is very clear that Humphreys, at this point in time,
- 5:46Speaker 4: or at least until this order issued, that Humphreys itself,
- 5:49Speaker 4: the exception it creates for quasi judicial and quasi legislative
- 5:53Speaker 4: agencies that are structured like a multi member body like
- 5:57Speaker 4: the National Labor Relations Board of the Merit Systems protect
- 6:00Speaker 4: Board still exists, and that exception is still valid.
- 6:04Speaker 5: The Supreme Court in recent years has cut back on humphries.
- 6:07Speaker 5: I mean, it's still standing, but is it in sort
- 6:11Speaker 5: of chatters.
- 6:12Speaker 4: I think it's safe to say that the Court has
- 6:14Speaker 4: constrained its reach and has at times, you know, one
- 6:20Speaker 4: or two justices in a separate opinion or indicta in
- 6:25Speaker 4: a majority opinion, have called into question its continuing viability. Basically,
- 6:31Speaker 4: this notion that there can be an entity, even if
- 6:35Speaker 4: it is structured like a multi member body, even if
- 6:38Speaker 4: it is a body of experts that's supposed to make
- 6:40Speaker 4: expert decisions, that there could be an entity like this
- 6:45Speaker 4: that would not be sufficiently executive in the nature of
- 6:49Speaker 4: the powers that it is exercising, such that its leaders
- 6:54Speaker 4: should not be removable by the president. I mean, that's
- 6:57Speaker 4: the core issue here for proponents of the unitary execut
- 7:00Speaker 4: it theory on the Court is that any entity that
- 7:03Speaker 4: is exercising any level of executive power should be removable
- 7:08Speaker 4: from office by the president. And the Court has certainly
- 7:10Speaker 4: set signals in recent years that it thinks the scope
- 7:14Speaker 4: of the universe of agencies that might actually not exercise
- 7:17Speaker 4: any executive power is minimal or not existent.
- 7:23Speaker 5: The justices took pains to point out that this doesn't
- 7:27Speaker 5: affect the FED. The FED is different.
- 7:30Speaker 4: Yes, that was a really strange little red flag in
- 7:34Speaker 4: this decision. It kind of comes out of nowhere. In
- 7:37Speaker 4: the decision. They might as well have basically said, oh,
- 7:40Speaker 4: by the way, President Trump, please don't take this order
- 7:44Speaker 4: as a green light that you can fire the chair
- 7:46Speaker 4: of the FED. And they carved out the FED in
- 7:48Speaker 4: like two sentences when it wasn't an issue in the case.
- 7:52Speaker 4: And they carved out the said by making what is
- 7:54Speaker 4: basically a factual observation about the set, which is that
- 7:57Speaker 4: it is uniquely structured and it has a just historical tradition.
- 8:01Speaker 4: That is actually true of many independent agencies right now,
- 8:05Speaker 4: my own agency that I used to work for, the
- 8:07Speaker 4: National Labor Relations for That is certainly true. It is
- 8:10Speaker 4: uniquely structured, and it has a distinct historical tradition. But
- 8:14Speaker 4: that doesn't speak to the reasons why the FED is independent,
- 8:20Speaker 4: which are fundamentally similar to the reasons that other independent
- 8:24Speaker 4: agencies are independent. The reason that Congress chose to create
- 8:28Speaker 4: independent agencies is because it wanted to have entities, even
- 8:32Speaker 4: entities within the executive branch, that made decisions based on expertise,
- 8:37Speaker 4: and that made decisions, and we're capable of making decisions
- 8:41Speaker 4: that might be in the short run politically unpopular, but
- 8:46Speaker 4: in the long run in the best interests of the country.
- 8:48Speaker 4: And it's very easy to see, of course, how that
- 8:50Speaker 4: plays out in the context of the set, and particularly
- 8:53Speaker 4: when the SET is wearing its monetary policy hat, it's
- 8:56Speaker 4: very easy to see why it's going to have to
- 8:59Speaker 4: make this visions that are short term politically unpopular but
- 9:03Speaker 4: long term beneficial to the country. But the FED is
- 9:05Speaker 4: not unique in that regard. And one agency that leads
- 9:09Speaker 4: to my mind, for example, is the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
- 9:11Speaker 4: Sometimes it is very politically unpopular to find a product
- 9:16Speaker 4: to be unsafe, to pull a product off the market,
- 9:18Speaker 4: but it might well be in the long term public interest.
- 9:21Speaker 4: So there's not something that makes the FED distinguishable in
- 9:24Speaker 4: a principled manner from other independent agencies when it comes
- 9:28Speaker 4: to the reason for its independence.
- 9:31Speaker 5: Let's say the Supreme Court does get rid of Humphrey's executor.
- 9:34Speaker 5: What might the repercussions be, Well, it would depend on
- 9:38Speaker 5: how the Supreme Court did it.
- 9:40Speaker 4: There's lots of people who predict about these things, and
- 9:42Speaker 4: there's a group of predictors who say that they will
- 9:43Speaker 4: basically get rid of Humphrey's Executor but carve out the set,
- 9:46Speaker 4: or at least the set in its monetary policy role.
- 9:49Speaker 4: I think there's an argument to be made that they
- 9:52Speaker 4: could also kind of split the baby in different ways.
- 9:55Speaker 4: I think one of the most difficult challenges that we
- 9:58Speaker 4: will have in a post Umphrey's Executor world if Humphrey's
- 10:01Speaker 4: Executor is swept off the book, is what to do
- 10:04Speaker 4: with agencies that are primarily adjudicative. You know that do
- 10:07Speaker 4: business as courts basically, and it's very hard to imagine
- 10:12Speaker 4: how an agency that's supposed to function as a court
- 10:15Speaker 4: will function when it's adjudicators can be fired for the
- 10:19Speaker 4: outcome of individual decisions. So I think there's potentially a
- 10:22Speaker 4: chance that the court could also look at the various
- 10:24Speaker 4: functions that agencies are performing and say these are executives
- 10:29Speaker 4: and these are not executives. And this order, being a
- 10:31Speaker 4: preliminary order, doesn't delve into that at all. But you
- 10:34Speaker 4: could have a course that says, well, if an agency
- 10:37Speaker 4: is making rules, it is by nature executive because rulemaking
- 10:41Speaker 4: is an executive function. But leave open the question, for example,
- 10:44Speaker 4: of whether if an agency was truly just a court system,
- 10:47Speaker 4: you know, like tax courts or something like that, whether
- 10:50Speaker 4: that potentially could be treated differently. So I think it's
- 10:53Speaker 4: a question of whether the court will just wipe Humpter's
- 10:56Speaker 4: executor off the books altogether with some possible car about
- 10:59Speaker 4: for the fact and monetary policy, or if it will
- 11:03Speaker 4: kind of pick and choose which agency functions. It seems
- 11:06Speaker 4: to be so executive in nature that the president must
- 11:10Speaker 4: be able to control them.
- 11:12Speaker 5: And as far as your old agency, the NLRB, what
- 11:16Speaker 5: effect would it have if the president is able to
- 11:19Speaker 5: fire board members without cause.
- 11:22Speaker 4: I think it's really hard to overstate how different that
- 11:26Speaker 4: would be from the way that the agency operates now.
- 11:30Speaker 4: The NMRB and many other adjudicative agencies. Like I said,
- 11:33Speaker 4: the nb does business primarily by deciding cases like a court,
- 11:36Speaker 4: and we as judges never had to worry about whether
- 11:42Speaker 4: our decisions were going to be politically popular or politically unpopular,
- 11:47Speaker 4: or whether we were deciding a case in favor of
- 11:50Speaker 4: somebody that the president was friendly with or someone that
- 11:52Speaker 4: the president was not friendly with. I think you can
- 11:54Speaker 4: see this playing out totally differently in a world where
- 11:57Speaker 4: board members I need these the judges could be fired
- 12:01Speaker 4: for the outcome of a particular case. You can very
- 12:05Speaker 4: much have a system where entities that are closely allied
- 12:09Speaker 4: with the president, certain very powerful companies, etc. Were effectively
- 12:13Speaker 4: exempt from the law because adjudicators would fear for their
- 12:16Speaker 4: jobs if they found against them. Conversely, if the shoes
- 12:19Speaker 4: on the other foot, and you have a president in
- 12:21Speaker 4: office who's extremely pro union and very closely allied with
- 12:24Speaker 4: many labor organizations, there are provisions of the National Labor
- 12:27Speaker 4: Relations Acts that are enforceable against unions, and you could
- 12:31Speaker 4: see that type of enforcement basically fall by the wayside
- 12:34Speaker 4: if you have a president that super union friendly. So
- 12:37Speaker 4: it will go from being an adjudicator that jealously guards
- 12:41Speaker 4: the integrity of its adjudicative process to being a fundamentally
- 12:46Speaker 4: different and political entity where judges are making decisions at
- 12:50Speaker 4: the peril of their job based on their predictions about
- 12:53Speaker 4: whether they'll face backslash for them or not.
- 12:56Speaker 5: Thanks for joining me, Lauren. That's Lauren McPherrin, senior fellow
- 12:59Speaker 5: at the Entry Foundation. Coming up, we'll look at the
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- 13:45Speaker 5: The Trump administration is once again appealing to the Supreme
- 13:48Speaker 5: Court as it tests the boundaries of the government's power
- 13:52Speaker 5: to deport migrants. The Department of Homeland Security is asking
- 13:56Speaker 5: the court to block a judge's order that requires the
- 14:00Speaker 5: government to give people ten days notice and an opportunity
- 14:04Speaker 5: to object before they're deported to places other than their
- 14:07Speaker 5: home countries. Joining me is immigration law expert Leon Fresco,
- 14:12Speaker 5: a partner at Holland and Knight and a former head
- 14:14Speaker 5: of the Office of Immigration Litigation in the Obama administration. Leon,
- 14:19Speaker 5: a Massachusetts federal judge, ordered the government last month to
- 14:23Speaker 5: give people ten days notice and an opportunity to object
- 14:28Speaker 5: before they are sent to a country which is not
- 14:30Speaker 5: their home country. And he said last week that the
- 14:34Speaker 5: administration violated his earlier decisions.
- 14:38Speaker 7: Well, what happened was, this is a case where there
- 14:41Speaker 7: are a number of foreign nationals who did commit sometimes
- 14:45Speaker 7: very heinous crimes, and they're from Laos, Vietnam and some
- 14:49Speaker 7: other places that don't really accept people that the US
- 14:52Speaker 7: is trying to deport bax of those countries, and so
- 14:56Speaker 7: the US tried to arrange a scenario whereby it could
- 14:59Speaker 7: deport those people to South Sudan as part of a
- 15:02Speaker 7: diplomatic arrangement it was having with South Sudan to free
- 15:06Speaker 7: up some issues because earlier in the year, South Sudanese
- 15:10Speaker 7: people couldn't get visas to travel to the United States,
- 15:13Speaker 7: and so this was part of a global arrangement where
- 15:16Speaker 7: that would be fixed, and that also South Sudan would
- 15:19Speaker 7: agree to accept people that the United States was trying
- 15:22Speaker 7: to deport to other countries, not South Sudan. The people
- 15:27Speaker 7: who were going to be deported to South Sudan heard
- 15:30Speaker 7: about this and said, well, wait a second, I can't
- 15:33Speaker 7: be deported to South Sudan. I'm not from there. That's
- 15:36Speaker 7: very dangerous. It's a country in the middle of a
- 15:38Speaker 7: civil war, and so they tried to file convention against
- 15:42Speaker 7: torture claims. There was actually this case filed in the
- 15:46Speaker 7: District of Massachusetts, which was a habeas claim saying I
- 15:50Speaker 7: can't be deported without being given the opportunity to have
- 15:53Speaker 7: an adjudication as to whether the conditions in South Sudan
- 15:56Speaker 7: are tent amount to torturing me, because if you just
- 16:00Speaker 7: drop me off there, what am I supposed to do?
- 16:02Speaker 7: I'm going to start to that because you know, it's
- 16:04Speaker 7: not a place where you could just go and get
- 16:05Speaker 7: a job and start working. And so that was the claim,
- 16:10Speaker 7: and at that time the district court, at the US government,
- 16:14Speaker 7: we're arguing about, well, how do you do these claims?
- 16:17Speaker 7: Can you do them where these people were, which is
- 16:19Speaker 7: at the moment they're being detained in Djibouti, a different
- 16:22Speaker 7: African country where it's just sort of a military operation
- 16:27Speaker 7: and there's not really this ability to long term have
- 16:32Speaker 7: these folks there. There was this debate about where do
- 16:35Speaker 7: these convention against torture claims get decided or do you
- 16:39Speaker 7: have to bring the people back to the United States.
- 16:41Speaker 7: The federal government didn't want to bring back the people
- 16:44Speaker 7: to the United States. It asked that they'd be allowed
- 16:47Speaker 7: to make these adjudications in Djibouti. The judge said, okay, fine,
- 16:51Speaker 7: I will let you do that. And then after that
- 16:54Speaker 7: the government said, no, wait a second, this is way
- 16:56Speaker 7: too complicated. We actually can't do it in Djibouti. And
- 17:00Speaker 7: so now the government has gone to the Supreme Court
- 17:03Speaker 7: and said, just let us do these deportations. The judge
- 17:07Speaker 7: shouldn't be allowed to prevent us from doing this.
- 17:11Speaker 5: The Supreme Court has said that the government has to
- 17:13Speaker 5: give people a reasonable amount of time in order to
- 17:17Speaker 5: challenge their deportations, but it hasn't spelled out exactly what
- 17:22Speaker 5: that means, how much time even. But is this situation
- 17:25Speaker 5: different from the cases that the Supreme Court has dealt
- 17:29Speaker 5: with because these migrants have already been through the immigration
- 17:33Speaker 5: system and there are orders of deportation against them.
- 17:37Speaker 7: Correct. The problem is here, these individuals have an order
- 17:41Speaker 7: of deportation that can be executed at any point to
- 17:45Speaker 7: their home country, whether it's Allows or Vietnam or whatever,
- 17:48Speaker 7: and it can also be executed to any other country.
- 17:52Speaker 7: So long as in any of those other countries, there's
- 17:56Speaker 7: not a likelihood that these individuals will be tortured. The
- 18:00Speaker 7: question is, well, can these individuals make that claim, where
- 18:05Speaker 7: can they make that claim, When can they make that claim,
- 18:07Speaker 7: how long do they have to make that claim, and
- 18:10Speaker 7: does the district court have the ability to interrupt that
- 18:14Speaker 7: when a person has already been moved outside of the
- 18:19Speaker 7: United States. And I think that's what the debate is
- 18:21Speaker 7: going to be, because I think where the federal government
- 18:24Speaker 7: is concerned is what are we supposed to do now
- 18:27Speaker 7: that these individuals are in Africa? How do we deal
- 18:30Speaker 7: with this? Are we going to be forced to bring
- 18:32Speaker 7: them back to the United States or will we be
- 18:35Speaker 7: forced to actually adjudicate these cases inside of Djibouti, which
- 18:40Speaker 7: is where the people are now, or can we finalize
- 18:43Speaker 7: our intentions to deport them to South Sudan? And will
- 18:46Speaker 7: there just be prophylactic language in the future about what
- 18:50Speaker 7: is required in the future if they're going to do
- 18:53Speaker 7: one of these third country deportations. But really we're in
- 18:56Speaker 7: uncharted territory here, and the Supreme Court is going to
- 18:59Speaker 7: have to set some standards and some guidelines because if
- 19:03Speaker 7: the federal government really is focused on these third country deportations,
- 19:07Speaker 7: then they're going to need to be done in a
- 19:10Speaker 7: manner that everybody's comfortable with. And the complication with South
- 19:13Speaker 7: Sudan is just imagine any of us. I mean, if
- 19:16Speaker 7: any of us get dropped off in South Sudan, what
- 19:18Speaker 7: do we do next? If there's no food, there's no job.
- 19:21Speaker 7: You know, if you end up being deported to a
- 19:23Speaker 7: place where you know that the solution is just the starvation,
- 19:28Speaker 7: does that end up violating the Convention against torture?
- 19:31Speaker 5: So how do you think the Supreme Court will approach this?
- 19:35Speaker 5: Given how it's handled the other deportation cases.
- 19:38Speaker 7: The Supreme Court is going to have to decide where
- 19:41Speaker 7: can these individuals make these claims? Are they allowed to
- 19:44Speaker 7: make these claims at all? What district court jurisdiction exists here?
- 19:49Speaker 7: And I don't necessarily think that the Supreme Court, given
- 19:54Speaker 7: what we've seen so far, is going to be too
- 19:56Speaker 7: friendly toward this concept of not being able to give
- 19:59Speaker 7: people opportunity to make a claim that a deportation Assab
- 20:03Speaker 7: Sudan is tent amount to torturing.
- 20:06Speaker 5: That okay, So turning two other cases, ICE appears to
- 20:11Speaker 5: be employing a new strategy that it used in arresting
- 20:15Speaker 5: a high school student in New York City. Government attorneys
- 20:18Speaker 5: are asking judges to dismiss cases against migrants who are
- 20:22Speaker 5: there for scheduled hearings and then waiting ICE agents arrest
- 20:27Speaker 5: the migrants and put them in expedited removal proceedings. That's
- 20:31Speaker 5: what reportedly happened to a New York City high school
- 20:34Speaker 5: student from Venezuela Leon. So, this Venezuelan high school student
- 20:40Speaker 5: was in immigration court for a regularly scheduled hearing, and
- 20:45Speaker 5: after the case against him was dismissed, ICE agents arrested him.
- 20:49Speaker 5: His lawyer says he's here legally seeking asylum, but the
- 20:54Speaker 5: Trump administration says he's here illegally. And apparently this is
- 20:57Speaker 5: not an isolated scenario happening.
- 21:00Speaker 7: Is this? So the Biden administration had this program called
- 21:05Speaker 7: the CBP one app parole program, which what it said
- 21:10Speaker 7: was don't just cross the border illegally. That's creating a
- 21:15Speaker 7: lot of chaos on the southern border. We can't have
- 21:18Speaker 7: it go to a port of entry. Get an appointment
- 21:21Speaker 7: to go to a port of entry under the CBP
- 21:23Speaker 7: one app and then if we think that you're a
- 21:26Speaker 7: legitimate asylum seeker, will parole you into the country legally,
- 21:31Speaker 7: so you have a legal status while you're here trying
- 21:34Speaker 7: to get asylum, and you'll go through the asylum case.
- 21:36Speaker 7: So what's happening now is that the Trump administration is saying,
- 21:41Speaker 7: for all those people who have been led in legally
- 21:44Speaker 7: to do an asylum case and immigration court, we are
- 21:48Speaker 7: going to cancel your legal admission. We're going to close
- 21:54Speaker 7: that case, and we're going to pretend like none of
- 21:58Speaker 7: that had happened, and we're going to put you in
- 22:00Speaker 7: expedited removal, which says that if you are here for
- 22:06Speaker 7: less than two years and you never had a legal
- 22:08Speaker 7: basis for coming, you can be removed on an expedited basis.
- 22:13Speaker 7: But what that requires is for the person to be
- 22:16Speaker 7: arrested and then they have to have a new adjudication
- 22:19Speaker 7: as to whether they have a credible asylum case, and
- 22:22Speaker 7: if they don't, they can immediately be removed. But if
- 22:25Speaker 7: they do, then they're basically back in square one, which
- 22:28Speaker 7: is the same immigration court hearing that they were arrested
- 22:31Speaker 7: at minutes ago. So this BRONXE student was exactly this
- 22:37Speaker 7: situation where they were let in legally under the CBP
- 22:40Speaker 7: one parole app but now they're arrested, placed in expedited
- 22:46Speaker 7: removal proceedings, and.
- 22:49Speaker 5: This type of scenario is being played out in immigration
- 22:52Speaker 5: courts across the country.
- 22:54Speaker 7: So there's basically three goals of this. Number one is
- 22:59Speaker 7: maybe twenty percent of the people that they're going to
- 23:02Speaker 7: do this too won't actually be able to show that
- 23:06Speaker 7: they have a credible asylum claim, and so with that
- 23:09Speaker 7: group they can just remove them outside of the United States,
- 23:13Speaker 7: and so that increases the removal numbers. So that's goal
- 23:17Speaker 7: number one. Goal Number two is to the extent people
- 23:20Speaker 7: are now scared to go to immigration court. When you
- 23:23Speaker 7: don't show up the immigration court, you get what's called
- 23:26Speaker 7: an in absentia removal order, which is you basically lose
- 23:30Speaker 7: by default. You get ordered deported and that's the end
- 23:33Speaker 7: of it. And as long as the government can show
- 23:35Speaker 7: that you had notice of the hearing, then that did
- 23:38Speaker 7: you know, unless there was some earthquake or some bridge
- 23:41Speaker 7: collapse or something and that prevented you from going to
- 23:43Speaker 7: the hearing that day, you're pretty much in a bad
- 23:46Speaker 7: position there. But the government, then if they get these
- 23:49Speaker 7: in absentia removal orders, can also try to execute those
- 23:55Speaker 7: and that also is easier than trying to win a
- 23:57Speaker 7: removal order in a hearing. Well, that's the second reason
- 24:01Speaker 7: to do this is people stop going to court, they
- 24:04Speaker 7: get in upset to removal orders, you can deport them
- 24:06Speaker 7: more easily. And then the third is people will be
- 24:09Speaker 7: so afraid about finishing this process they'll just take matters
- 24:13Speaker 7: into their own hands and go home. And so that's
- 24:16Speaker 7: really the purpose of this is to create this level
- 24:19Speaker 7: of fear that people either don't show up to court
- 24:22Speaker 7: and they get ordered to port it or they go home.
- 24:25Speaker 7: But if they do go to court, they're going to
- 24:27Speaker 7: get arrested. If you haven't been in this country for
- 24:29Speaker 7: more than two years, what will happen is you will
- 24:32Speaker 7: be arrested and put into these expedited removal proceedings. And
- 24:37Speaker 7: what that will do is for some segment of the people,
- 24:40Speaker 7: they will be deported immediately. For a larger segment, let's
- 24:45Speaker 7: say seventy to seventy five percent, they will be placed
- 24:49Speaker 7: back into the same proceeding they were supposed to go
- 24:51Speaker 7: to court for that day. But after having been arrested
- 24:55Speaker 7: and detained and having to pay out a bond and
- 24:58Speaker 7: so all of this is very scary and unsettling, and
- 25:03Speaker 7: that's part of the strategy is to impose those kinds
- 25:06Speaker 7: of conditions to make it as older as as possible
- 25:09Speaker 7: for the people here without status to remain here.
- 25:11Speaker 5: So then will this student definitely get a hearing.
- 25:15Speaker 7: Well, so they will first have to show that they
- 25:17Speaker 7: have a credible asylum playing and of course, because the
- 25:21Speaker 7: student is from Venezuela, probably will not be that difficult
- 25:24Speaker 7: because Venezuela does crack down on political dissident and this
- 25:27Speaker 7: person can show that they had some political oppression in
- 25:32Speaker 7: the past or they have some political issue, they can
- 25:35Speaker 7: clear that threshold and then they'll actually have an asylum hearing,
- 25:40Speaker 7: which was the whole purpose of why they went the
- 25:42Speaker 7: court in the first place.
- 25:43Speaker 5: Thanks so much as always, Leon. That's Leon Fresco of
- 25:46Speaker 5: Honden Knight. Coming up next. The courts are split on
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- 27:34Speaker 5: Geofence warrants are relatively new. Google received its first in
- 27:39Speaker 5: twenty sixteen, but the use of such warrants has proliferated,
- 27:44Speaker 5: as have court cases challenging them. Unlike a warrant authorizing
- 27:49Speaker 5: surveillance of a known suspect, geofencing is used to identify
- 27:54Speaker 5: would be suspects. Google has been the primary recipient of
- 27:58Speaker 5: these warrants due to its extensive location history database. Federal
- 28:03Speaker 5: courts have split on whether these geofence warrants are constitutional,
- 28:08Speaker 5: but now New Jersey State Court has ruled that police
- 28:11Speaker 5: use of geofence warrants does not violate constitutional privacy protections
- 28:18Speaker 5: and is not an impermissible general warrant. Joining me is
- 28:22Speaker 5: Alex Ebert, Bloomberg Law correspondent, So, Alex tell us what
- 28:26Speaker 5: a geofence warrant is.
- 28:29Speaker 3: A geofence warrant is a broad warrant that allows police
- 28:33Speaker 3: to find out who may have been in a certain
- 28:37Speaker 3: location at a given time. So imagine you're the police
- 28:41Speaker 3: and you're looking for people, let's say at the Capitol
- 28:45Speaker 3: riot on January sixth, and you want to find out, hey,
- 28:49Speaker 3: whose cell phones might have been present around the Capitol
- 28:53Speaker 3: when things started going down. Or let's say there was
- 28:55Speaker 3: another event where we have a ride after there's a
- 28:58Speaker 3: police shooting. Aesthetically, police officers could find out who was
- 29:02Speaker 3: in the vicinity of building when it got broken into.
- 29:06Speaker 3: That's the sort of information that police officers can.
- 29:09Speaker 2: Be looking for.
- 29:10Speaker 5: So what is the question when using a geofence warrant?
- 29:14Speaker 5: Is it privacy concerns? What are the constitutional concerns?
- 29:19Speaker 7: That's right?
- 29:19Speaker 3: So this all boils down to privacy, and there's two
- 29:22Speaker 3: sort of big questions that courts are grappling with. One
- 29:26Speaker 3: is this a general warrant that would violate the Fourth
- 29:29Speaker 3: Amendment protections we have against the police invading our privacy?
- 29:34Speaker 3: And two would this be considered the stuff that we
- 29:38Speaker 3: don't really have an entitlement to protect because it's held
- 29:41Speaker 3: by third parties. This is an issue that courts have
- 29:44Speaker 3: grappled with for decades and it gets only more complex
- 29:48Speaker 3: as more of our data is being given to third
- 29:51Speaker 3: party tell us what.
- 29:52Speaker 5: Happened in this case? What you know the facts of
- 29:54Speaker 5: the case.
- 29:55Speaker 3: Sure, So, this case involves a Milltown robbery. What happens
- 30:00Speaker 3: is someone came into a convenience store gas station late
- 30:04Speaker 3: at night and the clerk who got assaulted hurt someone
- 30:08Speaker 3: talking on the phone. That was really all the police
- 30:11Speaker 3: had to go off of in this case. And so
- 30:14Speaker 3: because they knew there was a phone conversation going on,
- 30:18Speaker 3: they went to Google and said, Hey, was there anyone
- 30:21Speaker 3: in this particular area. Usually it's a couple of blocks
- 30:25Speaker 3: that was making a phone call or accessing their phone
- 30:28Speaker 3: at this given time period. They went to Google and
- 30:31Speaker 3: Google found only one identifiable person that was there, and
- 30:36Speaker 3: from there the police officers were able to request from
- 30:39Speaker 3: Google demand that they provide the identification of that Google.
- 30:45Speaker 5: User and so explain what the court found here.
- 30:49Speaker 3: Sure So, the New Jersey Court of Appeals was extremely divided,
- 30:53Speaker 3: as other courts have been in recent times on this issue.
- 30:57Speaker 3: The majority found that this is okay, that there's a
- 31:02Speaker 3: process through which the police here are requesting information from Google,
- 31:06Speaker 3: and they're narrowing it down based on the location and
- 31:10Speaker 3: the time period that they're seeking pings on people's cell phones,
- 31:14Speaker 3: and from there it's fine, it's articulable suspicion. We've got
- 31:19Speaker 3: the probable cause necessary to get this information in a warrant.
- 31:24Speaker 3: But the descent here is.
- 31:25Speaker 7: Saying, no way.
- 31:27Speaker 3: What we're asking for here is to hoover up all
- 31:30Speaker 3: this information and you're able to tap into whomever might
- 31:34Speaker 3: be in this location at a given time, whether or
- 31:37Speaker 3: not they might be related to this crime or not.
- 31:40Speaker 5: This New Jersey case is a case in state court,
- 31:44Speaker 5: but the federal courts are split on this. The Fourth Circuit,
- 31:48Speaker 5: sitting on Bank couldn't produce a majority opinion explaining why
- 31:54Speaker 5: they allowed the geofence warrant, so it issued eight separate
- 31:59Speaker 5: concut ccurrences.
- 32:01Speaker 3: It is such a messchoon. So we have that court
- 32:05Speaker 3: going that direction, and then we have the Fifth Circuit,
- 32:08Speaker 3: what we would consider to be extremely conservative, going to
- 32:11Speaker 3: complete other routes. So we have this circuit split, where
- 32:15Speaker 3: we have a court that says this isn't a search
- 32:18Speaker 3: at all, This is information held by third parties. The
- 32:21Speaker 3: defendants aren't entitled to protection over right. Then we've got
- 32:24Speaker 3: the Fifth Circuit saying this isn't just a search, this
- 32:27Speaker 3: is an unconstitutional general warrant. You know, this is the
- 32:31Speaker 3: thing that you know, we created the Fourth Amendment to stop.
- 32:34Speaker 3: We don't want the British officers coming in and ransacking
- 32:38Speaker 3: our houses just generally looking for stuff. And that's what
- 32:41Speaker 3: you're trying to do here with these general warrants of
- 32:44Speaker 3: disinformation to Google users and just pulling it back. We're
- 32:48Speaker 3: talking about hundreds of millions of devices in the United States.
- 32:52Speaker 3: You know, hundreds of millions of people have access to
- 32:55Speaker 3: just Google's accounts. And so if you're looking at the
- 32:59Speaker 3: split here, the difference between can we get at that
- 33:02Speaker 3: private information that's held by these service providers, by these
- 33:07Speaker 3: apps or is that just too much data? Do we
- 33:11Speaker 3: have an updated sense of privacy that is being invaded here?
- 33:16Speaker 5: Do you have any idea how many of these GEO
- 33:19Speaker 5: warrants are issued in a year.
- 33:22Speaker 3: I haven't been able to find information how many it is. However,
- 33:25Speaker 3: when I've spoken with attorneys off the record, they've told
- 33:27Speaker 3: me that it's increasing again and again and again because
- 33:31Speaker 3: it's becoming more valuable information. We also have other courts
- 33:36Speaker 3: considering this issue right now. Just last month, the Texas
- 33:40Speaker 3: Criminal Court of Appeals, which is their highest level of
- 33:43Speaker 3: criminal courts they allowed the geofense warrants, and the Minnesota
- 33:48Speaker 3: Supreme Court is considering right now a case on the
- 33:51Speaker 3: constitutionality of geofense warrants. So this is bubbling up across
- 33:55Speaker 3: the country.
- 33:56Speaker 5: Could this be appealed to the New Jersey Supreme Court?
- 34:00Speaker 3: Indeed, so, because this is a divided decision in the
- 34:05Speaker 3: Court of Appeals, the New Jersey Supreme Court will automatically
- 34:08Speaker 3: grant review if the loser wants it. That is a
- 34:12Speaker 3: certainty here. This is going to be a huge case
- 34:16Speaker 3: and you're going to see, you know, amachist briefs from
- 34:19Speaker 3: all over the country pour in on this thing because
- 34:21Speaker 3: there's so few of these decisions that are either bubbling
- 34:24Speaker 3: up or at that highest core level. And in particular,
- 34:28Speaker 3: New Jersey is extremely strong in Fourth Amendment terms, and
- 34:32Speaker 3: it has interpreted both the national the federal Fourth Amendment
- 34:37Speaker 3: and its own privacy protections broadly for criminal defendants.
- 34:41Speaker 5: Google is implementing changes to encryption. Explain what they're trying
- 34:45Speaker 5: to do, that's right.
- 34:47Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's been over a year now since Google
- 34:49Speaker 3: has announced that it's going to be implementing changes to
- 34:52Speaker 3: encryption that would prevent somewhat you know, some of these
- 34:56Speaker 3: broader geofense warrants we're talking about. Instead of Google storing
- 35:02Speaker 3: this information, it will be stored on a local device,
- 35:05Speaker 3: or it will be you know, encrypted in such a
- 35:08Speaker 3: way that giving Google can't read it and so it
- 35:10Speaker 3: can't turn over account information to police officers. But that's
- 35:15Speaker 3: not necessarily going to stop, either for Google or for
- 35:19Speaker 3: other apps. If you think about it, there's other warrants
- 35:23Speaker 3: that you know, could function well beyond this. Right, So
- 35:26Speaker 3: if you're taking an uber somewhere, why can't the police say, hey, Uber,
- 35:30Speaker 3: give me all of the rides that you know came
- 35:32Speaker 3: into this block, right, or this series of blocks within
- 35:37Speaker 3: the you know, three hours the night of April twenty fifth,
- 35:40Speaker 3: or Facebook or Apple, you know, were there any location
- 35:43Speaker 3: tags or people that bought things, you know, using Apple
- 35:47Speaker 3: pay or whatever within certain radius around here. It's not
- 35:51Speaker 3: just Google that you know, defendants might have to worry about.
- 35:54Speaker 3: And beyond that, you could even think of ways where
- 35:57Speaker 3: you can get at this sort of information without really
- 36:00Speaker 3: looking at you know, pinging from someone's location through geolocation.
- 36:05Speaker 3: What if you could go to Google and say, hey,
- 36:08Speaker 3: give me anyone that's searched for you know, the victim's
- 36:12Speaker 3: house or areas around there in a certain time period.
- 36:16Speaker 3: So you can think of creative ways where the police
- 36:19Speaker 3: could really use an expansive access to these geofence warrants
- 36:24Speaker 3: to look for information, you know, even outside of what
- 36:26Speaker 3: Google is trying to prohibit.
- 36:28Speaker 5: Has the Supreme Court taken up any case that's similar
- 36:32Speaker 5: to these geo warrants?
- 36:34Speaker 3: Not exactly on point tune. So over the course of
- 36:37Speaker 3: my lifetime, the Supreme Court has gone from a more
- 36:40Speaker 3: favorable access to third party data to a less favorable
- 36:44Speaker 3: access to third party data framework and stamp. In twenty eighteen,
- 36:49Speaker 3: we had a Carpenter case, which is about the pinging
- 36:53Speaker 3: of cell phone towers right, and there the Supreme Court
- 36:57Speaker 3: made sort of a great ruling for or defendants that hey,
- 37:01Speaker 3: police have to get a warrant to get access to this.
- 37:04Speaker 3: You can't just hoover in this information. But there's nothing
- 37:07Speaker 3: that's on this level that involves this kind of technology
- 37:12Speaker 3: and this kind of warrant.
- 37:15Speaker 5: And how's the privacy bar taking this case?
- 37:18Speaker 3: Privacy rights attorneys are really up in arms about this
- 37:21Speaker 3: because of the huge implications here, and you know, for
- 37:24Speaker 3: the creative ways that it could be used. You know,
- 37:27Speaker 3: oftentimes these sort of maneuvers aren't really discovered until, you know,
- 37:31Speaker 3: months or years after. You know, police are looking for
- 37:34Speaker 3: this information. But at the same time, police officers say, hey,
- 37:38Speaker 3: we didn't have anything on this guy, you know that
- 37:42Speaker 3: committed this robbery. You know, there's no CCTV, there's nothing
- 37:45Speaker 3: really that would have given us this lead. And so
- 37:49Speaker 3: on one hand, you have this extremely powerful tool for
- 37:53Speaker 3: police officers, and then the other you have this really scary,
- 37:57Speaker 3: sort of invasive ability to look into what we're doing
- 38:01Speaker 3: on our phone.
- 38:02Speaker 5: I'm sure we're going to hear more about these Warrens.
- 38:04Speaker 5: Thanks so much, Alex. That's Bloomberg Law correspondent Alex Ebert
- 38:08Speaker 5: and that's it for this edition of The Bloomberg Law Show.
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