Michael Kagan
@michaelgkagan
Law prof in Las Vegas | Bagel expert, with a sub-specialty in pickles | UNLV Immigration Clinic Director | Private chef to my kids | Mets fan | Speaking for myself only
I guess any day without the government demanding lists of Jews and threats to journalists is a day that could be worse?
88 percent of ICE detainees nationally are men. In Nevada, it's 97 percent. open.substack.com/pub/behindth...
One of the favorite local/state measures to restrain ICE - mask bans - has always had obvious legal challenges. They still may be politically useful to raise the salience of “masked agents” issue. But at a minimum backers of these measures need to realize the legal difficulties with them.
When excluding and deporting pregnant women is the comparatively moderate position
When the Supreme Court rules on birthright citizenship tomorrow, do not cheer. It’s an easy legal question. The only thing newsworthy is that so many have so much reason to worry that the highest judges in the United States cannot be trusted with such an easy case.
White nationalists and DHS got into a tussle today because Markwayne Mullin tried - inaccurately- to soften the edges of the cruelty of his own policy toward Haitians.
And some of us are waking up with a sense of hope that we are regaining and redeeming a noble tradition of Jewish pursuit of justice
Great example here of how DHS/ICE is creating a fog around who exactly it is “targeting,” as I wrote about in today’s post. open.substack.com/pub/behindth...
Some big picture notes on where things stand open.substack.com/pub/behindth...
The Board of Immigration Appeals is many things. But one thing it is not is a court. If by court we mean an independent body that applies the law independently and impartially. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/n...
And here is why knowing the difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is so essential.
These anti-Semitic yard signs apparently went up in Ann Arbor, Mich. It is so incredibly urgent for every sensible person to be clear: Opposing Zionism is reasonable; equating Zionism with Judaism, Jewishness or all Jews is not. Jewish ≠ Zionist.