Ian Millhiser

You know, one of the most pointed responses we saw was from the judge who opposed the Fifth Circuit's view.

She was the minority judge on this three-judge panel that ruled.

Her name is Dana Douglas.

She said in a sort of memorable line, she said, straining at a gnat, the majority swallows a camel.

And what I think she's saying there is by sort of parsing this sort of minutiae, this sort of confusing verbiage to sort of justify the administration's view of mass detention, they've opened up this sort of Pandora's box that's going to lead to untold consequences for the country and for a lot of people that maybe they didn't intend to unleash.

All right.

So this was a ruling by the Fifth Circuit, which means it does not apply to the whole country.

Right.

The Fifth Circuit covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

The important caveat to that, though, is enormous number of these cases are coming out in Texas because even when people are arrested in Minnesota, ISIS flying them sometimes very quickly to Texas, you know, where they have a lot of detention facilities and also they have a more favorable situation.

judiciary.

And so that's somewhat by design.

And so there are a number of places, and some judges have already said, we reject the Fifth Circuit's ruling, you know, where we are, because we're not bound by the Fifth Circuit's decision.

And so that will affect a lot of cases, but a huge number of them do come through Texas.

At a certain point, does this become a national law?

I guess it would have to hit the Supreme Court, right?

Right.

And I do expect that it will land there.

I mean, number one, you know, not just the Fifth Circuit.

I mean, this again, these cases have been playing out everywhere, thousands of them.