1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. 2 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 2: This is Bloomberg Law. 3 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 3: Congress can have no saying making an office independent. I 4 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 3: think all agencies need a degree of autonomy. 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 4: It really tests whether the amendments to the law. 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 2: Have Keith interviews with prominent attorneys and Bloomberg legal experts. 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 5: Joining me is Constitutional law professor David Super, Bloomberg News, 8 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 5: Supreme Court reporter Greg Store. 9 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 2: And analysis of important legal issues, cases and headlines. 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 6: Apples of Waltgarden. 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 4: They don't license their technology. 12 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,840 Speaker 3: That is a valid basis to dismiss the case. 13 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: Bloomberg Law with June Grosso from Bloomberg Radio. 14 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 5: Welcome to the Bloomberg Law Show. I'm June Grosso. Ahead 15 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 5: in this hour, the Supreme Court allows Trump to fire 16 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 5: independent agency officials and immigration law roundup from challenges to 17 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 5: ice agents, waiting and Immigration court hallways and do geofence 18 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 5: warrants violate your right to privacy A ninety year old 19 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 5: legal precedent setting up independent agencies isn't dead yet, but 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 5: after the Supreme Court's emergency order allowing President Trump to 21 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 5: fire members of two independent agencies, the effect may be 22 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 5: the same The Court's nineteen thirty five ruling in Humphrey's 23 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 5: executor said that Congress in some instances can set up 24 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 5: agencies that are independent from the executive branch and whose 25 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 5: members can only be fired for cause. But in recent 26 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 5: years the Supreme Court has significantly cut back on Humphreys. 27 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,559 Speaker 5: Over the dessense of three liberal justices, the Court allowed 28 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 5: Trump to fire National Labor Relations Board member Gwynn Wilcox 29 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 5: and Merits Systems Protection Board member Kathy Harris without cause 30 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 5: as their legal challenges play out. My guest Isauren McFerrin, 31 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 5: senior fellow at the Century Foundation and former chairman of 32 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 5: the NLRB in the Biden administration. 33 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 4: So what the Supreme Court did was stay and order 34 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,920 Speaker 4: of the District Court which had ordered the reinstatement of 35 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 4: Gwynn Wilcox and Kathy Harris. And the removal of Gwynn 36 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 4: and Kathy from office was clearly contrary to statute. The 37 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 4: President is prohibited by both the National Labor Relations Act 38 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 4: and the law governing the Merit Systems Protection Board from 39 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 4: removing people from office except for cause, and no qualifying 40 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 4: cause was given to either of these officials, so the 41 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 4: action was clearly contrary to law, and so the President 42 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 4: kind of took the law into his own hands here 43 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 4: and basically said, I don't care what Congress wanted, and 44 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 4: I don't have to follow Supreme Court precedent, and he 45 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 4: removed them from office anyway. The Supreme Court then stepped 46 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 4: in and on what's called the shadow dockets, which is 47 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 4: supposed to be for emergency relief and emergency orders, indicated 48 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 4: that the President is right to do that, but it 49 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 4: is okay for him to ignore Congress and to ignore 50 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,119 Speaker 4: Supreme Court precedent, and kind of went to extraordinary length 51 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 4: to keep that result in place because they basically think 52 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 4: the President took a good gamble about their plans to 53 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:15,919 Speaker 4: revisit precedents. So it was very unusual from a court 54 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 4: process perspective, the so called shadow dock that is supposed 55 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 4: to be used for, like I said, emergencies, it's typically 56 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 4: also used to preserve the doctrinal status quo, not to 57 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 4: overrule it. You're certainly not supposed to use the shadow 58 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 4: docket to effectively change precedent without the benefit of full 59 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 4: briefing and careful consideration, which is what the descent pointed out. 60 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 4: So it was a procedurally very odd thing to do. 61 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 4: But it certainly sent a very strong signal about where 62 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 4: the Supreme Court is headed in terms of whether it 63 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 4: plans to overrule Humphrey's Executor, which is the decision that 64 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 4: had originally upheld Congress's ability to create positions like this 65 00:03:57,640 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 4: that can only be removed from office by the pre 66 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 4: resident for cause. 67 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 5: So, according to the dissenting justices, the effect of this 68 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 5: is essentially to overturn Humphrey's Executor. 69 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 4: I think that will be the practical read that a 70 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 4: lot of people take away from it. 71 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 7: Now. 72 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 4: The Majority did ultimately hedge on that question. The Majority 73 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 4: said that they're not ultimately deciding whether these two agencies 74 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 4: fall within the recognized exceptions of Humphrey's Executor. That does 75 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 4: suggest that there still will be some recognized exception, but 76 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 4: they signaled pretty clearly that they didn't think either the 77 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 4: National Labor Relations Board of the Merit Sista's Protection Board 78 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 4: would fall within that exception. 79 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 5: Tell us about Humphrey's Executor, it's sort of been on 80 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 5: the way out, or people have been calling for its 81 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 5: demise for a long time. 82 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 4: I mean, Humphrey's Executive. There's no question that it is 83 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 4: still good law. The case that everyone cites for the 84 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 4: proposition that Humphrey's executor is on the way out the 85 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 4: door is a case called steal a law and see 86 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 4: a law. Was very careful to say that Humphreys still 87 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 4: is good law and that they were not revisiting Humphreys. 88 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 4: But what they did was that they certainly said they 89 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 4: were not expanding Humphrey's executor, who encompassed independent agencies that 90 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 4: aren't like the Federal Trade Commission that was the original 91 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 4: subject of Humphrey's itself. So they were unwilling to expand 92 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 4: the reach of Humprey's executor. This exception that allows Congress 93 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 4: to create entities whose leaders can't be removed except for cause. 94 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 4: They were going to expand that exception to a single 95 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 4: headed agency like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But it 96 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 4: is very clear that Humphreys, at this point in time, 97 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 4: or at least until this order issued, that Humphreys itself, 98 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 4: the exception it creates for quasi judicial and quasi legislative 99 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 4: agencies that are structured like a multi member body like 100 00:05:57,560 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 4: the National Labor Relations Board of the Merit Systems protect 101 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 4: Board still exists, and that exception is still valid. 102 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 5: The Supreme Court in recent years has cut back on humphries. 103 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 5: I mean, it's still standing, but is it in sort 104 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 5: of chatters. 105 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 4: I think it's safe to say that the Court has 106 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 4: constrained its reach and has at times, you know, one 107 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 4: or two justices in a separate opinion or indicta in 108 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 4: a majority opinion, have called into question its continuing viability. Basically, 109 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 4: this notion that there can be an entity, even if 110 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 4: it is structured like a multi member body, even if 111 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 4: it is a body of experts that's supposed to make 112 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 4: expert decisions, that there could be an entity like this 113 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 4: that would not be sufficiently executive in the nature of 114 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 4: the powers that it is exercising, such that its leaders 115 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 4: should not be removable by the president. I mean, that's 116 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 4: the core issue here for proponents of the unitary execut 117 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 4: it theory on the Court is that any entity that 118 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 4: is exercising any level of executive power should be removable 119 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 4: from office by the president. And the Court has certainly 120 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 4: set signals in recent years that it thinks the scope 121 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 4: of the universe of agencies that might actually not exercise 122 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 4: any executive power is minimal or not existent. 123 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 5: The justices took pains to point out that this doesn't 124 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 5: affect the FED. The FED is different. 125 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 4: Yes, that was a really strange little red flag in 126 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 4: this decision. It kind of comes out of nowhere. In 127 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 4: the decision. They might as well have basically said, oh, 128 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 4: by the way, President Trump, please don't take this order 129 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 4: as a green light that you can fire the chair 130 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 4: of the FED. And they carved out the FED in 131 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 4: like two sentences when it wasn't an issue in the case. 132 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 4: And they carved out the said by making what is 133 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 4: basically a factual observation about the set, which is that 134 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,239 Speaker 4: it is uniquely structured and it has a just historical tradition. 135 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 4: That is actually true of many independent agencies right now, 136 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 4: my own agency that I used to work for, the 137 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 4: National Labor Relations for That is certainly true. It is 138 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 4: uniquely structured, and it has a distinct historical tradition. But 139 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 4: that doesn't speak to the reasons why the FED is independent, 140 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 4: which are fundamentally similar to the reasons that other independent 141 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 4: agencies are independent. The reason that Congress chose to create 142 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 4: independent agencies is because it wanted to have entities, even 143 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 4: entities within the executive branch, that made decisions based on expertise, 144 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 4: and that made decisions, and we're capable of making decisions 145 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 4: that might be in the short run politically unpopular, but 146 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 4: in the long run in the best interests of the country. 147 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 4: And it's very easy to see, of course, how that 148 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 4: plays out in the context of the set, and particularly 149 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 4: when the SET is wearing its monetary policy hat, it's 150 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 4: very easy to see why it's going to have to 151 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 4: make this visions that are short term politically unpopular but 152 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 4: long term beneficial to the country. But the FED is 153 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 4: not unique in that regard. And one agency that leads 154 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 4: to my mind, for example, is the Consumer Product Safety Commission. 155 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 4: Sometimes it is very politically unpopular to find a product 156 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 4: to be unsafe, to pull a product off the market, 157 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 4: but it might well be in the long term public interest. 158 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 4: So there's not something that makes the FED distinguishable in 159 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 4: a principled manner from other independent agencies when it comes 160 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:30,679 Speaker 4: to the reason for its independence. 161 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 5: Let's say the Supreme Court does get rid of Humphrey's executor. 162 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 5: What might the repercussions be, Well, it would depend on 163 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 5: how the Supreme Court did it. 164 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:41,959 Speaker 4: There's lots of people who predict about these things, and 165 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 4: there's a group of predictors who say that they will 166 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 4: basically get rid of Humphrey's Executor but carve out the set, 167 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 4: or at least the set in its monetary policy role. 168 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 4: I think there's an argument to be made that they 169 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,319 Speaker 4: could also kind of split the baby in different ways. 170 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 4: I think one of the most difficult challenges that we 171 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 4: will have in a post Umphrey's Executor world if Humphrey's 172 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 4: Executor is swept off the book, is what to do 173 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 4: with agencies that are primarily adjudicative. You know that do 174 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 4: business as courts basically, and it's very hard to imagine 175 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 4: how an agency that's supposed to function as a court 176 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 4: will function when it's adjudicators can be fired for the 177 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 4: outcome of individual decisions. So I think there's potentially a 178 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 4: chance that the court could also look at the various 179 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 4: functions that agencies are performing and say these are executives 180 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 4: and these are not executives. And this order, being a 181 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 4: preliminary order, doesn't delve into that at all. But you 182 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 4: could have a course that says, well, if an agency 183 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 4: is making rules, it is by nature executive because rulemaking 184 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 4: is an executive function. But leave open the question, for example, 185 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 4: of whether if an agency was truly just a court system, 186 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 4: you know, like tax courts or something like that, whether 187 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 4: that potentially could be treated differently. So I think it's 188 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 4: a question of whether the court will just wipe Humpter's 189 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 4: executor off the books altogether with some possible car about 190 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 4: for the fact and monetary policy, or if it will 191 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 4: kind of pick and choose which agency functions. It seems 192 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:10,679 Speaker 4: to be so executive in nature that the president must 193 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 4: be able to control them. 194 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 5: And as far as your old agency, the NLRB, what 195 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 5: effect would it have if the president is able to 196 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 5: fire board members without cause. 197 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 4: I think it's really hard to overstate how different that 198 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,559 Speaker 4: would be from the way that the agency operates now. 199 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 4: The NMRB and many other adjudicative agencies. Like I said, 200 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 4: the nb does business primarily by deciding cases like a court, 201 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 4: and we as judges never had to worry about whether 202 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 4: our decisions were going to be politically popular or politically unpopular, 203 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 4: or whether we were deciding a case in favor of 204 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:52,439 Speaker 4: somebody that the president was friendly with or someone that 205 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 4: the president was not friendly with. I think you can 206 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,839 Speaker 4: see this playing out totally differently in a world where 207 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 4: board members I need these the judges could be fired 208 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 4: for the outcome of a particular case. You can very 209 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 4: much have a system where entities that are closely allied 210 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 4: with the president, certain very powerful companies, etc. Were effectively 211 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 4: exempt from the law because adjudicators would fear for their 212 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 4: jobs if they found against them. Conversely, if the shoes 213 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 4: on the other foot, and you have a president in 214 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 4: office who's extremely pro union and very closely allied with 215 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 4: many labor organizations, there are provisions of the National Labor 216 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 4: Relations Acts that are enforceable against unions, and you could 217 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 4: see that type of enforcement basically fall by the wayside 218 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 4: if you have a president that super union friendly. So 219 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:41,439 Speaker 4: it will go from being an adjudicator that jealously guards 220 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 4: the integrity of its adjudicative process to being a fundamentally 221 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 4: different and political entity where judges are making decisions at 222 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 4: the peril of their job based on their predictions about 223 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 4: whether they'll face backslash for them or not. 224 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 5: Thanks for joining me, Lauren. That's Lauren McPherrin, senior fellow 225 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 5: at the Entry Foundation. Coming up, we'll look at the 226 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 5: latest immigration disputes. 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This is Bloomberg Law with June Grosso 241 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 6: from Bloomberg Radio. 242 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 5: The Trump administration is once again appealing to the Supreme 243 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 5: Court as it tests the boundaries of the government's power 244 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 5: to deport migrants. The Department of Homeland Security is asking 245 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,080 Speaker 5: the court to block a judge's order that requires the 246 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 5: government to give people ten days notice and an opportunity 247 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:07,839 Speaker 5: to object before they're deported to places other than their 248 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 5: home countries. Joining me is immigration law expert Leon Fresco, 249 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 5: a partner at Holland and Knight and a former head 250 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 5: of the Office of Immigration Litigation in the Obama administration. Leon, 251 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 5: a Massachusetts federal judge, ordered the government last month to 252 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 5: give people ten days notice and an opportunity to object 253 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 5: before they are sent to a country which is not 254 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 5: their home country. And he said last week that the 255 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 5: administration violated his earlier decisions. 256 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 7: Well, what happened was, this is a case where there 257 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 7: are a number of foreign nationals who did commit sometimes 258 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 7: very heinous crimes, and they're from Laos, Vietnam and some 259 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 7: other places that don't really accept people that the US 260 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 7: is trying to deport bax of those countries, and so 261 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 7: the US tried to arrange a scenario whereby it could 262 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 7: deport those people to South Sudan as part of a 263 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 7: diplomatic arrangement it was having with South Sudan to free 264 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 7: up some issues because earlier in the year, South Sudanese 265 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 7: people couldn't get visas to travel to the United States, 266 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 7: and so this was part of a global arrangement where 267 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 7: that would be fixed, and that also South Sudan would 268 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 7: agree to accept people that the United States was trying 269 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 7: to deport to other countries, not South Sudan. The people 270 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 7: who were going to be deported to South Sudan heard 271 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 7: about this and said, well, wait a second, I can't 272 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 7: be deported to South Sudan. I'm not from there. That's 273 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 7: very dangerous. It's a country in the middle of a 274 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 7: civil war, and so they tried to file convention against 275 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 7: torture claims. There was actually this case filed in the 276 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 7: District of Massachusetts, which was a habeas claim saying I 277 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 7: can't be deported without being given the opportunity to have 278 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 7: an adjudication as to whether the conditions in South Sudan 279 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 7: are tent amount to torturing me, because if you just 280 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 7: drop me off there, what am I supposed to do? 281 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 7: I'm going to start to that because you know, it's 282 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 7: not a place where you could just go and get 283 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 7: a job and start working. And so that was the claim, 284 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 7: and at that time the district court, at the US government, 285 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 7: we're arguing about, well, how do you do these claims? 286 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 7: Can you do them where these people were, which is 287 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 7: at the moment they're being detained in Djibouti, a different 288 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 7: African country where it's just sort of a military operation 289 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 7: and there's not really this ability to long term have 290 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 7: these folks there. There was this debate about where do 291 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 7: these convention against torture claims get decided or do you 292 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 7: have to bring the people back to the United States. 293 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 7: The federal government didn't want to bring back the people 294 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 7: to the United States. It asked that they'd be allowed 295 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 7: to make these adjudications in Djibouti. The judge said, okay, fine, 296 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 7: I will let you do that. And then after that 297 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 7: the government said, no, wait a second, this is way 298 00:16:56,280 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 7: too complicated. We actually can't do it in Djibouti. And 299 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 7: so now the government has gone to the Supreme Court 300 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 7: and said, just let us do these deportations. The judge 301 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 7: shouldn't be allowed to prevent us from doing this. 302 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 5: The Supreme Court has said that the government has to 303 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,159 Speaker 5: give people a reasonable amount of time in order to 304 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 5: challenge their deportations, but it hasn't spelled out exactly what 305 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 5: that means, how much time even. But is this situation 306 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 5: different from the cases that the Supreme Court has dealt 307 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 5: with because these migrants have already been through the immigration 308 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 5: system and there are orders of deportation against them. 309 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:41,400 Speaker 7: Correct. The problem is here, these individuals have an order 310 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 7: of deportation that can be executed at any point to 311 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 7: their home country, whether it's Allows or Vietnam or whatever, 312 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 7: and it can also be executed to any other country. 313 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 7: So long as in any of those other countries, there's 314 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 7: not a likelihood that these individuals will be tortured. The 315 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 7: question is, well, can these individuals make that claim, where 316 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 7: can they make that claim, When can they make that claim, 317 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 7: how long do they have to make that claim, and 318 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 7: does the district court have the ability to interrupt that 319 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 7: when a person has already been moved outside of the 320 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 7: United States. And I think that's what the debate is 321 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 7: going to be, because I think where the federal government 322 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 7: is concerned is what are we supposed to do now 323 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 7: that these individuals are in Africa? How do we deal 324 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,359 Speaker 7: with this? Are we going to be forced to bring 325 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 7: them back to the United States or will we be 326 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 7: forced to actually adjudicate these cases inside of Djibouti, which 327 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 7: is where the people are now, or can we finalize 328 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 7: our intentions to deport them to South Sudan? And will 329 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 7: there just be prophylactic language in the future about what 330 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,439 Speaker 7: is required in the future if they're going to do 331 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 7: one of these third country deportations. But really we're in 332 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:59,679 Speaker 7: uncharted territory here, and the Supreme Court is going to 333 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:02,959 Speaker 7: have to set some standards and some guidelines because if 334 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 7: the federal government really is focused on these third country deportations, 335 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 7: then they're going to need to be done in a 336 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 7: manner that everybody's comfortable with. And the complication with South 337 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,959 Speaker 7: Sudan is just imagine any of us. I mean, if 338 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 7: any of us get dropped off in South Sudan, what 339 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 7: do we do next? If there's no food, there's no job. 340 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 7: You know, if you end up being deported to a 341 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 7: place where you know that the solution is just the starvation, 342 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 7: does that end up violating the Convention against torture? 343 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 5: So how do you think the Supreme Court will approach this? 344 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 5: Given how it's handled the other deportation cases. 345 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 7: The Supreme Court is going to have to decide where 346 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 7: can these individuals make these claims? Are they allowed to 347 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 7: make these claims at all? What district court jurisdiction exists here? 348 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 7: And I don't necessarily think that the Supreme Court, given 349 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 7: what we've seen so far, is going to be too 350 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,640 Speaker 7: friendly toward this concept of not being able to give 351 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 7: people opportunity to make a claim that a deportation Assab 352 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 7: Sudan is tent amount to torturing. 353 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:11,439 Speaker 5: That okay, So turning two other cases, ICE appears to 354 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:15,160 Speaker 5: be employing a new strategy that it used in arresting 355 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 5: a high school student in New York City. Government attorneys 356 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 5: are asking judges to dismiss cases against migrants who are 357 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 5: there for scheduled hearings and then waiting ICE agents arrest 358 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 5: the migrants and put them in expedited removal proceedings. That's 359 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 5: what reportedly happened to a New York City high school 360 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 5: student from Venezuela Leon. So, this Venezuelan high school student 361 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:45,159 Speaker 5: was in immigration court for a regularly scheduled hearing, and 362 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 5: after the case against him was dismissed, ICE agents arrested him. 363 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 5: His lawyer says he's here legally seeking asylum, but the 364 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 5: Trump administration says he's here illegally. And apparently this is 365 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 5: not an isolated scenario happening. 366 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 7: Is this? So the Biden administration had this program called 367 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 7: the CBP one app parole program, which what it said 368 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 7: was don't just cross the border illegally. That's creating a 369 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 7: lot of chaos on the southern border. We can't have 370 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 7: it go to a port of entry. Get an appointment 371 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 7: to go to a port of entry under the CBP 372 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 7: one app and then if we think that you're a 373 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 7: legitimate asylum seeker, will parole you into the country legally, 374 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 7: so you have a legal status while you're here trying 375 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 7: to get asylum, and you'll go through the asylum case. 376 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:41,680 Speaker 7: So what's happening now is that the Trump administration is saying, 377 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,640 Speaker 7: for all those people who have been led in legally 378 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 7: to do an asylum case and immigration court, we are 379 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 7: going to cancel your legal admission. We're going to close 380 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 7: that case, and we're going to pretend like none of 381 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 7: that had happened, and we're going to put you in 382 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 7: expedited removal, which says that if you are here for 383 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,640 Speaker 7: less than two years and you never had a legal 384 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:13,359 Speaker 7: basis for coming, you can be removed on an expedited basis. 385 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,919 Speaker 7: But what that requires is for the person to be 386 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,360 Speaker 7: arrested and then they have to have a new adjudication 387 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 7: as to whether they have a credible asylum case, and 388 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 7: if they don't, they can immediately be removed. But if 389 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 7: they do, then they're basically back in square one, which 390 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 7: is the same immigration court hearing that they were arrested 391 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 7: at minutes ago. So this BRONXE student was exactly this 392 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 7: situation where they were let in legally under the CBP 393 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:46,879 Speaker 7: one parole app but now they're arrested, placed in expedited 394 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 7: removal proceedings, and. 395 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 5: This type of scenario is being played out in immigration 396 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 5: courts across the country. 397 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 7: So there's basically three goals of this. Number one is 398 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 7: maybe twenty percent of the people that they're going to 399 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 7: do this too won't actually be able to show that 400 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 7: they have a credible asylum claim, and so with that 401 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,920 Speaker 7: group they can just remove them outside of the United States, 402 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 7: and so that increases the removal numbers. So that's goal 403 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 7: number one. Goal Number two is to the extent people 404 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,919 Speaker 7: are now scared to go to immigration court. When you 405 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,640 Speaker 7: don't show up the immigration court, you get what's called 406 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 7: an in absentia removal order, which is you basically lose 407 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 7: by default. You get ordered deported and that's the end 408 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 7: of it. And as long as the government can show 409 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 7: that you had notice of the hearing, then that did 410 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 7: you know, unless there was some earthquake or some bridge 411 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 7: collapse or something and that prevented you from going to 412 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 7: the hearing that day, you're pretty much in a bad 413 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 7: position there. But the government, then if they get these 414 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 7: in absentia removal orders, can also try to execute those 415 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 7: and that also is easier than trying to win a 416 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 7: removal order in a hearing. Well, that's the second reason 417 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 7: to do this is people stop going to court, they 418 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,679 Speaker 7: get in upset to removal orders, you can deport them 419 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,639 Speaker 7: more easily. And then the third is people will be 420 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 7: so afraid about finishing this process they'll just take matters 421 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 7: into their own hands and go home. And so that's 422 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 7: really the purpose of this is to create this level 423 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 7: of fear that people either don't show up to court 424 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 7: and they get ordered to port it or they go home. 425 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 7: But if they do go to court, they're going to 426 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,879 Speaker 7: get arrested. If you haven't been in this country for 427 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 7: more than two years, what will happen is you will 428 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 7: be arrested and put into these expedited removal proceedings. And 429 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,199 Speaker 7: what that will do is for some segment of the people, 430 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 7: they will be deported immediately. For a larger segment, let's 431 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 7: say seventy to seventy five percent, they will be placed 432 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 7: back into the same proceeding they were supposed to go 433 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 7: to court for that day. But after having been arrested 434 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,679 Speaker 7: and detained and having to pay out a bond and 435 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 7: so all of this is very scary and unsettling, and 436 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 7: that's part of the strategy is to impose those kinds 437 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 7: of conditions to make it as older as as possible 438 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 7: for the people here without status to remain here. 439 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 5: So then will this student definitely get a hearing. 440 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,719 Speaker 7: Well, so they will first have to show that they 441 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 7: have a credible asylum playing and of course, because the 442 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,160 Speaker 7: student is from Venezuela, probably will not be that difficult 443 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 7: because Venezuela does crack down on political dissident and this 444 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 7: person can show that they had some political oppression in 445 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 7: the past or they have some political issue, they can 446 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 7: clear that threshold and then they'll actually have an asylum hearing, 447 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 7: which was the whole purpose of why they went the 448 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 7: court in the first place. 449 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 5: Thanks so much as always, Leon. That's Leon Fresco of 450 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 5: Honden Knight. Coming up next. The courts are split on 451 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 5: geofans warrants. 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Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Radio. 478 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:32,199 Speaker 2: This is Bloomberg Law, with June Grossel from Bloomberg Radio. 479 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 5: Geofence warrants are relatively new. Google received its first in 480 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:43,959 Speaker 5: twenty sixteen, but the use of such warrants has proliferated, 481 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 5: as have court cases challenging them. Unlike a warrant authorizing 482 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 5: surveillance of a known suspect, geofencing is used to identify 483 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,199 Speaker 5: would be suspects. Google has been the primary recipient of 484 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:03,719 Speaker 5: these warrants due to its extensive location history database. Federal 485 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 5: courts have split on whether these geofence warrants are constitutional, 486 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 5: but now New Jersey State Court has ruled that police 487 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 5: use of geofence warrants does not violate constitutional privacy protections 488 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 5: and is not an impermissible general warrant. Joining me is 489 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 5: Alex Ebert, Bloomberg Law correspondent, So, Alex tell us what 490 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:28,639 Speaker 5: a geofence warrant is. 491 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 3: A geofence warrant is a broad warrant that allows police 492 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 3: to find out who may have been in a certain 493 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 3: location at a given time. So imagine you're the police 494 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 3: and you're looking for people, let's say at the Capitol 495 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,160 Speaker 3: riot on January sixth, and you want to find out, hey, 496 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 3: whose cell phones might have been present around the Capitol 497 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 3: when things started going down. Or let's say there was 498 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 3: another event where we have a ride after there's a 499 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 3: police shooting. Aesthetically, police officers could find out who was 500 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 3: in the vicinity of building when it got broken into. 501 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 3: That's the sort of information that police officers can. 502 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 2: Be looking for. 503 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 5: So what is the question when using a geofence warrant? 504 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 5: Is it privacy concerns? What are the constitutional concerns? 505 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 7: That's right? 506 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 3: So this all boils down to privacy, and there's two 507 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 3: sort of big questions that courts are grappling with. One 508 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,720 Speaker 3: is this a general warrant that would violate the Fourth 509 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 3: Amendment protections we have against the police invading our privacy? 510 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 3: And two would this be considered the stuff that we 511 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 3: don't really have an entitlement to protect because it's held 512 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 3: by third parties. This is an issue that courts have 513 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 3: grappled with for decades and it gets only more complex 514 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 3: as more of our data is being given to third 515 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 3: party tell us what. 516 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 5: Happened in this case? What you know the facts of 517 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 5: the case. 518 00:29:55,080 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 3: Sure, So, this case involves a Milltown robbery. What happens 519 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 3: is someone came into a convenience store gas station late 520 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 3: at night and the clerk who got assaulted hurt someone 521 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,959 Speaker 3: talking on the phone. That was really all the police 522 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 3: had to go off of in this case. And so 523 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,719 Speaker 3: because they knew there was a phone conversation going on, 524 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 3: they went to Google and said, Hey, was there anyone 525 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 3: in this particular area. Usually it's a couple of blocks 526 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 3: that was making a phone call or accessing their phone 527 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 3: at this given time period. They went to Google and 528 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 3: Google found only one identifiable person that was there, and 529 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 3: from there the police officers were able to request from 530 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 3: Google demand that they provide the identification of that Google. 531 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 5: User and so explain what the court found here. 532 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 3: Sure So, the New Jersey Court of Appeals was extremely divided, 533 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 3: as other courts have been in recent times on this issue. 534 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 3: The majority found that this is okay, that there's a 535 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 3: process through which the police here are requesting information from Google, 536 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 3: and they're narrowing it down based on the location and 537 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 3: the time period that they're seeking pings on people's cell phones, 538 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 3: and from there it's fine, it's articulable suspicion. We've got 539 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 3: the probable cause necessary to get this information in a warrant. 540 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 3: But the descent here is. 541 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 7: Saying, no way. 542 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 3: What we're asking for here is to hoover up all 543 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 3: this information and you're able to tap into whomever might 544 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 3: be in this location at a given time, whether or 545 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 3: not they might be related to this crime or not. 546 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 5: This New Jersey case is a case in state court, 547 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 5: but the federal courts are split on this. The Fourth Circuit, 548 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 5: sitting on Bank couldn't produce a majority opinion explaining why 549 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 5: they allowed the geofence warrant, so it issued eight separate 550 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 5: concut ccurrences. 551 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 3: It is such a messchoon. So we have that court 552 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 3: going that direction, and then we have the Fifth Circuit, 553 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 3: what we would consider to be extremely conservative, going to 554 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 3: complete other routes. So we have this circuit split, where 555 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 3: we have a court that says this isn't a search 556 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 3: at all, This is information held by third parties. The 557 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 3: defendants aren't entitled to protection over right. Then we've got 558 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 3: the Fifth Circuit saying this isn't just a search, this 559 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 3: is an unconstitutional general warrant. You know, this is the 560 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 3: thing that you know, we created the Fourth Amendment to stop. 561 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 3: We don't want the British officers coming in and ransacking 562 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 3: our houses just generally looking for stuff. And that's what 563 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 3: you're trying to do here with these general warrants of 564 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 3: disinformation to Google users and just pulling it back. We're 565 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 3: talking about hundreds of millions of devices in the United States. 566 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 3: You know, hundreds of millions of people have access to 567 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 3: just Google's accounts. And so if you're looking at the 568 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 3: split here, the difference between can we get at that 569 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 3: private information that's held by these service providers, by these 570 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 3: apps or is that just too much data? Do we 571 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 3: have an updated sense of privacy that is being invaded here? 572 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 5: Do you have any idea how many of these GEO 573 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 5: warrants are issued in a year. 574 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,000 Speaker 3: I haven't been able to find information how many it is. However, 575 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 3: when I've spoken with attorneys off the record, they've told 576 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 3: me that it's increasing again and again and again because 577 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:35,959 Speaker 3: it's becoming more valuable information. We also have other courts 578 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 3: considering this issue right now. Just last month, the Texas 579 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 3: Criminal Court of Appeals, which is their highest level of 580 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 3: criminal courts they allowed the geofense warrants, and the Minnesota 581 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,840 Speaker 3: Supreme Court is considering right now a case on the 582 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,760 Speaker 3: constitutionality of geofense warrants. So this is bubbling up across 583 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 3: the country. 584 00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:00,320 Speaker 5: Could this be appealed to the New Jersey Supreme Court? 585 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 3: Indeed, so, because this is a divided decision in the 586 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 3: Court of Appeals, the New Jersey Supreme Court will automatically 587 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,440 Speaker 3: grant review if the loser wants it. That is a 588 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,040 Speaker 3: certainty here. This is going to be a huge case 589 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 3: and you're going to see, you know, amachist briefs from 590 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,879 Speaker 3: all over the country pour in on this thing because 591 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,880 Speaker 3: there's so few of these decisions that are either bubbling 592 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,640 Speaker 3: up or at that highest core level. And in particular, 593 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,880 Speaker 3: New Jersey is extremely strong in Fourth Amendment terms, and 594 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,800 Speaker 3: it has interpreted both the national the federal Fourth Amendment 595 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,840 Speaker 3: and its own privacy protections broadly for criminal defendants. 596 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:45,759 Speaker 5: Google is implementing changes to encryption. Explain what they're trying 597 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 5: to do, that's right. 598 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's been over a year now since Google 599 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 3: has announced that it's going to be implementing changes to 600 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:56,640 Speaker 3: encryption that would prevent somewhat you know, some of these 601 00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 3: broader geofense warrants we're talking about. Instead of Google storing 602 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,280 Speaker 3: this information, it will be stored on a local device, 603 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,160 Speaker 3: or it will be you know, encrypted in such a 604 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 3: way that giving Google can't read it and so it 605 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:15,120 Speaker 3: can't turn over account information to police officers. But that's 606 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:19,279 Speaker 3: not necessarily going to stop, either for Google or for 607 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 3: other apps. If you think about it, there's other warrants 608 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 3: that you know, could function well beyond this. Right, So 609 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:30,080 Speaker 3: if you're taking an uber somewhere, why can't the police say, hey, Uber, 610 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,879 Speaker 3: give me all of the rides that you know came 611 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 3: into this block, right, or this series of blocks within 612 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,439 Speaker 3: the you know, three hours the night of April twenty fifth, 613 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 3: or Facebook or Apple, you know, were there any location 614 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,240 Speaker 3: tags or people that bought things, you know, using Apple 615 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:51,200 Speaker 3: pay or whatever within certain radius around here. It's not 616 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 3: just Google that you know, defendants might have to worry about. 617 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 3: And beyond that, you could even think of ways where 618 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,920 Speaker 3: you can get at this sort of information without really 619 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 3: looking at you know, pinging from someone's location through geolocation. 620 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,839 Speaker 3: What if you could go to Google and say, hey, 621 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:12,200 Speaker 3: give me anyone that's searched for you know, the victim's 622 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 3: house or areas around there in a certain time period. 623 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,320 Speaker 3: So you can think of creative ways where the police 624 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,600 Speaker 3: could really use an expansive access to these geofence warrants 625 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,880 Speaker 3: to look for information, you know, even outside of what 626 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,480 Speaker 3: Google is trying to prohibit. 627 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 5: Has the Supreme Court taken up any case that's similar 628 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,080 Speaker 5: to these geo warrants? 629 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 3: Not exactly on point tune. So over the course of 630 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,280 Speaker 3: my lifetime, the Supreme Court has gone from a more 631 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,800 Speaker 3: favorable access to third party data to a less favorable 632 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:49,400 Speaker 3: access to third party data framework and stamp. In twenty eighteen, 633 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 3: we had a Carpenter case, which is about the pinging 634 00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:57,120 Speaker 3: of cell phone towers right, and there the Supreme Court 635 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,799 Speaker 3: made sort of a great ruling for or defendants that hey, 636 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,160 Speaker 3: police have to get a warrant to get access to this. 637 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,520 Speaker 3: You can't just hoover in this information. But there's nothing 638 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:12,080 Speaker 3: that's on this level that involves this kind of technology 639 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,160 Speaker 3: and this kind of warrant. 640 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,720 Speaker 5: And how's the privacy bar taking this case? 641 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,560 Speaker 3: Privacy rights attorneys are really up in arms about this 642 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,560 Speaker 3: because of the huge implications here, and you know, for 643 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,120 Speaker 3: the creative ways that it could be used. You know, 644 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:31,319 Speaker 3: oftentimes these sort of maneuvers aren't really discovered until, you know, 645 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,840 Speaker 3: months or years after. You know, police are looking for 646 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 3: this information. But at the same time, police officers say, hey, 647 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,840 Speaker 3: we didn't have anything on this guy, you know that 648 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,880 Speaker 3: committed this robbery. You know, there's no CCTV, there's nothing 649 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,520 Speaker 3: really that would have given us this lead. And so 650 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 3: on one hand, you have this extremely powerful tool for 651 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:57,240 Speaker 3: police officers, and then the other you have this really scary, 652 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:01,239 Speaker 3: sort of invasive ability to look into what we're doing 653 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 3: on our phone. 654 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,320 Speaker 5: I'm sure we're going to hear more about these Warrens. 655 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:08,680 Speaker 5: Thanks so much, Alex. That's Bloomberg Law correspondent Alex Ebert 656 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,360 Speaker 5: and that's it for this edition of The Bloomberg Law Show. 657 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,279 Speaker 5: Remember you can always get the latest legal news by 658 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,920 Speaker 5: listening to our Bloomberg Law podcast wherever you get your 659 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:22,520 Speaker 5: favorite podcasts. I'm June Grosso. Stay with us. Today's top 660 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 5: stories and global business headlines are coming up right now.