| USCIS Stopped
Publishing Its Decisions in 2025
Now Says 100 a Week Judge Mulls
Contempt
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
March 23 – In March 2025 US
Citizenship and Immigration
Services stopping publishing
its Administrative Appeals
Office non-precedent
decisions. USCIS was sued in
February 2026 and on March 23
was up before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge Jed
S. Rakoff. Inner City Press
was there: DOJ says they can
now publish 100 decisions a
week. Judge
Rakoff: I don't understand why
it takes the US Gov't so long.
The Courts publish their
decisions within minutes. DOJ lawyer: Our
opinions have personal
information like sexual abuse.
Judge
Rakoff: How long are you
decisions? Answer: Two or
three pages. Judge
Rakoff: So a couple of minutes
to read and ID what needs to
be redacted. So 10 minutes of
less each DOJ lawyer: If we
put resources into this, it
would take away from other
urgent FOIA requests. Judge Rakoff: I'm
not hearing that this is being
given the speed and attention
that it seems to me it
deserves. Reluctantly I will
give you one more week/ So
file something by next Monday,
or the court may use its
contempt power.
Adjourned The case is The Legal Aid Society, et al., v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al., 1:26-cv-1140 (Rakoff)
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Friday, March 27, 2026
USCIS Stopped Publishing Its Decisions in 2025 Now Says 100 a Week Judge Mulls Contempt
After SBF Got 25 Years his Mother Admonished US Cites His Menlo Park Letter But April 13
| After
SBF Got 25
Years his
Mother
Admonished US
Cites His
Menlo Park
Letter But
April 13
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 23 – On the US v Sam
Bankman-Fried trial, hours
after the guilty verdict, a
book was published: "Crypto
Criminal: The Conviction of
Sam Bankman-Fried: As live
tweeted and investigated from
inside the SDNY courthouse by
Matthew Russell Lee,"
audio/book here. On March
28, 2024, Inner City Press
live tweeted his sentencing,
to 25 years. On May 28
Salame was
"sentenced to
90 months." On
August 21,
Salame filed
that "the
Government
used the plea
negotiations
to threaten
Salame’s
domestic
partner and
the mother of
his child,
Michelle Bond."
Full filing
on Patreon here. On
February 10,
SBF - via his
monther - filed a
pro se motion
for a new
trial, arguing why
Salame and Daniel
Chapsky did
not testify. On
March 11 the
US Attorney's
Office filed a
44 page
opposition, full
44 pages
on Patreon here. Docketed
on March 16, SBF
through
his mother
Barbara Fried
asked for
more time to
reply; she
says SBF will be
moved from
Terminal Island
soon, without
saying to
where or why.
Filing on
Patreon here. On
March 19,
after Judge
Kaplan admonished
his mother
for the letter
and apparently
a telephone
call to
chambers,
SBF's own
letter was
docketed,
asking for an
extension of
time due to a
move
from Terminal
Island
- letter
on Patreon here After the
US Attorney's
Office linked
to FedEx to
show his
letter came
from Menlo
Park - as
Inner City
Press first
reported - on
March 23 Judge
Kaplan sua
sponte extended SBF's
time to April
13. More details on X
for Subscribers
here, Substack here
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