After the pardon mooted Genalo v. Black, Solicitor General Sauer says the Trump administration will seek an "alternative vehicle" to challenge the Second Circuit's bond-hearing ruling; Iowa's solicitor general calls the pardon "pretty wild," and Hochul's office had not commented as of Sept. 12

Follow-on to the Sept. 11 dismissal. Fox News reports Solicitor General John Sauer agreed the case is moot but said the administration will look for another case to bring the same question (whether prolonged immigration detention triggers a constitutional right to a bond hearing) back to the Supreme Court. Criticism quoted is from Iowa Solicitor General Eric Wessan on X; no Blakeman statement was found in any outlet. Fox said it had asked Hochul's office for comment and had no reply. Reader note: Fox's framing ("torpedos") is the outlet's; the underlying facts match SCOTUSblog's Sept. 11 report.

Rensselaer County Legislature takes a "wait and see" line on the sheriff's 287(g) agreement after a record 95 people packed its public forum; a Democratic legislator says a non-binding resolution to drop the lawsuit is unlikely to move

Since Hochul signed the 287(g) ban in May, the Rensselaer County Legislature has not taken up a single item on Sheriff Kyle Bourgault's ICE agreement, and Democratic Legislator Ken Zalewski says that is unlikely to change: "everyone's just going to let it play out in a court of law." About 95 people attended the monthly public forum, a record, many urging Bourgault to end the agreement; County Executive Steve McLaughlin (R) defended it. Any resolution would be non-binding and would need every Democrat plus two Republicans. Rensselaer is one of the 15 sheriff's offices suing the state in federal court (Bourgault v. Hochul); the AG has a parallel state-court suit to terminate the agreement.

Blakeman leans on Trump playbook to energize upstate Republicans, rallying with Constantino at Great Sacandaga Lake