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Nineteen Seconds on a Local Broadcast. The Ruling Itself Is the Citation.

September 11, 2026

Nineteen Seconds on a Local Broadcast. The Ruling Itself Is the Citation.

A local broadcaster in North Carolina carried the ruling in nineteen seconds. The clip is below. It is not the citation. The ruling is, and the Coalition’s report of it is here.

WCNC · local broadcast

The broadcast reports that a federal judge held the third-country removal policy unlawful, and that people facing removal must first be given meaningful notice.

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The Coalition publishes this because a short broadcast reaches people a court document does not, and because someone who has just been told they are being moved is more likely to watch nineteen seconds than to read an opinion. That is the whole argument for carrying video at all.

What this page is and is not. It reports that a broadcast was made and what the broadcast said. The Coalition does not interpret United States decisions on its country guides; where a decision matters it is entered in the court decision register with the court, the date, the docket and a link to the full text, so that a reader can go to the decision rather than to anyone’s account of it.