Jurisprudence This is not justice. This is a lottery. Getty Images Plus Sign up for  Executive Dysfunction , a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story each week about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing back. You’ll also receive updates on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. I got a man out of immigration detention last week. Four days, start to finish. Filed a habeas corpus petition on a Thursday night, and by Monday a federal judge had ordered his immediate release. No ankle monitor, no GPS, no conditions. He walked out of the Orange County Jail in Goshen, New York, at 4:09 on Tuesday afternoon. He had been locked up since New Year’s Day. Nearly four months. Now 22 years old, he was brought to this country as a 12-year-old fleeing gang violence in El Salvador after his father was murdered. All he needed was for someone to show up and assert his constitutional rights. The law was on his side the entire time he sat in that cell. Nobody had filed for him.…