TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 13, 2026

In a filing Thursday, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee laid out the government’s justification for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodríguez. The brief was submitted in response to a show-cause order from District Court Judge Eli Richardson. In it, the prosecutor argues that Rodríguez has not exhausted all administrative remedies because she has not had a bond hearing yet, that agents did not arrest Rodríguez without a warrant, and that the arrest was not in retaliation for her work as a journalist. Read more from the Nashville Banner