Kate Shaw
- Role
- University of Pennsylvania law professor and Strict Scrutiny co-host
- Statement date
Kate Shaw on Did ICE Detain an Entire Family for What Eissa Hashemi’s Mother Did?
“It is appalling.”
Source and context
Original video
Strict Scrutiny, “All the President’s Henchmen” (opens in a new tab)Approximately 51:32 in the episode
About this source
Original Crooked Media episode page for Shaw’s directly attributed remarks. The public transcript spells Tahmasebi’s name phonetically; the identification is clear from the episode notes and linked essay.
Before the quotation
During a recommendation segment, Shaw identified Tahmasebi and described her as a professor and green-card holder with no criminal record who had been held at Dilley since April.
After the quotation
Shaw directed listeners to Tahmasebi’s first-person account in The Nation.
How this statement is classified
After identifying Tahmasebi as a green-card-holding professor with no criminal record who had been detained since April, Shaw expressly called the situation appalling.
- Recorded on
- Published here
- People and groups discussed
- Maryam Tahmasebi, Seyed Eissa Hashemi
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