Author: Eric Sanders

Insights on Complex Legal Challenges

Strategic perspectives on civil rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, police misconduct, retaliation, and institutional accountability.

ICE Legal Authority
BlogJan 11, 2026

Administrative Power Without Judicial Constraint: Why ICE’s Interior Enforcement Model Is Colliding With Constitutional Policing in 2026

Executive Summary   The current confrontation over federal immigration enforcement is being dangerously misframed. What is unfolding in 2026 is not a border-security dispute,...

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Good Name Denied
BlogJan 9, 2026

Selective Outrage Has a Second Name: Retaliation

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY   The New York City Police Department’s current fixation on so-called “overtime abuse” is not a belated discovery of misconduct. It is...

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Administrative Retaliation
BlogJan 3, 2026

Dignity at Exit Is Not Optional: When Courts Finally Call Administrative Retaliation What It Is

In December 2025, I published Administrative Retaliation: How the NYPD Weaponizes Separation and Certification, a thought-piece grounded in years of representing officers whose service...

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NYPD Department Interview
BlogDec 30, 2025

Compelled Silence or Compelled Speech?

    NYPD Interviews, Criminal Exposure, and the Fifth Amendment Line                          ...

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When Courts Become the Only Check Left
BlogDec 29, 2025

When Courts Become the Only Check Left

Crime Narratives, Racialized Enforcement, and the Long Arc of Constitutional Harm in New York City From Daniels, Floyd, Davis, and Ligon — and why...

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Who Gets Harmed When the Story Is Wrong
BlogDec 29, 2025

Who Gets Harmed When the Story Is Wrong

The Civil-Rights Costs of Narrative Policing in New York City     Executive Summary Crime narratives do not merely describe public safety; they justify...

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The Attribution Problem NYPD Crime Data and Narrative Overreach
BlogDec 27, 2025

Manufacturing Safety: Crime Data, Media Narratives, and Civil Rights in New York City

Executive Summary   Crime has declined across the United States and in New York City in the post-pandemic period. That empirical fact is not...

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Who the Media Decides Is A Victim
BlogDec 19, 2025

Who the Media Decides Is a Victim

Kristin Cabot. Paige Shiver. Lieutenant Quathisha Epps. And How Power, Race, and Institutional Self-Preservation Decide Credibility     Executive Summary Sexual-harassment law does not collapse...

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Judge Sharpe Denies Motion to Disqualify Eric Sanders
BlogDec 17, 2025

Judge Sharpe Denies Motion to Disqualify Eric Sanders; Orders Hearing Into Plaintiff’s Submissions

    Supreme Court Lifts All Restraining Orders, Finds No Conflict of Interest, and Sets January 14, 2026 Hearing to Address “Troubling” Discrepancies in...

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