In another time, Sarah Fabian might have expected to operate in obscurity. But in June, as she rose to face a federal appeals court panel in San Francisco, Fabian found herself on what would turn out to be an immense stage.
A career lawyer in the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation, Fabian appeared before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a case concerning how the federal government is obligated to care for detained migrant children. In the livestreamed argument, Fabian suggested that the federal government may not be required to provide detained children with soap, toothbrushes and beds, drawing pointed questions—and even flashes of disbelief—from the panel.
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