The chief judge, a George W. Bush appointee, said the administration had repeatedly violated or slow-walked court orders in Minnesota.
Minnesota’s chief federal judge has ordered the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Todd Lyons, to appear in his courtroom Friday and threatened to hold him in contempt for what he says has been repeated defiance of judges’ orders in the state.
“The court’s patience is at an end,” U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz said in a three-page order issued Monday night, demanding the acting director explain himself “personally.”
Schiltz’s frustration has been boiling for weeks amid Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s massive immigration enforcement action in the Twin Cities. The operation has flooded the courts with emergency lawsuits brought by immigrants who say they have been illegally arrested or detained. The judges in the district have agreed nearly every time, ordering their immediate release from custody and warning, in increasingly alarming terms, about rampant violations of the law.
It doesn’t though. It means they could be fined or imprisoned.
Sure, but that’s definitely closer to jailing these fuckers than we’ve been so far, right? Progressing (middling as it is) is progress.
If you have faith in these systems, I can see how one might see this as progress. But it’s like saying “the wheels are spinning, we must be moving” while stuck in mud. I consider it progress with they do something. When the people that are inflicting violence on random members of the community are physically stopped. When police stop treating unmasked men with guns violating the constitution as allies. When they can’t shuffle away murders to relocate them another state, and are instead stopped at the airport. Maybe then I could muster some faith for the judicial system, but as it sits, I don’t care if their on the ‘double plus super notice squared of the 5th degree warning’ they are going to stop nazi is the street for real this time.
Look, either you have faith in the system, and you believe this will help. Or you don’t, and you know it won’t. It doesn’t change anything. What will happen will happen. The wheels are already in motion
What gives you faith in this system?
Nothing. I have no faith in the system, and I would like to see the whole thing torn down and replaced. But since that not happening, I’d rather say and do things that give people hope rather than what I actually believe: Things will have to get much worse before they can get better