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.
This is the problem. They threaten and threaten and threaten but never do anything.
The issue is that the system is built on the expectation that people do what they’re told. When that stops happening the expectation is that we the people will go out and either force them or kill them.
Th issue isn’t that other people do what they are told or ever have, it’s that the Judiciary had an enforcement arm that would get these people and round them up.
Thats what stopped happening, the enforcement arm became the oppressors an dissenters themselves.
“Who watches the watchmen?” Kind of thing
The decorum! Image what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot! We need to protect ourselves from our future bad actions in case one of our judges aren’t in power.
They judge is a Republican so of course they talk big and have no idea about what justice actually is unless the offender is a minority or poor.