This judge seems to think she runs the Executive Branch, and has gotten a little too big for her britches
The sign outside the door said Courtroom 1403. But inside, it felt a lot more like the principal’s office.
“I’m not happy,” US District Judge Sara Ellis said Thursday in a stern tone no student – or attorney – wants to hear. “I’m really not happy.”
One week after the judge issued a sweeping order trying to calm the intense response of federal agents to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Border Patrol activities in Chicago, Ellis told both sides to come back to her courtroom to have their own intense discussion.
“I live in Chicago, if folks haven’t noticed, and I’m not blind, right?” Ellis opened the hearing. “So, I don’t live in a cave. I have a phone. I have a TV. I have a computer and I tend to get news.”
The judge said those news reports were leading her to believe the Trump administration may not be following her instructions.
“At least from what I’m seeing, I’m having serious concerns that my order’s being followed,” said Ellis from the bench.
For clarity, from that “sweeping order” link
The judge’s order, which applies to the entire Northern District of Illinois, blocks federal agents from firing various types of less-lethal projectiles and chemical irritants and from “using force, such as pulling or shoving a person to the ground, tackling, or body slamming an individual.”
Hey, what the hell are we supposed to use man? Harsh language? Did the judge happen to watch TV and see the violence coming from the “protesters”?
In response, Ellis announced Thursday she will expand her restraining order, requiring all federal agents who are part of Operation Midway Blitz and who have body cameras to have them on during encounters with protesters.
Um, how many actually have body cams?
“That’s the nice thing about body cameras is that they pick up events before the triggering event happens,” she said.
The judge initially required all agents to wear cameras, but agreed to some flexibility after Sean Skedzielewski, an attorney representing the Trump administration, said it would be logistically impossible to immediately equip all agents with bodycams.
Actually, this is a fantastic idea, as the cams will catch the faces and actions of the violent liberal protesters, allowing for federal law enforcement to follow up and arrest them later. I wonder if the leftist judge really thought this one through?
Translation: a federal judge who is responsible for upholding the law doesn’t want the federal government to enforce the law.
Translation: a federal judge responsible for upholding the law wants the federal government to obey the laws. Novel approach!
Why would wearing body cameras place a burden on the ICE thugs?
What are the thugs of ICE afraid of?
Do you feel they’re recruiting top notch thugs what with their $50,000 bonuses and no requirements, LOL?
It takes a “special” heavily armed, heavy, masked male to face plant a mother in the pick-up line at her daughter’s elementary school. Was she really the worst of the worst?
Now the SAVAK is combing social media of visa holders looking for insults directed at white, christian martyr, the Most Exalted, Saint Kirk.
Don’t forget tomorrow is the No Kings nationwide protest. A national strike is in our future.
Whatever is in the Epstein Files regarding Big Donnie must be REALLY, REALLY damaging. Lil Mikie Johnson is keeping the House closed under orders! i
Big Donnie is uncreasingly frustrated with Hamas goons killing criminal gangs in Gaza!
Big Donnie is proposing the invasion of Venezuelan to stop their little fishing boats! (The CIA is already there! America First?)
He’s meeting with Putin to give the Russians 2 more weeks to behave!
Release the Files!!
So Rimjob, got anything new to whine about?
Oh, that’s right you get your “news” from Heather Cox Richardson.
Bwaha! Lolgfy Loser!
MAGA47 Motherfucker!
The judge’s order, which applies to the entire Northern District of Illinois, blocks federal agents from firing various types of less-lethal projectiles and chemical irritants and from “using force, such as pulling or shoving a person to the ground, tackling, or body slamming an individual.”
What law does that order support? Looks like the judge is writing her own laws. Pulling and shoving doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Putting suspects on the ground is a safety maneuver that brings the fighting to a stop to permit the orderly apprehension of suspects. It is the common practice used by every police department on the planet. Is the Chicago PD still allowed to use those tactics? If so, then the judge’s decree is arbitrary and capricious on it’s face. The only alternatives the Judge is permitting is to shoot Antifa agents dead on the spot.
“I’m not happy,”
So? What statute or public law demands that judges are happy? I suspect she was unhappy as soon as she heard Trump got re-elected. Her own happiness is not a legally supportable basis to issue injunctive relief or to issue instructions to the executive branch.