The chief federal judge in Minnesota lit into DOJ for portraying the church disruption as an urgent matter. "There is absolutely no emergency," George W. Bush appointed Patrick Schlitz wrote, calling the arrest-warrant effort "frivolous."
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Judge DAVIS wasn't done -- in yet another Sunday order, he upbraids the administration for "an undeniable move...to defy court orders or at least to stretch the legal process to the breaking point in an attempt to deny noncitizens their due process rights
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Suffice it to say, it is unusual for judges to issue this many opinions on a Sunday. Judge Tostrud rules another ICE detention illegal here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Menendez expressed deep skepticism about her power to broadly order the end of Operation Metro Surge and how to police the line between appropriate law enforcement and an unconstitutional attack on state sovereignty.
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