OMG!! NOT JUST “SPANK” – THIS JUDGE GAVE TRUMP AND ICE A *VERY FORCEFUL* SPANKING!
“Holy f**k!” is literally what I said to myself (in my head) when I read the very first sentence of Judge Joseph Goodwin’s opinion and order in this petition for Habeas filed by one of ICE’s casualties. That first full sentence is…phenomenal. Actually the entire 34-page opinion and order (included for Notes from the Front members) is something to behold (beread?); Judge Goodwin makes it *abundantly* clear just exactly what he thinks about what is going on with ICE and their bogus detentions.
Here’s the first paragraph:
“Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice to what is happening. Across the interior of the United States, agents of the federal government – masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons, operating from unmarked vehicles, acting without warrants of any kind – are seizing persons for civil immigration violations and imprisoning them without any semblance of due process. The systematic character of this practice and its deliberate elimination of every structural feature that distinguishes constitutional authority from raw force place it beyond the reach of ordinary legal description. It is an assault on the constitutional order. It is what the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent. It is what the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment forbids.”
WOW!
In fact the entire 34-page opinion is a masterpiece of spankitude! THIS JUDGE IS P*SSED! And he forcefully schools ICE, the administration, and Trump (who is the named defendant) on our Constitution, including the 4th and 5th amendments.
“The court FINDS that both his Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures as well as his Fifth Amendment right to due process have been violated. Immediate release is the only relief sufficient to remedy Petitioner’s unlawful detention.”
Then he goes into *exactly* why.
And then there’s this – over which I nearly swooned upon reading it:
“An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society. Here, the Government’s power is derived by the People, and the People must be able to identify the Government when it acts to infringe on their liberty.”
Seriously, I have rarely seen a judge take a defendant to task so clearly, so powerfully, so *beautifully*!
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