The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit yesterday overturned a federal judge’s order requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement Chief Greg Bovino to give daily immigration enforcement reports. In a stinging order, the panel found that U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, an Obama appointee, had exceeded her powers and role as a federal judge in ordering the measures.
Some of us expressed surprise at the Ellis order, which assumed a very aggressive posture for a court in the management of a federal program or office. In addition to limits on the use of tear gas, she demanded Bovino’s daily appearance to brief her on any operations.
The Seventh Circuit shared the same concerns and ruled that Judge Ellis was acting more like an “inquisitor” than “a neutral adjudicator.” It noted that the parties had not demanded the measure and strongly suggested that Judge Ellis was too eager to interject herself into the daily operations of the federal law enforcement units:
“While this litigation presents very challenging circumstances, the district court’s order has two principal failings. First, it puts the court in the position of an inquisitor rather than that of a neutral adjudicator of the parties’ adversarial presentations. Second, it sets the court up as a supervisor of Chief Bovino’s activities, intruding into personnel management decisions of the Executive Branch.
These two problems are related and lead us to conclude that the order infringes on the separation of powers. Review by appeal at the end of the case would not solve the problems created in the interim, which justifies review by a prerogative writ. See In re Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 941 F.3d 869 (7th Cir. 2019). Cf. Cheney v. United States District Court, 542 U.S. 367 (2004).”
That is a striking rebuke for a federal judge.
In the meantime, Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh and five others were charged with conspiring to impede an officer. The language of the 18 U.S. 372 is clear and seems to cover the surrounding of a vehicle to prevent its entrance into such a facility:
“If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any [federal officer] … from discharging any duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed…or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties, each of such persons shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.”
Calling it a “political prosecution,” Abughazaleh is scheduled to appear on the charge that she joined others in blocking a vehicle to attempt to prevent it from entering an ICE facility. Also arrested were a candidate for the Cook County Board, a Democratic ward committeeman and a trustee in suburban Oak Park.
Notably, Abughazaleh is a journalist who has written for Mother Jones and The New Republic. She was also a senior video producer for Media Matters for America, a group that has long been criticized for biased attacks on conservatives and Republicans. It is the creation of David Brock, a highly controversial political activist tied to the Democratic Party. Abughazaleh has been lionized by liberal media in her campaign for Congress.
While abruptly ending a recent interview, she has been claiming to have been assaulted by ICE and declared:
“If they are willing to do that to a congressional candidate on camera in front of press, imagine what they are willing to do to their detainees behind boarded-up windows.”.
(That is a striking rebuke for a federal judge.) Let’s be honest, she is not a federal judge, she is one of many activist plants by obama to further subvert and cause chaos within our governing system. Pure destruction of the constitution is their END and anything now they consider justifiable MEANS.
Plant you say? Prove it. Maybe she was having a bad month.
Destruction of the Constitution… whew, you got a lot of rage.
If you understood actual history, you would could possibly become relieved of your misplaced dogma. Did you study under Zinn?
So what is it that YOU understand and no one else does?
If you can’t see the elephant in the room, it’s not because he isn’t there, but it is because you refuse to see it – that is a cult mentality for sure and attempting to inform a member of a cult is as futile as talking to a wall.
Whew…. the gauge on the fuel tank to run your gaslighting must be reading Empty today. The Bolshevik Borg wants Americans to believe bottom feeder level district judges are actually in command of Executive Branch law enforcement agencies? As well as being the one and only person who can determine if immigration law will be enforced and how that will be done.
Maybe you’re having your time of the month?
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is the intended psychological manipulation by a low-IQ perpetrator of those they hope to victimize through intentionally misleading that person or persons. This involves the perpetrator lying, denying events, and other methods used with the intent to have their victims doubt their perceptions of reality, memories, and feel overly emotional or irrational. Within personal relationships, it is a form of psychological abuse and torture. The main five methods of gaslighting that may be used alone or in conjunction with others are: lying, blame shifting, countering, trivializing and withholding.
Maybe she was having a bad month.
As in LMP (last menstrual period)? Is she a woman? Are you a biologist? Who is your daddy?
Rage has nothing to do with the TRUTH whimsicalmamma has laid out.
Obama said he would change the government, and he did—Proof, at no other time in U.S. history has left-wing judicial intrusion EVER been so densely and endemically intrusive, well-placed and controlling. And you think this happened by chance? Like the open-borders? Calmly stated, the Constitution AND the presidency has indeed been assaulted by the extreme-left.
I think Sara Ellis was in the Halloween spirit! She confused her leftist Black Robe for her Darth Vader outfit she was wearing at the Soros Soiree!
The more “striking” the rebuke, the better the book deal for Judge Ellis. I’m sure that Ms. Ellis would have been one of Kamala’s finalists for the Supreme Court.
These federal judges socialize with each other, especially within a circuit. They meet at any number of conferences and know each other fairly well. All of which to say, they are reticent to make the kinds of remarks against one another that the 7th Circuit did . . . which shows the appellate court must have believed Judge Ellis’s actions were extraordinary.
She should seek to emulate her name’s sake, the late US District Judge T.S. Ellis III of the Eastern District of Virginia. He was a tough but fair judge, committed to the rule of law, and handled some notable cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Ellis_III
What? Wikipedia is your source? That thing is total bias. Shows you don’t know how to think for yourself, just spouting liberal bias.
Wiki is not my source for knowing how he ran his courtroom and what kind of a person he was. Those are things I know first-hand, not from the internet. But I included the Wiki page because it has some accurate information about several of the notable cases he handled, including the “American Taliban” case (John Walker Lindh).
You loose old man. Game, set, match for anon.
No he didn’t. If he did, explain how.
Which you failed to do
Now we know why you are “Anonymous”.
I have appeared before Judge Ellis on several occasions. I can attest that he was a brilliant, principled and fair judge. He loved America, unlike Anonymous. He loved to conduct citizenship ceremonies for newly naturalized citizens, who filled his courtroom to be sworn in. Typically, he would then switch to his native Spanish (he was born in Colombia) and tell them about his personal journey and how lucky they were to be Americans. He was the ideal federal judge, the complete opposite of Boasberg and that unfortunate namesake Sara Ellis.
“Two federal judges require Trump administration tap into emergency funds to partially cover food stamp benefits”. Maybe it time for a No Kings protest on these freaking judges. In the immortal words of Susan Wild at a GW law graduation, “Do what you know is right and let the law catch up to you.” This is the state of the judiciary.
The funny part, by law the Trump adm can’t do that.
Can’t? Prove it.
“Can’t? Prove it.”
Sealioning:
Sealioning is a form of adolescent trolling where someone persistently demands answers to insincere questions to provoke a response, often pretending to seek a civil debate while actually trying to exhaust or frustrate others with no intention of real discourse. This behavior is characterized by a facade of politeness and a refusal to acknowledge previous answers. Often used as a tactic by whining Democrats in online forums and podcasts
Read the law you dummy.
They can if the court orders it — which is exactly what Trump wants! A court order, so he can do what he wants to do anyway, but which his lawyers have warned him against doing. Now he can say I had no choice, the court told me to. The judges have thrown Trump in to the briar patch.
“Butt hurt” Kat has Federal Felony charges. 1st Amendment doesn’t cover criminal conduct.
These rogue judges and politicians are playing with fire. They have no authority over the federal government nor federal officers. Yet, they advocate resistance and impedance (harm) of these officers carrying out their duties. This will not end well for them. They are insurrectionists. It is time for those breaking the law in the sense to face the legal and financial consequences of their actions.
The far left present no solutions. They are angry and care nothing for the citizens. They are all about power. Period.
Even the left wing news anchors are flabbergasted with some of these far left nut cases. Case in point was CNN’s interview with New Mexico’s looney “Representative” Standsbury
https://youtu.be/NkHjiKSn3EQ?si=bVh-Wk0es69VUMbb
45% of the New Mexican Congressional vote went to Republican candidates last year.
Guess how many of New Mexico’s three Congressmen are Republicans?
ZERO.
Gerry Mander is alive and well in Stansbury-land.
Everything old is new again. who knew judges wearing fancy robes and armed with unearned self-importance and raw power could bring back the rule of kings to America’s shores?
Sire: I beseech you, would I not serve as an excellent court jester in thy greatest of kngdoms?
Almost missed this post as it was sorted into my spam folder. Can’t recall this occurring with any jonathanturley.org post before. I’ll check with my ISP to see if there was some reason for their calling the content in this blog post spam.
And yes, for those who want to remind me, after I’ve checked with my ISP I will check to see if I have my browser’s spam filters locked into Democrat outrage settings.
The Constitution created the Supreme Court. Congress created the District Courts and Appeals Courts and can, to a certain degree restrict or enhance the scope of their jurisdiction or eliminate them entirely.
In your dreams.
And all that Congress needs is a party with enough sitting members well above that of the filibuster level to defund, restrict or otherwise alter that judiciary.
Or, in the case of police state fascist judges like Boasberg and Howell – use impeachment to remove them as a cancer within that judiciary.
I would suggest it would be more easy to get a nationally approved amendment to the Constitution at this point.
Yes, in judicial terms, a judge **can** be “disrobed”—meaning **removed from the bench** (i.e., stripped of judicial office). The term “disrobed” is a formal, historical way of describing the **permanent removal of a judge** from their position, not a literal removal of robes.
### How It Happens (U.S. Context)
1. **Impeachment and Conviction** (Federal Judges):
– Under Article I of the U.S. Constitution, federal judges (including Supreme Court justices) serve “during good Behaviour.”
– They can be **impeached by the House of Representatives** and **convicted/removed by a two-thirds vote in the Senate**.
– Grounds: **Treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors** (Article II, Section 4).
– Only **8 federal judges** have been removed this way in U.S. history (as of 2025).
2. **State Judges**:
– Most states allow removal via:
– **Impeachment** (by legislature).
– **Judicial conduct commissions** (investigate ethics violations; recommend removal).
– **Recall elections** (in some states).
– **Legislative address** (a formal request to resign or be removed).
3. **Voluntary “Disrobing”**:
– Judges can **resign or retire** under pressure (e.g., during investigations) to avoid formal removal.
### Real Examples
– **Judge Alcee Hastings** (1989): Impeached and removed for bribery.
– **Judge Samuel Kent** (2009): Resigned under impeachment pressure for sexual misconduct.
– **Judge Maryanne Trump Barry** (2020): Retired to avoid ethics probe (effectively disrobed).
### Key Point
“Disrobing” is **not** a routine or easy process—it’s deliberately difficult to protect judicial independence. But it **is** possible when a judge commits serious misconduct or crimes.
So yes—**a judge can be disrobed**, and it has happened.
Looks like someone is using AI.
Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, a Republican, was not even close to being “disrobed.” She was 82 or 83 years old when she retired from the bench after being diagnosed with cancer. She died a few years later. The just-begun investigation of her and her siblings involved slanted allegations from NYT’s reporter Susanne Craig, (take a good look at her,, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne_Craig#/media/File:Susanne_Craig_speaking_at_book_event_(cropped).jpg) of collective tax evasion involving their inheritance from father (Fred Trump).
BTW, NONE of the Trumps were ever indicted.
Indeed, investigation of all-things-Trump (this one started right after his first election, and published in 2018) was par for the course
Judge Ellis is another Left Wing Woke Nut Case who should be impeached.
For what?
For what?
In the Bolshevik Borg, they sincerely wonder why anyone disagrees with their belief that bottom feeder level federal judges control all Executive Branch law enforcement agencies, their staff, and whether or not existing immigration laws will be enforced.
Sealioning:
Sealioning is a form of adolescent trolling where someone persistently demands answers to insincere questions to provoke a response, often pretending to seek a civil debate while actually trying to exhaust or frustrate others with no intention of real discourse. This behavior is characterized by a facade of politeness and a refusal to acknowledge previous answers. Often used as a tactic by whining Democrats in online forums and podcasts
Leftwing extremist judges no longer care about fairness, the rule of law, equality under the law, or the Constitution. They care about power, supporting their side at the expense of their oaths of office. Shame on them. They are little dictators, flexing what power they think they have.
Fairness is not the legal code. Anywhere.
It seems that when the Dems say that Trump is destroying democracy, it is actually the Left. All these overturned rulings have shown that politics override the law. And, the biggest override it that illegals are NOT legal and can be sent back. I have children, all of whom have lived in foreign countries, and they left when their visas expired.
What do your kids have to do with this article?
Following the rule of law.
(They left when their visas expired)
Unlike the many who refuse too
And what do visas have to do with Ellis – this article?
Jezzzzzzzzz what a hard head. Just talking about the rule of law.
So someone guys kids’ visas implicates Ellis in some rule of law?
This is not about A rule of law
It is about THE rule of law
It means following laws you do not like until you can get them changed
So someone guys kids’ visas implicates Ellis in some rule of law?
Ummmm… you aren’t aware that these 20 million criminal Illegal Alien Democrat political pawns that have no visa allowing them to legally be here, have Ellis attempting to protect them from being lawfully deported as criminal Illegal Aliens? My suspicion is that even in the Bolshevik Borg, the Democrat voters are at least sentient enough to know that, despite whatever other mental health psychosis they are dealing with.
Sealioning:
Sealioning is a form of adolescent trolling where someone persistently demands answers to insincere questions to provoke a response, often pretending to seek a civil debate while actually trying to exhaust or frustrate others with no intention of real discourse. This behavior is characterized by a facade of politeness and a refusal to acknowledge previous answers. Often used as a tactic by whining Democrats in online forums and podcasts
And what do visas have to do with Ellis – this article?
Ummmm… you aren’t aware that these 20 million criminal Illegal Alien Democrat political pawns that have no visa allowing them to legally be here, have Ellis attempting to protect them from being lawfully deported as criminal Illegal Aliens? My suspicion is that even in the Bolshevik Borg, the Democrat voters are at least sentient enough to know that, despite whatever other mental health psychosis they are dealing with.
Sealioning:
Sealioning is a form of adolescent trolling where someone persistently demands answers to insincere questions to provoke a response, often pretending to seek a civil debate while actually trying to exhaust or frustrate others with no intention of real discourse. This behavior is characterized by a facade of politeness and a refusal to acknowledge previous answers. Often used as a tactic by whining Democrats in online forums and podcasts
What do your kids have to do with this article?
Sealioning:
Sealioning is a form of adolescent trolling where someone persistently demands answers to insincere questions to provoke a response, often pretending to seek a civil debate while actually trying to exhaust or frustrate others with no intention of real discourse. This behavior is characterized by a facade of politeness and a refusal to acknowledge previous answers. Often used as a tactic by whining Democrats in online forums and podcasts
There’s a question you never ask of George X as he races off-topic to use this as his own personal blob each day while snapping and snarling at Professor Turley’s heels. While in this case, an example is being provided of what legitimate forein visa holders do in other countries when their legitimate reasons for being in that country have ended. They leave, as they’re legally required to do.
If these Illegal Aliens you are poorly defending were not criminals, including those who came here on tourist, work and student visas but then never left, they wouldn’t still be here necessitating their removal and we’d have nowhere near 20 million criminal Illegal Alien Democrat political pawns in this country.
I never thought I’d say it, but it seems the Federal District Court system needs an Ombudsman Court. This group would review all decisions having political overtones for pre-approval. Penalties can be in place. Currently, these decisions made, then being reversed, undermine the Fed Court’s credibility.
No. It needs impeachment and if that is not possible Congress needs to transfer them to a remedial court responsible for parking tickets in northern Alaska.
Republicans, to the extent that they can must become less deferential to the oppositions selections for the bench. These jurists, virtually all chosen by Obama and Biden undermine the role and integrity of the judiciary. They are openly biased and political in their rulings. There is no mechanism to remove them from their lifetime appointments.thus there is no accountability for exceeding their authority.
“undermine the role and integrity of the judiciary. ” That’s why they were selected. As for removal, there are ways.
we have certainly seen the rise of the Judaical Political Warrior on the left. These judges no longer care about the Constitutions or Bill of Rights. They were appointed by Obama and Biden to carry out a leftist socialist political agenda. It seem many Clinton appointees have joined them, and we now have three Justices, all women, in the same vane. They will destroy the US, it’s only a matter of time.
As I have stated many times, these Federal District Court Judges that continue to insert themselves as final authority on Executive Branch matters must be removed from the bench by the Chief Justice or permanently removed by impeachment. There must be a consequence for the blatant attempt to set policy and practices of the Executive Branch.
Those judges sole function is to hinder or delay MAGA initiatives. Nothing more. I hope eventually that the SCOTUS will act in a big way to shutdown those judges.
“Those judges sole function is to hinder or delay MAGA initiatives.”
Judges were doing this to protect the Democrats’ socialist Great Leap Forward LONG before Trump and his MAGA. A judge ran the fraudulent trial that convicted Republican Senator Ted Stevens – making it an easy victory for the Democrat that up until then had no chance of winning election against the popular Stevens and become the last vote needed to pass Obamacare a year later.
Stevens conviction was swiftly vacated on appeal. Just as Jack Smith’s fraudulent prosecution and conviction of Obama/Biden’s most dangerous threat to 2012 re-election, Governor Bob McDonald, was unanimously thrown out by SCOTUS on appeal.
But in both cases, by then it didn’t matter to Democrats: the objective of removing the Republican threat was achieved, resulting in the first case of being able to pass Obamacare, and in the second example, Obama/Biden winning re-election against the weak Republican opponent Mitt Romney.
It isn’t about MAGA – other than the fact its target at this moment is MAGA. Seeing everything as about MAGA is short-sighted tunnel vision.
It’s about corrupting and trashing the rule of law, and the Constitution that flows from, in order to use the Judicial Branch to subvert both the Executive and Legislative branches.
The Seventh Circuit rebuke of Judge Ellis is well-deserved and probably too lenient. The Ellis order dictating daily reporting to her by Bovino was unconstitutional micromanagement on steroids, conjuring up the warnings of SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
ACB has previously dressed down her “colleague,” Justice Ketanji Brown (“cannot define a woman”) Jackson for advocating an “Imperial Judiciary,” untethered to the Constitution or the rule of law.
Leftist rogue jurists like Ellis should start paying attention to their oaths of office instead of kowtowing to Marxist attorneys.
Too lenient? Firing squad maybe is better?
Just passing the constitutional law section of the bar exam before getting another case
This result is so obvious that instead of a “striking rebuke” Judge Ellis should have been disrobed.
Ellis made a simple mistake and it was corrected. Still she should be disrobed for exercising her authority? Hopefully you meant disbarred. You made a Freudian slip; you are old a dirty old man fro demanding she disrobe for you. And you certainly are not a wise lawyer.
Anonymous calls a man a dirty old man for saying the judge should be disrobed inferring that he means she be made naked. This comes from a woman who has no problem with children being made sterile by a transgender operation that can keep them from having an orgasm for the rest of their lives. She says that it was just a simple mistake made by a judge who attempted to take over the administration of a law enforcement agency. No big deal when the agency had to bow down to a queen wearing a black robe. What’s new? Another well thought out comment from the know it all Anonymous.
What does transgenderism have to do with Ellis?
Good lord people, can’t you see it was a joke.
But are most certainly a fool.
Da?
You know full well he did not demand she disrobe for him. In addition, you know exactly what he meant: that her order is so indefensible that he lacks confidence in her ability to be fair and impartial disqualifying her from being a judge.
It is obvious to EVERYONE that his is opinion. Not that he wants her to strip. That you intentionally misinterpreted it that way makes YOU the dirty old man. It also makes you a liar and deceiver.
I’m genuinely curious why you chose to intentionally engage in deceptions and lies to characterize his comment. Perverted sense of morality? Terrible parents who failed to transmit to you the value of honesty? Were you born evil?
I don’t get it.
Good lord people, can’t you see it was a joke.
“You made a Freudian slip”
Actually, you made an ignorant smear.
“to disrobe a judge” (figurative): “to strip a judge of their legal authority and position.”
Good lord people, can’t you see it was a joke.
Smear? Pertaining to an anonymous person, how is that a smear?
Good lord you people are f-ing stupid.
*. She can leave her hat on, anon.
The mistake was taking authority she does not have
That is actual tyrany
The constitution gives all executive power to the president
The courts can determine following the law and constitution if those executive acts are lawful or constitutional
But the courts have zero executive power of their own
Ellis did not make a mistake
She greatly exceeded her constitutional authority
This is what you accuse trumps of
But trump was elected to be the chief executive
Ellis was not
The courts do not have a voice in the exercise of executive power beyond correctly determining if it is lawful and constitutional
There are many metaphorical and logical meanings for “disrobe,” within WiseOldLawyer’s comment: the first and most obvious, being that the black judicial robe be taken from Ellis, as she hides her purely political-bias, her lack of fairness and objectivity, and her obvious misuse of power and law, within that robe. The black robe signifies the neutrality of the UNBIASED arbiter—Ellis represents NONE of that.
The other possibly [TRUE] metaphor is that nakedness reveals all, motives and character, and those biased in their judicial capacity, who are “disrobed,” are already emperors with no clothes. In other words their corruption is plainly there, for all to see.
Ellis made a simple mistake and it was corrected.
Ellis made the simple judicial mistake of believing the Constitution empowered her as as a district court judge to be in command of the Executive Branch’s law enforcement agencies and Legislative Branch’s immigration law. A judicial mistake so easily made that any Obama or Biden appointed judge could and already have made the exact same simple mistake. Even after having it explained to them by SCOTUS that they’re wrong to believe that.
Your gaslighting is dim and reduced to running on fumes.
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is the intended psychological manipulation by a low-IQ perpetrator of those they hope to victimize through intentionally misleading that person or persons. This involves the perpetrator lying, denying events, and other methods used with the intent to have their victims doubt their perceptions of reality, memories, and feel overly emotional or irrational. Within personal relationships, it is a form of psychological abuse and torture. The main five methods of gaslighting that may be used alone or in conjunction with others are: lying, blame shifting, countering, trivializing and withholding.
“Simple mistake”
That’s quite forgiving.