“An Inquisitor Rather Than a Neutral Adjudicator”: Seventh Circuit Slams Judge Over ICE Order in Chicago

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.”.

 

191 thoughts on ““An Inquisitor Rather Than a Neutral Adjudicator”: Seventh Circuit Slams Judge Over ICE Order in Chicago”

  1. THANK YOU, Prof. Turley for a succinct, to-the-point look at how the delusional evil (whether caused consciously or unconsciously by those who are simply ‘asleep’ and unevolved as our HHS Sec. Kennedy put it in a speech recently..) is finally being rebuked… Simply preposterous behaviour by this ‘Inquisitor Ellis.. ‘That is a striking rebuke for a federal judge…’ .and.. ..how silly for grown ups to accuse ICE officers trying to clear a path thru their blockages of assault of any kind…… It’s like the Dem Party has become a cartel of hoodlums…….

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  3. Something has got to give with all of this, it’s ridiculous, and not surprisingly, it’s Obama and Biden appointees undermining people’s faith in our judiciary. Good for the Seventh Circuit, but by now we all know these folks do it on purpose, knowing they will be overturned, to delay until they get what they want, and it’s despicable.

    It’s been a foregone conclusion for some time now, but I’ll repeat: as an independent voter, I will never vote dem, ever again. Me, vote blue? *bleep* you.

    1. PS – Oh, and I did indeed used to vote for democrats some of the time. No longer, and never again. Haven’t since 2016.

    2. It gives me great confidence in the system when a judge is wanting to ensure that the executive branch has not gone on a rights-abridging rampage. If Greg Bovino has nothing to hide, then Greg Bovino has nothing to worry about.

      1. How can it give you confidence when a judge, who is supposed to uphold the law, thinks she’s a queen and that the president is subordinate to her, and usurps the executive power by purporting to give his agents orders that are well beyond her authority? That undermines confidence in the system. Thankfully she’s been slapped on the wrist and told not to do that again, but who’s to say she’ll listen?

  4. At some point, soon I hope, our Congress should put legislation forth which provides a uniform unbiased bipartisan objective way of preventing ‘rogue’ judges from going ‘way’ beyond what our judicial system provides them the power to do. Legislating from the bench is not what a judge should do or is permitted to do.

  5. She got her JD at Loyola University Chicago, which is known to be left-liberal (not to be confused with Loyola Marymount in Cali). It is common at left-liberal law schools to trash almost everything about the American Constitution and legal system. One line of attack is that the European inquisitorial model is superior to the American adversarial model. Perhaps that formative experience in learning law is what is driving her. Regardless, she received her commission as a US District Judge, not an inquisitor, and she should stick to that lane irrespective of whatever poison some left-wing faculty members may have drilled into her head.

    1. “(not to be confused with Loyola Marymount in Cali)”. Walk like a duck, quack like a duck, it’s a duck. These Jesuit institutions are all left-leaning bastions. I granted you one may be a little bit less “left”.

      1. No, inquiring is very much NOT part of a judge’s job. Judges are NOT ALLOWED to inquire into anything. They are not allowed to act sua sponte. They must sit and wait for a case or controversy to be brought to them, by someone with standing. That is pretty much the only check on them, that prevents them from becoming a dictatorship.

        And what Bovino has to hide is none of your business, or hers. She is literally not entitled to know, and neither are you.

  6. Obstructionism [əbˈstrʌkʃənɪsm]: noun; the deliberate use of illegal or unconstitutional means to impede lawful governance. Example: Obama appointees are engaging in Democrat obstructionism.

    If Democrats ever accuse you of something, it’s because they reserve the exclusive right to do it themselves.

      1. The separation of powers is written right into the Constitution. Violating it is unconstitutional. That’s what the Seventh Circuit pointed out, as quoted by Professor Turley above.

        1. if only…..

          Senator Eric Schmitt
          @SenEricSchmitt
          I just called for the impeachment of Judge Boasberg.

          Boasberg is the poster child for rogue judges:

          • Forcing his way onto Trump cases
          • Fomenting a judicial “resist” campaign
          • Issuing illegal gag orders on GOP Senators.

          This rogue judge must go. Let’s recap. 🧵

          https://x.com/SenEricSchmitt/status/1984279659790643327

          1. Senator Eric Schmitt @SenEricSchmitt: I just called for the impeachment of Judge Boasberg.

            I didn’t bother with the recap. Did it begin with reminding Americans of the years back in 2016 and 2017 that Judge Boasberg, as the Chief FISA judge, repeatedly allowed Obama’s Attorney Generals and FBI Directors to perjure themselves to him in his courtroom while under oath?

            While they were asking Boasberg to give them FISA counterespionage spy warrants to use in criminally depriving thousands of Americans of their 1st and 4th Amendment rights by felonious color of law?

            Followed by Judge Boasberg refusing to punish a single one of Obama’s DOJ felons for the felonies they committed against both him and the FISA courts once Obama’s criminality could no longer be hidden or denied.

            If that part of Judge Boasberg’s judicial history is not in there, Senator Schmitt is a poor choice to write articles of impeachment.

        2. Thank you, OMFK. She should be disrobed. If federal judges behave unconstitutionally, disrobe.

          ICE is in Chicago to arrest very dangerous people and Cook County jail has released criminals with orders to arrest by ICE back onto the streets. (I didn’t say that clearly most likely).

          Protestor moratorium should be issued by the mayor while ICE is present to ensure no obstruction is taking place and safety. The mid-way blitz is in honor of Katie Abramson who was killed.

        3. If the powers are separated as much as you suggest they should be, then why not slaughter people in the streets under an executive order? Neither the Judiciary nor the Legislature can override the Executive, right?

          That is what you are demanding as an outcome.

          1. The legislature can impeach and remove, and the next executive can prosecute. That is their ONLY resort. Neither of them can directly intervene.

      2. Well yeah , because she clearly exceeded her Authority. I guess you missed that in Turley’s summation.

      3. Is there anything about Ellis’ actions that are unconstitutional?

        Other than what the appeals court already specifically told you? You DID read the article above this comment section, didn’t you?

        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

  7. 20 million “Latinos” et al. have illegally invaded America under the false pretense of needing “asylum” when it is democrats who need all the Latinos et al. they can import to vote (D) for DINERO and when it is America itself that needs asylum from invasion and rebellion, conditions under which the Constitution allows suspension of habeas corpus as required for public safety.

    ICE deportation actions are imperative for the perpetuation of actual American America.
    ________________________________________________________________________________________________

    Article 1, Section 9

    The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

  8. The Seventh Circuit shared the same concerns and ruled that Judge Ellis was acting more like an “inquisitor” than “a neutral adjudicator.”

    In other snewzzz, the adjunct law instructor aka community activist who was raised in Hawaii by a white mother and white grandparents, dumped by his black Kenyan father, but now has a Net Worth of $70 Million, is concerned about America’s future. This from a guy with 3 multimillion dollar luxury properties in lily white neighborhoods and a wife who hates America

    Obama Is Now Not So Sure America Can Survive Under Trump
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/barack-obama-is-now-not-so-sure-america-can-survive-under-donald-trump/

    Not to be outdone, his Attorney General wingman, race baiting communist, Eric Holder, says

    “The harm is so profound that this calls for both a different approach generally, and a different involvement specifically by President Obama,” said Eric Holder, the former attorney general and longtime friend of Obama. “There will be damage done along the way—there’s no question about that. We won’t win every battle.”
    Obama and his aides are revising his strategy of maintaining a low-key public presence.

    Virginia black Democrat Attorney General nominee, Jay Jones, had this to say about his Republican opponents

    Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler, Polepot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head… Spoiler, put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know, and he receives both bullets every time.” In addition, Jones reportedly told Coyner that Gilbert’s wife, Jennifer, “should watch her two young children die in her arms so that Gilbert might reconsider his political views.” When pressed further, Jones replied, “Do I think Todd and Jennifer are evil and that they’re breeding little fascists? Yes”.

    In response to Democrat pandering to blacks, Obama was reported, by reliable sources, to have stated:

    We have told you in the past to vote for the black candidate. This time we are telling you to vote for the lily white candidate. Do not vote for the black Jamaican immigrant, US citizen and former US Veteran Winsome Earle-Sears. She makes me a total con artist, pasty white dudette

    Obama could not be reached for further comment regarding the αss thumping his name brand took when he lost the US House, US Senate and gave us Donald Trump.

    Developing!

    /s

    1. “Obama and his aides are revising his strategy of maintaining a low-key public presence.”
      He told us what he would do, and is doing, extracorporeally….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-9MQWpTLrY

      Not hard to achieve, and likely sanctioned, given his connections, and considering the method he describes. That, and his admitted fascination with “the work,” is “notice,” and let’s not underestimate his use of the word “fascination.”

  9. ăn′ər-kē: lacking authority, cause disorder/confusion and mob mentality.

    How to define a Judge or Judges that make decisions beyond their legal boundaries, yet rule that government has no authority. Authoritarianism by judiciary for political ends, that’s what, in addition it also defines any and all actions by the leftist Tyrants’!

    1. I think judges don’t know that they need to create their verdicts and take all actions solely in accordance with the wishes of Donald J. Trump.

      All hail Trump! All hail Trump! All hail Trump!

      1. It’s got nothing to do with Trump. Judges have the authority to say what the law is, when and if a case or controversy is brought before them by a party with standing. Otherwise they have no authority at all. A judge who usurps the executive or legislative authority is no judge at all, and deserves to be hanged by the feet from a lamppost.

        1. Rabble:
          We keep hearing these judges bringing injuncitons, TROs, orders, etc., but I haven’t been able to find much on *who* they are bringing these for. Yes, I know Xinis (rhymes with -) and Boasberg and a couple others tried the ‘no-class class action’ a few times, but surely a majority of these judges are acting on their own, no cases before them?

  10. Being a legal layman, I too am struck by the Circuit courts observation, “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. …” How can any US trained lawyer not fail to understand that our system of justice is adversarial rather than inquisitorial as in much of the non-Anglo world? Even I understood that as would anyone who watched film depictions of the Nazi Judge Freisler or of the Spanish Inquisition. This seems to be a basic misunderstanding of the roles of American judges. Given that Judge Ellis has been on the bench some 12 years, perhaps this is not the first time for her to proceed down this inquisitorial path.

    1. “Given that Judge Ellis has been on the bench some 12 years, perhaps this is not the first time for her to proceed down this inquisitorial path.”

      Yes Sir Mr. Nordsieck, you made an pointed summation. Accountability of the Bench is a critical problem, of which the Bench has not been held Accountable.

      Armed with A.I. Judicial Audits will be a snap. The next step is the creation of the Department of Judaical Efficiency (DOJE).
      [akin to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), only for Judicial Opinions]

        1. To be permanently restructured as the “Department of Judicial Equity” when the Democrats retake control of government.

          1. Awe come on Vincente – Don’t be a poor-sport.
            The glass can be half full and the (A.I.) future can be bright!
            Leave Us some hope for Mankind.

  11. The judicial branch possesses no executive power.

    The judicial branch possesses no power to usurp and exercise the executive power of the executive branch.

    There is NO power of the judicial branch to “interpret,” modify, or amend the Constitution.

    The Supreme Court, at some point, MUST support the Constitution and stop rewriting it.
    _________________________________________________________________________________________________

    Article 2, Section 1

    The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
    __________________________________________________________________________________________

    Article 3, Section 1

    The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

    1. “The Supreme Court, at some point, MUST support the Constitution and stop rewriting it..”

      The overwhelming singular failure of the American republic rights and freedoms experiment has been voters allowing the continued existence of the vile and violent, seditious DNC and their equally vile members like GeorgeX. The Democrats who blame the chaos they’ve created on the Supreme Court, not themselves: the Court that has given them what they couldn’t get at the ballot box.

      The Confederate DNC who have now embraced Marx/Alinsky’s communist strategies since losing the Kluxxer Civil War and now put their fellow communists like Justices Jackson and Sotomayor on SCOTUS, polluting that court in hopes of continuing to get from SCOTUS what voters consistently reject at the ballot box.

      And while GeorgeX and other communist Democrats want to blame SCOTUS – at the same time they howl in delight at the actions of Jackson and Sotomayor that they worked so hard to put on SCOTUS.

      (and district court Democrat judges like Ellis, Boasberg, and Howell where Democrat corruption begins, of course)

  12. What about the coverup by President Trump and his enablers like Mike Johnson of the Epstein Files? Why is the government protecting rich and powerful pedophiles?

    1. What about the coverup by President Trump and his enablers like Mike Johnson of the Epstein Files?

      Do communist Free-Stuff-For-Me Democrat pedophiles project their obsession with engaging in pedophelia on those they hate who have success and money?

      This looks like a winning political campaign strategy… don’t change a thing! Why don’t you explain the 16 year long cover-up by Obama, Biden and their enablers like Schumer, Pelosi, et al of the same Epstein Files?

      What about the first eight years of the cover-up? Obama was giving his besty bagman serial rapist and pedophile Harvey Weinstein sanctuary in the White House, to have his way with the Obama daughters.

      What about the four years of Biden cover-up of Epstein? Was that because he and Doctor Jill were worried that it would attract attention to his White House Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Pedophelia Showers?

      Projection:
      Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else. This is an internal defense mechanism which allows a person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing them as the thoughts and actions of someone else who they despise and hate instead.

      1. Presumably, this demented moron, with a severe case of malignant narcissistic pathology, is arguing in favor of rich and powerful pedophiles.

        Wait! You don’t suppose it/she/her/whatever is one, do you?

        Pedo, is that you?

    2. Epstein and Maxwell were arrested and jailed under the Trump administration. Epstein died before he could be tried, but Maxwell was prosecuted and convicted under the Biden administration. At this point, Biden and Pelosi were presumably protecting pedophiles.

      Did you ask them why they refused to prosecute those monsters?

      1. michaeldix2f64102fb2,

        Just a reminder that not only is Trump the President now, he repeatedly claimed that one of his main tasks was to release the Epstein files. Then we find out the FBI shifted critical resources to spend months going over the documents redacting Trump’s name from them. Also of note is that Epstein died in Trump’s custody under very suspicious circumstances in the control of the son of the man who hired Epstein, who had no teaching credentials, to teach children. Soon after hiring Epstein that father wrote a book about wealthy people sexually abusing children. That son had begged for the job and then, after Epstein was dead, immediately resigned. It looks very much like “Mission Accomplished.”

        We wanted to know why a key player in the first Trump administration made such a forgiving deal to Epstein way back when, a deal that many are claiming somehow give protection from prosecution to every molester Epstein was trafficking children to.

        From 2019:

        “Epstein, who has been seen in the past as a friend of President Trump and former President Clinton, first faced other sex crime charges back in 2006 and 2007. At the time, he could have faced life in prison for allegations with underage girls. But the prosecutor in the case, Alex Acosta, now President Trump’s labor secretary, struck a more lenient deal.

        Epstein served just 13 months in a county jail for these charges.”

        1. Then we find out the FBI shifted critical resources to spend months going over the documents redacting Trump’s name from them.

          No we don’t. Who has “found” this? No one.

          the son of the man who hired Epstein, who had no teaching credentials, to teach children.

          There’s no evidence of that, and it’s very unlikely. Barr resigned in February 1974, and his last day of work was in June. Epstein started in September. It’s unlikely the school would have allowed Barr, who had already resigned, to hire new teachers for the next year.

          Soon after hiring Epstein that father wrote a book about wealthy people sexually abusing children.

          Blatant lie. Space Relations, a science fiction novel, was published in September 1973, which means it was submitted to the publisher at least six months earlier, and probably longer. Epstein didn’t start teaching at Dalton until September 1974.

          That son had begged for the job

          No, he hadn’t. He was surprised when Trump offered him the job. He had a flourishing law practice and no interest in going back into government, and took the job out of duty to the country.

          and then, after Epstein was dead, immediately resigned.

          No, he didn’t. Epstein died on August 10, 2019. Barr resigned on December 21, 2020. Until the events of that month he had had no intention of leaving before his term was up in January.

          a key player in the first Trump administration made such a forgiving deal to Epstein way back when

          What on earth has this got to do with Trump? Nothing at all.

          1. What you replied with makes the situation appear far worse.

            That Epstein would have been known to Barr the Elder prior to the school hiring and during the time the book was written. He would have made the hiring recommendation before the beginning of the school year – that’s when recommendations for hiring are made; the hiring itself starts with the school year so they aren’t getting paid when there aren’t classes.

            “In June 2018, Barr sent an unsolicited 20-page memo to senior Justice Department officials. He also provided copies to members of Trump’s legal team and discussed it with some of them. In his memo, Barr argued that the Special Counsel should not be investigating Trump for obstruction of justice because Trump’s actions, such as firing FBI Director James Comey, were within his powers as head of the executive branch”

            This is how begging for the job works. You do work on spec and send it to a potential client. If Barr was happy he’d not get involved.

            Soon isn’t specific. He didn’t remain to the end of Trump’s term and left by resigning. He would have to stay in place to ensure that any leaks were taken care of and to provide plausible deniability. What Barr says is what benefits Barr for people to believe. What he did and why he did it won’t ever be known.

            It’s very important that the deal that was made to grant 100% immunity to everyone associated with Epstein would definitely apply to Trump. That Trump then hired the guy who gave him such protection looks like a big reward.

            “The Federal Bureau of Investigation redacted President Donald Trump’s name and those of other high-profile individuals from government files related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to three people familiar with the matter.

            The redactions were made by a team of FBI employees tasked with reviewing the Epstein files for potential public release. The names were withheld under privacy protections because those individuals, including Trump, were private citizens when the federal investigation into Epstein began in 2006, the people said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.”

            https://news.bgov.com/litigation/fbi-redacted-trumps-name-in-epstein-files-for-privacy-reasons

            He is President and, unfortunately, very public; there is no reason to redact his name, everyone knows who he is.

        2. Rabble:
          “…he repeatedly claimed that one of his main tasks…” Why don’t you go ahead and actually point to WHERE EXACTLY Trump himself, not members of his cabinet, said he personally would release the files? AFAIK, he was asked repeatedly, and his response every time was “I don’t know, I’ll look into it.” He never campaigned on it, Bondi did.

  13. Abughazaleh – Political KABUKI:
    A form of theatre in which an elaborately emotional political performer uses public tactics, stylized protest, drawing law enforcement into conflict in order to enact tragedies to agitate and further enrage the extreme-left’s spoon-fed mainstream media audience.

    Abughazaleh – is not an elected-official, and the assumed vindication and full-protection, via her candidacy, is a contrivance:

    Throw the book at this actress, who also needs a “striking rebuke.”

    1. Elected officials have no more protection. Congressmen are protected from arrest only for nonviolent misdemeanors, and for debts (which is no longer a thing). They can still be arrested for felonies, and for breach of the peace. That covers this.

  14. That (the order infringes on the separation of powers) is a striking rebuke for a federal judge.

    It’s not striking at all, Professor Turley. It should remind you of how many times Democrat politicians and their fellow Democrats within the judicial branch and justice system have willfully ignored the Constitutional’s separation of powers. Doing so to either advance the Democrats’ socialist great leap forward or to block and tear down anything which threatens the Democrat program – in this case, the deportation of 20 million Illegal Alien Democrat political pawns.

    You can’t possibly forget that SCOTUS eventually threw out Jack Smith’s first job as a political assassin in 2012 to successfully eliminate a threat to a Democrat President’s reelection. First, to work with the IRS to illegally deprive GOP groups of their 1st Amendment rights. Followed by Smith changing the law to prosecute and convict Governor Bob McDonald before a Democrat judge who allowed that. SCOTUS threw that conviction out in a rare unanimous decision and went so far as to say that Jack Smith and the judge that permitted it were a threat to the Constitution’s separation of powers.

    Then you have Alvin Bragg and Judge Merchan – like this judge, promoting themselves from their basement state level to being in charge of criminal prosecution of federal election laws. But only of Trump – not of Clinton and Obama who the FEC did find violated election laws, but chose only to fine, not to prosecute as Bragg and Merchan did Trump.

    Or if you prefer, your fellow brother of the bar association, Judge Boasberg who made his bones in 2016 during the ‘Russia Dossier’ police state fascism by allowing Obama’s Attorney Generals and FBI Directors to repeatedly perjure themselves in his court room to justify FISA warrants. Who we just learned followed that up in 2021 by issuing similarly fraudulent subpoenas to Jack Smith for Arctic Frost to violate the First and Fourth Amendment protections of over 460 Republicans including 16 current and former senators.

    The only striking thing here is the attempt to take a narrow view of these Democrat unconstitutional judges and prosecutors in attempts to minimize that this is epidemic level political corruption and political fascism that runs through Democrat lawyers, whether they’re prosecutors or judges serving at any level of the judiciary.

  15. Ellis is an abuse of power by an official.

    On the second offering, I doubt ICE knew the 26 year old was a candidate nor does it matter. Obstruction of justice is. Rather like the self important Padilla rushing a press conference isn’t it. Vanity of the self important is on display.

  16. A “striking rebuke.” That seems to be all they ever get. These “judges” that constantly interfere, overstep their authority, and make themselves the final arbiter need more than a “striking rebuke.” More like a slap up side the head to knock this stuff off. They are supposed to be a “neutral adjudicator of the parties’ adversarial presentations.” Maybe a good place to start would be for them to actually do their jobs. Otherwise, it is way past time to remove them from the bench. This political game needs to stop right now.

    1. “A “striking rebuke.” That seems to be all they ever get.”

      Well, you’ve heard of condemnation by faint praise. But in Professor Turley’s case his fellow Democrats like this judge get salvation through faint criticism.

      Professor Turley uses stronger language and much greater condemnation of the tone and choice of language President Trump uses in some of his completely legal First Amendment remarks than he ever does of the unconstitutional actions of these judges while they shred the Constitution and the First and Fourth Amendments of the Bill of Rights.

      And none of that is going to change. Whether with the response from Republicans in Congress who know they would need an enormous majority well beyond the filibuster to impeach the worst of these judges like Boasberg, Beryl Howell, etc.

      Nor in how Professor Turley mildly complains about their blatant malfeasance in taking their black robed judicial wrecking ball to violate of the Constitution’s separation of powers in his columns.

  17. Good for the Seventh Circuit (“inquisitor rather than that of a neutral adjudicator”).

    Trump is no exemplary leader in ethics or admirable speech,- but Perhaps never was there a more concerted effort by retaliatory, political, anti-Trump forces to bring him down with forum-shopped litigation, and make good on the ole “Show me the man and I’ll find you a crime” adage. (Beria?)

    1. lin,

      Are you worried that Trump will be brought down? Sure, Trump’s legal team and other supporters lost nearly 70 forum-shopped challenges to the 2020 election results, but it’s different when Trump does it, right? No big deal, just working to overturn the will of the American people.

  18. What’s needed is a reliable statistic that scores the rate that a federal judge’s decisions are overturned on appeal. A simple one that would indicate what percentage of cases are reversed on appeal would be:
    (total # decisions – # decisions upheld on appeal)/total # decisions x 100.
    One hundred percent minus this number would give the percent of a judge’s cases upheld on appeal.

  19. What are ‘They’ (U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis ~ et.al.) really hiding in Chicagoland ???
    Perhaps it’s a bigger ‘Underground Black-Market Debt’ insolvency problem (Immigrant Underground Economy).
    Hence the White-Market can’t washup money to pay their mortgage Notes and continue to Live Life Large.
    (same goes for a lot of other metroplexes across the Nation)

    🕷️ OH what a tangled web we weave in The Windy City ( a.k.a.: “Al Capone’s city”}. 🕷️

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