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bluestarone

(22,192 posts)
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 12:48 PM Jan 25

Judges have 0 power over ICE! How can that be changed?

Elections will not stop this shit. They need to be identifiable. What, or how can this be done? EDIT to say judges have made great rulings, but how can they be ENFORCED? I'm hoping that local law enforcement could at least have the right to detain ICE person if state or city laws are broken.

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Fiendish Thingy

(23,253 posts)
1. Who says they have zero power?
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 12:54 PM
Jan 25

A court issued an injunction, and an appeals court granted a stay lifting the injunction.

That’s how courts work.

The story isn’t over yet.

bluestarone

(22,192 posts)
2. Has any decisions stopped ICE?
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 12:56 PM
Jan 25

Yea, i agree that judges make rulings, but NONE are followed, that i know. Can you show me any ruling that ICE has followed?

Fiendish Thingy

(23,253 posts)
10. Can you show me any ruling that ICE has defied?
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 01:29 PM
Jan 25

IIRC, The most recent injunction issued this past week was in place for less than 24 hours before an appeals court issued a stay lifting the injunction.

Fiendish Thingy

(23,253 posts)
12. That was the injunction that was stayed, IIRC
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 01:47 PM
Jan 25

Can you quote a ruling that has not been stayed by a higher court and is still in place, that ICE has defied?

bluestarone

(22,192 posts)
13. I believe the camera usage is stll ordered but not followed.
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 01:55 PM
Jan 25

Can you name a judges order that ICE is following? Hell Noam herself says ICE do not need warrants to enter a home. Their is a LAW against this, but judges have no enforcement power. that's a fact.

Fiendish Thingy

(23,253 posts)
15. The only enforcement power they have is via contempt
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 02:59 PM
Jan 25

And so far they are hesitant to use it. IIRC, there is a case regarding the right to film LEO’s working its way through the courts.

AFAIK, nobody has been arrested for filming ICE, as any charges would immediately be dismissed, but plenty have been harassed, detained and even beaten for daring to film agents. Right now the onus for accountability falls to the victims or perhaps local law enforcement.

Clearly, Bondi is not about to prosecute, let alone investigate the conduct of ICE. She and Noem should be the first impeachments of the new Dem congress.

I’m sure there will be some suits for damages from the families of the murdered as well as others whose civil rights have been infringed, but I don’t expect any payouts until after Trump is out of office.

The next president should seize Trump’s assets as gains from supporting terrorism and money laundering, and use it to pay his victims.

flvegan

(66,284 posts)
3. What will making them identifiable matter? What changes?
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 12:57 PM
Jan 25

Jonathan Ross has been identified as the murderer of Renee Good. So identified was he, that he got close to a million bucks from his GoFundMe (or whatever it was).

Let me know when that shitbrick catches a charge or even so much as gets a parking ticket for the incident. He gets whisked off to parts unknown into some killer's protection program, while Ms. It'sNotALieIfYouBelieveIt Puppy Killer goes on Fox/CNN and defends him.

It doesn't matter.

kacekwl

(9,155 posts)
14. Pressure needs to be put HARD on republicans and
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 02:19 PM
Jan 25

the Supreme Court. Press them everywhere they go with questions and facts and the law. No rest for the traitors.

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