Politico: Lawless Lowly District Court Political Hacks "Believe They've Found a Way to Bypass" the Controlling Rulings from the Appeals Court That Serves as Their Superior Court, and That's Great

Politico is very excited that lowly district court judges may have found a way to "bypass" the rulings of the Fifth Circuit court of appeals, a court which is superior to them and which makes the controlling law in their district.

But they'll just figure out a way to ignore their judicial superiors.

Note that yesterday, Politico was scandalized by left-wing judges complaining to them that the Trump Administration slow-walks and subverts their orders.

It's just terrible! We can't have a country in which the duly-elected president and head of the entire executive branch disregards the orders of lowly, one-of-677 district judges!

Courts across the country have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump administration's effort to round up thousands of immigrants and lock them up without a chance for bond -- even if they have no criminal records and have lived in the United States for years.
But the Trump administration has slow-walked or outright defied judges' orders demanding the release of people scooped up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at an increasingly rapid clip.

But now, the lowly district court judges are scheming about how to ignore their direct judicial superiors, their "commander ranked" superior officer judges, and Politico thinks that's very clever and nifty!

Judges may have found a way to bypass 5th Circuit ruling upholding Trump's mass detention policy
Two Texas judges, who are bound by the circuit's ruling, outlined a legal rationale allowing them to continue granting immigrants' release.
Federal judges may have found a workaround to reject the Trump administration's mass detention policy after an appeals court backed the approach.
A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday blessed the administration's interpretation of the government's power to systematically detain people targeted for deportation -- even if they have no criminal records and have lived in the country for decades.
But two federal district court judges in Texas, who are bound by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit's ruling, said the 2-1 decision left an opening for them to continue granting immigrants' release on other grounds, primarily constitutional arguments against detaining people who have established roots in the U.S. without due process. Those roots amount, in legal parlance, to a "liberty interest" that the Constitution says cannot be taken away without at least a hearing before a neutral judge.

This is an entirely made-up bit of judicial wishcasting that they're creating just to keep giving the same illegal aliens, all eligible for deportation, more and more "bites at the apple." They will keep spinning out novel, fantastical, made-up new theories so that the illegal aliens are perpetually "in the system" awaiting their next hearing.

They're contriving a way to keep illegals in the country forever, because they'll just keep making up new theories to sue under, and thus will keep them in the country, always with the next appeal filed for the next judge, until they die.

"This conclusion is not changed by the Fifth Circuit's recent decision," Judge Kathleen Cardone, an El Paso based appointee of George W. Bush, ruled late Monday in at least five cases, concluding that the circuit's decision "has no bearing on this Court's determination of whether [the petitioner] is being detained in violation of his constitutional right to procedural due process."
Judge David Briones, an El Paso-based Clinton appointee, reached a similar conclusion.
"The Court reiterates its original holding that noncitizens who have 'established connections' in the United States by virtue of living in the country for a substantial period acquire a liberty interest in being free from government detention without due process of law," Briones wrote.
The decisions from the Texas-based judges are notable in part because the administration has often rushed detainees there after their arrests in other states such as Minnesota.

By the way, the exact same "reporter," Kyle Cheney, is responsible for both of these "news" accounts, one assailing the DOJ for questioning the rulings of judges, the other celebrating district court justices spamming out new fictional "rights" in order to evade the ruling of the higher Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM

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1 It's who they are.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 12, 2026 04:31 PM (zjgNU)

2 BAMN.

They really mean ANY means.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 12, 2026 04:32 PM (zjgNU)

3 Bad Judges ... Judicial Branch is full of rogue leftists.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 12, 2026 04:32 PM (vbXSk)

4 "By the way, the exact same "reporter," Kyle Cheney, is responsible for both of these "news" accounts"

You get both sides of the story.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:32 PM (N8ZBc)

5 Who is weaker-

A. An elected republican
B. A smarmy inferior magistrate judge

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2026 04:33 PM (abIsI)

6 Poi.

Posted by: Judge Kalikimaka at February 12, 2026 04:33 PM (UjdFS)

7 Penumbras and emanations!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 12, 2026 04:33 PM (RIvkX)

8 By the way, the exact same "reporter," Kyle Cheney, is responsible for both of these "news" accounts, one assailing the DOJ for questioning the rulings of judges, the other celebrating district court justices spamming out new fictional "rights" in order to evade the ruling of the higher Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM

And he doesn't see any contradiction in that at all. Because all he cares about is power, he doesn't care about principles.

Their only principle IS power.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 12, 2026 04:33 PM (zjgNU)

9 Closely related:

Headline (Fox News):

"Dem says 'worst of the worst' are Americans, not immigrants"

Senator Steve Cohen to Pam Bondi at yesterday's hearing.

Posted by: mrp at February 12, 2026 04:34 PM (rj6Yv)

10
oh no

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 04:34 PM (n7rxJ)

11 So basically these judges are going to ignore the law and keep ruling against Trump no matter what has been judicially decided by the higher courts. And the left keeps claiming Trump is a King.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 12, 2026 04:34 PM (0N4FZ)

12 You mean Judge Ooba Oobagaboo (Botswana), Judge Pradesh Practomorophy (India), Judge Chico Escueala (Dominican Republic), and Judge Avi Leshkov (Israel) get to rule on 250 years of American jurisprudence?

I mean, why not. They're just as knowledgeable as anyone else. Any idea how that crap happened?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 12, 2026 04:35 PM (qwx/I)

13 Is it time for Judge nullification?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2026 04:35 PM (u82oZ)

14 BREAKING: Feds Have Now Placed A White Tent Outside Of Nancy Guthrie’s Home

A white tent people. A WHITE tent!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2026 04:36 PM (abIsI)

15 Bad Judges ... Judicial Branch is full of rogue leftists.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 12, 2026 04:32 PM (vbXSk)

Bukele is right. Until we deal with the corrupt judges, we can't fix this country.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 12, 2026 04:36 PM (zjgNU)

16 The Constitution plainly grants the Judicial Branch authority to make and execute laws. Plaintiffs have petitioned this Court to arrest Donald J. Trump and it is so ordered!

Posted by: President Judge Biasberg at February 12, 2026 04:36 PM (lIonU)

17 Just how many "appeals" are these illegals getting ? Most already have deportation orders yet they keep getting lawyers and new hearings..

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2026 04:36 PM (VE6XX)

18
I not only read the content. I fucking STUDIED it. So one of you #1-9 had better pony up an answer.

>>"noncitizens who have 'established connections' in the United States by virtue of living in the country for a substantial period acquire a liberty interest in being free from government detention without due process of law," Briones wrote."

Does this mean they can't be detained while they're awaiting the rubber-stamp (2nd or 3rd) deportation order, or that they're entitled to a whole kit-and-kaboodle judge-and-jury trial?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 04:36 PM (n7rxJ)

19 Politico reporter Kyle Cheney accused of being a lefty propagandist despite overwhelming evidence of him being a lefty propagandist.

Posted by: Axios at February 12, 2026 04:36 PM (Y1sOo)

20 Mister Scott

Nixon had the right idea, with the IRS on his side.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2026 04:36 PM (u82oZ)

21 The law refuses to obey the law.

Leges sine Moribus Vanae

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 12, 2026 04:36 PM (RIvkX)

22 Closely related:

Headline (Fox News):

"Dem says 'worst of the worst' are Americans, not immigrants"

Senator Steve Cohen to Pam Bondi at yesterday's hearing.

I guess Cohen intended to refer to goyim as the worst of the worst.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 12, 2026 04:37 PM (qwx/I)

23 What law school in these United States teaches the principles of "Liberty interest"?

Posted by: mrp at February 12, 2026 04:37 PM (rj6Yv)

24 BREAKING: Feds Have Now Placed A White Tent Outside Of Nancy Guthrie’s Home

A white tent people. A WHITE tent!
Posted by: Maj. Healey

What could this mean? Let's ask our panel of ex-FBI agent experts!

Posted by: FOX News at February 12, 2026 04:37 PM (UjdFS)

25 I leared this in somali school that the judicial branch also acts as the legislative and executive branches. It's in the constitution.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 12, 2026 04:37 PM (n5tGW)

26 Those roots amount, in legal parlance, to a "liberty interest" that the Constitution says cannot be taken away without at least a hearing before a neutral judge./i]

This is insane.

Trump could order the military to summarily execute any illegal in US borders and it would be 100% legal in American law. If you've invaded the country's borders the first job of government is to remove you as quickly as possible.

Its time for Trump to treat these cartel judges like FDR treated Tokyo Rose

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 04:37 PM (sKqQm)

27 Large or small - deport them all.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2026 04:38 PM (lnk1R)

28
What could this mean? Let's ask our panel of ex-FBI agent experts!
Posted by: FOX News at February 12, 2026 04:37 PM (UjdFS)

Droning on for hours and hours and hours...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2026 04:38 PM (VE6XX)

29 @26 ... under those circumstances, I request a return to Active Duty.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 12, 2026 04:38 PM (qwx/I)

30 Bukele is right. Until we deal with the corrupt judges, we can't fix this country.
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We need to *accidentally* deport them to someplace in Africa that doesn't have phones.

Posted by: Methos at February 12, 2026 04:38 PM (vSvIl)

31 I not only read the content. I fucking STUDIED it. So one of you #1-9 had better pony up an answer.

*points at self*
*silently asks Me?*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 12, 2026 04:39 PM (RIvkX)

32 Children of Color will die because Trump does not care enough to bankrupt the country to save them.

Posted by: Bobby Sherman at February 12, 2026 04:39 PM (X7dyz)

33 Being in legal limbo forever isn't a great win. It can get hard logistically and on one's mental health.

I'm not saying that illegals should stay forever, I think their removal (and that of their anchor babies) should be a quick process. What I'm pointing out is that the Left, as usual, hasn't thought this all the way through.

Posted by: pookysgirl actually considers consequences at February 12, 2026 04:39 PM (Wt5PA)

34

Oh boy, won't these judges be surprised when they learn that a Due Process "liberty interest" cannot lie for any right that is explicitly enumerated in any other part of the constitution, like the fifth amendments right to "Liberty" itself. As in, you cannot assert a right to have a gun under the 9th amendment, because the second amendment guarantees that right. You cannot get around constitutional precedent by creative pleading.

Posted by: imp at February 12, 2026 04:39 PM (g6TN6)

35 So after the 5th circuit says no liberty interest, they'll have to come up with something else.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 12, 2026 04:39 PM (n5tGW)

36 Judges may have found a way to bypass 5th Circuit ruling upholding Trump's mass detention policy

So, you're telling me that judges can be ignored...

Posted by: t-bird at February 12, 2026 04:39 PM (ReYtg)

37 Are we charging illegals for their upkeep while they fight deportation?

Why not?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 04:39 PM (sKqQm)

38 AI is coming.

Posted by: Earth: The Final Season at February 12, 2026 04:40 PM (qUkBO)

39 They keep twisting & turning laws so we can't get criminals off the street unless they burn down a room in a gov's mansion or bop someone on the head who's related to Pelosi.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 12, 2026 04:40 PM (NFX2v)

40 A white tent people. A WHITE tent!
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2026 04:36 PM (abIsI)
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Will this mean "Gutfeld" is canceled again? Dammit.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 12, 2026 04:40 PM (RIvkX)

41 I not only read the content. I fucking STUDIED it. So one of you #1-9 had better pony up an answer.

>>"noncitizens who have 'established connections' in the United States by virtue of living in the country for a substantial period acquire a liberty interest in being free from government detention without due process of law," Briones wrote."

Does this mean they can't be detained while they're awaiting the rubber-stamp (2nd or 3rd) deportation order, or that they're entitled to a whole kit-and-kaboodle judge-and-jury trial?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Judges are full of shit. If they have ONE deportation order, they've had the wetback due process.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2026 04:40 PM (lnk1R)

42
Will this mean "Gutfeld" is canceled again? Dammit.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 12, 2026 04:40 PM (RIvkX)

Dang it..

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2026 04:40 PM (VE6XX)

43 One Of My Liberals Friends Reaction To EPA Endangerment Rescission today:

"Bullsh*t"

First of all, he doesn't know anything about what an EPA finding is, least of all this particular one. It could be a Waffle House menu item and his TDS would be engorged in raging. lol

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 12, 2026 04:40 PM (DgMqy)

44 "BREAKING: Feds Have Now Placed A White Tent Outside Of Nancy Guthrie’s Home"

If they set up a campfire, watch out for smores and weenies.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:40 PM (N8ZBc)

45

5th Circuit Court of Appeals orders Nancy Guthrie to return home.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 12, 2026 04:41 PM (Cqx++)

46 By the way, the exact same "reporter," Kyle Cheney, is responsible for both of these "news" accounts, one assailing the DOJ for questioning the rulings of judges, the other celebrating district court justices spamming out new fictional "rights" in order to evade the ruling of the higher Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
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Oh, damn! My hypocrisy meter just exploded. Second one this week, too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2026 04:41 PM (lIonU)

47
Those roots amount, in legal parlance, to a "liberty interest" that the Constitution says cannot be taken away without at least a hearing before a neutral judge.

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Roots. That Vilma Palacio from earlier whined about her "roots" and how they entitled her to keep living in the U.S. illegally.

Shadows, penumbras, roots. It's like these judges are getting their ideas from DeviantArt.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 04:41 PM (n7rxJ)

48 The EPA has decided its ok to breathe out.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 12, 2026 04:41 PM (n5tGW)

49 A white tent people. A WHITE tent!

Jesse Grace should get another hour tonight.

Posted by: DanMan at February 12, 2026 04:41 PM (8uzBS)

50 Those roots amount, in legal parlance, to a "liberty interest" that the Constitution says cannot be taken away without at least a hearing before a neutral judge.

So, not finding a neutral judge destroys this argument right?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 12, 2026 04:42 PM (6Fej7)

51 Leftism is doing to the federal judiciary what Leftism has done to the MSM and the Dem party.

Posted by: mrp at February 12, 2026 04:42 PM (rj6Yv)

52 BREAKING: Feds Have Now Placed A White Tent Outside Of Nancy Guthrie’s Home
A white tent people. A WHITE tent!
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Certain things have come to light. And, you know, has it ever occurred to you, that, instead of, uh, you know, running around, uh, uh, blaming me, you know, given the nature of all this new shit, you know, I-I-I-I... this could be a-a-a-a lot more, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, complex, I mean, it's not just, it might not be just such a simple... uh, you know?

Posted by: The Dude at February 12, 2026 04:42 PM (Ljddq)

53

Hey you know, that means if I rob a bank & can avoid capture for a dozen years, I should be able to avoid prosecution because I have established a liberty interest in being free from the filthy mitts of those dirty rotten feds.

Posted by: imp at February 12, 2026 04:42 PM (g6TN6)

54 Lots of drug dealers, child smugglers, and gang bangers have a "liberty interest" here, right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 12, 2026 04:43 PM (ynpvh)

55 DM has a purported picture of the white tent. I can confirm that it's white, but I cannot confirm DM's assertion that it is an assault tent.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:43 PM (N8ZBc)

56 Is it time for Judge nullification?

At some point there has to be a showdown, and if the Supreme Court isn’t willing to force it the White House will. But that’s a very chancy thing in an environment where the political establishment in each party wants to subvert voters.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 12, 2026 04:43 PM (EXyHK)

57

Due process is a hearing before a neutral decision maker, not necessarily an Art III judge. An immigration judge Is just fine.

Posted by: imp at February 12, 2026 04:43 PM (g6TN6)

58 I have a "liberty interest if I haven't paid my taxes in years and haven't been caught.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 12, 2026 04:43 PM (ynpvh)

59 Hey you know, that means if I rob a bank & can avoid capture for a dozen years, I should be able to avoid prosecution because I have established a liberty interest in being free from the filthy mitts of those dirty rotten feds.

Also, if the cops see you walking with your 5 year old and you leave him so you can instead carry your bag of loot you are the victim and the cops are the bad guys for making you choose what you stole over your kid

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 04:43 PM (sKqQm)

60
Judges are full of shit. If they have ONE deportation order, they've had the wetback due process.
Posted by: rickb223

============

I re-studied the content and I think it's a reversal of the victory Trump had a few days ago, in which the Fifth Circuit said Yes, you can detain illegals while they await processing (which they could avoid by agreeing to be deported).

So it's back to releasing them again.

But will DHS go along with it or tell the district judges to gf themselves?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 04:44 PM (n7rxJ)

61 Are we charging illegals for their upkeep while they fight deportation?

Why not?
Posted by: 18-1

Charge their home countries, starting at $1 million/day.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 12, 2026 04:44 PM (6Fej7)

62 Nancy Guthrie is in the concussion protocol?

Posted by: guy who watches the pro and college football too much at February 12, 2026 04:44 PM (Y1sOo)

63 All their rules are unruly.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 04:44 PM (jc0TO)

64 57

Due process is a hearing before a neutral decision maker, not necessarily an Art III judge. An immigration judge Is just fine.

Posted by: imp at February 12, 2026 04:43 PM (g6TN6)

For some definitions of neutral, which I assume those judges feel they are "neutral"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 12, 2026 04:44 PM (ynpvh)

65 I read more on cartel judge Bonerburger's order.
It's worse than reported.
He's not just ordering the DOJ to return them.

He's ordering them to:
- facilitate their return
- pay for their flights
- grant them entry to the US wherever they present

Further, he is giving his court the extra-jurisdictional authority to accept a habeas petition from any of those from over-seas.

And keep in mind, he's not doing this by illegally ordering State to conduct foreign affairs, or illegally ordering the Executive to spend money, or illegally ordering the Executive to not enforce immigration law--no!
He's doing all this indirectly by threatening to hold DOJ officials in contempt if the others don't do that.

And, further, he has the gall to claim the reason he must do all this illegality is because the DOJ wouldn't comply with his earlier, illegal orders to return them!

I can't explain just how far outside the law this is but it's bad.
He's not just lawless--he's gone mad with power.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2026 04:44 PM (HXT0k)

66 I leared this in somali school that the judicial branch also acts as the legislative and executive branches.

It is the responsibility of lower-court judges to always be learing at the White House.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 12, 2026 04:45 PM (EXyHK)

67 Snakes in the court!
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BREAKING... *Governor DeSantis Orders All Captured Burmese Pythons Returned To Judge Boasberg's House and Courtroom Forthwith*

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2026 04:45 PM (lIonU)

68 @24

>>What could this mean? Let's ask our panel of ex-FBI agent experts!

It means they lifted the floor boards and found a body.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 12, 2026 04:45 PM (Ruy1P)

69 Large or small - deport them all.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2026 04:38 PM (lnk1R)

Black or brown, yellow or white.

Deportation by trebuchet is always right.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 12, 2026 04:46 PM (dK+Kv)

70 DM has a purported picture of the white tent. I can confirm that it's white, but I cannot confirm DM's assertion that it is an assault tent.
Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:43 PM

It's white on this side

That's as far as I can go.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 04:46 PM (jc0TO)

71 The WHITE tent is at the FRONT DOOR.

Rain is coming? A dust storm?

Dear heavens, she hasn't been inside a home freezer, right?!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 12, 2026 04:46 PM (NFX2v)

72 I can't explain just how far outside the law this is but it's bad.
He's not just lawless--he's gone mad with power.

He's not going to stop until he's either impeached or arrested.

Congress won't impeach him due to the partisan make up so hey Bondi you going to get in on this?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

73 OT but the USA Men have crushed the Latvians spirit finally. they hang in there really well but their goalie is kaput maybe.

we'll see! it's 4-1 USA

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 12, 2026 04:46 PM (j+aD2)

74 for fucks sake, seriously?

"Trump administration has slow-walked or outright defied judges' orders demanding the release of people scooped up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at an increasingly rapid clip."

They have slow walked it because anyone with an ounce of legal knowledge knows that Article III judges have no say in Article II immigration issues. This is not only affirmed by the constitution, and supreme court rulings, but actual law passed by congress and signed by the president.

They are wildly out of line here.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 12, 2026 04:46 PM (vOtXJ)

75 I have never heard of Constitutional rights that attach gradually over time. What are the tests, heaviness of accent? You have a due process right if you shop at Walmart but not Gualmarr. WTF

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at February 12, 2026 04:46 PM (wGerL)

76 He's doing all this indirectly by threatening to hold DOJ officials in contempt if the others don't do that.
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The irony is surreal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 12, 2026 04:46 PM (RIvkX)

77 He's not going to stop until he's either impeached or arrested.

I think just laughing at him is fine

ignore the old fool

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 12, 2026 04:46 PM (j+aD2)

78 And, further, he has the gall to claim the reason he must do all this illegality is because the DOJ wouldn't comply with his earlier, illegal orders to return them!

I can't explain just how far outside the law this is but it's bad.
He's not just lawless--he's gone mad with power.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2026 04:44 PM (HXT0k)

Bring back tarring and feathering.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 12, 2026 04:46 PM (ynpvh)

79 Headline (Fox News):

"Federal judge blocks Trump bid to move Biden-commuted death row inmates to 'Alcatraz of the Rockies'"

Excerpt:

"A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 former death row inmates to the federal "supermax" prison in Colorado, ruling the move likely violated their Fifth Amendment due process rights.

Posted by: mrp at February 12, 2026 04:46 PM (rj6Yv)

80 "Nancy Guthrie is in the concussion protocol?"

DM contends the tent stood only one hour. Homicide crime-scene analysis moves at lightning speed these days!

No word on whether the tent received due process. Stand by.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:46 PM (N8ZBc)

81 Does impeachment involve trebuchets?

Or, at minimum, tar and feathers?

Posted by: mikeski at February 12, 2026 04:47 PM (VHUov)

82 A white tent! Let's ask Paul Mauro what he thinks.

Posted by: FOX News at February 12, 2026 04:47 PM (UjdFS)

83 And keep in mind, he's not doing this by illegally ordering State to conduct foreign affairs, or illegally ordering the Executive to spend money, or illegally ordering the Executive to not enforce immigration law--no!
He's doing all this indirectly by threatening to hold DOJ officials in contempt if the others don't do that.

And, further, he has the gall to claim the reason he must do all this illegality is because the DOJ wouldn't comply with his earlier, illegal orders to return them!

I can't explain just how far outside the law this is but it's bad.
He's not just lawless--he's gone mad with power.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2026 04:44 PM

SCOTUS smacked him down last April and told him to cease and desist, yet here we are.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 12, 2026 04:47 PM (0N4FZ)

84
if I rob a bank & can avoid capture for a dozen years, I should be able to avoid prosecution because I have established a liberty interest in being free from the filthy mitts of those dirty rotten feds.

==============

Well, did you move around a lot during this time? Because judges respect "roots."

Although if we find out that the illegal aliens moved around a lot, we could revise roots to something like "I've grown accustomed to her face."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 04:47 PM (n7rxJ)

85 67 Snakes in the court!
==================
BREAKING... *Governor DeSantis Orders All Captured Burmese Pythons Returned To Judge Boasberg's House and Courtroom Forthwith*

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2026 04:45 PM (lIonU)

At least I'm sssafe.

Posted by: Anna Conda at February 12, 2026 04:47 PM (ynpvh)

86 What are the tests, heaviness of accent? You have a due process right if you shop at Walmart but not Gualmarr. WTF

Pretty sure that if they implemented this rule it would be the other way around. Anyone who works to assimilate is a dangerous element and should be deported immediately.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 12, 2026 04:48 PM (EXyHK)

87 They ignore the 5th circuit and the DOJ ignores them. It's the circle of life, Simba.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 12, 2026 04:48 PM (f1kZG)

88 Illegal aliens can bumrush and crash our borders en masse by the millions

But, obviously, it just stands to reason they can only be removed singly, one at a time, after a lengthy and laborious legal obstacle course. Only on alternate Tuesdays in the month of July, during Leap years.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 12, 2026 04:48 PM (kmhyd)

89 She staged her own abduction to drive daughter's Today Show ratings above those of first place Good Morning America.

(Actually saw that proposal somewhere on X and I don't think it was a meant as a joke).

Posted by: one hour sober at February 12, 2026 04:48 PM (Y1sOo)

90 If you told me that this Guthrie kidnapping was staged, I'd be tempted to believe it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at February 12, 2026 04:48 PM (P7vXf)

91

For some definitions of neutral, which I assume those judges feel they are "neutral"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

No, I think they would be fine with administration to conduct a brand new removal hearing. Those things take like two or three years. That's what they're going for

Posted by: imp at February 12, 2026 04:48 PM (g6TN6)

92 Mayor Madmani to the white courtesy phone!

A gunman in the middle of robbing a 7-11 store in Midtown Manhattan lost patience with a homeless panhandler repeatedly pestering him for money, and he opened fire. The dead panhandler marks nearly two dozen deaths now attributable to the Mayors new homeless policies.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2026 04:48 PM (lIonU)

93 #Defund.US.District.Clown.Courts

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 12, 2026 04:49 PM (+6Dls)

94 79 Headline (Fox News):

"Federal judge blocks Trump bid to move Biden-commuted death row inmates to 'Alcatraz of the Rockies'"

Excerpt:

"A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 former death row inmates to the federal "supermax" prison in Colorado, ruling the move likely violated their Fifth Amendment due process rights.

Posted by: mrp at February 12, 2026 04:46 PM (rj6Yv)

Eh? They're prisoners; they have very, very limited rights, and the right to decide which prison they go in is not one of them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 12, 2026 04:50 PM (ynpvh)

95 The No Kings crowd seems to like it when unelected judges overthrow elected officials and act like kings.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at February 12, 2026 04:50 PM (x22Pq)

96 @24

>>What could this mean? Let's ask our panel of ex-FBI agent experts!

It means they lifted the floor boards and found a body.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
......

only because a fat agent kept complaining about that one loose squeaky floorboard

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 04:51 PM (UjdFS)

97 Spider Noir. This might be good. At least I like the look.

https://is.gd/Pr9RFx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 12, 2026 04:51 PM (J+Psw)

98 It's pretty clear that John Roberts is not going to put a stop to this therefore I have to assume he likes it.

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2026 04:51 PM (YwEeS)

99 Yet another President is heard from...
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DC Senior US District Judge Richard J. Leon ordered the Department of War to refrain “from implementing, enforcing, or otherwise giving effect” to Hegseth’s Jan. 5 censure letter — or “taking any other action in reliance on the findings, determinations, or threats of additional criminal or administrative action contained in” it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2026 04:51 PM (ZHEwX)

100 Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has introduced the Cartel Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act to seize cartel assets, according to a Dec. 18 statement from the lawmaker’s office.

The bill would authorize President Donald Trump to commission private U.S. operators under letters of marque to take over cartel assets on land and sea.

A letter of marque is a written authority granted to a person by the government to seize the goods of enemies. Such letters once used to be a common tool against piracy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2026 04:51 PM (7X7ea)

101 At least the dead frozen bums don't stink.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at February 12, 2026 04:52 PM (P7vXf)

102 What authority does a district court judge have over the UCMJ?

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2026 04:52 PM (YwEeS)

103 I think it depends, did they call "dibs"?

If they call dibs, there is nothing we can do.
Unless, of course they forgot to call "no backsies" as well.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 12, 2026 04:52 PM (l0YH1)

104 "constitutional arguments against detaining people who have established roots in the U.S. without due process. Those roots amount, in legal parlance, to a "liberty interest" that the Constitution says cannot be taken away without at least a hearing before a neutral judge."

There, literally, in black and white letters, is NO SUCH THING. None. Zip.

These are in fact NOT U.S. citizens, so the constitution is not applicable. It is up to the executive branch and ONLY the executive branch to deal with foreign nations and individuals. That is why the applicable laws say the judiciary has no right to legal review or ANY decision the executive makes in regard to foreign entities.

Immigration judges hold HEARINGS not TRIALS. Because the people present are not U.S. citizens, hence all the judicial trial stuff in the constitution is NOT applicable. Sheesh my legal training is a bit rusty, but this is appalling. This is first year law bullshit.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 12, 2026 04:53 PM (vOtXJ)

105 Can we deport the judges?

Posted by: IdontWantEmYouCanHaveEmTheyreTooCrapForMe at February 12, 2026 04:53 PM (fKeBm)

106 At least the dead frozen bums don't stink.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at February 12, 2026 04:52 PM

Spring comes. Snows always melt.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 04:53 PM (jc0TO)

107 Purpose of tent: Concealing crime scene techs huffing luminol, doing face-painting with fingerprint powder, sending SnapChats.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:53 PM (N8ZBc)

108 OK. Now it is time to formally reign in these activists. Time curtail the power of districts courts generally.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at February 12, 2026 04:53 PM (RAxGY)

109 97 Spider Noir. This might be good. At least I like the look.

https://is.gd/Pr9RFx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 12, 2026 04:51 PM (J+Psw)

HOw did he keep his hat on while swinging?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 12, 2026 04:54 PM (ynpvh)

110 The EPA has decided its ok to breathe out.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 12, 2026 04:41 PM

Thank goodness...I've been waiting.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2026 04:54 PM (JonuU)

111 BREAKING: Feds Have Now Placed A White Tent Outside Of Nancy Guthrie’s Home

Does that mean they found her in her own basement and she wasn't ever actually kidnapped?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 12, 2026 04:54 PM (a+4eV)

112 At least the dead frozen bums don't stink.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at February 12, 2026 04:52 PM

Spring comes. Snows always melt.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 04:53 PM (jc0TO)

Encino Man with a shopping cart.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at February 12, 2026 04:54 PM (P7vXf)

113 If I shit in your flowerpot for two years, does that mean I have a constitution right to continue shitting in your flowerpot?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 12, 2026 04:54 PM (xFfhU)

114

Again, it's not which prison, it's an increase in punishment. They have to be found guilty of an infraction to increase penalties (aside from short term safety isolations). It's not a bad rule, and it keeps prison officials from being tyrants, but like everything it has been perverted by the left

Posted by: imp at February 12, 2026 04:55 PM (g6TN6)

115 HOw did he keep his hat on while swinging?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 12, 2026 04:54 PM

Hat pins. Duh.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2026 04:55 PM (JonuU)

116 Any judge finds a workaround for superior court decisions spends a night in the box.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 12, 2026 04:56 PM (2UnvF)

117 Meanwhile the dems are gonna shut down the Government over ICE which is already fully funded.. All this will hurt is TSA, the Coast Guard and FEMA.. But it makes a nice show

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2026 04:56 PM (VE6XX)

118 113 If I shit in your flowerpot for two years, does that mean I have a constitution right to continue shitting in your flowerpot?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 12, 2026 04:54 PM (xFfhU)

Yes, it's now your chamber pot...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 12, 2026 04:56 PM (ynpvh)

119 HOw did he keep his hat on while swinging?...

Given that he has no powers, I’m guessing that’s a dream sequence or hallucination.

Looks a little like The Scribbler.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 12, 2026 04:56 PM (EXyHK)

120 The EPA has decided its ok to breathe out.

--

If you're in Canada and feel stressed because of your contribution to global warming, MAID can pay you a visit.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 12, 2026 04:56 PM (qBdHI)

121 DM has a purported picture of the white tent. I can confirm that it's white, but I cannot confirm DM's assertion that it is an assault tent.
Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:43 PM (N8ZBc)

It can't be an assault tent.

Assault _____ (fill in the blank) ALL have to be black.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 12, 2026 04:56 PM (zjgNU)

122 See you guys later...I'm out.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 12, 2026 04:57 PM (ynpvh)

123 As I noted earlier, from my dim recollection of the law, this phrase "liberty interest" is a very specific legal term of art.

And it's only used in discussing whether a law is Constitutional.
That is, since this law permits you to be imprisoned, that implicates your right to liberty, and a whole host of other due process rights then come into play.
And if the law doesn't grant you those rights, the law is unconstitutional.

Yes, this means the judges are implying that immigration law is unconstitutional.

But these cartel judge aren't just whoring themselves out for the illegals, they are inverting it's meaning--they're using it to mean the illegal has an interest in remaining free until the government proves beyond all appeals they can be deported.

These judges are overwriting the Constitution and creating amnesty.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2026 04:57 PM (HXT0k)

124 Further, he is giving his court the extra-jurisdictional authority to accept a habeas petition from any of those from over-seas.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February

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How can a person do a habeas when they are not in custody?

habeas is petition to force state to justify why they are holding someone. But they aren't holding anyone who is not in the country.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 12, 2026 04:57 PM (l0YH1)

125 >> granting immigrants' release on other grounds, primarily constitutional arguments against detaining people who have established roots in the U.S. without due process. Those roots amount, in legal parlance, to a "liberty interest"

Is this more bullshit rooted in the 14th?

Or, is this merely Dicta?

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2026 04:57 PM (gH8T+)

126 If I shit in your flowerpot for two years, does that mean I have a constitution right to continue shitting in your flowerpot?

Very possibly you do. This is about as adverse a possession imaginable.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 12, 2026 04:57 PM (EXyHK)

127 I can't explain just how far outside the law this is but it's bad.
He's not just lawless--he's gone mad with power.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2026 04:44 PM

Exactly. People who don't understand the law don't understand how insane this is, or how insanely dangerous. Absolutely out of control and power mad. He needs to be impeached immediately. If we don't, next stop is Judge Dredd.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 12, 2026 04:57 PM (vOtXJ)

128 If I shit in your flowerpot for two years, does that mean I have a constitution right to continue shitting in your flowerpot?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 12, 2026 04:54 PM (xFfhU)

Only pansies do that.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at February 12, 2026 04:58 PM (P7vXf)

129 I would be happy to never hear the following names ever again:

Epstein
Nancy Guthrie
Bad Bunny

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 12, 2026 04:58 PM (qBdHI)

130 When next asked about this on National TV, Trump needs to grab his crotch and declare "I've established the roots of your 'liberty interest' right here!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 12, 2026 04:58 PM (HfBpH)

131 my theory is they already caught the killer. He's an illegal alien from Mexico. The body was left to rot near Nogales but he can't remember exactly where. He dumped her because she wouldn't shut up.

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 04:59 PM (UjdFS)

132 "The Court reiterates its original holding that noncitizens who have 'established connections' in the United States by virtue of living in the country for a substantial period acquire a liberty interest in being free from government detention without due process of law," Briones wrote.

***

I am very interested in this "liberty interest" that accumulates the longer one evades capture and deportation.

Posted by: Outlasting the Statute of Limitations at February 12, 2026 04:59 PM (fxCK2)

133 Take a look at the number of Habeas Cases that were successful prior to the push to make illegal aliens into citizens.

It's very close to 0.

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2026 05:00 PM (gH8T+)

134 Pvt SNAFU sets up his tent, unrolls his bag, and climbs in for a good night's sleep. Of course, it turns out to be an assault tent, and it strangles him in his sleep. That guy just can't catch a break.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 05:01 PM (N8ZBc)

135 132 "The Court reiterates its original holding that noncitizens who have 'established connections' in the United States by virtue of living in the country for a substantial period acquire a liberty interest in being free from government detention without due process of law," Briones wrote.

Fine.. We'll be glad to free them from Government detention and send them to their actual Country.. or one suitable.. Not the US

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2026 05:01 PM (VE6XX)

136 A "liberty interest" would be a benefit gained by committing a crime. Are we now allowing illegal aliens to prosper as a result of breaking the law? We don't let citizens do that.

Posted by: Ben at February 12, 2026 05:02 PM (fK4Xi)

137 Matt Taibbi is reporting he has evidence Two-Tier Kier order the GCHQ to record all his communications, along with six or seven other journalists. The London Times also seems to have the story.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2026 05:02 PM (evI9x)

138 I am very interested in this "liberty interest" that accumulates the longer one evades capture and deportation.
Posted by: Outlasting the Statute of Limitations at February 12, 2026 04:59 PM

It's like that property interest you have in that stuff you stole decades ago. Best of luck in the courts, Trustees of the Gardner Museum!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2026 05:02 PM (JonuU)

139 If you told me that this Guthrie kidnapping was staged, I'd be tempted to believe it.

I'll need to see a few more quotes from Silence of the Lambs to be convinced, however.

Posted by: t-bird at February 12, 2026 05:02 PM (ReYtg)

140 Perhaps the Guthrie feds should consult with the nearly bind neighbor that led them to a rear roof camera they were incapable of finding after a week? Top. Men.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2026 05:02 PM (abIsI)

141
14 BREAKING: Feds Have Now Placed A White Tent Outside Of Nancy Guthrie’s Home

A white tent people. A WHITE tent!
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2026 04:36 PM

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Does the color matter, like when smoke comes out of the Vatican?

Posted by: Confederate Ghosts at February 12, 2026 05:02 PM (VWtfl)

142 " If I shit in your flowerpot for two years, does that mean I have a constitution right to continue shitting in your flowerpot?"

As long as you layer it with some stones and vermiculite so it drains well. Pull the weeds, keep it neat.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 05:03 PM (N8ZBc)

143 Trump should announce that in response, he is not only going to deport them, but he is going to charge them for the service.

Make them suffer. Make the judges suffer. They keep doing this because there is no penalty to anyone no matter how bad their bs is.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 12, 2026 05:03 PM (l0YH1)

144 @125

>>Or, is this merely Dicta?

It's judicial scatology.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 12, 2026 05:03 PM (Ruy1P)

145 Did they look in the pool?

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 05:03 PM (UjdFS)

146 A "liberty interest" would be a benefit gained by committing a crime. Are we now allowing illegal aliens to prosper as a result of breaking the law?

Is that not how we've doing it for decades? Perfectly recently, of course, but the concept is not novel.

Posted by: The Biden Admin at February 12, 2026 05:04 PM (ReYtg)

147 Did they look in the pool?
Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 05:03 PM

Oddly, the hot tub smells like stew.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 05:04 PM (jc0TO)

148 The pool? THE POOL!
Quick, somebody go check the pool!

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 05:05 PM (UjdFS)

149 >> A "liberty interest" would be a benefit gained by committing a crime. Are we now allowing illegal aliens to prosper as a result of breaking the law?

This is applying Squatters Rights to Citizenship.

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2026 05:05 PM (gH8T+)

150 PBS News, 'Obama administration to end use of private prisons' 2016

They opened the gates and got rid of private operators with tough policies, working often crowded prisons.

Now,
Prison Policy Initiative, Following the Money of Mass Incarceration 2026, Feb. 11, 2026

On February 25, 2026 at 1 p.m. EST, join the Prison Policy Initiative and guests James Kilgore and Mon Mohapatra to discuss ways to push back on “carceral humanist” reforms that don’t change the underlying dehumanization of the criminal legal system.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 12, 2026 05:05 PM (NFX2v)

151 "I'll need to see a few more quotes from Silence of the Lambs to be convinced, however."

Those bastards stole everything they say from me. Effen pikers...

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn at February 12, 2026 05:05 PM (VxFiM)

152 "So in response to the lawfare saying we can no longer deport people, we are going to deport people and bill them and their families $20,000 per person for costs, as well as full refund of any welfare or benefits they have received will illegally in the country. We will seize all assets to cover these costs.
"Thank the commie judges for this new policy"

- DJT

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 12, 2026 05:06 PM (l0YH1)

153 Impeach any judge stepping over the lines. Malfeasance of office is the time honored approach.
But this would require that Congress actually cared about reining in corrupt judges.

Posted by: clarence at February 12, 2026 05:06 PM (5OgL1)

154 Exactly. People who don't understand the law don't understand how insane this is, or how insanely dangerous. Absolutely out of control and power mad. He needs to be impeached immediately. If we don't, next stop is Judge Dredd.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 12, 2026 04:57 PM (vOtXJ)
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Every Moron on this site has been saying that about the federal judiciary for years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 12, 2026 05:06 PM (RIvkX)

155 Those roots amount, in legal parlance, to a "liberty interest" that the Constitution says cannot be taken away without at least a hearing before a neutral judge.

Ok, but we first we have to start neutering judges.

Posted by: t-bird at February 12, 2026 05:06 PM (ReYtg)

156 FYI did you see that the guy from Ireland? The reason why he came to the United States because he had a warrant for his arrest for drugs and dealing drugs. And that’s why he doesn’t wanna go back to Ireland. He’s not beating those stereotypes.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 12, 2026 05:06 PM (FCrpy)

157 One long standing finding of the judiciary - sending illegals back to their countries of origin is NOT a punishment. Hence, no one is being punished. Hence all the legal protections do not attach - they don't matter, because at the end of the day, nobody is losing their liberty or being punished by being sent back to their home countries.

Thus, there is no such thing as a "liberty interest". because sending them home doesn't deprive them of liberty.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 12, 2026 05:07 PM (vOtXJ)

158 145 Did they look in the pool?
Posted by: wth

Right? Or in the cabana. Or in anyone else's pools and cabanas in the area.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 12, 2026 05:07 PM (NFX2v)

159 How can a person do a habeas when they are not in custody?

habeas is petition to force state to justify why they are holding someone. But they aren't holding anyone who is not in the country.
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Like I keep saying, cartel judge Bonerburger is completely lawless at this point.
He's just flat-out making shit up.
For this, he's invented the legal fiction that they are in "effective custody" of the United States because the US has a very big military and can coerce these countries to comply if it wants.
No, really. That is what they have said.
Recall the cartel judge that let Maryland Dad free basically laughing at the DOJ and mocking them, "if the US asks, of course these countries will have no choice but to comply."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2026 05:07 PM (HXT0k)

160 "People who don't understand the law"

Raises hand. It doesn't work in the way I was taught to understand it. Nuh-uh. Not a bit.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 05:08 PM (N8ZBc)

161 156 FYI did you see that the guy from Ireland? The reason why he came to the United States because he had a warrant for his arrest for drugs and dealing drugs. And that’s why he doesn’t wanna go back to Ireland. He’s not beating those stereotypes. Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 12, 2026 05:06 PM (FCrpy)

He was a Ecstasy dealer. But here, I'm sure, he has been a humble bartender.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 12, 2026 05:08 PM (vOtXJ)

162
The Guthrie investigation pisses me off.

If someone from our families was missing does anyone think we would get the same coverage?

Posted by: fourseasons at February 12, 2026 05:08 PM (3ek7K)

163 In the glory days of IBM, if you fucked up they would demote you, and then send a crew to make your office smaller.

We need to do this to the judges. Shave a meter off the walls of their office and courtroom every time they piss us off if no one is willing to impeach.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 12, 2026 05:08 PM (l0YH1)

164 Pools and cabanas? Shit.

Posted by: FBI "Special" Agent at February 12, 2026 05:09 PM (UjdFS)

165
A "liberty interest" would be a benefit gained by committing a crime. Are we now allowing illegal aliens to prosper as a result of breaking the law?

==============

For that matter, why reserve this benefit to illegal aliens? ANYONE who evades the law long enough is home free.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 05:09 PM (n7rxJ)

166 "Or in anyone else's pools and cabanas in the area."

Gay couple across their street has a cabano. Search that too.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 05:09 PM (N8ZBc)

167 DOJ and DHS don't have to say anything.

Keep on keeping on dudes! Fuck the black robes

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 12, 2026 05:09 PM (XLfSN)

168 162
The Guthrie investigation pisses me off.

If someone from our families was missing does anyone think we would get the same coverage?

Posted by: fourseasons

Local story.

Posted by: MSM at February 12, 2026 05:09 PM (abIsI)

169 >> A "liberty interest" would be a benefit gained by committing a crime. Are we now allowing illegal aliens to prosper as a result of breaking the law?

This is applying Squatters Rights to Citizenship.
Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2026 05:05 PM

So, like that squatter recently released who proceeded to move back into the millions-dollar home.

I'm sure that these legal eagles drive cars I and my posse would like. How long would we have to hide them for the "liberty interest" to accumulate? Also, the guys could use some nice suits and shoes.

*Makes a wishlist*

Posted by: Outlasting the Statute of Limitations at February 12, 2026 05:09 PM (fxCK2)

170 Thus, there is no such thing as a "liberty interest". because sending them home doesn't deprive them of liberty.

I don't understand why they can't stay if they want to.

Posted by: Jumanji Jackson-Browne at February 12, 2026 05:10 PM (ReYtg)

171 No, really. That is what they have said.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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Thank you for responding. This helps.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 12, 2026 05:10 PM (l0YH1)

172 >>>If I shit in your flowerpot for two years, does that mean I have a constitution right to continue shitting in your flowerpot?

Very possibly you do. This is about as adverse a possession imaginable.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

I wonder if these judges are cat people?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 12, 2026 05:10 PM (xFfhU)

173 Speaking of the Rabid Rodent:

My understanding is that Apple invested $100 million in the NFL this past year in advertising and promotions -- and as a result got to pick the halftime performer.

Their plan was to try and get something like $500 million worth of Rodent downloads from their platform (iTunes?) after that show.

I think a day or two later their guy was #3 while Kid Rock's new song was #1.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 12, 2026 05:11 PM (QJibF)

174 The Guthrie investigation pisses me off.

If someone from our families was missing does anyone think we would get the same coverage?

Posted by: fourseasons
......

You'd gat Barney Fife and a dachshund with hay fever.

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 05:11 PM (UjdFS)

175 LOL, Gallup says it will no longer* poll Presidential approval.

*Until a popular Republican Predident is in office

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 12, 2026 05:12 PM (BI5O2)

176 "if no one is willing to impeach."

Impeach! impeach!! impeach!!!

Impeaching accomplishes exactly nothing. Convicting them to get them removed is never going to happen.

Urge your congress critter to start putting an end to these rogue, lesser district courts.

Thats the only way these activists in robes are going to go bye-bye.

Posted by: Will Robinson at February 12, 2026 05:12 PM (VxFiM)

177 S/B *As long as

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 12, 2026 05:12 PM (BI5O2)

178 Trump should just send Boasberg and all these others a note that reminds them that the U.S. Marshals that protect them are members of an executive branch agency he controls, and if they don't get their asses in line, the Marshals may not show up in their courtrooms any longer.

Posted by: DPICM at February 12, 2026 05:12 PM (zweKz)

179 Girlfriend Wanda Dicta had a sister Mary Dicta, she and her husband got on well. Her brother Harry Dicta wasn't married but had many girlfriends.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2026 05:14 PM (7X7ea)

180 Urge your congress critter to start putting an end to these rogue, lesser district courts.

Thats the only way these activists in robes are going to go bye-bye.
Posted by: Will Robinson

Hate break it to you Will, congress' only concern at the moment is they have enough KY at the capital to support the lobbyists desires.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2026 05:14 PM (abIsI)

181 Local story.
Posted by: MSM at February 12, 2026 05:09 PM
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Hah. Unfortunately so true.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 12, 2026 05:15 PM (bQ4nt)

182 Don't worry. Jesse Waters and Paul Mauro will talk about the white tent tonight and what it could possibly mean.

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 05:16 PM (UjdFS)

183 Oh great, more Commissar Judges are arming up

Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2026 05:17 PM (Ia/+0)

184 >>>If someone from our families was missing does anyone think we would get the same coverage?

Posted by: fourseasons
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Yes, if they were a celebrity.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2026 05:17 PM (7X7ea)

185 In the camps, we oft dreamed about having our own white tent...

Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn! at February 12, 2026 05:17 PM (oftw2)

186 Unless Trump straight up tells these judges to fuck off, this will never end.

Posted by: Bee Hive at February 12, 2026 05:18 PM (TXFRI)

187 Trump should just send Boasberg and all these others a note that reminds them that the U.S. Marshals that protect them are members of an executive branch agency he controls, and if they don't get their asses in line, the Marshals may not show up in their courtrooms any longer.
Posted by: DPICM at February 12, 2026 05:12 PM (zweKz)

Cut the lights and power to his chambers. He did more work at home during off hours anyhow.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2026 05:18 PM (8avO+)

188 "Girlfriend Wanda Dicta had a sister Mary Dicta, she and her husband got on well."

I knew a Mala Dicta who talked a lot of shit.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 05:18 PM (N8ZBc)

189 Did they look in the pool?
Posted by: wth

Oddly, the hot tub smells like stew.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Hey!! I'm right here, yanno.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 12, 2026 05:19 PM (6Fej7)

190 A "liberty interest" would be a benefit gained by committing a crime. Are we now allowing illegal aliens to prosper as a result of breaking the law?

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For that matter, why reserve this benefit to illegal aliens? ANYONE who evades the law long enough is home free.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 05:09 PM (n7rxJ)

It's explained right there in the "Olly Olly Oxen Free!" clause of the US Constitution.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 12, 2026 05:19 PM (wVcYX)

191 Matt Taibbi is reporting he has evidence Two-Tier Kier order the GCHQ to record all his communications, along with six or seven other journalists. The London Times also seems to have the story.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2026 05:02 PM (evI9x)

Will there 18 1/2 missing minutes?

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 12, 2026 05:19 PM (JRP2U)

192 U.S. District Courts are established by Congress through legislation under Article III of the Constitution, which authorizes the creation of lower federal courts. Judges are nominated by the President, reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and confirmed by the Senate to serve lifetime appointments during "good behavior".

Establishment of District Courts
Congressional Authority: Congress determines the number of district courts, their geographic boundaries, and the number of judges authorized for each district based on workload.
Structure: There are 94 district courts, which act as the general trial courts for federal civil and criminal cases.
Special Units: Congress also created bankruptcy courts as units of the district courts.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 12, 2026 05:20 PM (NFX2v)

193 "Girlfriend Wanda Dicta had a sister Mary Dicta, she and her husband got on well."

I knew a Mala Dicta who talked a lot of shit.
Posted cannot.

Da Bears!

Posted by: Superfans at February 12, 2026 05:20 PM (6Fej7)

194 More shitlib torture of the 14th Amendment that was intended to apply to freed slaves. Which is coincidentally how the shitlibs think of illegals.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 12, 2026 05:20 PM (/DR63)

195
My husband said the other day that he doesn't give a shit about the Guthrie woman. He wants to know where missing children are.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 12, 2026 05:20 PM (3ek7K)

196 Sooner or later, dog catchers will start knocking down Presidential authority

Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2026 05:21 PM (Ia/+0)

197 I've been pretty vocal on this site about the judicial coup. I don't have a solution, but I do think the administration should have confronted it on day one. I think they're behind the 8-ball right now because they're being "reactive" to every move they make. Mostly as it relates to the illegals, but they're not very successful in other areas, specifically with regards to the J6 lead up and aftermath.

To wit; Comey and Brennen's cases were tossed. No clue if they'll refile or if that will be more successful.

It's disappointing. But par for the course with the judiciary we've got right now. That oughta' change.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 12, 2026 05:21 PM (jtM2q)

198 >>>ANYONE who evades the law long enough is home free.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 05:09 PM (n7rxJ)
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Yes, it's called the statute of limitations.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2026 05:21 PM (7X7ea)

199 The pool? THE POOL!
Quick, somebody go check the pool!
Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 05:05 PM (UjdFS)

Send Carl Spackler. He finds the missing objects in pools.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 12, 2026 05:22 PM (wVcYX)

200 TMZ guy thinks he's some kind of Sherlock Holmes.

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 05:22 PM (UjdFS)

201 said the 2-1 decision left an opening for them to continue granting immigrants' release on other grounds, primarily constitutional arguments against detaining people who have established roots in the U.S. without due process. Those roots amount, in legal parlance, to a "liberty interest" that the Constitution says cannot be taken away without at least a hearing before a neutral judge.
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LMAO...ok, let's apply this logic to gun rights. In the country legally this time. Established roots (hence, a citizen). That creates a "liberty interest" that the Constitution says cannot be taken away without at least a hearing before a Judge. So, all restrictions on guns are herebye mute. You have that Constitutional "liberty interest" that denies some bureacrat from vetting you, denying you concealed carry, full automatic, etc. And, until each and every case is reviewed by a Federal Judge, you enjoy any and all of those Constitutional Rights via "liberty interest."

Posted by: Orson at February 12, 2026 05:22 PM (dIske)

202 …even if they have no criminal records and have lived in the country for decades.

The left loves to invent magic sentences with magical powers that once repeated often enough magically become law by virtue of repeated chanting,

They basically hex these ideas into permanent existence like the witchy witches they mostly are.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 12, 2026 05:22 PM (6ydKt)

203 "TMZ guy thinks he's some kind of Sherlock Holmes."

Strung out?

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 05:22 PM (N8ZBc)

204 ‘More and more bites at the apple’

I don’t think these scumbag judge’s legal bullshit is about whether illegals get to stay on the country or not. This is about whether they can be detained while the merits of their (bullshit) claims play out.

Still, it’s not good, because locking them up keeps them locked up, and increases pressure on them to agree to leave — like that ‘nurse’ did in an earlier post.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 12, 2026 05:23 PM (N5sxx)

205 18 USC 1509 "Whoever, by threats or force, willfully prevents, obstructs, impedes, or interferes with, or willfully attempts to prevent, obstruct, impede, or interfere with, the due exercise of rights or the performance of duties under any order, judgment, or decree of a court of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both."

How is Boasberg threatening government attorneys with contempt if they do not violate the law as he wishes not guilty of this crime. Forget relying on Congress to do anything. Why not just have the Marshals arrest him and charge him?

Posted by: DPICM at February 12, 2026 05:25 PM (zweKz)

206 Savannah will be devastated when they tell her the culprit is one of her beloved undocumented.

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 05:26 PM (UjdFS)

207 Congress should be all over this like the smell of decomp around the Guthrie residence but, they won't lift a finger to defund these courts.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2026 05:26 PM (abIsI)

208 Have they ruled out the brother-in-law?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2026 05:28 PM (7X7ea)

209 In a simpler time., in the Left's beloved USSR, this judge too would be taken to the basement of the Lubyanka Prison, and beaten severely. Then shot behind the ear until dead. His entire genetic line would be sent to the Kolyma Death Mines in far east Siberia. Only 3 million dead.

He is a fortunate person, so far.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2026 05:28 PM (u82oZ)

210 It is a Globalist Insurrection running full speed ahead. Call it what it is DC and put it down. Or, be put down as part of the insurrection. Hardball time by the Executive branch and no excuses.

Posted by: tubal at February 12, 2026 05:28 PM (VTVwi)

211
Yes, it's called the statute of limitations.

Posted by: Braenyard

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Sometimes I think it warrants revising.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 05:30 PM (n7rxJ)

212 The only plausible response to this latest inferior court invention is "Ja, bullshit" and then walk away.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at February 12, 2026 05:30 PM (bufu1)

213 Still, it’s not good, because locking them up keeps them locked up, and increases pressure on them to agree to leave — like that ‘nurse’ did in an earlier post.
Posted by: Elric the Blade
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Pondering in filthy cell:

Take the $3 grand and leave or be thrown to never come back. That is the question.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2026 05:30 PM (7X7ea)

214 nood

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 05:31 PM (N8ZBc)

215 ============

Sometimes I think it warrants revising.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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At this point. What difference does it make? \

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2026 05:32 PM (7X7ea)

216 Ugh.

You can see by all of this nonsense exactly what's going to happen if and when the Democrats regain national power.

It's gonna be Crazytown, with the Constitution and the rule of law out the window.

These a-holes who can't seem to follow established law need to lose their judgeships and law licenses if there is a way to do this. Lawyers ! Is there a quick and easy way?

In the meantime, I just hope we can keep the Democrats out of national power for at least the next 20 years. Maybe they'll have regained their sanity by then.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 12, 2026 05:32 PM (iJfKG)

217 Juggalos > Judges.

Posted by: Insane Clown Party at February 12, 2026 05:32 PM (TezPK)

218 >>>If someone from our families was missing does anyone think we would get the same coverage?
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If four Amish die at the hands of an illegal trucker, will they get the same coverage?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2026 05:32 PM (XeU6L)

219 Let's start deporting the judges. Accidentally, of course. and to countries difficult to travel from. South African, possibly or Venezuela. And we can even promise to investigate how this horrible accident happened. It will be a thorough investigation, obviously, and will take some time but eventually, we will find out what happened and hold those responsible to account for it. You know, just like after the financial crisis in 2008.

Posted by: Left Wing Douche at February 12, 2026 05:33 PM (kL/ln)

220
Mike Hammer,

Of course not. They weren't celebrities.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 12, 2026 05:34 PM (3ek7K)

221 Matt Taibbi is reporting he has evidence Two-Tier Kier order the GCHQ to record all his communications, along with six or seven other journalists. The London Times also seems to have the story.

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Cool.

Then we should pick a British newspaper and drop a MOAB on it during working hours.

I vote for The Guardian.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 12, 2026 05:36 PM (BI5O2)

222
As several people have said here, notice the fraud stuff is not being discussed now In the news.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 12, 2026 05:37 PM (3ek7K)

223 These judges are welcome to try releasing these inmates with their little hammers. Or to post cash bond for them.

Posted by: DaveA at February 12, 2026 05:38 PM (FhXTo)

224 206 Savannah will be devastated when they tell her the culprit is one of her beloved undocumented.
Posted by: wth

Unless the brother-in-law?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 12, 2026 05:45 PM (NFX2v)

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