Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court

Post by kelnos » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 10:50 PM UTC

lesuorac wrote: post #7

blindriver wrote: post #3

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You simply can't arrest people without cause. Generally that cause is a warrant.

Post by watusername » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 10:50 PM UTC

jimt1234 wrote: post #115

> "I know I will get due process and that my rights will be protected," Lander said. Huh? Has he been sleeping under a rock for the last six months?

  “I know I will get due process and that my rights will be protected,” Lander said to a throng of supporters who gathered spontaneously in Foley Square that evening after his release.
  
  “But Edgardo will sleep in an ICE detention facility God knows where tonight…he has been stripped of his due process rights in a country that is supposed to be founded on equal justice under law,” Lander continued, naming the immigrant detained by federal agents at the same time the comptroller was taken into custody.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 10:52 PM UTC

sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #54

mlsu wrote: post #42

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Another thing that is troubling is that immigration law is sort of a parallel system to normal criminal law. The rights for the accused are lesser and obligations for officers are more lax. The burden of proof is lower. It's easier to get warrants and the rules of evidence are more relaxed. There is a parallel authoritarian system being built up, starting with the creation of DHS in 2001 and ending god knows where. T…

> Why are the right libertarians and 2A folks not speaking up right now? “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” - Lyndon B. Johnson

Post by HideousKojima » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 10:55 PM UTC

spit2wind wrote: post #125

HideousKojima wrote: post #112

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>The current administration explicitly condones violence against political rivals. Citation needed

Does pardoning convicted January 6th insurrectionists count?

Post by Avshalom » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 10:57 PM UTC

potato3732842 wrote: post #21

nemomarx wrote: post #14

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they did just shoot two elected representatives so I think we're a little beyond protests working

Publicly they'll wring their hands and tell us a bunch of BS about how violence outside of the state is bad and whatnot but behind the scenes they'll go back to their research people and their focus groups and try and get to the bottom of whether it was just one crazy or an outlier who's of an existing trend in opinion they ought to care about. Same as they did when that CEO got shot.