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Calling an illegal act heroic doesn't hold up in court though, we will hear what they say in court later.
FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities
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One person’s crime doesn’t define a whole group. Most undocumented immigrants follow the law. Justice demands that we hold individuals accountable without using isolated cases to justify broad prejudice.
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United States Code, Title 8, § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) (2023) > (1)(A) Any person who […] > (iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation; […] > sha…
The alien was already "detected", that's why they were at the courthouse. She didn't harbor him, she was performing her job and the defendant was required to be there. I also fail to see how she "concealed" him either. "Aiding and abetting" would be a stretch, but still more accurate verbs. But those aren't in the law you quoted.
> I also fail to see how she "concealed" him either.
Using a special backdoor to avoid agents is "concealing", she allegedly did that to prevent him from being seen by the agents.
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Party composition changes over time, and the people who made up the KKK switched parties starting when JFK backed the civil rights movement. It's the right wing militias that are the spiritual successors to the KKK, not the Democratic party. As much as I wish we had a Republican party that was an actual successor to Lincoln's, that's not how political parties work. https://economics.princeton.edu/working-papers/why-d…
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> Even if I wanted to arrest a sitting judge, it would have to be an act of gross malfeasance to motivate me to even consider arrest. This logic projects rationality onto an administration that does not merit such assumptions.
Psychological projection is a very apt choice, thank you for that. I’ve read a lot of people referring to “sanewashing” when the media tries to explain the mechanism behind the madness but this captures it much better.
That's not what sanewashing is. It's when the media hides someone's insanity, often out of a misplaced notion of "balance". This applied especially to their failing to talk about all the crazy stuff Trump said at his rallies, and their constantly reframing of the unhinged things Trump said in much more sane terms.
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They didn't need to search, they just needed to wait outside to arrest. That would have worked if the defendant didn't use the backdoor.
But they didn't have a valid warrant for arrest. Therefore him going out the back door was not "escaping arrest".
They did have a valid warrant for arrest, they just didn't have a warrant to search the courtroom but they had a warrant to arrest the guy as soon as he stepped outside.
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A judge who's literally in the middle of an official hearing is absolutely a special case.
I would hope it’s not. I would like for cops to be more humane in arresting people and stop going to place of work to grab people in front of their coworkers. But this seems like just as rude when they go to a “regular” person’s office in the middle of the day and arrest them. The argument is that if they notify the accused beforehand they may flee. But I don’t buy this as many people will likely turn themselves in i…
The discussion is about ICE arresting a sitting judge on a bogus political premise ... it has nothing to do with what you're talking about.