The ruling was an astonishing rebuke of both the Justice Department and some of its top officials, including Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general.
It really shouldn’t surprise me when judges make the obvious right calls, but at this point any good news is worth celebrating.
The facts: Abrego Garcia’s central crime appears to be that he drove people between states in order for them to get to job sites. People who he presumably knew were illegal aliens.
He did not sneak them into America or anything.
The star witness against him is the ringleader of the operation, who was offered immunity in exchange for his testimony against Abrego Garcia.
Abrego Garcia was doing something that you probably didn’t even think was a crime. If you were caught driving people like that, wouldn’t you assume that if you were caught, the illegals would be arrested, but you’d be let go?
They were so bloodthirsty to get Abrego Garcia that they did it backwards. Immunity for the ringleader in order to get a nobody driver.
There’s simply no possibility that this isn’t vindictive behavior. I don’t know the exact criteria for vindictive prosecution, but if this isn’t it, then they need to revise the criteria.
Abrego Garcia was doing something that you probably didn’t even think was a crime.
If its a crime we need to arrest the governor of Texas for doing the same thing in a highly publicized manner on several occasions.
Let me guess - the ringleader is white?
I wasn’t too focused on the ringleader when reading the article, but my memory, and take it for what it is, is that the ringleader was an illegal immigrant, as well, and that he had previously been deported, but was found again committing some other crime, so they didn’t have to look hard for him, because he was sitting in prison in America.
The part I’m least sure about is that he had been deported. I guess that if somebody knows differently, they’ll correct me.
In other news, the sky is blue.
Honestly it’s nice to see anything like this coming from Tennessee. It isn’t often that we hear about good endeavors from here
It really is. It’s just sad that something so painfully obvious needs to be stated as a “likelyhood” rather than black and white fact.
We moved here because her family was here and she wanted to help her grandparents out before they passed. They both passed a couple weeks/months after we got here and I really haven’t had money to move since (3 years now…). She grew up here and near once a week I hear her say, I just don’t want to hear about anything with Tennessee in the news because it’s always bad. Haha
Man, I know that feeling… Been stuck in this state for years. I’d have moved back to my home town with my wife years ago, but our parents and the rest of my wife’s family are here.
Also, not giving me much confidence about my vacation to TN in 2 weeks!
This seems to be a pattern. District judges make common sense rulings then the administration takes a tantrum all the way up to the nine who let them get away with actual murder.
(six, the other three are doing God’s work. giving district judges terms like “Calvinball” they can cite)
I get that the reference wouldn’t have parsed without saying “the nine” though, haha
Judge: makes (an arguably overly timid version of) the obvious correct call that anyone with an ounce of rationality and integrity would
NYT: “Astonishing! What a rebuke!“
In other words, “trumped-up” charges?
In unrelated news, a federal judge in Tennessee was determined to be an Antifa brigade leader and was forcefully de-naturalized and sent to CECOT
No! Say it ain’t so!
