Push Back Things ARE getting serious out there….
After the judge got pissed?
Things all the sudden got ‘Right’ in sloppy paperwork and release situation for a immigrant in Minnesota….
A federal judge in Minnesota found a Trump administration lawyer in civil contempt of court on Wednesday, a significant escalation between the judiciary and the executive branch amid a ballooning caseload triggered by President Trump’s immigration raids and novel interpretations of law.
According to the ruling, by Judge Laura M. Provinzino of Federal District Court in Minnesota, the government failed to return “identification documents” belonging to Rigoberto Soto Jimenez, a detained immigrant whom she had ordered to be released with all of his property returned. The judge ordered a $500 daily fine imposed on Matthew Isihara, an administration lawyer, for each day the documents are not returned, beginning on Friday.
In Minnesota and elsewhere, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been arresting thousands of immigrants who have lived in the United States for years after entering the country illegally….
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Judge Provinzino, who spent years as a federal prosecutor, had ordered the government to release Mr. Soto Jimenez “from custody in Minnesota” by Feb. 13. An order she issued on Tuesday indicates that the government failed not only to return his documents, but also to release him in Minnesota as she had initially specified.
In an interview, Erin M. Lins, Mr. Soto Jimenez’s attorney, said that the government had released his client without his documents in El Paso, where he was being held, and that he stayed in a shelter overnight before flying home. She said the government had located her client’s documents and that she expected to receive them on Thursday. “I appreciate the government acting promptly after today’s hearing in resolving this,” she said. “It’s just unfortunate that it had to get to this point.”
“Federal judges are at their wits’ end when it comes to the government,”….
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Wednesday’s ruling by Judge Provinzino, who was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., marked the first time that an official from Mr. Trump’s second presidential administration had been held in contempt of court.
David A. Super, a law professor at Georgetown, agreed. “This is the first clear case of contempt this term that I know of,” he said. Unlike criminal contempt, he noted, civil contempt, which imposes penalties to induce compliance, is beyond the president’s pardon power….
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