WASHINGTONPOST (Todd Wallack) - Customs wrongly canceled Harvard scientist’s visa over frog embryos, judge rules
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian who spent four months in detention, is charged with smuggling the embryos into the U.S. in her luggage.
AXIOS (Avery Lotz) - Read: Judge tears into feds for 5-year-old's detention
A federal judge on Saturday ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father from immigration detention in a stunning castigation of the Trump administration's "ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented" deportation campaign. The big picture: The image of Ramos in his tiny backpack and blue bunny cap sparked mass outrage against the government's federal blitz that turned Minneapolis into a deadly tinderbox . The latest: U.S. District Judge Fred Biery of the Western District of Texas, a Clinton appointee, said Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, must be released no later than Tuesday after they were taken from Minneapolis last month. What's inside: "The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and…
AI:A Clinton-appointed federal judge has issued a blistering rebuke of the Trump administration's deportation efforts, ordering the immediate release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, from ICE custody. In a decision that echoed grievances against King George III, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery slammed the government's pursuit of deportation quotas as "ill-conceived," "incompetently-implemented," and devoid of human decency for traumatizing children. The case, which gained massive traction after images of the child surfaced, highlights the intense judicial pushback against federal immigration enforcement actions in Minnesota. While DHS maintains that they followed standard protocols and did not target the minor…Open
NYTIMES (Alan Feuer) - Judge in Minnesota Says ICE Has Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders
A federal judge said ICE had disobeyed more judicial directives this month than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
NEWSCATS (Diana Zapata) - Trump‑Appointed Judge Slaps DHS With Restraining Order — Bars Agency From “Altering or Destroying” Evidence
Published January 25, 2025 A Trump‑appointed federal judge has issued a rare judicial rebuke to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), temporarily barring the agency and related federal defendants from altering, destroying, or concealing evidence [...]
AI:A Trump-appointed federal judge has issued a restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), temporarily prohibiting the agency from altering, destroying, or concealing evidence.Open