Judge Fred Biery lambasts Trump’s ‘ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented’ mass deportation campaign
A federal judge has ordered the release of a five-year-old boy and his father who were detained by federal immigration agents from their driveway in suburban Minneapolis and sent to a detention center in Texas.
In his ruling on Saturday, District Judge Fred Biery delivered a brutal assessment of Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign and an “ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas” that appears to require “traumatizing children.”
Liam Conejo Ramos was taken into federal custody from the driveway of his family’s home last week after officers arrested his father Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, who is seeking asylum in the United States. They were sent to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Texas, where the preschooler is reportedly sick, lethargic and asking for his mother, according to his family and lawmakers who visited him this week.
The judge condemned the administration’s apparent “ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence” and Thomas Jefferson’s warnings against “a would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation.”
Other outlets say he has been released, along with his dad
This is, uh, this is not how judges normally sign off on opinions:
Are you suggesting it’s inappropriate?
No. I am suggesting that these times are abnormal.
I have to wonder if they really are, or if Trumps regime is just so terrible at optics that we are seeing all the rot they been hiding behind the curtain for years.
He’s not smart enough to amass this much power this fast. He’s not rich enough. He’s not influential enough.
He stole something someone shouldn’t have had in the first place.
He’s trying to add every single bit of gravitas to his order
It’s amazing, tbh, one thing I didn’t expect from this entire situation is that the judiciary starts to really flex their literary and theatrical muscles in their authority, because while most legal business is rote ritual, they take advantage of that with this, and allow their legal opinions and the weight of their urgency to be seen
It gives me a little hope
the date on the order is 2/31/2026… 🤦
It only adds to the sense that he was quivering with barely restrained rage as he wrote the order, which also came through in the text quite nicely I thought.
The fuck?
Yeah, the Bible should not enter legal documents and a judge seemingly taking guidance from it should be disbarred.
The regime uses religion to justify ignoring legal norms. The judge knew exactly what he was doing. Basically, even if the Bible matters more than the law, this is STILL wrong.
Calm the fuck down when people are doing the right thing.
Jeez I swear we will lose every battle ever because leftists are always seeking places to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Edit: reminder people, there are very real agents against better outcomes who are paid to make these kinds of takes to make people like us, the ones opposing fascism, to argue and fight about stupid shit like this. It’s objectively stupid to argue that a judge who did a good thing and is fighting for liberty be disbarred for slipping two bible references in his signature, it’s nonsense.
So more likely than not, this user is one of the many, many trolls from troll farms across the world dedicated to making people fight each other, not the powers that want to shove ALL of you in a camp. Clap them back but then block and move on. There are too many impressionable people here who will read a whole thread of back and forth and despair that they don’t know who’s right.
I agree. It does not matter if it was used in a good way this one time. Next time might be against abortion.
Perhaps, but, I won’t complain about Christian theology being used against Christofascists, of which I suspect many ICE agents are. Donald Trump has been known to wave a Bible around. Turnabout is fair play.
He quoted “Jesus wept.” Hardly inappropriate.
No religion belongs in the courtroom. It is by definition inappropriate and he should be punished for this.
he should be punished for this
Why our country is doomed and its downfall will wreck the whole world along the way, summed up in one sentence.
You act like there’s ever been separation of church and state. There has not.
All states so indeed still have some theocratic elements. That is precisely why religion should be given no quarter, it already more prominence in goverment than it ever deserved.
Freedom of religion in most states is just placing religious people above rules that bind everyone else, religious people don’t need the addition of lax enforcement of the few guidelines that exist to expand their extreme unearned privilege.
You’re arguing what should be. I would argue the same. We’re explaining what is.
It’s game over when a judge quotes the Bible…
This is becoming Christians Sharia law
I feel like the people balking at the christian tone and quotes in this order haven’t actually paid a single moment of goddamn attention to anything for the last several centuries in the USA.
I think the point is, that most of the western countries have moved away from this 50 years ago. It want much different then. But others have moved on
Judge Fred Biery was appointed by Clinton and actually blocked the 2025 state law that would otherwise have required displaying the 10 Commandments in public classrooms.
I see this as him pointing out to Trump’s supporters that the actions of this administration are not only inhumane but run contrary to core Christian teachings. If the “pro-Christian” administration isn’t being very Christian then call out their hypocrisy.
No excuses. Religion doesn’t belong in the courtroom and they should be disbarred, a true servant of justice can’t have other masters, their true colors are now known and his dedication to justice clearly lacking.
That his lack of respect for his position is only now apparent changes nothing.
a true servant of justice can’t have other masters
Judges are allowed to be religious. They just can’t use religion as the basis of their judgement, which this judge did not do. They can quote scripture in the same way they can quote any other piece of literature.
Superfluous text has no place in judgments so there should be no religion in it.
This man is a regressive bigot who thinks he should be free to promote irrelevant personal beliefs within official documents.
They do not belong there, and a man who places his personal interests above justice belongs in no office. He should be disbarred.
How does including a bible verse make this judge a “regressive bigot”? You are taking the role of bigot here.
These ubermensch who think their imaginary friend has any place in goverment are always placing themselves above everyone. To promote one’s religion in governance is a supreme form of bigotry and arrogance, to place oneself above all of your compatriots. Thus judge is saying that his personal opinions are sacrosant over everyone else’s, law be damned.
Chill dude, he isn’t pushing some agenda by putting in a reference to a bible verse. Your own interpretation of the judge’s action aren’t based in reality. Focus on the substance of the issue at hand.
A federal judge, one of our last barriers against actual, literal fascism and authoritarian takeover and our last hope for turning this around, signs an order for an objectively good thing in a predominantly christian region, with two verses referenced, an obviously defiant stand against literal evil forces trying to capture the country.
Lemmy user:
> Religion doesn’t belong in the courtroom and they should be disbarred
Fucking hell, someone tell me these jackals are AI bots or something sent by Mossad to destabilize our country. If I knew I lived next to someone who had this kind of attitude I would drop everything I’m doing to devote the rest of my days to sabotaging and annoying them in the most vexing ways possible.
This isn’t just a US issue you clowns, if you’re not in the US it’s coming for you next. We need to celebrate wins against bad things or you’re part of the bad things.
You can’t build good things on a foundation of sand like religion. That is not a lasting solution and building on Christianity is what brought USA to this point.
HOW DARE HE QUOTE THE BIBLE OVERTURN HIS ORDER SO WE KEEP THE KID IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP HE IS THE WORST FOR ACTIVELY POINTING OUT THE HYPOCRISY OF THE BLATHER BLATHER ONE ONE ONE ECLAMATIONE ONE ONE this is you you realize that, right?
Being angry doesn’t excuse anyone to act like a religious nut. Your tolerance towards christians capturing govermental power got America to be such a regressive shithole. It is a regressive ideology that devalues human beings.
so it’s your position if they’re christian they shouldn’t be able to hold office?
Bringing your religion to a public office should get you immediately removed from it. They can serve their other interests in their own time. This man should be removed from office as he has let his personal interests corrupt his duty to justice.
quote the part of his opinion to me that has you so worked up please.
