GOP Judge GOES NUCLEAR and Threatens to JAIL ICE - Legal AF
Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian break down Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz's escalating showdown with ICE in Minnesota. Schiltz — a Bush appointee — has documented 210 violations of court orders across 143 cases during Operation Metro Surge.
When Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen emailed to dispute the numbers, Schiltz had every judge and law clerk in the district verify — and the count went up. He wrote that he's "not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States" where a court has had to threaten contempt "again and again and again" to force the government to comply. Now he's signaling a move from civil contempt — fines — to criminal contempt, meaning potential jail time.
The judge pointedly blamed leadership, not line attorneys, writing that what DOJ lawyers "didn't deserve" was 3,000 ICE agents sent to Minnesota without any plan for the hundreds of lawsuits sure to follow.
Meanwhile, Judge Jeffrey Bryan has ordered a separate contempt hearing after ICE released detainees without their belongings — cash, phones, passports, even shoes — in 28 cases. - 03/08/2026.
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To me this invasion of cities and round up of longtime immigrants and citizens alike sounds like something that would have happened in Stalin's USSR. :yowser. 
In the mid-'80s my grandmother joined a peace group which had a sister town in the USSR and they needed 17 to make the trip so my grandmother volunteered me. I had been overseas before but the thought of going to the USSR obviously freaked me out. I knew that Khrushchev wanted to "bury us."
But I couldn't say no to my Nana and I went even though I was nervous wreck. I had a full blown panic attack on the first leg of the trip, from JFK to Helsinki. I really recommend Finnair, the flight attendants took care of me.
But it really did turn out to be the trip of a lifetime, I loved the other members of the group, almost all senior citizens, experienced travelers, dedicated to peace and decades older than I was at the time. And we were lucky at the time since this was under Gorbachev who who had instituted more progressive policies. We met with other dedicated peace groups and even people on the street that we met were pleased to meet Americans.
My point is that we were supposed to go to Kiev, but Chernobyl happened so we went to what was then-Soviet Georgia instead. And since they were occupied, they had no love for the Russians. And I was puzzled to see numerous statues of Stalin all over which confused me since I thought he was "out of favor" at the time, so I asked. And I was told that Stalin was Georgian, not Russian, and he was held in esteem in Georgia "since he killed so many Russians." 
Any American who showed up there would immediately end up in prison. But back then, everyone was dedicated to peace. Many who had experienced WWII, fought on their own land, remembered the experience and it was brutal.
They even had museums in the schools to teach the children about the experience so they would remember. And there were statues and plaques all over dedicated to peace and to those they had lost. I remember one older lady, a member of one of the peace groups we met with, who had been a nurse during WWII and she said "When you go back, please tell your president that we want peace." Still chokes me up. 
Not to mention, the Constitution prohibits a convicted felon from taking office - so how is this allowed to go on?? Is this actually supported by Republicans?! Then they need to lose office, too... 