XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics   
   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:15:42 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.   
   Sherman) wrote:   
      
   > |   
   > | A federal judge excoriated immigration agents for making   
   > | arrests while wearing masks that conceal their identities   
   > | in a scathing opinion that references a "regime of secret   
   > | policing" and mask-wearing by Ku Klux Klan members.   
   > |   
   > | Judge Joseph Goodwin of the US District Court for the   
   > | Southern District of West Virginia found on Thursday that   
   > | US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents violated an   
   > | immigrant's constitutional rights when they arrested him in   
   > | masks and detained him without a bond hearing.   
   > |   
   > | The agents' presence--with masks, unmarked cars, and   
   > | without badges--is "indistinguishable from lawbreakers,"   
   > | and the arrest that followed is "the elimination of   
   > | constitutional accountability itself," Goodwin, a Clinton   
   > | appointee who's sat on the bench for over three decades,   
   > | wrote in a 34-page decision.   
   > | ...   
   >   
   >   
   >The decision:   
   >   
   >   
   >    --bks   
      
   The judge has moved into political activism and should be removed from   
   the bench.  They are supposed to be fair and impartial.  The judge was   
   not.   
      
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