Based on her inspection of his birth certificate and Social Security card, Riggans said she found no probable cause for the charge. However, the state prosecutor insisted the court lacked jurisdiction over Lopez-Gomez’s release because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had formally asked the jail to hold him.
“This court does not have any jurisdiction other than what I’ve already done,” Riggans said.
Riggans said she was very sorry as Lopez-Gomez’s mother left.
This is such bullshit. The judge is just as guilty of this racist bullshit as is ICE and anybody else willing to roll over to suck Trump’s tiny dick.
I get what you are saying and I agree that it is bullshit, but the fault isn’t with the judge. There are a lot of things our government and laws were not prepared for and and unscrupulous fascist government is power was one of them. This is a jurisdictional loophole that might allow ICE to hold US citizens captive indefinitely. Native Americans are very well acquainted with this type of fuckery.
Thr judge could have ordered him released and pushed the burden of an appeal onto the state. Definitely the right thing to do when an innocent man is imprisoned.
Yeah. This is why we have judges. A really surprisingly large amount of a judge’s job is looking at the situation and saying, more or less, “You know what? That’s a bunch of bullshit. Here’s what we’re going to do.”
That’s the whole reason there is “precedent” and then sometimes precedent gets overturned. They’re just using their, you know… judgement. There’s a whole interplay of written laws vs. what happened before vs. what should happen now, it’s not just like the judge is the CPU and then they execute the law like a program and then output a judgement.
The tolerance for “it’s a loophole” or “it’s a glitch” as an excuse from human beings with power and agency in a system that’s never been built assuming it would be run by a computer is way too high.
That would be the moral thing to do, but not the legal thing to do. Simply put, the judge doesn’t have the jurisdiction and they would have to knowingly break the law to let the person go. Yes, it is ridiculous.
I think we have to entertain the very real possibility that most of these judges are under duress. I bet some of them received a few pictures or videos of themselves or their family members during candid moments…
You’re right that we live in unprecedented times, but judges are there to uphold the rule of law, as set forth by congress. But they are also well within their rights to push back against unconstitutional laws. This situation qualifies as unconstitutional.
This is such bullshit. The judge is just as guilty of this racist bullshit as is ICE and anybody else willing to roll over to suck Trump’s tiny dick.
I get what you are saying and I agree that it is bullshit, but the fault isn’t with the judge. There are a lot of things our government and laws were not prepared for and and unscrupulous fascist government is power was one of them. This is a jurisdictional loophole that might allow ICE to hold US citizens captive indefinitely. Native Americans are very well acquainted with this type of fuckery.
Thr judge could have ordered him released and pushed the burden of an appeal onto the state. Definitely the right thing to do when an innocent man is imprisoned.
Yeah. This is why we have judges. A really surprisingly large amount of a judge’s job is looking at the situation and saying, more or less, “You know what? That’s a bunch of bullshit. Here’s what we’re going to do.”
That’s the whole reason there is “precedent” and then sometimes precedent gets overturned. They’re just using their, you know… judgement. There’s a whole interplay of written laws vs. what happened before vs. what should happen now, it’s not just like the judge is the CPU and then they execute the law like a program and then output a judgement.
The tolerance for “it’s a loophole” or “it’s a glitch” as an excuse from human beings with power and agency in a system that’s never been built assuming it would be run by a computer is way too high.
That would be the moral thing to do, but not the legal thing to do. Simply put, the judge doesn’t have the jurisdiction and they would have to knowingly break the law to let the person go. Yes, it is ridiculous.
I think we have to entertain the very real possibility that most of these judges are under duress. I bet some of them received a few pictures or videos of themselves or their family members during candid moments…
Or…the judge is a racist.
Occam’s Razor
You’re right that we live in unprecedented times, but judges are there to uphold the rule of law, as set forth by congress. But they are also well within their rights to push back against unconstitutional laws. This situation qualifies as unconstitutional.