Took over 90 days to get to the arresting judges stage. I just lost a bet.
Holy shit…
God willing that he has stroked out by then.
So did he sign that contract willingly, or no? I can’t tell from the article.
We now know what will happen if a judge holds a member of the Administration in contempt and tries to have them arrested. US Marshals will instead arrest the judge. Yeah, this is beyond not good.
Ugh… I fucking HATE the use of that cop language - “perp”… ugh, they’re fucking PEOPLE you asshole.
Also, this whole thing is straight fucked up. Here’s hoping that the judge is released very soon…
Could cross-post this to the Fall of the Fourth Estate topic. Media are treating Patel’s tweet like it’s fact - coming from the guy who perjured himself a dozen times during his confirmation hearings.
Though Patel should feel free to call himself a perp, since the statute of limitations on perjury is 5 years…
This article makes it sound willingly
Weird situation there. Just based on the headline and the state of the world I would have guessed it was a family of pro-Russia MAGA nuts and that the mom was a recent Trump appointee, but it turns out that she was a career professional who got appointed to her current position in the CIA by the Biden administration, at the very same time that her son was actively fighting for Russia. Hopefully the CIA was aware of it and determined that it wouldn’t affect her ability to do her job, but who knows.
Kash Patel, a far-right extremist and conspiracy theorist who just so happens to be the director of the FBI, tweeted Friday about the arrest of a judge in Wisconsin who he alleges tried to obstruct U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But it wasn’t long before Patel deleted the tweet. Two hours later, Patel retweeted the exact same thing, and it’s unclear why he would delete the original tweet.
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President Donald Trump prosecuted a federal judge in Massachusetts in a similar case brought in 2019, but that case was dropped in 2022 during the Biden administration. Trump has made it clear that he’s going to go after judges as a way to impose his particular brand of fascism on the United States.
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The FBI director has repeatedly embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory, published a list of so-called deep state officials to target, and has promised to “come after” the media. And yet many of Patel’s supporters on social media have been frustrated by perceptions that the FBI director has been slow to enact retribution against perceived enemies. We’ll see if that changes now that Patel is doing his best to usher in the “arrest judges” stage of fascism.