[Opinion] Trump Judge Pick Issues Opinion Bolstering President’s Deportation Agenda

Good Morning, News: Judge Once Again Pauses Portland National Guard Deployment, Terrible Polls Haunt GOP Before Election Day, and Trump Ordered to Pay SNAP Benefits

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Trump Judge Pick Issues Opinion Bolstering President’s Deportation Agenda

One of President Donald Trump‘s recent appointees to a federal judgeship issued an order recommending a stronger punishment for an illegal immigrant criminal in order to “afford adequate deterrence.” Judge Joshua Divine, Trump’s nominee to the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, wrote on Friday that Lesman Rivera-Vasquez, who pleaded guilty to possessing ammunition while illegally in the United States, deserve…

Judge Again Rules the Guard Cannot Go Into Portland to Protect ICE

As ICE and CBP try to do their jobs under threat of death, US District Court judge Karen Immergut again temporarily extended an order blocking the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland Oregon.  She said the government failed to justify the move. The order preliminarily enjoins Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from authorizing […] The post Judge Again Rules the Guard Cannot Go Into Portland to Protect ICE appeared fi…