Prosecutors Began Investigating #ReneeGood’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

The orders, they said, came from senior ofcls, including #KashPatel, #FBI director, who worried that pursuing a #CivilRights investigation—by using a warrant obtained on that basis—would contradict #Trump’s claim that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, & viciously ran over the ICE Officer” who fired at her as she drove her vehicle away.

#law #murder #UseOfForce #authoritarianism #ICE #CBP
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-investigation-minnesota-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

At one point, Gregory Bovino, the #BorderPatrol leader who was the face of the admin’s #immigration crackdown in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Minneapolis, called federal #prosecutors, pressing them to charge #demonstrators with #crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled #Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”

#Trump #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP

…As #DOJ officials pushed back against suggestions that a #CivilRights investigation was in order in the days after Ms. Good’s death, clashes between #Minnesota residents & #immigration agents escalated. Some #prosecutors were met with resistance when they urged supervisors to open investigations into reports of #assaults & #abuses by #federal agents. The DOJ also blocked the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from taking part in investigating Good’s killing, adding to prosecutors’ frustrations.

Some believed that a #CivilRights investigation could establish that the #ICE agent had a reasonable fear for his life when he opened fire as Ms. Good’s car began lurching toward him — the sort of police shooting investigators consider “awful but lawful.” Others suggested that such an investigation might find otherwise, or even that the failure of agents to provide #medical #aid to Ms. Good after the shooting might be deemed a civil rights violation.

#Trump #law #murder #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP

Almost immediately after #ReneeGood’s death, senior admin ofcls were quick to blame her for the shooting. #KristiNoem, the #DHS secretary, called Ms. Good a domestic terrorist, language that VP #JDVance echoed.

Even in a rules-shattering admin, the hasty conclusions about the #shooting shocked federal #prosecutors in #Minnesota. Veteran lawyers in the office watched numerous videos of the shooting. Virtually all presumed there would be a #CivilRights investigation into the #UseOfForce….

#law

At one point, Gregory Bovino, the #BorderPatrol leader who was the face of the admin’s #immigration crackdown in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Minneapolis, called federal #prosecutors, pressing them to charge #demonstrators with #crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled #Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”

#Trump #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP

…As #DOJ officials pushed back against suggestions that a #CivilRights investigation was in order in the days after Ms. Good’s death, clashes between #Minnesota residents & #immigration agents escalated. Some #prosecutors were met with resistance when they urged supervisors to open investigations into reports of #assaults & #abuses by #federal agents. The DOJ also blocked the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from taking part in investigating Good’s killing, adding to prosecutors’ frustrations.

Some believed that a #CivilRights investigation could establish that the #ICE agent had a reasonable fear for his life when he opened fire as Ms. Good’s car began lurching toward him — the sort of police shooting investigators consider “awful but lawful.” Others suggested that such an investigation might find otherwise, or even that the failure of agents to provide #medical #aid to Ms. Good after the shooting might be deemed a civil rights violation.

#Trump #law #murder #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP

Almost immediately after #ReneeGood’s death, senior admin ofcls were quick to blame her for the shooting. #KristiNoem, the #DHS secretary, called Ms. Good a domestic terrorist, language that VP #JDVance echoed.

Even in a rules-shattering admin, the hasty conclusions about the #shooting shocked federal #prosecutors in #Minnesota. Veteran lawyers in the office watched numerous videos of the shooting. Virtually all presumed there would be a #CivilRights investigation into the #UseOfForce….

#law

Prosecutors Began Investigating #ReneeGood’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

The orders, they said, came from senior ofcls, including #KashPatel, #FBI director, who worried that pursuing a #CivilRights investigation—by using a warrant obtained on that basis—would contradict #Trump’s claim that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, & viciously ran over the ICE Officer” who fired at her as she drove her vehicle away.

#law #murder #UseOfForce #authoritarianism #ICE #CBP
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-investigation-minnesota-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Appeals court greenlights #Trump admin policy of detaining undocumented immigrants without opportunity to seek release

#law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #immigration #fascism #tyranny
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/politics/appeals-court-trump-immigration-detention-policy

“The #FifthCircuit isn’t just the most right-leaning appeals court in the country; the government drew on this panel two of that right-leaning court’s most right-leaning judges. It’s hard to imagine they’re going to get the last word,” he said.

Though other appeals courts around the #US are still examining the policy, the 5th Circuit’s ruling tees up a likely showdown over it at #SCOTUS.

#Trump #law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #immigration #fascism #tyranny

“There’s a reason why, across more than three thousand cases in dozens of federal district courts, the #Trump administration decided to have its first appeal of a loss on this issue go to the #FifthCircuit,” said Steve Vladeck, #SCOTUS analyst & professor at Georgetown University Law Center, who has previously written about the legal dispute in these cases.

#law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #immigration #fascism #tyranny

In thousands of cases around the country, federal judges had consistently ruled that the policy #Trump rolled out last year was #unlawful, but Friday’s decision marks the first time an appeals court has backed it. The ruling only applies to #immigrants in #Texas, #Louisiana & #Mississippi.

#law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #immigration #fascism #tyranny

The 2-1 ruling from the ultra conservative #5thCircuit Court of Appeals means that in several southern states, scores of #immigrants who had been living in the #US unlawfully, including those who were previously allowed to remain out on bond as their case made its way through the #immigration system, can now be detained & denied the opportunity to seek their release through bond hearings before immigration judges.

#Trump #law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #fascism #tyranny

A divided federal appeals court on Friday ruled in favor of the #Trump admin’s policy of detaining millions of undocumented immigrants, even those who have been living in the #US for decades, without the opportunity to challenge their detention, handing Trump a major “win” as he seeks to carry out an aggressive #deportation campaign.

#law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #immigration #fascism #tyranny

“The #FifthCircuit isn’t just the most right-leaning appeals court in the country; the government drew on this panel two of that right-leaning court’s most right-leaning judges. It’s hard to imagine they’re going to get the last word,” he said.

Though other appeals courts around the #US are still examining the policy, the 5th Circuit’s ruling tees up a likely showdown over it at #SCOTUS.

#Trump #law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #immigration #fascism #tyranny