What total nonsense. In response to an utterly unprecedented federal operation, judges communicated internally about how to handle a flood of cases. And we know DHS broke the law repeatedly in Minneapolis. ICE ignored court orders so often that DOJ attorneys got sanctioned.
In this article, Judge Schiltz, the chief judge during Metro Surge in Minnesota, goes on record with the NYT. He demonstrates profound bias against DHS and the current admin, and he admits to extreme misconduct—essentially conspiring with his judicial colleagues to thwart DHS’s immigration enforcement in Minnesota.