Apparently it is Okay to ignore judges…
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
Nate Raymond, Kristina Cooke, and Brad Heath of Reuters report:
Hundreds of judges around the US have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Mr Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal.
“It is appalling that the Government insists that this Court should redefine or completely disregard the current law as it is clearly written,” US District Judge Thomas Johnston of West Virginia, an appointee of former president George W. Bush, wrote last week, ordering the release of a Venezuelan detainee in the state.
Read more at The Straits Times.
Were these consequences unintentional?
All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat
… Borges alleges that a little-known [??? Bob] federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, copied the government’s master Social Security database into a cloud system that lacked normal oversight.
… The dataset at issue is not just a list of numbers. A Washington Post ruling summary describes how DOGE team members were given access to databases containing Social Security numbers, medical and mental health records, bank and credit card information, tax details, work histories, and home addresses for millions of Americans.
A MarketWatch summary shared by reporter Angela Moore adds that the records tied to those numbers also include names, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, phone numbers, and even parents’ names and Social Security numbers.
