Judge Blocks Trump Policy Allowing ICE Operations in Some Houses of Worship
federal judge on Monday barred immigration agents from conducting enforcement operations at houses of worship associated with Quakers and several other religious groups.
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chang ruled that the Trump administration's policy might infringe on religious freedoms and should be suspended while a lawsuit challenging it is resolved.
The temporary injunction issued by the Maryland-based judge applies only to the plaintiffs, which include a Georgia-based network of Baptist churches and a Sikh temple in California.
The lawsuit challenges one of President Donald Trump's multiple immigration policies enacted since his return to the White House, specifically targeting the Biden-era policy that churches, schools, and other sensitive locations were safe havens for immigrants without legal status.
Since the withdrawal of the policy, there have been increased fears of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in these spaces.
Churches in the U.S. play a key role in supporting migrants by offering resources, aid, and assistance.
In regard to Trump's mass deportation plan, an Associated Press-NORC poll, conducted from January 9 to 13 among 1,147 adults, found that 83 percent of Americans support deporting migrants living in the U.S. illegally who have been convicted of a violent crime, while only 6 percent would oppose doing so.
The groups sued after the Trump administration threw out Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policies limiting where migrant arrests could happen as Trump seeks to make good on campaign promises to carry out mass deportations.
The policy change said field agents using "common sense" and "discretion" can conduct immigration enforcement operations at houses of worship without a supervisor's approval.
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Living under Trump 2 aka Musk!!!
Not true. Certainly Glenn Kirschner has never been a Trump supporter.CobraCommander wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:43 amI don’t even care. All those people supported Trump at one point or another. You reap what you sow.China wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:57 amPolitical conference in DC interrupted by death threats against speakers critical of Trump
A political conference in Washington, DC, that bills itself as the alternative to the Trump-aligned CPAC was evacuated on Sunday after a death threat made against several of its speakers who have been critical of President Donald Trump.
Shortly after noon Sunday, organizers of the Principles First Summit received an email threatening several of its high-profile speakers and claiming to have planted pipe bombs on site, according to a copy of the email CNN obtained, conference organizers and Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department..
The email threat mentioned former national security adviser John Bolton and former US DC police officer Michael Fanone, who was among those who defended the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
The email sender claimed that two pipe bombs were placed at the JW Marriott hotel in DC that was hosting the Principles First Summit. The email also claimed that a pipe bomb would be placed inside the mailbox of Bolton’s home in Maryland.
The organizers alerted their private security and the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia about the threat, Principles First founder Heath Mayo said in a press conference Sunday night. The hotel made the decision to evacuate the floor where the conference was held, according to Mayo.
“Further investigation has revealed that the threat is unfounded. This incident has concluded,” the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia said in a statement to CNN.
The Montgomery County Police was dispatched to Bolton’s residence “this afternoon for a reported bomb threat, which was proven to be unfounded,” the department said Sunday in a statement provided to CNN.
The threat came from an untraceable email address, and the sender said it was meant to “honor the J6 hostages recently released.”
Mayo on Sunday said that they have not yet determined who sent the email targeting the conference. Law enforcement has not commented on who made the threat.
“We are not going to be cowed, we are not going to bend our knee. This type of threat to the physical safety of us, members of Congress, this is a real problem in the United States of America. And it isn’t going to stand,” Mayo told attendees when the conference resumed later Sunday afternoon.
The Principles First Summit bills itself as an alternative to the more Trump-aligned Conservative Political Action Conference.
The email also threatened other speakers including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former US Rep. Adam Kinzinger, former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, retired federal appeals court Judge J. Michael Luttig, and businessman Mark Cuban.
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Will Kash Patel's FBI investigate as they should? Will the ATF?
Opinion
The Coup Has Failed
Last week, The Washington Post reported that Donald Trump was about to announce a reorganization of the U.S. Postal Service by executive order, firing the Postal Board of Governors and moving the quasi-independent agency under the Commerce Department. Liberals were outraged, and some were miffed that Joe Biden couldn’t even fire Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. But everyone drove past one fact: The very idea is ridiculous.
In his previous discussions of USPS, Trump had talked about privatizing it, not bringing it further into the federal government. Only Congress, though, can actually reorganize an agency that it established through statute. Unlike USAID, the impact of shaking up USPS would be immediately felt by every American with a mailbox, a group that gives the Postal Service the second-highest approval ratings of any federal agency. And then, there’s this little point: By law, the Postal Service is generally exempt from executive orders.
The White House walked back the story almost immediately, saying there was no executive order in the works. When Trump was asked about it, he went into his usual mode of bullshitting on something where he has no real plan: he was “thinking about doing that” and “looking at it.”
This is an administration that has set a standard of constant consolidation of power and punishment of enemies. A month in, the Postal Service trial balloon and quick cleanup shows it has run out of ideas. But the real question about Trump’s second term was always whether he would bully the country into an effective monarchy, or fall prey to the laws of political gravity.
I’m taking a pundit risk by saying that we now have that answer, after one month in office: Trump’s cooked.
His failure has followed the usual direction of political overreach. Brave dissidents from the political opposition, corporate America, or his own coalition didn’t suddenly rise to the challenge. It started from the bottom up, as the governed gradually but definitively withdrew their consent, giving space for those we somehow call “leaders” to distance themselves.
This doesn’t mean that the subsequent three years and eleven months will be a garden of earthly delights. Terrible things are going to happen. Good people will be persecuted and bad people elevated pretty much every day for the next 1,400 or so. But when Trump disgracefully walks out of Washington in 2029, I’m far more inclined to believe that we will have a government to return to.
THE THING ABOUT POPULISM IS you have to be popular. The moment you lose touch with the public mood, you lose the ability to set your agenda without friction. I wrote on Valentine’s Day about the big warning sign in consumer sentiment, the unanchored inflation expectations that keep resetting higher. Trump has set himself up as the only person in the government who matters, so every national problem falls on his head. Since he’s done nothing to address those inflation concerns, voters are already starting to assign blame.
Four polls showed measurable drops in his approval rating in the last week, putting him in the lowest position for a president one month after an inauguration since … Donald Trump, in 2017. A Reuters poll found the percentage of the public thinking the country’s on the wrong track rose ten points in a month, and only 32 percent approved of Trump on inflation. His economic approval ratings are lower than at any point in his first term.
When every headline out of Washington is about Elon Musk (who is also increasingly unpopular) firing workers and dismantling agencies and going after DEI programs and taking over IT systems for obscure reasons, it’s no wonder people see the president as focused on the wrong issues. Americans believe Trump has overstepped his authority, but if they were seeing lower prices as a result they probably wouldn’t care, sadly. The disconnect matters more than the lawlessness.
But as the economy drifts toward a combination of higher unemployment and higher inflation last seen in the presidency of the late Jimmy Carter, Trump will find it harder to simply sweep in and take power. A town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) last week, in a district that went for Trump 60-38, was a disaster, with angry constituents demanding that he stand up for them and not let Trump control the federal budget and cut services for the needy. Other deep-red districts have seen similar dynamics. In rural eastern Oregon, at a town hall held by Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-OR) in a county that went 68 percent for Trump, the crowd shouted, “Tax Elon,” “Tax the wealthy,” “Tax the rich,” and “Tax the billionaires.” In Oklahoma, constituents demanded that Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK), who won in November 60-34, put Musk under oath. In Wisconsin, Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) won by a similar number; at a town hall near Oshkosh, he faced a parade of boos and shouts, as did fellow Wisconsinite Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI).
For weeks, we’ve seen Republicans effectively falling mute at the actions of the president. All it took was a drop in polling support and some angry town halls to flip that. Here’s Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) calling Trump’s executive orders “out of control” and stating that Congress must decide whether federal agencies live or die. His district went Trump, 66-33. Here’s freshman Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) saying he’ll never take away the benefits his neighbors rely on, including Medicaid. Here’s Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho, of all places, opposing the mass firing that hit the National Park Service rather hard.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) spoke publicly on the Senate floor and was among several Republicans taking shots at Trump’s claims about Ukraine being the aggressor in its war with Russia. That kind of public repudiation is new and entirely due to Trump’s collapsing favorability. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) furrowing her brow and expressing concern is a perennial, but saying that Trump violated the Constitution by engaging in impoundment is something new for her. Even Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) had to grudgingly admit that it was up to Congress to sanction all the DOGE spending cuts, even if he liked what they were doing.
All that is on top of the usual tensions within the executive branch hierarchies, particularly with respect to Musk, who is angering cabinet officials and Trump’s inner circle. Republican lawmakers are focusing on Musk too, which would make it easier for Trump to respond to a turn in fortunes by jettisoning him. But Trump’s the one who made all the promises about improving voters’ lives, and he would never fire himself.
The biggest example of the change in mood in the country may be happening at Paramount (which owns CBS). It looked almost certain a month ago that the studio would follow what Disney, Facebook, and X have done by settling frivolous lawsuits with Trump. Paramount’s is about a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris that Trump absurdly claims was deceptively edited to try to cost him the election. The studio is finalizing a sale to Skydance and needs federal approval, which was thought to be the reason it would settle as a gift to the president. But that settlement appears far away now, and Paramount has fought back, including by pursuing a trial where it could obtain Trump’s personal financial information in discovery. That does not happen if Trump is riding high among the public; a diminished figure is easier to rebuke.
None of this will get federal regulators to enforce white-collar crime again. We’re in for an orgy of deregulation, and the tax cut fight still will likely work out well for billionaires, with at least some vulnerable folks paying the price. And in foreign policy, presidents have more of a free hand. Saying that Trump’s coup failed doesn’t change this decidedly dim outlook.
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The Coup Has Failed
Last week, The Washington Post reported that Donald Trump was about to announce a reorganization of the U.S. Postal Service by executive order, firing the Postal Board of Governors and moving the quasi-independent agency under the Commerce Department. Liberals were outraged, and some were miffed that Joe Biden couldn’t even fire Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. But everyone drove past one fact: The very idea is ridiculous.
In his previous discussions of USPS, Trump had talked about privatizing it, not bringing it further into the federal government. Only Congress, though, can actually reorganize an agency that it established through statute. Unlike USAID, the impact of shaking up USPS would be immediately felt by every American with a mailbox, a group that gives the Postal Service the second-highest approval ratings of any federal agency. And then, there’s this little point: By law, the Postal Service is generally exempt from executive orders.
The White House walked back the story almost immediately, saying there was no executive order in the works. When Trump was asked about it, he went into his usual mode of bullshitting on something where he has no real plan: he was “thinking about doing that” and “looking at it.”
This is an administration that has set a standard of constant consolidation of power and punishment of enemies. A month in, the Postal Service trial balloon and quick cleanup shows it has run out of ideas. But the real question about Trump’s second term was always whether he would bully the country into an effective monarchy, or fall prey to the laws of political gravity.
I’m taking a pundit risk by saying that we now have that answer, after one month in office: Trump’s cooked.
His failure has followed the usual direction of political overreach. Brave dissidents from the political opposition, corporate America, or his own coalition didn’t suddenly rise to the challenge. It started from the bottom up, as the governed gradually but definitively withdrew their consent, giving space for those we somehow call “leaders” to distance themselves.
This doesn’t mean that the subsequent three years and eleven months will be a garden of earthly delights. Terrible things are going to happen. Good people will be persecuted and bad people elevated pretty much every day for the next 1,400 or so. But when Trump disgracefully walks out of Washington in 2029, I’m far more inclined to believe that we will have a government to return to.
THE THING ABOUT POPULISM IS you have to be popular. The moment you lose touch with the public mood, you lose the ability to set your agenda without friction. I wrote on Valentine’s Day about the big warning sign in consumer sentiment, the unanchored inflation expectations that keep resetting higher. Trump has set himself up as the only person in the government who matters, so every national problem falls on his head. Since he’s done nothing to address those inflation concerns, voters are already starting to assign blame.
Four polls showed measurable drops in his approval rating in the last week, putting him in the lowest position for a president one month after an inauguration since … Donald Trump, in 2017. A Reuters poll found the percentage of the public thinking the country’s on the wrong track rose ten points in a month, and only 32 percent approved of Trump on inflation. His economic approval ratings are lower than at any point in his first term.
When every headline out of Washington is about Elon Musk (who is also increasingly unpopular) firing workers and dismantling agencies and going after DEI programs and taking over IT systems for obscure reasons, it’s no wonder people see the president as focused on the wrong issues. Americans believe Trump has overstepped his authority, but if they were seeing lower prices as a result they probably wouldn’t care, sadly. The disconnect matters more than the lawlessness.
But as the economy drifts toward a combination of higher unemployment and higher inflation last seen in the presidency of the late Jimmy Carter, Trump will find it harder to simply sweep in and take power. A town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) last week, in a district that went for Trump 60-38, was a disaster, with angry constituents demanding that he stand up for them and not let Trump control the federal budget and cut services for the needy. Other deep-red districts have seen similar dynamics. In rural eastern Oregon, at a town hall held by Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-OR) in a county that went 68 percent for Trump, the crowd shouted, “Tax Elon,” “Tax the wealthy,” “Tax the rich,” and “Tax the billionaires.” In Oklahoma, constituents demanded that Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK), who won in November 60-34, put Musk under oath. In Wisconsin, Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) won by a similar number; at a town hall near Oshkosh, he faced a parade of boos and shouts, as did fellow Wisconsinite Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI).
For weeks, we’ve seen Republicans effectively falling mute at the actions of the president. All it took was a drop in polling support and some angry town halls to flip that. Here’s Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) calling Trump’s executive orders “out of control” and stating that Congress must decide whether federal agencies live or die. His district went Trump, 66-33. Here’s freshman Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) saying he’ll never take away the benefits his neighbors rely on, including Medicaid. Here’s Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho, of all places, opposing the mass firing that hit the National Park Service rather hard.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) spoke publicly on the Senate floor and was among several Republicans taking shots at Trump’s claims about Ukraine being the aggressor in its war with Russia. That kind of public repudiation is new and entirely due to Trump’s collapsing favorability. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) furrowing her brow and expressing concern is a perennial, but saying that Trump violated the Constitution by engaging in impoundment is something new for her. Even Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) had to grudgingly admit that it was up to Congress to sanction all the DOGE spending cuts, even if he liked what they were doing.
All that is on top of the usual tensions within the executive branch hierarchies, particularly with respect to Musk, who is angering cabinet officials and Trump’s inner circle. Republican lawmakers are focusing on Musk too, which would make it easier for Trump to respond to a turn in fortunes by jettisoning him. But Trump’s the one who made all the promises about improving voters’ lives, and he would never fire himself.
The biggest example of the change in mood in the country may be happening at Paramount (which owns CBS). It looked almost certain a month ago that the studio would follow what Disney, Facebook, and X have done by settling frivolous lawsuits with Trump. Paramount’s is about a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris that Trump absurdly claims was deceptively edited to try to cost him the election. The studio is finalizing a sale to Skydance and needs federal approval, which was thought to be the reason it would settle as a gift to the president. But that settlement appears far away now, and Paramount has fought back, including by pursuing a trial where it could obtain Trump’s personal financial information in discovery. That does not happen if Trump is riding high among the public; a diminished figure is easier to rebuke.
None of this will get federal regulators to enforce white-collar crime again. We’re in for an orgy of deregulation, and the tax cut fight still will likely work out well for billionaires, with at least some vulnerable folks paying the price. And in foreign policy, presidents have more of a free hand. Saying that Trump’s coup failed doesn’t change this decidedly dim outlook.
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Is he even a registered republican? I can’t find any information about his political affiliation.China wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 5:11 pmNot true. Certainly Glenn Kirschner has never been a Trump supporter.CobraCommander wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:43 amI don’t even care. All those people supported Trump at one point or another. You reap what you sow.China wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:57 amPolitical conference in DC interrupted by death threats against speakers critical of Trump
A political conference in Washington, DC, that bills itself as the alternative to the Trump-aligned CPAC was evacuated on Sunday after a death threat made against several of its speakers who have been critical of President Donald Trump.
Shortly after noon Sunday, organizers of the Principles First Summit received an email threatening several of its high-profile speakers and claiming to have planted pipe bombs on site, according to a copy of the email CNN obtained, conference organizers and Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department..
The email threat mentioned former national security adviser John Bolton and former US DC police officer Michael Fanone, who was among those who defended the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
The email sender claimed that two pipe bombs were placed at the JW Marriott hotel in DC that was hosting the Principles First Summit. The email also claimed that a pipe bomb would be placed inside the mailbox of Bolton’s home in Maryland.
The organizers alerted their private security and the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia about the threat, Principles First founder Heath Mayo said in a press conference Sunday night. The hotel made the decision to evacuate the floor where the conference was held, according to Mayo.
“Further investigation has revealed that the threat is unfounded. This incident has concluded,” the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia said in a statement to CNN.
The Montgomery County Police was dispatched to Bolton’s residence “this afternoon for a reported bomb threat, which was proven to be unfounded,” the department said Sunday in a statement provided to CNN.
The threat came from an untraceable email address, and the sender said it was meant to “honor the J6 hostages recently released.”
Mayo on Sunday said that they have not yet determined who sent the email targeting the conference. Law enforcement has not commented on who made the threat.
“We are not going to be cowed, we are not going to bend our knee. This type of threat to the physical safety of us, members of Congress, this is a real problem in the United States of America. And it isn’t going to stand,” Mayo told attendees when the conference resumed later Sunday afternoon.
The Principles First Summit bills itself as an alternative to the more Trump-aligned Conservative Political Action Conference.
The email also threatened other speakers including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former US Rep. Adam Kinzinger, former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, retired federal appeals court Judge J. Michael Luttig, and businessman Mark Cuban.
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Will Kash Patel's FBI investigate as they should? Will the ATF?
I don't think so. I think if you've seen any of his YouTube appearances or appearances on MSNBC, he's far from Republican.CobraCommander wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:24 pmIs he even a registered republican? I can’t find any information about his political affiliation.China wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 5:11 pmNot true. Certainly Glenn Kirschner has never been a Trump supporter.CobraCommander wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:43 am
I don’t even care. All those people supported Trump at one point or another. You reap what you sow.
You can listen to him explain why he was there:
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I saw this earlier, it made me happy at first, but I think it's a bit too soon. I do think the coup will fail/is failing, but to give people the idea that its now done and thats all, is dangerous. This is far from over and they continue to try again and again. Hopefully, this rage sticks around for the midterms, we're going to need it.
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Gotcha. I was more referring to all the republicans that have had a change of heart. I don’t think this guy falls under that category. I shouldn’t have said everyone in attendance.China wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:27 pmI don't think so. I think if you've seen any of his YouTube appearances or appearances on MSNBC, he's far from Republican.CobraCommander wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:24 pmIs he even a registered republican? I can’t find any information about his political affiliation.China wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 5:11 pm
Not true. Certainly Glenn Kirschner has never been a Trump supporter.
You can listen to him explain why he was there:
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Catoggio, talking about the most (IMO) irritating part of it all:
https://www.heraldonline.com/opinion/us ... 18789.html
https://www.heraldonline.com/opinion/us ... 18789.html
hail2skins wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:54 pmCatoggio, talking about the most (IMO) irritating part of it all:
https://www.heraldonline.com/opinion/us ... 18789.html
Yup. A lot of people, including me, have been thinking and saying those exact points since his first time around. But then I've been using the "joking on the square" line since s lady I knew explained her use of it to me about thirty years ago.
Also, just for the record, I'm a big Al Franken fan
(to other readers, he's mentioned in the piece.) A digression about that: I hated when the Dems reflexively purged him during the early days of Me Too.
I'm all aboard for that movement in general but that case, with respect for the woman involved who was bullied and abused by tasteless misplaced "comedy" from Al, was too much penalty for the level of offense imo.
And it occured way back in his early days in comedy, which he referred to as his "callow youth" when discussing his life, not that incident. It was many years before he was in Congress.
And Al was a sharp, effective, honest, congressman and could have had a great, positive career.
End digression. Another good write-up by The Cat Man.
It ain't what you don't know that's a problem. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.~~~Mark Twain
It's like getting a second infection that's far worse them the first one...how does the immune system handle it?
They aren't of ideas until they finish checking their boxes on Project 2025. But they aren't even done and they scared to talk to their own own horde of followers because they pissing them off so bad.
Has it even been a month yet?
You cannot piss off everyone and claim populism, that I 100% agree with. The longest shutdown I think we ever saw was under Trump finally came to a head because the next thing to be affected would've need SNAP.
Angry people is one thing. Hungry angry people is essentially what started the French Revolution...which to me is worse then a Civil War.
There's far more people in this country that want to eat the rich then training in some Hicksville militia right now.
They aren't of ideas until they finish checking their boxes on Project 2025. But they aren't even done and they scared to talk to their own own horde of followers because they pissing them off so bad.
Has it even been a month yet?
You cannot piss off everyone and claim populism, that I 100% agree with. The longest shutdown I think we ever saw was under Trump finally came to a head because the next thing to be affected would've need SNAP.
Angry people is one thing. Hungry angry people is essentially what started the French Revolution...which to me is worse then a Civil War.
There's far more people in this country that want to eat the rich then training in some Hicksville militia right now.