Judge Fred Biery lambasts Trump’s ‘ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented’ mass deportation campaign
A federal judge has ordered the release of a five-year-old boy and his father who were detained by federal immigration agents from their driveway in suburban Minneapolis and sent to a detention center in Texas.
In his ruling on Saturday, District Judge Fred Biery delivered a brutal assessment of Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign and an “ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas” that appears to require “traumatizing children.”
Liam Conejo Ramos was taken into federal custody from the driveway of his family’s home last week after officers arrested his father Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, who is seeking asylum in the United States. They were sent to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Texas, where the preschooler is reportedly sick, lethargic and asking for his mother, according to his family and lawmakers who visited him this week.
The judge condemned the administration’s apparent “ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence” and Thomas Jefferson’s warnings against “a would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation.”
Yeah, the Bible should not enter legal documents and a judge seemingly taking guidance from it should be disbarred.
Perhaps, but, I won’t complain about Christian theology being used against Christofascists, of which I suspect many ICE agents are. Donald Trump has been known to wave a Bible around. Turnabout is fair play.
Calm the fuck down when people are doing the right thing.
Jeez I swear we will lose every battle ever because leftists are always seeking places to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
And why are you making multiple comments about it? Give it a rest already.
He quoted “Jesus wept.” Hardly inappropriate.
No religion belongs in the courtroom. It is by definition inappropriate and he should be punished for this.
he should be punished for this
Why our country is doomed and its downfall will wreck the whole world along the way, summed up in one sentence.
Appeals courts will overturn. The patriotism of some of the district court judges does not seem to apply to higher courts. Or state courts for that matter fuck them all
This is, uh, this is not how judges normally sign off on opinions:
He’s trying to add every single bit of gravitas to his order
It’s amazing, tbh, one thing I didn’t expect from this entire situation is that the judiciary starts to really flex their literary and theatrical muscles in their authority, because while most legal business is rote ritual, they take advantage of that with this, and allow their legal opinions and the weight of their urgency to be seen
It gives me a little hope
the date on the order is 2/31/2026… 🤦
It only adds to the sense that he was quivering with barely restrained rage as he wrote the order, which also came through in the text quite nicely I thought.
The fuck?
How can you tell you’re in a republicans house? The bible still has shrink wrap.
That or the pages are littered with paragraph-long highlights, underscores, and “THIS!!!” in the margins but no critical thought or insights on the passages
And all those notes and the heavily-read pages are in the Old Testament portion, while the New Testament portion is barely touched.
It’s game over when a judge quotes the Bible…
This is becoming Christians Sharia law
I feel like the people balking at the christian tone and quotes in this order haven’t actually paid a single moment of goddamn attention to anything for the last several centuries in the USA.
I think the point is, that most of the western countries have moved away from this 50 years ago. It want much different then. But others have moved on
Judge Fred Biery was appointed by Clinton and actually blocked the 2025 state law that would otherwise have required displaying the 10 Commandments in public classrooms.
I see this as him pointing out to Trump’s supporters that the actions of this administration are not only inhumane but run contrary to core Christian teachings. If the “pro-Christian” administration isn’t being very Christian then call out their hypocrisy.
No excuses. Religion doesn’t belong in the courtroom and they should be disbarred, a true servant of justice can’t have other masters, their true colors are now known and his dedication to justice clearly lacking.
That his lack of respect for his position is only now apparent changes nothing.
Holy shit. Get mad at people who are actually the problem not the ones helping.
a true servant of justice can’t have other masters
Judges are allowed to be religious. They just can’t use religion as the basis of their judgement, which this judge did not do. They can quote scripture in the same way they can quote any other piece of literature.
Superfluous text has no place in judgments so there should be no religion in it.
This man is a regressive bigot who thinks he should be free to promote irrelevant personal beliefs within official documents.
They do not belong there, and a man who places his personal interests above justice belongs in no office. He should be disbarred.
Did… did you read any of the article?
(Not you, them)
How does including a bible verse make this judge a “regressive bigot”? You are taking the role of bigot here.
HOW DARE HE QUOTE THE BIBLE OVERTURN HIS ORDER SO WE KEEP THE KID IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP HE IS THE WORST FOR ACTIVELY POINTING OUT THE HYPOCRISY OF THE BLATHER BLATHER ONE ONE ONE ECLAMATIONE ONE ONE this is you you realize that, right?
Being angry doesn’t excuse anyone to act like a religious nut. Your tolerance towards christians capturing govermental power got America to be such a regressive shithole. It is a regressive ideology that devalues human beings.
so it’s your position if they’re christian they shouldn’t be able to hold office?
Bringing your religion to a public office should get you immediately removed from it. They can serve their other interests in their own time. This man should be removed from office as he has let his personal interests corrupt his duty to justice.
quote the part of his opinion to me that has you so worked up please.
