The supremely able USDC Judge Sara L. Ellis will question him, under oath.
Forget his coming five hour deposition (by opposing counsel) — this will feel like a week-long nightmare. She’s gonna’ find out (based on his answers, under oath) whether he ought to be held in contempt — and jailed for a day or two — to shake some sense into him — related to his dangerous and idiotic stunt (at right).
It plainly violated an in-force TRO — her TRO, more precisely — and one of his own lawyers had almost certainly read that TRO to him (as is the duty of government lawyers in such matters, under Chicago’s local rules), all just a few days earlier. Check it out:
…TEXT ORDER.
The Court sets a status hearing for 10/28/2025 at 10:00 AM.
The Court orders Defendants to produce Defendant Gregory Bovino, in person, for this hearing.
Signed by the Honorable Sara L. Ellis on 10/24/2025…
Bovino is about to meet… the sharp end of the federal court’s civil contempt spear, here in the City of Big Shoulders — on the 14th Floor of the majestic Dirksen Building, downtown — Tuesday afternoon. I may pop over for all of it. Excellent.
That is the central message, here. The federal courts are bringing these rogue agents… to heel. Here’s Mr. Hecker’s latest eight page scorcher, in Music City — of this morning (and a bit):
…The government’s attempt to circumvent this Court’s previous order should be rejected. If it will not produce appropriate discovery, then the case must be dismissed.
The Court held “that there is a realistic likelihood that the prosecution against [Mr. Abrego] may be vindictive,” and he “is therefore entitled to discovery and a hearing.” (Dkt. 138 at 9). The Court also noted that senior officials’ public statements “come close to establishing actual vindictiveness,” a conclusion driven, in part, by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s “remarkable statements” that “could directly establish that the motivations for Abrego’s criminal charges stem from his exercise of his constitutional and statutory rights.” (Id. at 7-8).
The government bears the burden of rebutting Mr. Abrego’s prima facie showing of vindictiveness.
And it must produce discovery relevant to that showing. Evidently unwilling to do so, the government is left in the untenable position of defending itself from allegations of “stonewalling” (Dkt. 178 at 7) while… stonewalling.
The reason to stonewall is clear enough: the government confesses that discovery into the communications of officials senior to Mr. McGuire would be “highly damaging.” (Id. at 8)….
This morning, Hinderaker complaints that Nancy Pelosi said that California might start arresting “rogue” ICE agents. Pro Tip: Chicago may, as well — after yesterday, in Little Village.
Yep — he’s toast — and ought to be jailed for a bit by the USDC Judge — and cuffed by the US Marshals, for criminal contempt, in a few weeks — after the hearing on sanctions.
Yes. That’s right — Trump fails to even spell the award he lusts after… correctly, when he posts about it — generally, late at night — on his stupidly waifish social media platform.
But to win a Nobel on the other hand, Mr. Trump — one needs to have achieved some… lasting peace… some-where.
As Mirengoff again points out, that he clearly has NOT done. In fact, the power vaccum he’s created in Gaza… is clearly making an already horrendous situation… worse.
…President Trump’s peace plan for Gaza looks like the farce some of us thought it would be….
Neither the liberal media nor some precincts of conservative media wants to report honestly about the situation…. Parts of conservative media want to downplay Hamas’ non-compliance in order to make Trump’s plan look like a success, or at least viable….
Yes. These Powerline and Ringside boys… increasingly cluck-cluck (not even one full year in!) about how bad Trump is — but they ignore that they themselves well knew who he’d be, in 2.0 — and they affirmatively chose chaos and hatred over solid governance.
That is beneath the bare minimum humanity, civility and dignity the Founders and Framers envisioned, now about two and a half centurries ago. [Yes, hanging was the normal method, back then — but in point of fact, the condemned’s neck almost always snapped immediately, ending any torture — i.e., in death — in under three seconds.] Full stop.
…JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from the denial of application for stay and denial of certiorari.
Take out your phone, go to the clock app, and find the stopwatch. Click start. Now watch the seconds as they climb. Three seconds come and go in a blink. At the thirty-second mark, your mind starts to wander. One minute passes, and you begin to think that this is taking a long time. Two… three…. The clock ticks on. Then, finally, you make it to four minutes. Hit stop. Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating. You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping your lungs with nitrogen gas. Your mind knows that the gas will kill you. But your body keeps telling you to breathe.
That is what awaits Anthony Boyd tonight.
For two to four minutes, Boyd will remain conscious while the State of Alabama kills him in this way. When the gas starts flowing, he will immediately convulse. He will gasp for air. And he will thrash violently against the restraints holding him in place as he experiences this intense psychological torment until he finally loses consciousness. Just short of twenty minutes later, Boyd will be declared dead. Boyd asks for the barest form of mercy: to die by firing squad, which would kill him in seconds, rather than by a torturous suffocation lasting up to four minutes. The Constitution would grant him that grace. My colleagues do not. This Court thus turns its back on Boyd and on the Eighth Amendment’s guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment.
Because the Court should have instead granted a stay of execution and Boyd’s petition for certiorari, I respectfully dissent….
Damn. Out. What on Earth would it take — for the six black robes… to find something… cruel, one wonders? Onward, resolutely just the same.
Erh… when truth happens in Ontario… it doesn’t always stay in Ontario.
Apparently, in response to Canada telling the truth about Ronald Reagan’s feelings on tariffs — and the lunacy that is “tariff-max” — under Trump… he’s cut off all trade negotiations with Canada. Charming — per the NYT:
…The ad that Mr. Trump mentioned in his post was taken out by the government of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province and a key nexus of economic cooperation with the United States.
The ad, which according to the government of Ontario cost 75 million Canadian dollars ($53.5 million), uses audio from 1987 from President Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs as destructive for the economy. The ad was to begin airing in the United States this week on Newsmax and Bloomberg, the Ontario government said, and then on several other U.S. channels over the course of the following two weeks.
“When someone says, ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,’ it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products,” Mr. Reagan’s voice narrates over a video of generic images of economic activity. But, the audio warns, tariffs cause damage. “Markets shrink and collapse, industries shut down and millions of people lose their jobs….”
Flawless! What a dunce Trump ever is.
Trump claims Canada cannot use public radio address audio of Reagan — (from a broadcast 1987 radio speech, as President entitled “Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade“), i.e., from his duties at the White House — without permission. That is transparently stupid.
Mr. Reagan was speaking to the nation in a very public radio address (one we paid for).
We the taxpayers own that — Trump does not. This is quintessentially public policy broadcast communication (paid for via our tax dollars’ salary to Reagan). It is also quintessentially public communication about a matter of significant public concern, in this present moment.
Trump’s only remedy here is to run his own ad, at his own expense and separately suggest that he thinks this is a misleading use of Mr. Reagan sentiments.
But anyone with a working forebrain can hear that in context Mr. Reagan thinks tariffs are a bad idea.
Once again, Trump is trying to suppress free expression — solely because it expresses a truth he doesn’t like. Buckle up, buttercup.
USDC Judge Sara L. Ellis’s order in Chicago federal court was was crystal clear: no tear gas. But this very morning, while hiding behind a front line of other masked ICE agents, BP Commander Bovino threw a tear gas cannister (see at right) over the front line — at peaceful Little Village protestors. A clever videographer had slipped to the side and caught it all! Now there will be… hell, to pay — yep! See this, and a bit:
…MINUTE entry before the Honorable Sara L. Ellis:
The Court modifies the order on expedited discovery [85] as follows: the Court expands the time for the depositions of Gregory Bovino to 5 hours, Daniel Parra to 3 hours, and Russell Hott to 3 hours.
The Court orders the parties to include the use of force incidents by CBP in the neighborhood of Little Village on 10/22/2025 and 10/23/2025 when the Court will address Plaintiffs’ motion to enforce the TRO [57] on 11/5/2025 during the preliminary injunction hearing.
The Court reminds Defendants of their obligation to preserve all body-worn camera footage of any use of force incident resulting from Operation Midway Blitz from 9/2/2025 through the resolution of this case….
Sadly — these goons seem to think they are above the law — wonder where they got that notion? [Cough — Trump?!?]
…Defendants proposed and consented to this extension in part due to their interest in allocating their legal resources most effectively given pending litigation in other venues. The Court also concludes that there is good cause to extend the TRO, consistent with the factual findings and legal reasoning set forth in its Opinion and Order of October 10, 2025. Doc. 70. Accordingly, upon consent of the parties and with good cause shown, the Court ORDERS as follows:
Defendants [Noem / Tangerine 2.0], their officers, agents, assigns entered, and all persons acting in concert with them, continue to be temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois until a final judgment on the merits is reached in this case….
Now you know — onward, grinning. Popping over to the 17th floor of the Dirksen federal building was well worth it, yesterday.
Though to be fair, there were probably ~45 media (MSM) types with me in the well at 3 PM.
[As an aside — it is… astonishing that Trump thinks disgraced “George Santos has a compelling, but rogue… life story.” But… perhaps not so astonishing: both of these miscreants were/are convicted of various financial felonies (in Trump’s case, over 30 of them!), by juries of their peers — after fair trials. Santos is now commuted (by Trump!); and Trump received no jail time in New York. Ugh.]
NPR has the story, tonight. And not that it surprises anyone well-versed in comparative-advantage-style / evolutionary / migratory insect biology… but:
This shift is almost certainly due to human factors (increased greenhouse gas emissions) — and, of course… ubiquitous international jet travel. Do read it all:
…This week, Iceland recorded the presence of the insects within its borders for the first time in the Nordic nation’s history….
The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed Monday by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, which said the mosquitoes likely arrived by freight and appeared to be able to withstand Iceland’s climate….
The institute noted that the mosquitoes were one of a number of new insect species discovered in Iceland in recent years due to a warming climate, and the growth of international transportation….
Now you know. The people who cling to the flat Earth / no climate concern platitudes… really ought to have their collective heads examined. Onward, just the same.
We will capture it by cellphone… and we are underway!
➣ By agreement, the TRO against militarized national guard forces here — will remain in place until final judgment in this federal district court — or a final US Supreme Court ruling changing the posture.
➣ MINUTE entry before the Honorable April M. Perry:
Continued status hearing held 10/22/2025 at 3:00 p.m.
Defendants propose an extension of the TRO until a final decision on the merits is reached, without prejudice to Defendants’ continued pursuit of appellate relief and subject to any relief granted on appeal. Plaintiff accepts Defendants’ proposal. The Court will enter an order consistent with the agreement of the parties on 10/23/2025, because extending the TRO will allow Defendants to allocate their legal resources in the way they feel is most appropriate and give the parties time to conduct fact discovery and submit well-reasoned legal briefs and motions on the complex and weighty topics raised in this matter. Defendants to answer or otherwise plead to the complaint consistent with the timeframes set forth in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The parties are asked to meet and confer about a discovery schedule and file a joint status report regarding discovery by 11/4/2025.
The parties agree that should the Supreme Court issue any ruling in this case, they will submit a joint status report within 24 hours….
We are adjourned.
This all started at 9 AM CDT, sharp — but it seems that the Noemites haven’t made themselves available to the State of Illinois and City of Chicago counsels to discuss these matters. That won’t do, for Judge Perry — under our local IL ND rules of procedure.
So now we are adjourned until 3 pm this afternoon — then live again — in the Dirksen Building, on the 17th Floor:
…MINUTE entry before the Honorable April M. Perry:
Status hearing held 10/22/2025 at 9:00 a.m. via telephone, to discuss next steps in this matter.
Status hearing to resume at 3:00 p.m. CST after the parties have consulted with their clients and conferred with each other….
Now you know. Onward, resolutely — and look for a live blog, if I do get over there — at 3 PM, local.
The supremely able USDC Judge Sara L. Ellis will question him, under oath.The Court orders Defendants to produce Defendant Gregory Bovino, in person, for this hearing.
