Not surprising, if you’ve been paying attention — at all.

But on October 20, Bovino’s team of Noemite lawyers had the courtroom cleared and conducted an entire proceeding under seal. That was temporarily allowed by the able USDC Judge Ellis, since the claim was that there were bounties on the heads of Bovino and his officers, here in Chicago.

Now it is turning out that either that was a vast exaggeration of the actual facts — or that the Bovino/Noemites… just made sh!t up. Preposterously, the whole team repeated the supposedly “secret and dangerous” information in press availabilities, and in online social media posts, from official government accounts. Even if the threats are real — they can no longer be sealed, since the people have an inalienable right to monitor public information in the peoples’ courts, every day. Here’s the great nine pager on it, tonight — just filed in courtroom 1403, of the Dirksen Building:

…Plaintiffs contend in this case that the government has invented false pretexts to justify its actions. The government has made arguments in Court that are based on false representations. And in the case of the sealed transcript, the government wishes to keep the transcript sealed based on a false premise….

First and foremost, [Bovino / Noemite] Defendants cannot carry their burden because they have already published the information they seek to conceal. As courts across the country recognize, “[p]ublicly available information cannot be sealed.” June Medical Servs., LLC v. Phillips, 22 F.4th 512, 520 (5th Cir. 2022); see also United States v. Pearson, 340 F.3d 459, 465 (7th Cir. 2003) (ordering records to be unsealed because the information had already been made public), vacated on other grounds sub nom. Hawkins v. United States, 543 U.S. 1097 (2005); United States v. Pickard, 733 F.3d 1297, 1305 (10th Cir. 2013); OJ Com., LLC v. KidKraft, Inc., 34 F.4th 1232, 1241 (11th Cir. 2022); Washington Post v. Robinson, 935 F.2d 282, 291-92 (D.C. Cir. 1991).

After Defendants themselves have taken every opportunity to broadcast the alleged bounties, they cannot in good faith ask this Court to seal [what they themselves chose to widely broadcast — especially since it appears that material portions of it are now proven to be. . . untrue]….

Well — now USDC Judge Ellis — she’s “gonna’ paint Bovino’s back porch bright red” — and real soon, too! Can’t wait!

Stay tuned.

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The minor update, here: in the Seventh Cir., the panel felt that — without a formal, written finding of violation of the able judge’s TRO — daily reporting could not be seen as within her ample discretion. Whether I disagee with that assessment or not — is irrelevant. That is now the law of the case, and simply means the traditional route will be used: have him held in contempt of court.

The horrifically violent video on the front page of this morning’s NYT — one block form my home of 33 years… should be plenty of new evidence, for the finding of contempt. Bovino was on the scene, and his ICE chopper was circling about 500 years above for over an hour aftewards. The young whyte people dragged from their car and beaten were US Citizens, simply following ICE into my town, when the trailing gray ICE SUV slammed on the breaks immediately after crossing a green light, northbound on Asbury. That caused the red sedan to rear-end into the ICE vehicle. Local response teams were already following them on bikes, and blowing whistles. Following / observing law enforcement is simply NOT unlawful.

As the video indicates, an ICE agent leveled his service pistol at a whyte bystander over 15 feet away (yes, I was there — not five feet away as it happened), and at another point dragged both of the male and female witnesses across the pavement… kneeling on both of them, prone on the pavement repeatedly. The young male suffered a badly cut eye, from punches ICE agents rained down on him. This is plenty of cannon fire, to seek a contempt order from USDC Judge Sara L. Ellis. Here’s the state of the play, in the Seventh Cir. — and a bit from the NYT reporting:

…Evanston was especially roiled by the presence of Border Patrol agents on Friday….

Bystanders said that a motorist had been following federal agents along a major street when the agents stopped short, causing the car to crash into it….

Videos shared with the The New York Times show the agents tackling the driver, a woman, to the ground.

Allie Harned, a social worker at Chute Middle School a block away, said she heard the crash and came running.

“When I came upon her, they were tearing her out of the car,” Ms. Harned said. “She was on the ground. Her shoes fell off.”

After bystanders began yelling and blowing whistles, the agents detained at least one person in the group, according to the Evanston police.

One officer briefly pulled a weapon and aimed it at the crowd, one of the videos shows. Ms. Harned said she screamed and ran….

For the record, again — both of the people in the red sedan were/are US Citizens — exercising their rights to monitor law enforement operations under the Chicago Welcoming Ordinance — and the First Amendment. Onward, to contempt — and a future jailing — for Bovino.

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