DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 17, 2021

Partisan Judge Declares DACA Unlawful.  That’s not just my characterization:

There are, unfortunately, many appointed and elected officials across the U.S. who have made a career out of enacting anti-immigrant policy. But as far as activist federal judges go, perhaps none stand out like Judge Andrew Hanen of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Appointed by former President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate in 2002, Hanen has time and time again used his position to try and dismantle progressive immigration policies — and his allies on the xenophobic right have repeatedly looked to him for anti-immigrant rulings and injunctions.

Hanen’s rulings have more than once been described as bizarre and unreasonably harmful to immigrants. Many of his decisions have made headlines for their unusual nature, including an intrusive order for the government to turn over the names, addresses, and “all available contact information” for over 100,000 immigrants, and a decision demanding hundreds of government lawyers — most of whom had never appeared in his courtroom — to attend remedial ethics classes.

However, he is undoubtedly most well-known for his rulings on the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) programs, where he used his power to dismantle or try to dismantle both policies. Even now, after the June 2020 Supreme Court DACA decision, Judge Hanen and his cohorts are part of continuing legal assaults against the program.

In other words, he’s the go-to judge for xenophobic zealots.

Two RWNJ’s Plotted To Blow Up Cali’s Democratic HQ.  Betcha they aren’t vaccinated, either. Up until this, they were law-abidin’ citizens:

Rogers was taken into custody earlier this month after state officials and the FBI searched his home and found 49 firearms—including several that appeared to be automatic weapons—about 15,000 rounds of ammunition, five assembled pipe bombs, materials that can be used to make more explosives, and two device-building manuals.

Nothing illegal about that in ‘Murrica.

Yep, Unvaccinated Could Screw It Up For Everybody:

That means that unvaccinated people are not only at greater risk of Covid-19 themselves, but could also potentially undermine America’s whole vaccine rollout if any future variant emerging in the US was significantly resistant to the shots.

“Unvaccinated people are basically the cannon fodder of the virus. The virus needs people to infect in order to replicate and the more people it has that are vulnerable or susceptible to infection, the more likely it will mutate,” said Dr Michael Saag, a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

State Cops Terrorize Innocent Woman, Hide Behind LEOBOR.  Meaning, they can hide their identities from the victim.  ‘Welcome to Delaware, where we police just like Mississippi during the civil rights protests.’ I mean, this is a crime, a serious one.  Committed by thugs with badges.

Hope For The Old Tri-State Mall Site?  Perhaps. This article hints that there’s at least a glimmer.

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