the unusual thing here is that they're using them against a reasonably politically-connected person who's not their main target. This is a pissing match betwee

the unusual thing here is that they're using them against a reasonably politically-connected person who's not their main target. This is a pissing match between authorities. ICE has their panties in a knot that the judge didn't "respect muh authoriah" and do more than the bare leglal minimum for them (which resulted in the guy getting away). On the plus side, one hopes judge will have a pretty good record going forward when it comes to matters of local authorities using the process to abuse people. >(They're normally akin to the "we got Al Capone for tax evasion" situation -- Something that HN frequently trots out as a good thing and the system working as intended. Where are those people now? Why are they so quiet? >someone they were going after, where they couldn't prove the main crime, but they could prove that they lied about other details.) And for every Al there's a dozen Marthas, people who actually didn't do it but the feds never go away empty handed.