Impeach Judge Richard Stearns

The worst thing that happened this week happened in Boston, as the Boston Globe reported.

Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein Abadi, a 24-year-old undergraduate student, had been detained by Customs and Border Protection at Logan after arriving Sunday. Dehghani Hossein Abadi’s lawyers filed an emergency petition to block his removal Monday night, and Judge Allison D. Burroughs ordered a 48-hour stay. But before a hearing took place, Dehghani Hossein Abadi was flown to France — in defiance of the judge’s order.

I mean, what the unshirted hell is going on here? CBP can just ignore court orders whenever it pleases? What does CBP think it is, the president*?

At the scheduled hearing Tuesday morning, Judge Richard Stearns said the case was now moot, since the student was already out of the country. “There seems to be some history of CBP ignoring district court orders, which should concern the court,” Doyle said during the hearing. She asked that Dehghani Hossein Abadi be returned to the United States, but the judge said there was little he could do to compel immigration officials now that the student was gone. “I don’t think they’re going to listen to me,” Stearns said.

That’s a federal judge there, throwing up his hands in the face of a lawless federal agency. This would not be a good thing even if the chief executive were not a renegade maniac. The Executive Branch of the government is going to have to be sand-blasted to clean it up when and if these people finally leave.

  Charles P Pierce

This is completely unacceptable. Pack the courts, and if there's still one out there that doesn't do your bidding, ignore him.

Do people not realize that we're losing the little bit of democracy and rule of law that we have left?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.