Tootfinder

I would argue that until an ICE agent is arrested that the Federal Gov't has no standing to bring a lawsuit at either the Federal or State level.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/17/trump-sues-calif…

Trump sues California over law that bans masked federal agents
The law prohibits neck gaiters, ski masks and other facial coverings for local and federal officers, including immigration enforcement agents, while they conduct official business.

Stingy bastard.
Trump finalizes 1% federal pay raise for 2026
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/pay/2025/12/trump-finalizes-1-federal-pay-raise-for-2026/

Judge Zia Faruqui, a former federal prosecutor,
said leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling their deluge of cases.
He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail for days while they evaluate charges.
“It’s not fair to say they’re losing credibility. We’re past that now,” Faruqui said.
He later added, “There’s no credibility left…

Judge upbraids prosecutors for handling of DC surge cases, saying they have 'no credibility left'
A federal magistrate judge has angrily accused top Justice Department prosecutors of trampling on the civil rights of people arrested during President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital. Judge Zia Faruqui said Thursday that leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling the cases. He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail…

#Federal monitor wants #SantaClara County held
in #contempt for purposefully dragging feet on mandated jail reforms.
Report finds “The county’s continued

Federal monitor wants Santa Clara County held in contempt for dragging jail reforms
The Prison Law Office is asking a federal judge to start fining the county over its inability to improve jail staffing or reduce its inmate population to ensure adequate medical access under a 2018…

An analysis of ICE data by THE CITY shows that dozens of people are packed into locked rooms
and increasingly held for days inside a Manhattan building the feds say isn’t a detention site.
https://documentedny.com/2025/07/22/26-federal-plaza-ice-manhattan-…

‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza
An analysis of ICE data by THE CITY shows that dozens of people have packed into locked rooms and increasingly held for days inside a Manhattan building the feds say isn’t a detention site.

Trump gives federal workers two new days off around Christmas after using Juneteenth to denounce ‘nonworking holidays’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-christmas-eve-federal-holidays-b2887465.html

Donald Trump and his top advisers have set aggressive goals for deporting historic numbers of immigrants.
But “the largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens in History,” as Trump described it, requires officers — lots of them.
Far more, it turns out, than Immigration and Customs Enforcement has on staff.
So the administration is shifting tens of thousands of personnel from other federal agencies to help ICE,
-- raising concerns that other law enforcement…

How Trump’s Immigration Focus Hinders Federal Crime Fighting
“It’s a good time to be an American-born criminal,” said one expert, as ICE’s dragnet now includes thousands of agents from other federal law enforcement.

Sanctuary cities sue over Trump bid to strip federal funding
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/blatantly-unconstitutional-sanctuary-cities-scorn-trumps-vindictive-effort-to-strip-jurisdictions-of-millions-in-federal-grant-funds-for-refusing-to-help-immigration-raids/

New maps that added
five Republican districts in Texas
hit a legal roadblock on Tuesday,
with a federal judge saying
the state cannot use the 2025 maps
because they are probably “racially gerrymandered”.
The decision is likely to be appealed,
given the push for more Republican-friendly congressional maps nationwide
and Donald Trump’s full-court press on his party to make them.
A panel of three federal judges in Texas said in a decision t…

Department of Homeland Security agents arrested 70 New Yorkers outside 26 Federal Plaza on Thursday afternoon,
with an additional 12 elected officials arrested upstairs,
after they had attempted to enter the building to assess the living conditions of immigrants detained there.
Some of the electeds had made it past the doors, and came upstairs
— only to be handcuffed moments later. 
Among the officials arrested include New York City Comptroller Brad Lander,

‘ICE Out of NY’: Dozens Arrested at Federal Plaza as Fight Over ICE Escalates
The arrests came a day after Judge Lewis A. Kaplan extended court oversight of the detention facility’s conditions.