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Los Angeles County Democrats vote to ban ICE from using masks — and the DOJ issues defiant response
The Democrat-controlled Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to ban the use of masks by federal officials, and the Justice Dept. responded immediately with a fiery statement.
All of the Democrats on the board voted 4-0 in favor of the ordinance on Tuesday, with the lone Republican member abstaining. A second vote on Dec. 9 is needed to pass it. If that happens, law enforcement officers will be required to wear visible identification and agency affiliation.
‘We will not expose our brave men and women to personal attacks by allowing agitators to dox them and their families through facial recognition tools.’
Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, responded immediately to the vote.
“Let me be very clear: the county has no jurisdiction over federal agents, and we will not comply with any state or local laws restricting federal law enforcement,” he posted in a statement on social media.
“Our agents are under unprecedented assault in Los Angeles, largely due to reckless narratives and rhetoric advanced by the media and local politicians,” he added. “We will not expose our brave men and women to personal attacks by allowing agitators to dox them and their families through facial recognition tools.”
In a statement about the vote, Supervisor Janice Hahn accused ICE of behaving like an “authoritarian secret police” force.
“This is how authoritarian secret police behaves — not legitimate law enforcement in a democracy,” Hahn said.
“ICE agents are violating our residents’ rights every day they are on our streets. These agents hide their faces. They refuse to wear badges,” she continued. “They pull people into unmarked vans at gunpoint and wonder why people resist arrest. We are declaring in no uncertain terms that in L.A. County, police do not hide their faces. That is our expectation, and this ordinance will now make it our law.”
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If approved in the second vote, the mask ban will go into effect 30 days after that vote.
Hahn added that the board expects the Trump administration to challenge the ban in court, and it is prepared to take on the court battle.
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AUDIO: Justice Clarence Thomas dismantles Democrat AG’s office lawyer on lawfare against pro-life pregnancy center
An exchange between Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and an attorney from a Democratic attorney general’s office has gone viral on social media.
The case involves a pro-life pregnancy center objecting to a subpoena from the New Jersey state attorney general’s office to provide a list of its donors. Thomas cornered a representative for the AG’s office in oral arguments about the justification for the legal targeting of the faith-based group.
Even Justice Elena Kagan, a liberal justice on the court, appeared to be sympathetic to the pro-life center’s plight.
Thomas zeroed in on the point that there had been no complaints from donors about the center, while Sundeep Iyer, the chief counsel to the New Jersey attorney general’s office, was defending the investigation into whether donors had been deceived.
“Did you have complaints that formed the basis of your concern about the fundraising activities here?” Thomas asked.
“We certainly had complaints about crisis pregnancy centers,” Iyer responded.
“No, about this crisis pregnancy center,” Thomas interrupted.
“So, I think we’ve been clear from the outset that we haven’t had complaints about this specific —” Iver replied.
“So you had no basis to think that they were deceiving any of their contributors?” Thomas interrupted again.
“I don’t think that’s correct, Your Honor,” Iyer stammered.
“I think we had carefully canvassed all of the public information that is provided on the website of First Choice in making a determination that we wanted to initiate an investigation,” he continued.
“But you had no factual basis,” Thomas asserted.
“I don’t think that’s true, Your Honor. I think, for example, you could take a look at a comparison between the donation page of First Choice that we have carved out, from the very beginning —” Iyer said.
“But you had no complaints?” Thomas asked.
“We had no complaints, but the state governments [and] federal government initiate investigations all the time in the absence of complaints, where they have a reason to suspect that there could be potential issues of legal compliance,” Iyer responded.
“Well, that just seems to be a burdensome way to find out whether someone has a confusing website,” Thomas asserted.
Iyer went on to argue that the existence of complaints would be material to the merits of the case, but not to whether the state officials had standing for the subpoena.
Audio of the exchange was posted to social media, where it went viral.
The Supreme Court is considering whether the state court must enforce the subpoena against First Choice Women’s Resource Centers before the faith-based pregnancy center can challenge it in federal court.
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The center argues that the subpoena violates its First Amendment right to free speech as well as the right to free association.
Even Justice Elena Kagan, a liberal justice on the court, appeared to be sympathetic to the pro-life center’s plight.
“An ordinary person, one of the funders of this organization or any similar organization, presented with this subpoena and then told, ‘But don’t worry, it has to be stamped by a court,’ is not going to take that as very reassuring,” she said during the case.
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