"Renee Good had two gunshots wounds to the right side of her chest, one to her left forearm, and a possible fourth on the left side of her head, according to a fire department report released Thursday along with police reports and 911 transcripts."
"2025 was the deadliest year for ICE detention.... And 2026 is looking no better. It’s January 15, 2026, and already four people have died in custody this year. So that suggests 2026 is going to be the deadliest year yet."
"There does not appear to have ever been a criminal indictment stemming from an ICE shooting at all. ...
The self-defense claim ICE, its agents, or their lawyers have made after shootings has historically been proven impossible to refute. An agent using deadly force does so justifiably when it is 'objectively reasonable and necessary,' ICE spokesperson Mike Alvarez told me in an email in 2024."
"'A law enforcement officer placing himself or herself in front of a motor vehicle to prevent a suspect's potential avenue of escape is a dangerous tactic and a potential violation of policy,' Mike German, a former federal law enforcement agent, tells WIRED."
“'But I don't think that would be likely to impact a prosecutor's evaluation of whether the officer has a reasonable fear at the time he pulled the trigger that he was in a life-threatening situation justifying deadly force.'”
"DHS went so far as to post a clip of Stephen Miller saying, 'You have immunity to perform your duties, and no one — no city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist — can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties.'”
In a statement entitled "Renee Good and the Big Lie About 'Absolute Immunity,'” David Shuster says,
"Vance’s declaration is not merely wrong; it is ludicrous. There is no such doctrine in American law. None. It exists only in the fever dreams of fascist wannabes who mistake their own wishes for jurisprudence."
“Stephen Miller🚨signaling to ICE and CBP to basically ENACT VIOLENCE ON CITIZENS FREELY.
They DO NOT have immunity.
This is both sickening, and dangerous, and EXACTLY what Miller has wanted his entire life.
This is just pure filthy evil. This is not how the US functions.”
-J Tate
A tweet from the Department of Homeland Security reminds ICE officers of their federal immunity while performing their duties. It states that obstructing or interfering with them is a felony and emphasizes that no individual or official can prevent them from fulfilling their legal obligations.
Because the previous thread commenting on Trump's invasion of Venezuela has gotten so long, while hot-off-the-press commentary continues, I'm starting a new thread. My goal with these threads is to allow anyone interested to see pieces of commentary that seem valuable to me, and to link to the commentary itself.
"This is what happens when over 77 million Americans vote for such a lawless, reckless man, some 89 million choose to stay home, and John Roberts’ Supreme Court supermajority hands him near-total immunity."
Earlier today, the Nobel Assembly announced that this year's Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on understanding the human immune system. For
@TheConversationUS, immunologist Aimee Pugh Barnard explains the significance of the three scientists' work on regulatory T cells and immune regulation, which started back in 1995. "Continuing to unlock the secrets of immune regulation can help lead to a future where the immune system can be precisely tuned like a thermostat — whether to turn it down in autoimmunity or rev it up against cancer," Professor Pugh Barnard explains.
“Forgive us, because this council could not save your children.”
“Because Israel is shielded, because it is immune. Immune, not by international law, but by the bias of this international system,” he said.
“Israel kills every day and nothing happens. Israel starves a people and nothing happens. Israel bombs hospitals, schools, shelters and nothing happens. Israel attacks a mediator and steps on diplomacy, and nothing happened.
1/ Palestine_Group #Gaza #UNSC #Israel #immunity #quotes #Algeria
It's worth mentioning that measles resets the immune system so that getting measles wipes out all one's acquired immunities. The result is that those who survive measles become vulnerable to other infectious diseases. More info here: https://archive.ph/Bmnds
@georgetakei
What no one is talking about in regards to measles is how it can mess up the immune system for up to 3 years. It happened to me in the time before there was a vaccine, although they had not connected the dots on it back then.
Measles-ravaged immune system must ‘relearn’ how to protect the body against infections
P.S. I worked as an expert on vaccine preventable diseases in public health.
The proceedings are set to begin at 9:30AM in Manhattan. Though the president-elect is expected to avoid #jail time, his #sentencing on 34 counts will formalize his status as a #felon & make him the first to carry that distinction into the White House.
Though #Trump will soon begin the #appeal process, the case will be concluded after sentencing, meaning it will no longer hover over him. But he will also be the first convicted #felon to be sworn in as president.
This week, Trump filed a civil action against the judge overseeing the case, challenging a pair of recent rulings that upheld his #conviction. Both rulings rejected Trump’s argument that, as a former & future president, he is entitled to #immunity.
#ClarenceThomas argued that the #SpecialCounsel’s office needs to be established by #Congress & confirmed by the #Senate. He said he tacked on his concurring opinion to the #immunity ruling to “highlight another way in which this prosecution may violate our constitutional structure.”
“If there is no #law establishing the office that the Special Counsel occupies, then he cannot proceed with this prosecution. A private citizen cannot criminally prosecute anyone, let alone a fmr President.”
#SCOTUS is supposed to rule this morning on #Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election.
The decision will determine whether & how special counsel #JackSmith’s case against Trump can proceed — although it’s unlikely a trial would happen before #Election Day. But the ruling could also set an important #precedent for how to prosecute presidents for their actions in office.
More from #Sotomayor's dissent, this ruling dramatically expands presidential #power — not just for #Trump but for all presidents.
“The Court effectively creates a law-free zone around the President, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the Founding. This new official-acts #immunity now 'lies about like a loaded weapon' for any President that wishes to place his own interests, his own political survival, or his own financial gain, above the interests of the Nation.”
“The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, & possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority's reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”
In a footnote to its #immunity decision, #SCOTUS appeared to say that the federal cases against #Trump cannot continue if he returns to the White House.
“In the criminal context … the Justice Department ‘has long recognized’ that ‘the separation of powers precludes the criminal prosecution of a sitting President,’” Chief Justice #JohnRoberts wrote.
America is a scam ( pluralistic.net )
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