BREAKING:
The
Department
of
Justice
did
a
totally
normal
thing
in
New
Jersey!
After
a
year
of
open
defiance,
where
“acting”
US
Attorney
Alina
Habba
and
Attorney
General
Pam
Bondi
threw
up
middle
fingers
and
shitposted
about
“rogue,”
“activist”
judges,
a
prosecutor
in
New
Jersey
decided
to
try
doing
stuff
the
regular
way.
For
a
treat!
The
unexpected
gravitas
occurred
in
one
of
the
thousands
of
habeas
cases
currently
swamping
trial
courts.
The
Department
of
Homeland
Security
recently
discovered
that
8
USC
§
1225(b)(1)(B)(iii)(IV)
requires
mandatory
detention
of
asylum
seekers,
including
those
who
were
released
in
the
country
decades
ago
and
given
work
permits.
Hundreds
of
judges
across
the
country
—
but
not
the
Fifth
Circuit!
—
have
scoffed
at
this
discovery
and
ordered
DHS
to
either
grant
immigrants
a
bond
hearing
or
release
them.
But
DHS
just
…
keeps
doing
it,
forcing
immigrants
to
race
to
file
individual
habeas
claims
before
being
disappeared
to
a
gulag
in
Texas.
Virtually
every
district
court
in
the
country
is
straining
under
the
weight
of
dozens
or
hundreds
of
virtually
identical
habeas
petitions
which
require
immediate
judicial
attention.
The
problem
is
exacerbated
by
DHS’s
total
lack
of
interest
in
complying
with
court
orders.
That’s
what
caused
immigration
lawyer
Julie
Le’s
courtroom
crashout
in
Minnesota,
during
which
she
suggested
that
she’d
welcome
a
contempt
order
because
then
she
could
finally
get
a
rest
from
having
to
go
to
battle
with
ICE
every
day
to
get
it
to
follow
the
law.
In
Minnesota,
Chief
Judge
Schiltz
compiled
a
list
of
96
court
orders
violated
in
his
district
in
January
alone.
But
Judge
Michael
Farbiarz
of
the
District
of
New
Jersey
went
one
better
and
ordered
the
US
Attorney’s
Office
to
produce
the
list
itself.
On
February
5,
he
instructed
prosecutors
to
“enumerate
each
instance
in
which
the
Respondents
or
people
acting
on
their
behalf
violated
an
order
issued
by
a
judge
of
this
district
between
December
5,
2025
and
the
present.”
And
to
her
credit,
special
attorney
Jordan
Fox
complied.
In
a
declaration
which
has
not
yet
appeared
on
the
docket
but
was
obtained
by
Politico,
Fox
listed
56
violations
of
court
orders
in
547
immigration
cases,
including
removing
petitioners
from
New
Jersey,
failing
to
grant
timely
bond
hearings,
and
late
filings.
Notably
absent
was
an
indignant
suggestion
that
these
orders
were
illegal
or
represented
judicial
overreach.
In
fact,
Fox
thanked
Judge
Farbiarz
for
“the
opportunity,
as
a
senior
Department
of
Justice
official,
to
submit
a
declaration”
and
for
his
“recent
recognition”
in
a
separate
habeas
matter
that
her
office
is
trying
very
hard
to
comply
with
court
rulings
under
difficult
circumstances.
“I
understand
Your
Honor’s
concerns
about
these
extremely
important
issues
with
constitutional
implications,”
she
wrote.
“The
line
AUSAs
and
staff
of
the
Civil
Division,
their
supervisors,
the
Front
Office,
and
I
will
all
continue
to
ensure
full
compliance
with
court
orders.”
Alina
Habba
could
never!
Which
is
one
of
the
reasons
that
the
judges
in
the
district
refused
to
use
their
power
under
28
USC
§
546(d)
to
bless
her
continued
tenure
after
her
temporary
appointment
timed
out.
The
president’s
pugilistic
personal
lawyer
stuck
around
for
a
couple
months
LARPing
as
US
Attorney,
but
in
December
the
Third
Circuit
said
the
jig
was
up,
and
she
finally
flounced
out.
With
no
ability
to
install
an
interim
replacement,
Bondi
appointed
a
troika
of
three
normie
lawyers
to
run
the
US
Attorney’s
Office
in
New
Jersey.
Fox,
who
previously
served
as
chief
of
staff
to
Deputy
Attorney
General
Todd
Blanche,
supervises
the
Civil
and
Appellate
Divisions.
Although
she’s
only
five
years
out
of
law
school,
she’s
Bondi’s
pick
to
run
the
office
permanently.
The
New
Jersey
Globe
reports
that
Fox
has
been
negotiating
with
those
“rogue”
judges
to
appoint
her
under
§
546(d),
breaking
the
logjam
caused
by
Trump’s
refusal
to
nominate
someone
who
can
get
blue
slips
from
New
Jersey’s
two
Democratic
Senators.
Perhaps
this
explains
Fox’s
recent
professionalism.
Or
maybe
it’s
just
that
her
future
plans
involve
practicing
law
in
New
Jersey,
rather
than
earning
her
living
as
a
MAGA
courtier.
Whatever
the
reason,
Judge
Farbiarz
credited
her
filing
as
“careful,
thorough,
and
plainly
the
product
of
a
great
deal
of
work
by
a
great
many
professionals
at
the
United
States
Attorney’s
Office.”
But
it’s
not
going
to
end
the
inquiry!
“On
or
before
February
25
at
10:00am,
the
Respondents
shall
file
an
affidavit,
executed
by
a
senior
official,
detailing
the
procedures
that
are
in
place
(or
that
will
be
put
in
place
in
the
near-term)
to
ensure
that
court
orders
issued
by
district
judges
in
New
Jersey
are
timely
and
consistently
complied
with,”
Judge
Farbiarz
wrote.
He
opened
negotiations
by
suggested
that
DHS
might
agree
not
to
remove
anyone
with
a
pending
habeas
petition
from
New
Jersey,
since
every
judge
in
the
district
is
administratively
ordering
it
the
second
the
case
is
assigned.
Which
is
great
news
for
Fox!
All
she
has
to
do
to
land
her
dream
job
is
get
ICE
to
quit
breaking
the
law
and
defying
court
orders.
Easy
peasy!
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