Texas Judge reads Noem the riot act - and the U.S. Constitution
Liam Conejo Arias grabs his blue hat and heads back to Minneapolis
As the sharp division in our land grows deeper by the day, it’s refreshing to find that at least one federal judge in Texas still believes in strict law and order.
Judge Fred Biery of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division, used humor and snark and irony and admirable passion as he schooled Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, Todd Lyons and “John Doe,” Warden of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, on the intricacies of the U.S. Constitution.
He even quoted from a book that many Christians believe is a higher authority than that revered and oft-quoted Constitution.
Tellingly, Judge Biery’s decision is short and to the point, proving that when the facts and the law are on your side, it doesn’t take a whole lot of words to deliver a knockout punch.
Writes the good judge, “Before the Court is the petition of asylum seeker Adrian Conejo Arias and his five-year-old son for protection of the Great Writ of habeas corpus.”
I’ll pause here for a minute to allow Noem, Bondi, Lyons and Doe enough time to flip through their Black’s Law Dictionary and find the definition of “habeas corpus,” which is not a new menu item at In-N-Out.
Adds Judge Biery, “They (Adrian and Liam) seek nothing more than some modicum of due process and the rule of law. The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children. This Court and others regularly send undocumented people to prison and orders them deported, but do so by proper legal procedures.”
Using proper legal procedures? What a novel concept.