Espinoza Martinez shows little reaction as Judge Lefkow thanks the jury. But a moment ago, he seemed to glance upward.
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Espinoza Martinez shows little reaction as Judge Lefkow thanks the jury. But a moment ago, he seemed to glance upward.
22.01.2026 22:08 โ ๐ 414 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0#BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.
The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from โOperation Midway Blitzโ: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
Will you guys still attend in person protests? I understand that it is very scary.
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12.01.2026 19:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Arlit Maria Martinez, a Salisbury, Maryland mother of two, was abducted by the ICE ๐ง Gestapo on her way to work last week, per WBOC
Her 15-year-old son Kevin died of cancer while his mother was locked up and ICE ๐ง REFUSED TO LET HER SAY GOODBYE TO HER DYING SON
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ORDER On November 6, 2025, the district court ordered a preliminary injunction forbidding defendants from using certain crowd control techniques and imposing additional requirements on law enforcement activities. Dist. Ct. DE 250. Defendants seek a stay pending appeal, and plaintiffs oppose. A stay is appropriate if the movant demonstrates a likelihood of success on the merits and irreparable injury. Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 434 (2009); Camelot Banquet Rooms, Inc. v. Small Bus. Admin, 14 F.4th 624, 628 (7th Cir. 2021) (per curiam). And โ[i]n close cases ... [a court] will balance the equities and weigh the relative harms to the applicant and to the respondent.โ Hollingsworth v. Perry, 558 U.S. 183, 190 (2010) (per curiam).
Defendants are likely to succeed on the merits. The preliminary injunction entered by the district court is overbroad. In no uncertain terms, the district courtโs order enjoins an expansive range of defendants, including the President of the United States, the entire Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, and anyone acting in concert with them. The practical effect is to enjoin all law enforcement officers within the Executive Branch. Further, the order requires the enjoined parties to submit for judicial review all current and future internal guidance, policies, and directives regarding efforts to implement the orderโa mandate impermissibly infringing on principles of separation of powers on this record. Finally, the district courtโs order is too prescriptive. For example, it enumerates and proscribes the use of scores of riot control weapons and other devices in a way that resembles a federal regulation. We also have reservations about Article III standing. Open questions remain whether plaintiffs have shown that the past harm they allegedly faced is likely to imminently happen to them in the future. City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, 461 U.S. 95, 105โ 06 (1983). A fear that such harm will recur is insufficient, on its own, to show standing for injunctive relief. Id. at 107 n.8. And we are aware of public reporting suggesting that the enhanced immigration enforcement initiative may have lessened or ceased, which could affect both the justiciability of this case and the propriety of injunctive relief. Additionally, defendants face irreparable harm. Trump v. CASA, Inc., 606 U.S. 831, 860โ61 (2025). โAny time that the Government is enjoined by a court from effectuating statutes enacted by representatives of its people, it suffers a form of irreparable injury.โ Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, No. 25A169, 2025 WL 2585637, at *3 (U.S. Sept. 8, 2025) (citation modified); see also CASA, Inc., 606 U.S. at 861. And the balance of equities does not counsel against awarding defendโฆ
#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction, which restricted the feds' use of force in Chicago.
The appeals court says her order is "overbroad" but warns "do not overread today's order."
JOINT WRITTEN STATUS REPORT The parties, by their undersigned attorneys, hereby submit the following joint status report pursuant to the courtโs November 7, 2025, order (Dkt. 57) to apprise the court on the governmentโs compliance with the attorney-client communications provision of the courtโs temporary restraining order (Dkt. 49). Defendantsโ Position: Para. 10 of the TRO requires defendants to โprovide telephone services for each Detainee to communicate with the Detaineeโs counsel in private and without cost.โ Defendants are compliant with this provision. Detainees have access to a government phone and private area to call their attorneys free of charge upon request. The government has set up a new phone number (708-316-4200) and email address (BSSA.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov) that attorneys may use to initiate contact with their clients. The new Broadview phone number is not fully operational yet, so the government will be using the phone number to the guard shack call (708-316-4192) in the meantime. This number is for attorneys only. Attorneys may also send email requests to email Chicago.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov and CHI-ERO-Detained@ice.dhs.gov until the new Broadview email address is fully operational. The email addresses will kick back an auto reply to include the
phone number that attorneys may use to coordinate calls to their clients. The phone number will also be distributed to the Chicago AILA Chapter. The telephone calls are not being monitored or recorded In terms of nighttime lighting, the facility has implemented a 11 p.m.-11:15 p.m. to 5 a.m.- 5:15 a.m. โlights outโ period where the lighting will be dimmed (absent any exigent circumstances such as during detainee transfers for safety reasons). Defense counsel asked that plaintiffsโ counsel test the phone number and emails on November 8-9, 2025, and report back in an attempt to trouble shoot before todayโs noon deadline. Counsel for the defendants was not made aware of any of the issues reported below until five minutes before the filing deadline. The defense will look into plaintiffsโ complaints. Plaintiffsโ Position: Plaintiffs cannot verify whether Defendants are compliant with the provisions of the TRO concerning attorney-client communications. Plaintiffs continue to have concerns that attorneys are not able to arrange calls to their clients in a timely fashion. The new phone number that the government has set up (708-316-4200) still does not work. As described during the last court hearing, the phone line cuts off after an attorney navigates through the automated menu. On Saturday, November 8, 2025, around 2:45 p.m., Defendantsโ counsel provided Plaintiffsโ counsel with the phone number to the Broadview guard shack, as mentioned above (708-316-4192). Plaintiffs are in touch with an attorney, Shelby Vcelka (who testified at the TRO hearing) who called the guard shack number on Sunday afternoon before 3:30pm in an effort to set up a call with her client. She was transferred to a supervisor who told her that someone would call her back within 48 hours. As of 8:30 am today (Monday), she had not heard back. Plaintiffs
submit that a 48-hour response time is far too long, particularly given the substantial rights at stake while people are detained and processed at Broadview and the fact that people may be transferred elsewhere sooner than 48 hours. The new email address (BSSA.Outreach@ice.gov) generates an auto-reply, but it lists the ICE Chicago Field office number (872-351-3990). That number disconnects after an attorney navigates through the automated menu. The auto-reply does not contain the guard shack phone number. The Chicago.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov and CHI-ERO-Detained@ice.dhs.gov email addresses do not generate auto-replies. We have received one report from an attorney who appears to have emailed both the BSSA.Outreach@ice.gov mailbox and Chicago.Outreach@ice.gov mailboxes and subsequently received a phone call from a Broadview official in response. That attorney was able to have a phone call with her client. It is not clear to Plaintiffs which email inbox precipitated the response. Nor is it clear to Plaintiffs how frequently either of these mailboxes are monitored or whether attorneys consistently receive a prompt response and client call. Plaintiffs have no information about whether detainees are being provided with the means to make free, unmonitored, and private phone calls to attorneys, or where that is being facilitated within the Broadview facility. With respect to nighttime lighting, Plaintiffs have no information at this time about whether or how Defendants are implementing the new โlights outโ period they describe to the Court. Plaintiffs have received no further information about whether detainees are now being provided with a bedding mat or bedding, and have also received no further information about food service at the facility.
The latest update on conditions inside Broadview's ICE facility, where a magistrate judge is planning a visit this week.
The Trump administration says it's "compliant" with an order to provide phone services so detainees may communicate with counsel.
Plaintiffs "continue to have concerns."
JUST IN: The Justice Department formally appeals U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction, which restricts the use of force against protesters and journalists.
09.11.2025 21:40 โ ๐ 548 ๐ 293 ๐ฌ 28 ๐ 26Finally, some accountability.
07.11.2025 23:09 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0DECLARATION OF GREGORY K. BOVINO I, Gregory K. Bovino, declare and affirm as follows: 1. I received a body worn camera on October 30, 2025. 2. I completed the requisite body-worn camera training on October 30, 2025. 3. I am currently using my body-worn camera in compliance with the preliminary injunction. Executed this 7th day of November, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois.
JUST IN: The declaration of U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino
He says he received a body-worn camera, has been trained on a body-worn camera, and is "currently using my body-worn camera in compliance with the preliminary injunction."
Gettleman turns to the status report and says he's "pleased" and "hopefully we're moving in the right direction. But certain things, obviously, are going to take a little time."
07.11.2025 18:52 โ ๐ 91 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Gettleman says he assumes Ellis' order will "be entered as soon as possible, and they'll be released, and that'll be the end of that controversy."
07.11.2025 18:51 โ ๐ 111 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Gettleman says this hearing was originally set b/c "the plaintiffs had been returned to ICE custody after our last hearing and sent to Waukesha, Wisconsin โ contrary to my order."
But he said Judge Sara Ellis has since ordered their release in a separate hearing.
The Justice Department has said in a new status report that it is largely in compliance with Gettlemanโs TRO from earlier this week.
Plaintiffs are โdoubtful.โ They want to be able to inspect.
Good afternoon. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman is presiding over a remote status hearing that just began over conditions inside the ICE facility in Broadview.
07.11.2025 18:47 โ ๐ 408 ๐ 156 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 5Ellis again insists that the Trump administration's arguments "lack credibility."
06.11.2025 17:04 โ ๐ 942 ๐ 113 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 16Judge Ellis finds that the Trump administration has placed "content-based restrictions" on protesters.
"Tellingly, she says, "defendants do not deny that they would treat pro-ICE demonstrators more favorably."
We are gonna WIN THIS
06.11.2025 16:59 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ellis: "The unlawful activity by a few protesters does not transform a peaceful assembly into an unlawful assembly."
06.11.2025 16:58 โ ๐ 1409 ๐ 263 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 21Ellis notes that the feds argue "plaintiffs have not been engaged in First Amendment protected activity" because they've "intermingled themselves with rioters."
"But as I've previously stated," Ellis says, "I don't find defendants' version of events credible."
Ellis notes people being tear gassed, staring down the barrel of a gun and being "slammed to the ground with their head bashed into the street."
"All of that would cause a reasonable person to think twice about exercising their fundamental constitutional rights."
After going through several incidents since the start of Operation Midway Blitz โ like the ones above โ Judge Ellis says, "those are the factual findings that I'm making to support this preliminary injunction."
06.11.2025 16:48 โ ๐ 989 ๐ 151 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 10Ellis on the Oct. 24 incident in Lake View: "When an agent deployed gas, he stated, 'Have fun.' And then, two additional tear gas canisters were deployed."
06.11.2025 16:42 โ ๐ 862 ๐ 158 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 7Ellis on the Oct. 14 incident on the Southeast side: "Agents pushed, shoved, tackled protesters, pointed guns at them, threw tear gas and deployed smoke canisters. Everyone that agents detained were released by the FBI, and none of them are currently charged with assault."
06.11.2025 16:39 โ ๐ 1062 ๐ 219 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 8Ellis is walking through the testimony heard yesterday. She said Oak Park Township Trustee Juan Munoz's arrest made him a "prop" for DHS videos. Ald. Julia Ramirez "ran away from tear gas while eight-and-a-half months pregnant."
06.11.2025 16:34 โ ๐ 867 ๐ 140 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 6Ellis points to this testimony from CBP agent Kristopher Hewson.
"Clearly, what he said was 'hit them,'" Ellis says.
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Ellis: [Bovino] admitted that he lied about whether a rock hit him before he deployed tear gas in Little Village."
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