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Another Wisconsin Judge Stands Up For Justice
Like Judge Hannah Dugan, Sawyer County Circuit Court Judge Monica Isham has come under fire for standing up for justice
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/05/another-wisconsin-judge-stands-justice
By Chris capper Liebenthal — May 6, 2025
Shortly after the wrongful arrest of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, another Wisconsin judge is coming under fire for standing up for justice.
Sawyer County Circuit Court Judge Monica Isham had reportedly sent out an email referring to Dugan and saying that she would not let anyone be dragged out of her court by ICE agents without due process:
In the email, Isham reportedly noted she had sworn an oath of support to the U.S. and the Wisconsin constitutions. She also reportedly added that Judge Dugan was standing by her oath of office when she confronted ICE officers who came to her courtroom in Milwaukee and escorted the defendant they’d come to arrest out a side door.
“Yesterday, Judge Hannah Dugan of Milwaukee County stood on her Oath in the very building she swore to uphold it and she was arrested and charged with felonies for it. Enough is enough,” the email message said.
“I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE and sent to a concentration camp, especially without due process as BOTH of the constitutions we swore to support requires. Should I start raising ball money?”
Adding more tension to the situation, Isham is a member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and is the first woman and first Native American judge in Sawyer County and only the second Native American judge in the entire state...............
Another Wisconsin Judge Stands Up For Justice: Like Judge Hannah Dugan, Sawyer County Circuit Court Judge Monica Isham h
Another Wisconsin Judge Stands Up For Justice
Like Judge Hannah Dugan, Sawyer County Circuit Court Judge Monica Isham has come under fire for standing up for justice.
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/05/another-wisconsin-judge-stands-justice
By Chris capper Liebenthal — May 6, 2025
Shortly after the wrongful arrest of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, another Wisconsin judge is coming under fire for standing up for justice.
Sawyer County Circuit Court Judge Monica Isham had reportedly sent out an email referring to Dugan and saying that she would not let anyone be dragged out of her court by ICE agents without due process:
In the email, Isham reportedly noted she had sworn an oath of support to the U.S. and the Wisconsin constitutions. She also reportedly added that Judge Dugan was standing by her oath of office when she confronted ICE officers who came to her courtroom in Milwaukee and escorted the defendant they’d come to arrest out a side door.
“Yesterday, Judge Hannah Dugan of Milwaukee County stood on her Oath in the very building she swore to uphold it and she was arrested and charged with felonies for it. Enough is enough,” the email message said.
“I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE and sent to a concentration camp, especially without due process as BOTH of the constitutions we swore to support requires. Should I start raising ball money?”
Adding more tension to the situation, Isham is a member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and is the first woman and first Native American judge in Sawyer County and only the second Native American judge in the entire state...............
Unreal ignorance: In a stunning moment, Trump exposes his own lack of understanding of trade or economics when he says
How can one "brain" be so stupid???
Really American 🇺🇸
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Unreal ignorance: In a stunning moment, Trump exposes his own lack of understanding of trade or economics when he says "By not trading, we're losing nothing. So we're saving a trillion dollars. That's a lot."
What an embarrassment.
https://x.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1919849567090090046
At least 26 dead in Pakistan in overnight India attacks, military says
Source: abc
At least 46 others were injured, a Pakistani military official said.
By Kevin Shalvey, Victoria Beaule, and Prashun Mazumdar May 7, 2025, 4:06 AM
LONDON and DELHI -- Twenty-six people were killed and dozens more were injured overnight in Pakistan by Indian aerial attacks, Pakistani officials said.
The Pakistani military said the airstrike amounted to a "blatant act of aggression," a characterization disputed by an Indian official, who said it was a "measured, non-escalatory, proportionate and responsible."
The strike, which followed Tuesday's missile assault, came amid rising tension as India continued to blame Pakistan for a deadly attack in April in the disputed Kashmir region, a claim that Pakistan denies. That militant attack, known as the Pahalgam incident, left 26 people dead in Indian-held Kashmir..................
The attack "constitutes a clear violation of Pakistan's sovereignty," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding, "The Indian side was warned that such reckless behavior poses a serious threat to regional peace and stability."......................
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/International/26-dead-pakistan-overnight-india-attacks-military/story?id=121548110
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Soldiers and onlookers inspect the debris of a mosque after Indian strikes in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on May 7, 2025.
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Trump said opportunity for Russia to play at 2026 World Cup-but unaware that Russia were banned from the tournament.
What an idiot.
MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀
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⚽️🇺🇸🇷🇺 US President Donald Trump says the opportunity for Russia to play at the 2026 World Cup could be an "incentive" to end the war in Ukraine, - BBC
Sat next to Fifa president Gianni Infantino, Trump was unaware that Russia were banned from the tournament.
Trump said Infantino is "the boss" when it comes to a decision over Russia's participation and that he had "nothing to do" with any call to reinstate them.
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1920079570314670141
Salt Lake City approves 3 new flags to get around Utah's ban on Pride flags
Source: nbc
The city’s three new flags mix the existing Salt Lake City flag design with elements of flags celebrating various communities that were barred from being flown at public buildings.
Updated May 6, 2025, 11:10 PM CDT Adam Edelman
Salt Lake City adopted three new city flags Tuesday, an effort to circumvent a new Utah law that effectively banned flying LGBTQ Pride and other flags at public buildings in the state.
Mayor Erin Mendenhall, a Democrat, presented the proposal to the City Council, which adopted it at its meeting Tuesday night. It incorporates the city's flag into designs celebrating Juneteenth, LGBTQ rights and trans rights.
In March, Utah became the first state to make it illegal to fly such flags at all public schools and universities and government buildings, triggering outrage among Democratic officials and civil rights groups in the state. That law prohibits unsanctioned flag displays and was widely interpreted to ban flags celebrating various communities in Salt Lake City, a blue spot in socially and politically conservative Utah.
One of the proposed flags, dubbed the Sego Belonging Flag, is intended to honor the city’s LGBTQ residents, while another, which officials called the Sego Visibility Flag, is intended to recognize the city’s trans community. The third proposed flag, dubbed the Sego Celebration Flag, is intended to honor the city’s Black residents, as well as the history surrounding the Juneteenth holiday..............
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/salt-lake-mayor-new-city-flags-state-ban-pride-rcna205204?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=681b39b0b2ef730001b8cdeb&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
No doubt someone or some group will sue her--but I think it is a grand idea!!
https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-560w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2/rockcms/2025-05/250506-flags-ac-1144p-b05bfb.jpg
Salt Lake City adopted three new flags. The original is in the upper-left corner. The new ones celebrate trans rights, the LGBTQ community and Juneteenth.
Salt Lake City's mayor has proposed three new city flags as part of an effort to circumvent a recent Utah law that effectively banned flying LGBTQ Pride and other identity flags at public buildings in the state.
https://x.com/NBCNews/status/1920067350730060135
@HouseJudiciary · Not a single witness at today's Bureau of Prisons hearing supported reopening Alcatraz.
Some trumpy ideas are just to crazy to even begin to take seriously!!
House Judiciary Dems
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Not a single witness at today’s Bureau of Prisons hearing supported reopening Alcatraz.
Not one.
https://x.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1919793628970414422
Federal judge rules for Riggs, orders her certified as NC Supreme Court winner
Source: carolinajournal.com
May 5, 2025
A federal judge has rejected Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin's challenge of ballots cast in last fall's election.
US Chief District Judge Richard Myers ordered the North Carolina State Board of Elections to certify Democrat Allison Riggs as the election's winner.
Myers placed his decision on hold for a week to give Griffin time to appeal.
A federal judge has ordered the North Carolina State Board of Elections to certify Democrat Allison Riggs as the winner of the 2024 state Supreme Court election. The decision rejects ballot challenges from Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin.
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Myers’ decision preserves Riggs’ 734-vote lead over Griffin out of more than 5.5 million ballots cast last fall..................
Read more: https://www.carolinajournal.com/federal-judge-rules-for-riggs-orders-her-certified-as-nc-supreme-court-winner/
Riggs has to wait another week--and hopefully she can celebrate then.
Federal judge rules for Riggs, orders her certified as NC Supreme Court winner
A federal judge has rejected Republican state Supreme Court candidate
Jefferson Griffin's challenge of ballots cast in last fall's election.
https://x.com/moonbreeze2/status/1919539317984121177
US District Judge Richard Myers (Image from law.unc.edu)
"Sorry, only one blowup doll of your favorite President this Christmas."
Oh so so so sad!!
“Sorry, only one blowup doll of your favorite President this Christmas.”
https://x.com/NotHoodlum/status/1919475668535922808
Students, parents call on judge to immediately halt Department of Education's rollback of civil rights investigations Ma
With his handy Sharpy pen--old man Trump screws students and parents some MORE!!
🚨We're fighting to stop @usedgov.bsky.social from abandoning thousands of investigations within its Office for #CivilRights 🚨
The Dept has provided no information for protecting #studentrights. We stand with families in filing a motion to block the unlawful rollback: https://bit.ly/3GFcMlC
https://bsky.app/profile/splcenter.org/post/3logx52735p2s
https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/students-parents-judge-halt-department-education-rollback-civil-rights-investigations/
Students, parents call on judge to immediately halt Department of Education’s rollback of civil rights investigations
May 5, 2025
Preliminary injunction seeks to reverse actions by Department’s Office for Civil Rights that have abandoned thousands of claims and investigations
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of students and parents, represented by the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc. (COPAA), filed a motion for preliminary injunction Friday in their lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education seeking to block the Department’s unlawful rollback of civil rights protections for students experiencing discrimination in schools.
The motion, filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., asks the court to immediately halt the Department’s recent policy decision to abandon thousands of investigations within its Office for Civil Rights (OCR). It follows the filing of the plaintiffs’ amended lawsuit on April 10 and is supported by several sworn declarations from parents and current and former OCR staff that detail the perilous, ongoing harm many plaintiff children and thousands of students across the country continue to face as a result of the discrimination they experience in schools.
“It’s critical that the court intervenes now — both to bring justice to thousands of families who’ve been left with no answers, and to prevent further harm to countless more students across the country,” said David Hinojosa, Co-Director of Litigation at NCYL. “No student should be made to feel they don’t matter.”
“This administration’s continued attempts to destroy the U.S. Department of Education is an attack on every child in our public schools. A key role of the Department of Education is to ensure civil rights protections for all students including children of color and students with disabilities, and oftentimes, especially in southern states, the office for civil rights is the only way students and families can ensure access to their educational rights. We need the courts to intervene immediately to protect our nation’s most vulnerable students,” said Derwyn Bunton, Chief Legal Officer at SPLC. “SPLC is proud to stand by our partners to fight these actions with every tool that we have—alongside educators, students, and communities who understand that education is a fundamental right, not a privilege.”
“An OCR that is solely focused on the distortion of diversity,..................
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