DHS seems to have pissed off a federal judge in one of the many ongoing litigations around gutting much of the federal government. This one is brought – ironically – by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights against DHS and is about DHS shutting down several statute-mandated offices that provide oversight of the treatment of people in DHS (which of course includes ICE) custody. You can tell why Trump wants to abolish those offices. That’s the substance. But the technical issue is just as important and it’s one that applies to things happening across the federal government.
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