A retired judge flagged the most chilling part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's behavior in cities across the country during an interview on CNN.

Retired U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin discussed the recent actions of ICE agents during CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" on Thursday. She said it has become clear that ICE is operating without any rules and no real oversight from the federal government, which is a recipe for disaster.

"ICE is operating with no real legal controls, no rules," Scheindlin said. "They sort of do whatever they think needs to be done. They're sort of making up the rules for themselves as they go along, and that's a dangerous thing. And that's been the problem with ICE's behavior in these cities throughout these weeks and months. And the judges have pointed that out."

Judges across the country have questioned the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies. For instance, a federal judge sharply limited ICE's use of certain crowd control tactics following the deadly shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis.

The Associated Press recently reported that Trump's ICE agents are operating under the assumption that they have total immunity, as outlined in a recent memo instructing them to enter people's homes without a warrant.

An analyst flagged the "most disturbing" part of President Donald Trump's administration's efforts to collect data about Americans and their political enemies.

Over the last several months, the Trump administration has sought to collect data about Americans in different instances under the guise of creating a database to combat antisemitism. For instance, the Trump administration received a list of Jewish students from Barnard College as part of a settlement with the school. Those students then began receiving text messages from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asking them to confirm their Jewish identity.

Questions about how the administration is using that data grew louder this week, when it was revealed that the Department of Government Efficiency turned over data to a political advocacy group to help overturn election results in certain states, The Bulwark's Catherine Rampell pointed out in a new article.

Rampell also flagged the "most disturbing" part of the scheme in the article.

"It’s becoming clearer that some of the most disturbing developments don’t involve data the administration is suppressing, but rather data it’s collecting—in some cases illegally—and the ways those data can be weaponized against perceived enemies," Rampell wrote.

She added that the databases the government is creating "sound[] an awful lot like twentieth-century government databases of Commies, wrongthinkers, and other political enemies."

"So I ask you, my fellow Americans: Do you feel safer yet?" Rampell wrote.

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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger declined to make an in-person appearance before the state Senate Ethics Committee as drama escalates over President Donald Trump's demands for the state's voting data, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday.

Per the report, instead of attending, "secretary of state officials sent a letter to the committee chair saying they would not attend because of ongoing litigation with the U.S. Department of Justice."

The Trump administration has demanded huge amounts of voter data from state election bureaus around the country. While some Republican-dominated states have complied, Democratic states have largely resisted. Raffensperger is notable for being a Republican who is also resisting, citing a state law that prevents voters' Social Security numbers from being shared with third parties.

Raffensperger is notorious for standing up to Trump after he lost Georgia in the 2020 election, rebuffing his demand to "find" extra votes to flip the state in his favor.

Since then, Raffensperger, a committed conservative, has frequently backed the GOP party line on a number of other voting issues, defending a controversial law that prohibits anyone from giving voters food and water while standing in line, and pressuring Fulton County to allow Republican officials to appoint election deniers to their local administrative board. Nonetheless, he has refused to endorse Trump's conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

He is now one of a number of GOP heavyweights running in the primary to succeed outgoing Gov. Brian Kemp, including state Attorney General Chris Carr, and Lt. Gov and former fake MAGA elector Burt Jones, the latter two of whom have been at each other's throats over fundraising rules.