The Department of Homeland Security plans to spend $20 million to equip Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with gloves that can deliver an electric shock, and a law enforcement officer’s recently unearthed admission left multiple immigration advocates stunned on Saturday.

In 2024, Adam Glueck, then assistant chief of police for the Cape Girardeau Police Department in Missouri, spoke on a video podcast about his agency having recently purchased electric shock gloves for its officers, and flagged what he characterized as a benefit of using the technology.

“In today’s society, you know, everybody’s filming everything, everybody has a cell phone,” Glueck said, according to a report from Mother Jones, which unearthed the video. “[But] the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.”

Mother Jones also flagged remarks from Bob Couey, chief deputy for the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia, who in a 2024 video that’s been viewed less than 400 times praised electric shock gloves as well.

“I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that’s looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits,” Couey can be heard saying on video, also unearthed by Mother Jones.

Responding to Glueck and Couey’s recently unearthed remarks, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, was left stunned.

“Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they [don't] leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively,” Reichlin-Melnick wrote Saturday in a social media post on X.

Thomas Kennedy, a Florida-based writer and immigration advocate, was also left stunned by Glueck and Couey’s remarks, calling it “sadistic stuff.”

“The gloves ICE wants to purchase for tens of millions of dollars that can deliver electric shocks allow the wearer to inflict pain without leaving the sort of marks that look bad to witnesses or leave an officer vulnerable to lawsuits,” Kennedy wrote Saturday. “Sadistic stuff.”

Within a week of his confirmation, Attorney General Todd Blanche took to New York to stump for an ally of President Donald Trump’s, an act that legal expert and former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance flagged Saturday as a blatant violation of U.S. law, and as something that left her “deeply disgusted."

Blanche spoke at a Trump rally Friday in support of Bruce Blakeman, a GOP gubernatorial candidate in New York hoping to defeat incumbent Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, but in doing so, came at odds with a 1939 U.S. federal law.

“A violation of the Hatch Act, if anyone believes the Attorney General should follow the law,” Vance wrote in an analysis published Saturday on her Substack, Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance.

“One of the Act’s major prohibitions is against using a federal job to influence an election. Although federal employees can, technically, campaign on their own time, the Attorney General is on the clock 24/7. Presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed officials like Blanche can only participate in partisan political activity in a purely personal (not official) capacity.”

At the rally, Blanche touted his leadership at the Justice Department – an agency he referred to as “his” – boasting about his vow to prosecute those who touch federal law enforcement officers “in any way inappropriate” to “the fullest extent of the law.”

“If only he felt that way about Jeffrey Epstein’s victims,” Vance quipped, referencing the DOJ’s failure to prosecute a single person associated with Epstein.

What Vance characterized as a blatant violation of U.S. law demonstrated, she argued, was the rules he and other Trump administration Justice Department officials operated under: “Trump rules, not the rule of law.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), 92, published yet another online post Saturday complaining about vacuum cleaners, only this time sparking right-wing backlash in the process.

For years, Grassley has spoken at length about “Beth” – a vintage Hoover vacuum cleaner that had been used by his family for close to 50 years before it broke earlier this month, leading the Iowa Republican to issue a bizarre eulogy for the household appliance. More than a week later on Saturday, Grassley expressed his disappointment that his 1966 Electrolux Corporation canister vacuum cleaner was “also broken.”

Billy Ray Todd, a former Republican Alabama state House candidate with a large online following, criticized Grassley for airing his vacuum cleaner-related grievances, arguing that the 92-year-old senator should instead “be in DC passing the SAVE Act,” President Donald Trump’s controversial voter ID bill.

Joe Dan Gorman, a conservative commentator and comedian, argued Grassley’s online post demonstrated either an “enormous detachment from reality or a giant middle finger,” suggesting the 92-year-old should instead be calling for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to “step down.”

And Chris Nelson, who Yahoo! News described as an independent conservative journalist, used Grassley’s post to highlight the senator’s impressive age.

“This guy is pushing 100 years old and still in the Senate,” Nelson wrote Saturday in a social media post on X. “He’s not even a boomer. He’s silent generation. His kids are boomers.”

Born in 1933, Grassley is the oldest sitting U.S. senator and the sixth-longest-serving senator in American history, having first won elected office in 1958 during the Eisenhower administration. He has represented Iowa in the Senate since 1981 and is currently the chamber's president pro tempore, putting him third in the presidential line of succession behind Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).