All posts tagged "Renee Good"

President Donald Trump's legal setbacks are stacking up faster than a friendly Supreme Court can undo them, according to former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance.

Vance, who served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, walked through a string of courtroom developments in four cities in a Thursday post on her Substack, Civil Discourse. Each one, she argued, went badly for the Trump administration.

D.C. Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman threw out the indictment against Davey Hearn, the Olympian the Trump administration blamed for damage to the Reflecting Pool. Edelman dismissed the case with prejudice, which bars prosecutors from refiling it. His order noted the government had already concluded no crime occurred....

A CNN panel piled on a MAGA pundit who downplayed a key reason polls show that Americans disapprove of Trump.

The panel, hosted by CNN anchor Abby Phillip, was discussing why Trump's approval ratings were underwater on key issues with a few months to go before the midterms. When immigration came up, MAGA commentator Jason Rantz found himself in a corner as the panel shut him down.

Democratic political strategist Antjuan Seawright said, "Americans see the $70 billion slush fund Republicans gave to ICE, and they see people being murdered."...

A Republican and a Democratic lawmaker started screaming at each other during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

The heated clash between Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) happened during a hearing on sanctuary policies before a House Judiciary subcommittee. Raskin attempted to get Lawler to condemn the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, who were gunned down by Trump's immigration agents during a protest in Minneapolis in January. However, Lawler was only interested in talking about family members of victims killed by undocumented immigrants.

The back-and-forth soon escalated into a full-blown shouting match. ...

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks announced his resignation Wednesday, effective immediately, in an exclusive interview with Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin — offering a rosy self-assessment that critics say glosses conveniently over a deeply troubled chapter in the agency's recent history.

"It's just time," Banks told Melugin. "I feel like I got the ship back on course. From the least secure, disastrous, chaotic border to the most secure border this country has ever seen. Time to pass the reins, 37 years is time to enjoy the family and life."

Last month, Banks had been accused of regularly soliciting sex workers. ...

A lawyer has explained what must happen next in the courts as prosecutors continue to seek justice for Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

The two civilians were shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents earlier this year, with state officials "at a loss as to how to proceed", according to legal expert Chris Truax. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, he says, is struggling to bring an "apparently stymied" Bureau of Criminal Apprehension into the fold, while crime scene access has been flatly denied.

This causes a logjam which the court must now solve by taking a tough line against the government, Truax told The Hill. He wrote, "In the vast majority of these incidents, there is never any question what happened. The only questions are about why it happened and whether the officer behaved reasonably under the circumstances."...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) went off on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and criticized her handling of FEMA disaster relief during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.

Noem was testifying before senators when Tillis gave his statement, eviscerating Noem's leadership and expressing his disappointment about her decisions regarding the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions, including the deaths of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti. He argued that Noem had disappointed him and specifically expressed concerns about how she has handled the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

"What we've seen is a disaster under your leadership," Tillis said. ...