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Baljit Singh Is Free. The Regime Never Showed Up.
On Saturday, two federal judges in Washington state ordered two men released from ICE detention. Oddly, the regime didn’t put up a fight in either case—and one of those men didn’t even have a lawyer.
Start with Baljit Singh. He came to the States from India in 2024 and applied for asylum. He had a work permit, and the government had let him live here while his case was pending. In September, his petition says, he and some friends “inadvertently went to the exit at the Canada border.” That landed him in ICE detention in Tacoma, Washington.
So Singh filed what’s called a habeas petition. If the government puts you behind bars, you can submit paperwork that makes them come to court and tell a judge why. If they can’t do that, you get set free.
The regime never answered. The day before he filed, Trump’s top federal prosecutor in western Washington, Charles Neil Floyd, sent the chief judge a letter. He wrote that his office “does not have the available resources” to defend every one of these cases.
They’re locking up and getting sued by so many people, they couldn’t spare one lawyer to tell a court why they were holding Singh. So Judge Tiffany Cartwright ordered him to be released by the next day. She also told the regime to give him back his ID and work permit.
The other man was Andres Contreras Garcia. He didn’t have a lawyer, so he filed his habeas petition himself. Judge Kymberly Evanson wrote that the regime “has offered no factual or legal basis to rebut his petition,” and she ordered him released as well.
Trump’s deportation machine is so sloppy and disorganized that it can’t find enough lawyers to defend it in court. It’s even losing to a man who doesn’t have a lawyer at all.
A Maryland County Beat The Justice Department
On Monday, Judge Theodore Chuang threw out the regime’s lawsuit against Montgomery County’s law that keeps most people from carrying guns at or near schools, parks, and places of worship.
They sued under a law Congress wrote after Los Angeles police beat Rodney King in 1991. It lets the Justice Department go after police departments that abuse people. Trump’s lawyers used it to fight a rule that keeps guns away from schools and churches. Their argument was that county police would be violating people’s rights just by enforcing that rule.
There were two problems with that. Inside the court file, I found Judge Chuang wrote that there’s no record of county police ever enforcing these rules against a single person, so there was no abuse to point to. And when the regime’s lawyers were asked at a hearing for one example of that law ever being used against a local rule instead of actual police abuse, they acknowledged they didn’t have one.
Chuang called their theory a “breathtakingly broad expansion of federal power.” The Justice Department can already go after local governments when police violate people’s rights. What they tried here was not that. And if it had worked, the DOJ could sue any town across the US over any local law it claims violates someone’s rights—even with no evidence that the law had ever been enforced.
Trump wanted that power over the country—he didn’t get it. A county in Maryland beat him, and every town he comes after next can hand the judge this ruling.
He Told Trump To Defy Judges. Now He’s Disbarred.
Also on Monday, the Supreme Court disbarred Larry Klayman from practicing law in front of the justices. He’s the right-wing lawyer who founded Judicial Watch and represented Laura Loomer.
Last year, when judges were blocking Trump’s orders one after another, Klayman went on a web-based show and said: “Trump should not obey the orders. That is the fastest way to get it to the Supreme Court, and that is not to obey the orders.”
Since 2020, DC’s highest court has suspended his law license three times, and Florida’s Supreme Court suspended it for two years. On Monday, the US Supreme Court justices gave no reason for disbarring him—they didn’t need one.
In August 2025, DC’s judges called statements Klayman made to a federal court “clearly dishonest.” And when the DC bar’s discipline office—which polices lawyers—came after him, he sued “nearly everyone involved in the Bar discipline process.” Those suits were “consistently dismissed.”
The highest court in the country threw Klayman out, and every MAGA lawyer egging Trump on should be next.
Eileen Laubacher Took Colorado’s Reddest Seat
Eileen Laubacher is a retired Navy rear admiral who had never run for anything. She was a Republican for years, until the party became what she calls “nearly unrecognizable.”
On Monday, CNN projected she had beaten Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 4th District, which Trump won 58 to 40 two years ago. The AP hasn’t called it yet, but as of Wednesday Laubacher led by 3,362 votes. I’ve gone through the numbers, and Boebert would need about 70% of the ballots left to count. I don’t see any route to victory for her, none whatsoever.
She earned that lead by campaigning everywhere, saying: “I traveled 40,000 miles across all 21 counties … Coloradans are tired of political games, broken promises, and being ignored by Washington.”
Boebert took what she thought would be a shortcut to winning her reelection. She moved across the state to run in the most Republican seat in Colorado, after nearly losing her old seat. Now she’s lost there too.
And Trump was no help. In May, he said Boebert was “Weak Minded,” asking if anyone wanted to run against her. Just four days before the election, he was back to posting, “SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!”
A first-time candidate won in a district Trump won by 18 points. Laubacher is ready to get to work, writing: “This victory is historic,” adding that “making history means nothing if we don’t make a difference.”
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Scott
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