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They Tried To Disappear Him. He Testified Anyway.
Badar Khan Suri is a Georgetown peace scholar who has a wife and three kids. On March 17, 2025 he was walking home from breaking his Ramadan fast when masked ICE officers stopped him outside his building in Rosslyn, Virginia. An agent told him “someone high up in the Secretary of State’s office doesn’t want you here.”
The State Department’s own memo, written two days earlier, confirms he was in valid status and concedes the government “did not identify any particularized information on Suri in relevant interagency databases.” His visa had been reviewed by federal vetting partners, “none of whom returned any derogatory information.”
What they listed instead: a think tank’s write-up of two Facebook posts, a 2018 article, and Instagram photos ICE called “pro-Palestine content.” The memo admitted it was “likely that courts will closely scrutinize the basis for this determination.”
They took him anyway, and a judge later found their design was to “spirit [him] away from this District before his counsel could file a petition.”
It failed. Judge Patricia Giles ordered him released, and in July the Fourth Circuit upheld that order, after a government lawyer told the judges he was only “80% sure” the law even required detention.
This week Khan Suri took the stand in immigration court. He’s home with his family.
Eighteen months trying to disappear one man. He’s still standing.
One NDA. One Lawsuit. 41-0.
Billionaire Leon Black paid Jeffrey Epstein at least $158 million after Epstein was already a registered sex offender. Black says he knew nothing about Epstein’s crimes. Congress subpoenaed him twice: once for sworn testimony, and once for his nondisclosure agreements.
Rep. Robert Garcia said Black made women “sign strict nondisclosure agreements” to keep them quiet. Black’s team produced exactly one, though his own counsel had indicated there were many more. On the day he was supposed to sit for his deposition, he sued the committee instead of appearing.
On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee voted 41-0 to hold Black in contempt. On Wednesday, the full House agreed with zero objection, referring Black to the DOJ, which now decides whether to prosecute.
But Congress didn’t start this. Pressure from more than a dozen Epstein survivors did. Their statement puts it plainly: survivors “have fought for years to bring the truth about Epstein’s network into the open and have helped create this moment of accountability.”
The same day, a bill was introduced to make any nondisclosure agreement that silences a sexual abuse survivor “void and unenforceable”—including ones already signed.
Black’s own lawyers say those who signed “bargained for confidentiality.” Now that bargain is getting torn up.
Judges Almost Never Talk. This Week Seven Did.
Federal judges almost never talk publicly about the government in front of them. This week, seven of them in Minnesota did. Among them was Patrick Schiltz, the court’s chief judge until this summer, a George W. Bush appointee who clerked for Antonin Scalia.
In January, ICE picked up a man the court calls Juan T.R., who came here from Ecuador as a child. Schiltz gave ICE seven days to give him a hearing or let him go. ICE did neither and kept him locked up in Texas. So the judge ordered the head of ICE to come to his courtroom in person and explain himself. Two days later, ICE let the man go.
Schiltz didn’t stop there. He published a list of every court order ICE had broken in one month: 96 of them. “ICE is not a law unto itself,” he wrote. When the US Attorney complained the number was wrong, Schiltz rechecked every case—and came back with 210.
Now he’s saying it in public, and he’s not alone. Six of his colleagues sat for the same interviews. What ICE did “created a grave threat to the rule of law,” Schiltz told the Times. “The rule of law to democracy is like oxygen to a human body.” DHS called him “another activist judge” in January. Good luck making that stick to a Scalia clerk.
It doesn’t stick to seven of them either. They wanted the bench quiet. It isn’t.
Trump Sued For Vermont’s Voter Rolls. He’s Now 0 For 24.
Last September, the Justice Department gave Vermont 14 days to hand over its entire voter file. The list, they wrote, “must include the registrant’s full name, date of birth, residential address,” plus a driver’s license number or “the last four digits of the registrant’s social security number.”
Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas didn’t blink. “My gut is, there’s no way we’re releasing this information to the federal government,” she said. Her office had already stated publicly it had no plans to share Vermont voter data with Washington. So the regime sued her.
On Thursday, Judge Mary Kay Lanthier threw the case out, ruling the Civil Rights Act of 1960 gives them no such authority, and that it had no factual basis and no lawful purpose behind it. Ouch.
They’ve now filed 31 lawsuits against 30 states and DC. Not one court has ruled in their favor. Twenty-four district courts have ruled against them. This isn’t just a blue-state fight either. When the losses piled up, the regime started sending threat letters to election officials, no matter the party. Utah’s Republican Lt. Gov., Deidre Henderson, said hers was “sprinkled throughout with threats of criminal prosecution” for “following state and federal laws.”
Losers bluff. Twenty-four times, officials called them on it.
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There were 210 broken court orders tracked by a judge within two months. What should happen to government officials who ignore judges?
Epstein survivors are pressuring Congress to void NDAs that silenced them. Who else do you think those agreements are still protecting?
The regime is cracking on three fronts. Congress is dodging a vote on Hegseth's illegal war, 150+ lawmakers are fighting the Yosemite public land sell-off, and tech lobbyists are panicked over a 20-year prison sentence for rogue AI.
Hit all three:
Hegseth:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-impeach-pete-hegseth/
Yosemite:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-stop-trumps-yosemite-giveaway
AI Ban:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-pass-the-ban-on-ai-we-cant-control/
We need to remember and memorialize the Minnesota Seven, the judges that publicly stood up publicly and politically and spoke out against ICE. Perhaps the violent ICE thugs didn’t get the memo but they will be held accountable for state crimes that cannot be pardoned.