During a remarkable hourlong session with Bovino on the witness stand Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis instructed the 30-year border patrol veteran to get his own body-worn camera and send her every use-of-force report — and accompanying body-cam footage — filed since “Operation Midway Blitz” began nearly two months ago.
While she stopped short of finding any specific violations had occurred, Ellis ordered Bovino to appear before her in open court at 5:45 p.m. each weekday to go over any uses of force from that day. The appearances would be required until at least Nov. 5, when Ellis is scheduled to hold a full hearing on a preliminary injunction.
The judge said that since she’s sure Bovino would not simply ignore a court order, the only explanation for what she’s been seeing on videos sent to her by the plaintiffs is that her order is simply not clear enough. “So I thought it would be a really good idea to go through it so that we are on the same page,” she said.
I’m pretty sure he would.
Bovino also gave an interview to a Spanish-language news outlet afterward where he was asked about Ellis’ order and allegedly said, “Did judge Ellis get hit in the head by a rock this morning? Maybe she needs to see what that’s like before she gives an order like that.”
This fist-pumping jackboot has no intention of slowing his terrorism roll.
If anyone else said that, it would be considered a threat and the fucking hammer of law would be dropped on them.
If I was the judge, I’d wait for him to miss Wednesday’s, Thursday’s, and Friday’s 5:45 PM meetings, then issue an arrest warrant and have him hauled to jail on Friday evening, where he can stew he can be arraigned on Monday morning.
Or maybe Tuesday or Wednesday.
That’s why the judge’s statement had all that sarcasm dripping from it.
Sarcasm, the one great weakness of Nazis.
Better talk to him some more then, that will surely fix things.
He has to report to the judge every day at 5:45 and go over every use of force that day, along with providing the body cam footage, and her ruling will depend on what happened not violating her orders. THAT is what will fix things.
The whole article is really good. She made it very clear she’s not going to let him get away with his shit.
The fuck else you expect a judge to do here?
Send marshals and hold him in contempt.
The judge was being sarcastic.