Judge Finds DOJ Lawyer in Contempt in Major Escalation [View all]
A federal judge in Minnesota has found a Trump administration lawyer in civil contempt of court over the treatment of an immigrant released from ICE custody.
U.S. District Judge Laura Provinzino has ordered Matthew Isihara, a military attorney brought in to assist Pam Bondi’s Justice Department as a special assistant U.S. attorney, to pay a $500 daily fine until all “identification documents” belonging to Rigoberto Soto Jimenez are returned to him.
The Mexican national, who has lived in Minnesota since 2018 and is a legal resident of the U.S., was detained by ICE in mid-January as part of Donald Trump’s hardline mass deportation efforts. Like hundreds of other immigrants in Minnesota arrested under the administration’s Operation Metro Surge, Soto Jimenez filed a lawsuit claiming his civil rights had been violated during his detention.
Provinzino ordered Soto Jimenez to be released from ICE custody last week after ruling that immigration officials had not presented a warrant that justifies his detention. The judge then set a court hearing for Wednesday to question why the government had not only failed to release Soto Jimenez in Minnesota as ordered, but had also failed to return all his documents to him.
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