Desire Grace, the former top deputy in the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s Office, has formally appealed her termination, alleging she was fired in direct retaliation for being appointed by federal judges to replace Alina Habba as acting U.S. attorney. Grace filed her complaint with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), arguing the July 22…
In a major development involving federal immigration enforcement and due process rights, a U.S. District Judge in Maryland has issued a ruling barring the federal government from re-arresting Kilmar Abrego Garcia for immigration detention upon his release from jail in Tennessee. The ruling follows what the court acknowledged was a wrongful deportation to El Salvador…
A Georgia police officer has resigned following public backlash over a wrongful traffic stop that led to the ICE detention of Ximena Arias Cristobal, a 19-year-old undocumented college student who was arrested and held for more than two weeks before being released on bond. The officer’s resignation was confirmed Saturday by Bruce Frazier, a spokesperson…