(January 5, 2026)
While censure and reprimand are historically reserved for more serious offenses, the separate order technically makes members of Congress vulnerable to disciplinary action in the House for merely using a tool that members have been authorized to use since 1928.
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Ultimately, however, the Supreme Court never reached the merits.
“Coming forward has required extraordinary courage, exposing ourselves to public scrutiny, retaliation and lifelong emotional consequences,” Hobson wrote in a Jan. 18 letter. “We did so with belief in our government and trusting that when Congress passed this law, the Executive Branch would honor it.”
The judge ruled this week that he does not have the authority to enforce the disclosure law, but that Massie and Khanna could file a lawsuit or pursue oversight through legislative means.
“We have several avenues in the legislative branch here,” said Massie. “We could bring contempt, inherent contempt, or even impeachment against Pam Bondi.”
As the New York Times reported Friday, FBI agent Tracee Mergen, acting supervisor of the office’s Public Corruption Squad, resigned after senior FBI officials in Washington pushed her to end a civil rights probe into the killing. The agency is focusing on investigating Good and her wife, who were legally observing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, instead of determining whether ICE agent Jonathan Ross used excessive force.
An FBI source told CBS News that Mergen “would not bow to pressure” from the agency’s leaders.
Although we haven’t seen that DHS Office of the General Counsel determination, DHS’s acting general counsel at the time was Joseph Mazzara.
Mazzara was most recently in the news for acknowledging that he was the person who gave DHS Secretary Kristi Noem legal advice about whether or not to turn around the Alien Enemies Act flights the night of March 15 after Chief Judge James Boasberg ordered the administration to do so. (They did not turn the flights around.)
Sometime less than two months later, per Lyons, Mazzara’s office took on the Fourth Amendment as well.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.
Across the river in Minneapolis, Temple Israel synagogue was filled Friday morning with clergy, elected leaders and others for an interfaith service to launch the day of striking, marching and activism. Marcia Zimmerman, senior rabbi, declared that “history is on our side,” before lighting a candle in the synagogue’s sanctuary of remembrance for Good and people who have died in federal detention.
Washington’s Episcopal bishop, Mariann Budde, a former Minneapolis priest and prominent critic of President Donald Trump who traveled to Minnesota for Friday’s march, praised locals’ resistance.
“What I and others can do is connect the dots, between the scale and deliberate cruelty here with what has been taking place across the country,” she said, referring to the actions of the federal government. “Minneapolis has shown the country what it looks like to stand up.”
For Nguyen, the decision to open the restaurant was not political.
„It just feels right,“ Nguyen said. „It‘s not about politics for us, it‘s just feels right. This is what we are supposed to do. This is like our calling, I feel like, (to) help the community.“
Nguyen said offering food and warmth felt more meaningful than staying home with the restaurant closed.
Hundreds of businesses in the Twin Cities are closed Friday to protest the presence of federal immigration agents in Minnesota, as thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of downtown Minneapolis in a show of solidarity.
Hundreds of businesses in the Twin Cities were closed Friday to protest the presence of federal immigration agents in Minnesota, as thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of downtown Minneapolis in a show of solidarity over the Operation Metro Surge crackdown.
Community members asked for no work, no school and no shopping, calling it a „Day of Truth and Freedom.“
Some small business owners have called on elected leaders to act to limit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the state.