“Renee Good's Family Sues Over ICE Killing and 'Nefarious' Trump Conspiracy to Invade US Cities”, 1 October 2026 (Photo via Common Dreams — the original report)
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Jill Fields spent her career inside the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office reading intelligence, not writing complaints. Tuesday, NBC News reported she filed one anyway, naming Emil Bove — then acting deputy attorney general, now a federal judge — as the man who told the head of her field office to open an investigation into protesters outside federal buildings. The complaint says those demonstrations are protected under Americans' rights to free speech and peaceful assembly. All together now — read that back: the man who told the Bureau to investigate protected speech is the same man now sitting on the bench that reviews it.
The complaint landed in a week that did not wait for Congress to weigh in. In Boston, U.S. District Judge George O'Toole blocked the administration's attempt to fine migrants up to $1.8 million for failing to leave after a final deportation order, writing that the fines fell on people in an "economically precarious position." In El Paso, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone halted construction of the border wall through Big Bend National Park, a project that had already drawn furious backlash and public protests of its own.…
…(cont) In Chicago, Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen, sued the federal government. Federal prosecutors had first accused her of using her car to box in the agent's vehicle; CBP's statement on the lawsuit is that use-of-force cases are "thoroughly investigated, reviewed, and presented."
And at the Interior Department, John Murdock, an 18-year attorney and self-described conservative Christian, resigned.
None of these four offices coordinated. None needed to. The complaint says the White House pushed the Bureau to treat protest as crime; the same week, two courts and a career attorney independently filed paperwork agreeing that something in the building had stopped following the rules it was built to enforce.
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“They say the FBI doesn't do politics; the same week it was told to open a file on protesters outside federal buildings, two judges had to do the Bureau's old job and block an illegal fine and an illegal wall. That's not a malfunction, that's an agency being used, and the user still has a federal badge while a woman in Chicago is in court over seven bullet wounds. Follow the file, not the speech, and you'll see whose protest actually got investigated this week.”
“The Bureau has every right to run protective intelligence near federal buildings, that's standard security work, nothing about protected speech — well, the complaint says it was specifically about the protests, but context matters. And the fines and the wall were just lawful enforcement that happened to get blocked by judges, which — did I just concede two separate injunctions in one week? That's not a pattern, that's an overzealous judiciary. Did I say that? That doesn't sound like me.”
Relatives of Renee Good filed a pair of lawsuits against the federal government and immigration officials on Thursday over both the US citizen's killing at the hands of an immigration agent and an alleged conspiracy to interfere with civil rights in Minnesota's Twin Cities. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross…
The fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia will again be argued in court on Tuesday when his legal team asks a federal judge to block his deportation to Liberia.
Republicans' reconciliation package puts $70 billion into ICE's department NBC News, May 2026
A federal judge in Boston on Monday blocked the Trump administration's effort to fine migrants up to $1.8 million for failing to leave the U.S. after receiving their final order to deport. U.S.
Republicans' reconciliation package puts $70 billion into ICE's department NBC News, May 2026
CBP says in response to lawsuit use-of-force cases are ‘thoroughly investigated, reviewed, and presented’ A US citizen who was shot one year ago by a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent during a sweeping immigration crackdown in Chicago filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Monday, alleging the agent lied about the…
A whistleblower report filed by a former FBI intelligence analyst alleges that the Trump administration pushed the law enforcement agency to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens demonstrating against federal immigration enforcement operations. According to a Tuesday report from NBC News, Jill Fields, a former supervisory…
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists An 18-year veteran of the US Department of the Interior has resigned in protest from the sprawling federal agency, denouncing “a deeply troubling assault on the rule of the law” that took place…
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