{"id":122837,"date":"2025-06-12T15:19:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/12\/kristi-noems-goons-just-roughed-up-a-sitting-u-s-senator-and-called-it-a-slow-thursday\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T15:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:19:37","slug":"kristi-noems-goons-just-roughed-up-a-sitting-u-s-senator-and-called-it-a-slow-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/12\/kristi-noems-goons-just-roughed-up-a-sitting-u-s-senator-and-called-it-a-slow-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristi Noem\u2019s Goons Just Roughed Up A Sitting U.S. Senator And Called It A Slow Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those following the fascism thermometer, we\u2019ve gone from mayors<\/a> to representatives<\/a> and have just now reached senators. Congratulations, everybody!<\/p>\n

Senator Alex Padilla showed up to a DHS press conference held by Gestapo Barbie Kristi Noem, a perfectly reasonable thing for a California senator to do while Noem explained that the administration intends to \u201cliberate the city from the socialists.\u201d Tenth Amendment schmenth amendment. For his trouble, Noem had some of her stormtroopers manhandle Padilla, shoving him out of the room and then shoving him on the ground and handcuffing him.<\/p>\n

She treated a sitting U.S. senator little better than a dog, which I guess we should be thankful for considering we\u2019re talking about known puppy murderer Noem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin\/Fox News)<\/p>\n

\u2014 Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social)<\/a> 2025-06-12T18:09:56.723Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

When the administration decided to gin up some charges against Representative McIver, they cited her for forcibly impeding federal officers while they tried to make (an illegal) arrest. Hard to imagine what they can come up with here when a U.S. Senator just shows up and politely announces that he plans to ask questions of a cabinet secretary. But I\u2019m sure this administration has enough creative writing majors in the DOJ to come up with something.<\/p>\n

That video ends with the cosplay cops taking Padilla around a corner, presumably in an effort to avoid all those media outlets catching what they planned to do next. However, a second video captures what they did.<\/p>\n

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Video of Senator Padilla being thrown on the ground and cuffed outside Kristi Noem’s press conference<\/p>\n

\u2014 Aaron Fritschner (@fritschner.bsky.social)<\/a> 2025-06-12T18:45:13.603Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

It\u2019s hard to believe anyone actually in the FBI would so egregiously violate their oath of office. As a former white-collar defense lawyer, I worked with several FBI agents over the years and even on the other side, they always exhibited the height of professionalism.<\/p>\n

This is thug behavior and they should know it.<\/p>\n

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“There’s no recording allowed out here, per FBI rights”<\/p>\n

\u2014 Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social)<\/a> 2025-06-12T19:04:57.663Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

OK, now I\u2019m really incredulous. \u201cFBI Rights\u201d? What the hell is that? That\u2019s not even TRYING to sound official. Just say, \u201cno recording per 69 USC Section 420,\u201d it\u2019s just as nonsensical but sounds more believable. <\/p>\n

Though Noem\u2019s office is claiming this is the Secret Service \u2014 who REALLY should know how to identify a senator \u2014 but maybe they\u2019re just randomly making up what to call their bodyguards these days.<\/p>\n

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This is a lie of course because the video shows him repeatedly identifying himself and doing nothing remotely threatening. Also, if the Secret Service (or FBI or ICE or whoever they really were) didn\u2019t know who Padilla was, there was one person in the room who definitely did: <\/p>\n

KRISTI FUCKING NOEM!<\/p>\n

Alex Padilla is the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety\u2026 a committee that tends to matter to the cabinet department in charge of Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety<\/em>. She could have stopped this from the podium at any time. <\/p>\n

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they’re doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Nikki McCann Ram\u00edrez (@nikkimcr.bsky.social)<\/a> 2025-06-12T19:33:35.645Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Expect Grand Moff Noem to announce that the Emperor has dissolved the Senate entirely next week.<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Kristi Noem\u2019s Goons Just Roughed Up A Sitting U.S. Senator And Called It A Slow Thursday<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For those following the fascism thermometer, we\u2019ve gone from mayors<\/a> to representatives<\/a> and have just now reached senators. Congratulations, everybody!<\/p>\n

Senator Alex Padilla showed up to a DHS press conference held by Gestapo Barbie Kristi Noem, a perfectly reasonable thing for a California senator to do while Noem explained that the administration intends to \u201cliberate the city from the socialists.\u201d Tenth Amendment schmenth amendment. For his trouble, Noem had some of her stormtroopers manhandle Padilla, shoving him out of the room and then shoving him on the ground and handcuffing him.<\/p>\n

She treated a sitting U.S. senator little better than a dog, which I guess we should be thankful for considering we\u2019re talking about known puppy murderer Noem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the administration decided to gin up some charges against Representative McIver, they cited her for forcibly impeding federal officers while they tried to make (an illegal) arrest. Hard to imagine what they can come up with here when a U.S. Senator just shows up and politely announces that he plans to ask questions of a cabinet secretary. But I\u2019m sure this administration has enough creative writing majors in the DOJ to come up with something.<\/p>\n

That video ends with the cosplay cops taking Padilla around a corner, presumably in an effort to avoid all those media outlets catching what they planned to do next. However, a second video captures what they did.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to believe anyone actually in the FBI would so egregiously violate their oath of office. As a former white-collar defense lawyer, I worked with several FBI agents over the years and even on the other side, they always exhibited the height of professionalism.<\/p>\n

This is thug behavior and they should know it.<\/p>\n

OK, now I\u2019m really incredulous. \u201cFBI Rights\u201d? What the hell is that? That\u2019s not even TRYING to sound official. Just say, \u201cno recording per 69 USC Section 420,\u201d it\u2019s just as nonsensical but sounds more believable. <\/p>\n

Though Noem\u2019s office is claiming this is the Secret Service \u2014 who REALLY should know how to identify a senator \u2014 but maybe they\u2019re just randomly making up what to call their bodyguards these days.<\/p>\n

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This is a lie of course because the video shows him repeatedly identifying himself and doing nothing remotely threatening. Also, if the Secret Service (or FBI or ICE or whoever they really were) didn\u2019t know who Padilla was, there was one person in the room who definitely did: <\/p>\n

KRISTI FUCKING NOEM!<\/p>\n

Alex Padilla is the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety\u2026 a committee that tends to matter to the cabinet department in charge of Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety<\/em>. She could have stopped this from the podium at any time. <\/p>\n

Expect Grand Moff Noem to announce that the Emperor has dissolved the Senate entirely next week.<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those following the fascism thermometer, we\u2019ve gone from mayors to representatives and have just now reached senators. Congratulations, everybody! Senator Alex Padilla showed up to a DHS press conference held by Gestapo Barbie Kristi Noem, a perfectly reasonable thing for a California senator to do while Noem explained that the administration intends to \u201cliberate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}