{"id":141797,"date":"2026-01-14T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/14\/minnesota-becoming-a-constitutional-law-issue-spotter\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:01:59","slug":"minnesota-becoming-a-constitutional-law-issue-spotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/14\/minnesota-becoming-a-constitutional-law-issue-spotter\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Becoming A Constitutional Law Issue-Spotter"},"content":{"rendered":"

With polls showing more Americans now favor abolishing ICE<\/a> than keeping it, a lot of people will be disappointed to learn that the law is set up to make it almost impossible to hold anyone accountable for killing Renee Good. From sovereign immunity, to the Federal Officer Removal Statute, to the decline of Bivens<\/em>, to qualified immunity<\/a>, the whole system is arrayed to shield federal agents from legal redress. Speaking of the Minnesota ICE surge, we moved a step closer to a genuine Third Amendment case<\/a> after the Department of Homeland Security pressured Hilton Hotels into dropping a franchisee that had refused to rent rooms to DHS. And finally, Judge James Ho published a broadside against fellow judges in his bid to reach the top of the Trump administration\u2019s Supreme Court wishlist. And all he had to do was mock judges receiving violent threats and dishonor a judge\u2019s murdered son<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The post Minnesota Becoming A Constitutional Law Issue-Spotter<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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With polls showing more Americans now favor abolishing ICE<\/a> than keeping it, a lot of people will be disappointed to learn that the law is set up to make it almost impossible to hold anyone accountable for killing Renee Good. From sovereign immunity, to the Federal Officer Removal Statute, to the decline of Bivens<\/em>, to qualified immunity<\/a>, the whole system is arrayed to shield federal agents from legal redress. Speaking of the Minnesota ICE surge, we moved a step closer to a genuine Third Amendment case<\/a> after the Department of Homeland Security pressured Hilton Hotels into dropping a franchisee that had refused to rent rooms to DHS. And finally, Judge James Ho published a broadside against fellow judges in his bid to reach the top of the Trump administration\u2019s Supreme Court wishlist. And all he had to do was mock judges receiving violent threats and dishonor a judge\u2019s murdered son<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With polls showing more Americans now favor abolishing ICE than keeping it, a lot of people will be disappointed to learn that the law is set up to make it almost impossible to hold anyone accountable for killing Renee Good. From sovereign immunity, to the Federal Officer Removal Statute, to the decline of Bivens, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141798,"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-141797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2255126862-NvK6A7.jpg?fit=594%2C396&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141797","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=141797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}