Posted on 07/18/2025 10:44:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Rules are ghosted—once more—in California’s latest episode of immigration lawfare.
When federal courts issue emergency orders—like temporary restraining orders (TROs) or preliminary injunctions—Rule 65(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure imposes a clear requirement:
The court may issue a preliminary injunction or a temporary restraining order only if the movant gives security in an amount that the court considers proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by any party found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained [emphasis added].
But in Vasquez-Perdomo v. Noem, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong—a Biden appointee in the Central District of California—blithely casts this requirement aside.
No bond. No substantive cost analysis. Just a sweeping TRO and a shrug.
And in doing so, Judge Frimpong left a hole so yawning you could cruise a 1941 Packard Clipper through it—with the doors flung open and the hood up—and that’s saying something, since the 1941 Clipper was the widest car in production at the time and the first American automobile deliberately engineered to be wider than it was tall.
According to the court, there was “no realistic likelihood of harm” to the government. The order, she reasoned, merely compels ICE to comply with its existing attorney visitation protocols and applicable law.
That framing is surgically precise in what it considers—and what it ignores.
This TRO isn’t a procedural pause button—what most TROs are used for—it’s a tactical rewire of how ICE conducts field operations in the LA metro area.
It imposes sweeping restrictions: narrowing what officers may consider in forming reasonable suspicion, limiting where and how they operate, and mandating new documentation protocols—all under the court’s supervision and opposing counsel’s review.
That’s far beyond adherence to internal agency policy. It’s micromanagement by judicial decree, and it’s all shared with activist NGOs and other adversarial parties
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
These judges should be arrested and tried as accomplices after the fact for the crimes these illegal invaders were arrested for.
Pronto.
Judge Ewusi Frimpong? Sounds like someone from Africa.
I thought so too but actually she’s a first generation American born to Ghanian immigrants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maame_Ewusi-Mensah_Frimpong
Activist judges legislating from the bench and they should be removed for misbehavior and misconduct.
And they should be charged and tried. Releasing criminals from the bench is no different than helping them escape out of the back door.
Another vile communist foreigner...
So then, we are both right, since Ghana is within South Africa.
Only good thing one can say about California it’s where you left to live in a better place.
I have yet to encounter a judge in my business life that has imposed a bond on the requestor of a TRO on 3 public projects that I have built in the last 25 years, even though we presented those impact costs, that the public must bear, to the judge
Same thing
My Maserati does 185....but my Cadillac Blackwing does 206.
I should clarify that I don’t even have a Maserati and have never driven my Blackwing at 206 mph. I am relying on magazine tests. I stay in 1st gear for safety.
Maame Ewusi-Mensah FrimpongWhat's the deal? Why is the federal judiciary packed with foreigners?
Owned a 70's Oldsmobile Delta 88 back in the 80's. Easily seats six comfortably. Friggin' yuge.
land yacht
AIDING & ABETTING
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