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orangecrush

(27,205 posts)
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 06:09 PM Wednesday

Top Border Patrol official no longer has to appear today before Chicago federal judge after appeals court ruling

Source: CNN

Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino will not have to appear before a Chicago federal judge Wednesday evening, after an appeals court halted the judge’s order requiring Bovino to provide daily court briefings on his agents’ immigration enforcement tactics in the Chicago area.

US District Judge Sara Ellis told Bovino on Tuesday that he must be in court every evening for the next week as she considers reports that federal agents were not following her early October order to limit aggressive tactics and warn protesters and journalists before using tear gas and less-lethal munitions.

The Trump administration quickly pressed a federal appeals court to put her order on hold. In a Wednesday afternoon ruling, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals granted their request, meaning Bovino will not make a Wednesday court appearance.

The appeals court’s decision is intended to give the intermediate court time to review a request from the administration to completely scrap Ellis’ order

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/us/chicago-immigration-gregory-bovino-appeal-granted

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moniss

(8,267 posts)
7. So once again they violate court orders and
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 06:36 PM
Wednesday

get an appeals court to protect them from any repercussions. They've not had to be accountable for the deaths in custody, deportations in violation of court orders, deaths and injuries during apprehensions of immigrants, injuries to protestors and the list goes on. In this atmosphere of invincibility and zero accountability how long before one of these trigger happy creeps pulls his gun and wipes out a bunch of people?

riversedge

(78,569 posts)
9. The Department of Justice on Wednesday appealed U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis' order, which mandated Bovino check
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 06:55 PM
Wednesday

Trump and Dept of so-called Justice interfered!!


https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-blocks-order-requiring-cbps-greg-bovino/story?id=126996532
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The Department of Justice on Wednesday appealed U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis' order, which mandated Bovino check in with her at 6 p.m. daily to ensure compliance with a temporary restraining order that restricted federal agents' use of force in crowd-control tactics.
The DOJ filed the appeal just hours before Bovino was slated to check in with the court for the first time. In its petition to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, the DOJ accused the district court of exceeding its powers and asked the appeals court to immediately pause the order and consider revoking it................


riversedge

(78,569 posts)
8. Gregory Boino today looks like he has over a dozen ICE or police GUARDING him!!......
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 06:52 PM
Wednesday


Anonymous
@YourAnonNews
·
9h
This fucking loser (Gregory Bovino) is LARPing like he's some military commander - how theatrical, how cringe. Anytime people see him, mock him. Do his hand signals, laugh in his face. Fuck ICE.

riversedge

(78,569 posts)
10. BREAKING: The official Department of Homeland Security X Account just posted this clip of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovin
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 07:07 PM
Wednesday

Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein
·
4h
BREAKING: The official Department of Homeland Security X Account just posted this clip of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino.

What do you notice?





I notice a bunch of weird hand movements that I don't know what mean.





Let's just pretend that he wasn't doing a Nazi Salute? If that was the case, you still shouldn't be tweeting out a video of him doing something that can be construed as a Nazi salute from the Official DHS account.



riversedge

(78,569 posts)
11. Border Patrol's Greg Bovino likes to say his agents are welcomed by 99 percent of people in Chicago but as they drive ar
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 07:16 PM
Wednesday



amanda moore 🐢
@noturtlesoup17
·
Oct 28
“Fuck you, Greg Bovino. You’re the scum of the earth.”



Gregory Royal Pratt
@royalpratt
·
Oct 28
Border Patrol's Greg Bovino likes to say his agents are welcomed by 99 percent of people in Chicago but as they drive around the city, they're met with constant shouts of "get the fuck out of here!"






Molly Ploofkins
@Mollyploofkins
·
Oct 28
Protesters chant ‘Lock him up!’ as Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino arrives at the federal courthouse to testify about the use of tear gas on protesters and journalists in Chicago.

riversedge

(78,569 posts)
12. But you gotta admit, he's perfectly suited for the coming role in which CBP will supplant ICE at the forefront of the ab
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 07:21 PM
Wednesday


Ray Sharradh
@RaySharradh
·
11h
But you gotta admit, he's perfectly suited for the coming role in which CBP will supplant ICE at the forefront of the abuses that are going on in the US right now. Absolutely perfectly suited.
And that's bad.
Real bad.










Picaro

(2,267 posts)
13. Deliberately aping the fashions choices of the top Nazis
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 09:14 PM
Wednesday

These fuckers aren’t are eagerly playing into comparisons with Nazis. He is clearly emulating Nazi SS in dress and deed. What a fucking pig.

We didn’t call them pigs in the 60s/70s because we were making things up.

These people are fascist pigs.

I feel like I’ve fallen through a time warp into the 60s/70s.

Problem is this crew is even worse. Back then there was a war to support and a lot of people genuinely believed that our involvement in Vietnam was righteous and patriotic.

These people are classic nihilists—in love with power, money, and cruelty—no real ideology other than white supremacy. Can’t make patriotism out of that.

Picaro

(2,267 posts)
14. Consistent covering for the felon-in-chief
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 10:08 PM
Wednesday

Our appeals courts are showing they are as complicit in the crimes being committed as the Supreme Courtz

James48

(5,025 posts)
15. Who are the judges
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 12:11 AM
Yesterday

Who sit on the Seventh Circuit Appeals Court who granted this appeal? Where is their opinion?

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