re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s because a Massachusetts state judge is accused of helping an undocumented person evade an ICE officer waiting in the courthouse. She and her clerk were arrested on federal charges.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said the indictment was “a radical and politically motivated attack on our state and the independence of our courts” and that the matter could have been handled by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct and the Trial Court.

“It is a bedrock principle of our constitutional system that federal prosecutors should not recklessly interfere with the operation of state courts and their administration of justice,” she said in a statement.

cnn.com

According to a friend of mine in Boston, this case is causing great consternation. For me, it’s giving me flashbacks to when I was studying the Underground Railroad in law school and there were several notable instances when Bostonians took matters into their own hands to keep escaped slaves from notorious slave catchers after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850.

If you want to see how weird and crazy it can get, just read about the Fugitive Slave Act and its aftermath, then amp it up by 100 for our interconnected world.