Andy Sellars
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Public interest tech & media lawyer at albertsellars.law, based in Boston. He/him
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!["TEXT ORDER denying 83 Motion to Stay: The Court is required to continue its constitutional functions, and therefore the Motion to Stay is DENIED. Department of Justice contingency plan states: "If a court denies such a request [to stay or continue] and orders a case to continue, the Government will comply with the court's order, which would constitute express legal authorization for the activity to continue." So Ordered by Chief Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. on 10/2/2025. (Jackson, Ryan)"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xfovoxu6ygjogoxyargaxnlj/bafkreiftdhhaxbm3374njztdgbhacphqcuoymkmyjvjhndyp4wyvcivspi@jpeg)
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![And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened
carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for maskingup and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd
Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as
disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a
single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small
wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard
them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It
should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks.
Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and
honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly
desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we
have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on
in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this
administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape
history,” Lincoln righty said. “[It] will light us down in
honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.” Abraham Lincoln,
Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:maiw2rfujepnphhrejytvuu5/bafkreicdotnqas7vodrueuxzi2cjg54znecjps5vjnbpgyzzxxxzf4qeya@jpeg)
![I hope you found this
helpful. Thanks for writing.
It shows you care. You
should.
Sincerely & respectfully,
Bill Young
P.S. The next time you’re in
Boston [the postmark on the card
is from the Philadelphia area]
stop in at the Courthouse and
watch your fellow citizens, sitting
as jurors, reach out for justice.
It is here, and in courthouses
just like this one, both state and
federal, spread throughout our land
that our Constitution is most vibrantly
alive, for it is well said that “Where a
jury sits, there burns the lamp of
liberty.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xfovoxu6ygjogoxyargaxnlj/bafkreicbt2ruwr63s3asi36btgflb5i3iwk53k6ts5impuzzuxjt7hx3hu@jpeg)
