That or the pages are littered with paragraph-long highlights, underscores, and "THIS!!!" in the margins but no critical thought or insights on the passages

It only adds to the sense that he was quivering with barely restrained rage as he wrote the order, which also came through in the text quite nicely I thought.

The fuck?

He's trying to add every single bit of gravitas to his order

It's amazing, tbh, one thing I didn't expect from this entire situation is that the judiciary starts to really flex their literary and theatrical muscles in their authority, because while most legal business is rote ritual, they take advantage of that with this, and allow their legal opinions and the weight of their urgency to be seen

It gives me a little hope

Normally, no. However it does humanize Liam Conejo Ramos as a child. The judge isn't talking about some child that the public can't visualize. We actually get to see what Liam Conejo Ramos looks like.

Are you suggesting it’s inappropriate?

Judge Fred Biery was appointed by Clinton and actually blocked the 2025 state law that would otherwise have required displaying the 10 Commandments in public classrooms.

I see this as him pointing out to Trump’s supporters that the actions of this administration are not only inhumane but run contrary to core Christian teachings. If the “pro-Christian” administration isn’t being very Christian then call out their hypocrisy.

Perhaps, but, I won’t complain about Christian theology being used against Christofascists, of which I suspect many ICE agents are. Donald Trump has been known to wave a Bible around. Turnabout is fair play.

He quoted “Jesus wept.” Hardly inappropriate.

And why are you making multiple comments about it? Give it a rest already.

Have you read the Jefferson Bible? He took all the magic shit out so it's just Jesus the moral philosopher.

Indeed, let's return a 5 year old child to jail because the judge said a few words from the bible. Grow the fuck up. I grew up in a very conservative Christian family, I never was a believer myself but I do respect each ones beliefs as long as they don't bring any harm.

Wishing for a 5 year old child to return to jail because the judge said a few bible phrases is absolutely macabre.

Leave it to militant atheists to be more concerned about fighting religion than about fighting fascism

The regime uses religion to justify ignoring legal norms. The judge knew exactly what he was doing. Basically, even if the Bible matters more than the law, this is STILL wrong.

I agree. It does not matter if it was used in a good way this one time. Next time might be against abortion.