[U: We Get A Visit From... Noem!] Judge Furman Specifically Admonished Noem's DHS Lawyers -- That "Moving Detainees To Secret Them from Counsel, And Abridge Their Rights"... Is A Felony.

UPDATED at 1:56 PM EDT -- the boys at Homeland Security are looking in on us. We just had several visits in the last 20 or so minutes. Gee -- I wonder why that might be.

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Department Of Homeland Security (216.81.81.82). . . .

In any event, this is -- and remains -- a free nation. And I have proudly been a patriot my whole life long (no associations with terroristic groups -- right or left). . . so rest easy, boys. End of update.

Again, InnerCityPress has the minute by minute here. Excellent work inside Judge Furman's courtroom, in Foley Square, man!

Probably the most important moments this morning were: (i) granting the green card holder daily privileged legal calls, from Jena, Louisiana; (ii) the speed of the next hearing -- one day; and (iii) the specific on the record hint from the bench / admonition that the writ of habeas corpus defeats government efforts to "secret" a detainee away from his counsel -- and that attempt itself may rise to an independent felony -- by Kristi Noem's DHS team.

These DHS idjits. . . are risking their law licenses now.

. . .Judge Furman: [To Noem's lawyers:] Your papers should address Justice Kennedy's concurrence in Rumsfeld v. Padilla [542 U.S. 426], about moving petitioners to evade jurisdiction.

Petitioner's lawyer: Courts have also looked to identify the field office that was responsible [That is a broad hint that this may have constituted a felony by the DHS field agents]. . . .

So -- we now wait for 9 PM EDT filings tonight. And the docket is unsealed as of now. Thank you, Judge Furman!

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