A federal appeals court on Wednesday lifted a district court ruling that would have restricted federal agents\u2019 interactions with protesters and those peacefully observing immigration enforcement officers.<\/p>\n
The ruling from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, based in St. Louis, grants the federal government\u2019s request for an administrative stay<\/a> on grounds that the lower court\u2019s ruling was overly broad and \u201cnot workable\u201d within the day-to-day operations of ICE and Border Patrol agents.<\/p>\n U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Menendez had issued an order prohibiting immigration agents in Minnesota from arresting, detaining or retaliating against peaceful protesters or observers. The order included provisions regarding traffic stops on legal observers and the use of tear gas.<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0ACLU sues ICE, claiming federal agents deprived citizens of civil rights<\/a><\/p>\n The ruling stemmed from the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota\u2019s lawsuit on behalf of protesters and observers who alleged federal agents had arrested or stopped them in violation of their First and Fourth Amendment rights.<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Judge rules feds in Minneapolis immigration operation can\u2019t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters<\/a><\/p>\n U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated the appellate court ruling and said Menendez\u2019s ruling was \u201cdesigned to undermine federal law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA liberal judge in Minnesota tried to handcuff ICE agents who are enforcing the Nation\u2019s immigration laws and responding to obstructive and violent interference from agitators,\u201d Bondi said on social media. \u201c\u2026 This DOJ will protect federal law enforcement agents from criminals in the streets AND activist judges in the courtroom.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0Court<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Court of Appeals<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0ICE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal appeals court on Wednesday lifted a district court ruling that would have restricted federal agents\u2019 interactions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,2858,33201,2483,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-422027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-court","tag-court-of-appeals","tag-ice","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}