A federal appeals court went out of its way last week to shoot down a federal judge’s ruling in a case regarding Department of Homeland Security operations in the old stomping grounds of former President Barack Obama.
And the Obama-appointed judge who found herself in the appeals court crosshairs probably won’t be forgetting it anytime soon.
It was a lecture that constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley called a “haymaker” to the activist jurist.
The Seventh Circuit just delivered a haymaker to Obama-appointee Judge Sara Ellis for her efforts to limit federal enforcement of immigration laws. It accused her of “effectively establish[ing]” herself “as the supervisor of all Executive Branch activity in the city of Chicago.”
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley)March 8, 2026
The judge in question is Judge Sara Ellis,nominated to the benchin 2013 by that old Chicago pol Obama.
In October, according to theappeals court decisionThursday, she issued awide-ranging injunctionagainst the DHS’s use of crowd-control techniques as part of Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration and crime in Chicago.
The ruling amounted to a “a sweeping preliminary injunction regulating all federal immigration enforcement efforts districtwide,” the appeals ruling stated.
As part of it, Ellis ordered the then-head of DHS operations in Chicago, Gary Bovino, to appear before her daily to explain the agency’s compliance.
In November, she issued a novelistic233-page ruling(that started with a paean to Chicago writer Carl Sandberg) supporting her injunction and excoriating, at length, the DHS and its personnel.
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