FBI shows up at Charlottesville public defender's home unannounced after ICE raid

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Reposted by Kevin M. Kruse

Sally Hudson
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FBI agents are now visiting Charlottesville’s public defenders *at their homes*. It’s naked intimidation of our justice system.

FBI shows up at Charlottesville public defender's home unannounced after ICE raid
The day before the Memorial Day weekend, FBI agents arrived at the homes of Charlottesville-area lawyers to question them about an ICE raid in the city in April.
dailyprogress.com
June 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM

FBI agents are now visiting Charlottesville’s public defenders *at their homes*. It’s naked intimidation of our justice system.

— Sally Hudson (@sallylhudson.bsky.social) 2025-06-01T12:42:01.902Z

[creon]

1. chilling

that is a real threat to civil liberties, the legal sysytem aqnd the ruile of law

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. WTAF?

NOW who's "weaponizing" the justice system? For all the yapping he did about Biden, the orange slime is sure doing exactly what he accused everyone else of!!!

[exboyfil]

3. Don't have a warrant

Get off my property you are trespasssed.

[slightlv]

4. Yeah, but remember what they did to that newspaper owner/publisher

here in KS. They burst through her door and she promptly had a heart attack and died. I followed the case for as long as I could, but I never learned just what happened to all the players in that bit of an attack on her/our civil rights... especially the business owner/complainant who ordered police to do the raid.

We truly were shocked and surprised when that happened. These days, it seems like they keep trying to one-up the last civil rights bust. If you haven't figured it out by now, we've crossed the democracy-autocracy line and straight into the Police State (especially if you're a woman or POC).

Warrants are such archaic pieces of paper, you know. In these days of no-knock warrants and no-knock, no-warrants the old vision of Russian soldiers and police busting down the doors of the proletariat are now common practice in the United States, as are the black masked/black van, off-the-street, kidnapping of anybody.

Does anyone remember how the protests outside the Turkish embassy during trump's first term went down? I'm concerned trump could plan something like that... or worse... for any large assembly of protestors on the National Mall these days. He's totally lost his freaking mind. And, like most people with dementia, is completely unpredictable with reference to their actions, speech, or level of violence.

[exboyfil]

5. Great point

The Kansas thing was shocking. What Trump has also done as well.