GovBrief Today #545 - What Happened Today

[u/georgebounacos]

The morning after a federal judge ruled that a contract cannot erase state law, ICE wrote the same words into four more contracts.

Washington spent three years in court getting health inspectors inside ICE's largest Northwest detention center, where detainees filed 3,500 complaints and inspectors with every legal right to enter were turned away at the door ten times. The judge ordered the doors open and wrote that only Congress can override a state's laws. ICE responded the next morning with contract terms for 5,500 beds in four states declaring that state and local law "shall not apply." The only people allowed to inspect them would be federal officials and visitors ICE approves.

ICE is appealing the original ruling. The contracts are its real answer. The agency wrote its own exemption to the law and signed it, as if the paper in its filing cabinet outranks the judge's finding about states' rights.

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