DOJ sues to block Ohio court from preventing courthouse immigration arrests

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The Department of Justice sued Franklin County Municipal Court over a local rule requiring a judicial warrant before immigration arrests on courthouse grounds, naming a judge and the court's security director as defendants. The DOJ argues the rule interferes with federal immigration enforcement and that warrantless arrests are constitutional.

The department cites two ICE officers hospitalized in Columbus over three months as justification, without elaborating on what happened. The suit follows a similar case where a federal judge already blocked a related Trump administration courthouse-arrest policy for skipping proper rulemaking procedure.

The county court, naming the obvious, declined to comment on pending litigation.

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When your evidence for a policy is two unspecified hospitalizations and your legal theory is that courts can't regulate arrests in their own courtrooms, you're not litigating — you're testing how much a courthouse can be made to feel like a checkpoint. The Justice Department wants it both ways: safety justifies the arrests, but no safety details are owed to anyone.

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