Seventh Circuit Slams District Court Judge in ‘Midway Blitz’ Case
‘Intruding into personnel management decisions of the Executive Branch’
By Andrew R. Arthur on November 4, 2025
On Halloween, the Seventh Circuit issued an order in In re: Noem, telling a district court judge that she overstepped her boundaries by requiring an immigration chief to appear in her courtroom each weekday at 5:45 p.m. “to report on the use of force activities for each day.” While protestors are complaining about executive-branch overreach, they may want to examine the excesses of the judicial branch, too.
“Operation Midway Blitz”
This all stems from “Operation Midway Blitz”, a massive ICE operation launched on September 8.
As DHS describes it, Midway Blitz is intended to “target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets.”
“Governor Pritzker” refers to Illinois Gov. Jay Robert “J.B.” Pritzker (D), billionaire “heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune”, Democratic Party heavyweight, and a long-time and vehement critic of the president’s “mass deportation” plans.
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