This weekend a dinner was held in honor of Judge Federico A. Moreno, celebrating his 35 years of service on the Southern District of Florida bench. The event brought together members of Judge Moreno’s family, his courtroom staff, his local law clerks, and their families.
Over dinner, the Judge regaled the room with personalized stories about each of his clerks, recalling important cases, their accomplishments, and their not-so-serious gaffes. The Judge also took time to thank the hosts, Mariela Martínez-Cid (Moreno ‘01–‘02, ‘06, ‘08–Present) and Ricardo Martínez-Cid (King ‘01–‘02), for what was objectively, despite the author’s many biases, a beautiful event.
Be on the lookout for impersonators. I don’t think anyone will go full V for Vendetta, but I can imagine another judge, maybe Judge Ruiz (Moreno ‘05–‘06), wearing Judge Moreno’s face on the bench.
11 comments:
Nice to see some good news from the district. Looks like it was a great turnout, especially for August.
What say you?
I dunno - I thought enjoining Alcatraz was pretty good news
10;28. Perhaps you have some room in uour house for these poor folks, all of whom either have oitstanding orders for deportation or are here illegally. Mi for one feel sorry for them but not as sorry as I do for Americans who lose job opportunities because of these folks. By the way, dors it make any difference that Judge Williams order will probably be trashed by the Eleventh Circuit?
They had fucking houses asshole. They were taken from those houses by the government to be put into an illegally-constructed detention facility unfit for human habitation in the middle of their Everglades, where the state is illegally enforcing federal immigration law, at tremendous taxpayer cost, so that Ron DeSantis could score some political points. They're our neighbors, our maids, our lawn guys, our car repairmen, small business owners throughout the county, and the army of undocumented immigrants necessary to cook and clean and make this tourist economy we all rely on work.
12:59 before you resort to name calling, try putting your phone down and instead of scrolling only fans pages all day go clean someone else’s home and mow their lawn after you do your’s of course. Elitist much?
No moron I have a job and it isn't cleaning houses or mowing lawns. I, like 99.9 percent of American citizens, don't want to do many of the jobs undocumented immigrants do. That's why they're necessary and benefit your and my well-being. That is a separate issue from whether a state-run jail enforcing federal immigration law built without permits or environmental review in the middle of the Everglades, our hometown natural treasure, is legal, which it isn't.
Elitist all the way. “They’re necessary and benefit your well-being”. What a lazy douche bag.
Hey 7:50 do pipe up the next time you’re breaking your back picking produce at 4am. You are benefiting every day. You’d just rather demonize people than accept that basic fact. SAD!
If I’m demonizing anyone, it’s you. You’re the lazy one, not me or them.
Your argument is so dumb. Go join a commune and grow your own food and do all your own manual labor. See how long you last. Here in a 21st century capitalist economy we pay other people to do manual, unpleasant labor for us, while other people pay us to do legal work for them. A lot of the people who do the labor we pay for every time we buy a consumer good or service in America are undocumented immigrants. Economics aside, it is wrong to treat people this way, and Alligator Alcatraz is an illegal stunt by an asshole governor who doesn’t even have the minimal charisma necessary to succeed politically under fascism. Oh and he’s a criminal, having committed a far more serious crime than crossing a line in the dirt, stealing $10 million in Medicare fraud settlement money from taxpayers and using it for a political project of defeating a marijuana ballot initiative and benefitting his wife’s fake charity. In a healthy system with federal prosecutors who believed Republican politicians were not categorically immune from criminal liability Desantis and Uthmeier would be indicted. That $10 million was not theirs, nor did they get legislative approval, they just stole it from all of us.
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