Federal Judge Says: on Trump's Masked ICE Agents "An Anonymous Government is No Government at All"
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In case you're worried that the federal courts - the federal judges - are weakening in their resolved to hold Donald Trump and his flunkies accountable for their lawlessness and unconstitutional conduct, a federal judge of more than 30 years has said that, regarding masked federal agents roaming the street of American cities: "An anonymous government is no government at all."
Longtime federal judge, Joseph Goodwin, excoriated the Trump administration for sending masked agents into the streets of American cities to deprive people of their 4th Amendment right against an unreasonable searches and seizures and their 5th Amendment right to due process of law.
The courts continue to be points of light – beacons of light – amidst the Trump-induced darkness.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Glenn Kirshner. |
| 0:15.5 | Another judge has excoriated the Trump administration for masking their ICE agents. |
| 0:22.4 | That story is coming up next here on Justice Matters. Here's what you've been missing on the Stephanie Miller Happy Hour |
| 0:28.8 | podcast. I had to bail out at 1030. I was like, I can't deal with us anymore. I'm having a blast, |
| 0:34.1 | but this is too much Donald all in one big chunk with his refrigerator magnet speechifying. |
| 0:39.3 | It's like every five seconds he's got to go back to immigration, and it's just the copy and paste grudger of the whole thing. |
| 0:46.3 | It's just a... |
| 0:47.3 | It's got to be classified as torture under the Hague or something. |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah, other people stronger than I. Someone posted my favorite part of the State of the |
| 0:56.1 | Union when he said they got 2.4 million people off food stamps, but didn't mention it's because |
| 1:00.3 | they cut them off. Oh, yeah. Yeah. CNN anchor Abby Phillips said Trump is once again falsely claiming |
| 1:06.9 | there's rampant voter fraud, but even his administration has failed to find any evidence of |
| 1:10.9 | that subscribe to the stephanie miller happy hour podcast on apple podcasts stephanie miller dot com or |
| 1:17.1 | wherever you get your favorite podcasts Hey all, Glenn Kirshner here. |
| 1:31.4 | So friends, there's no two ways about it. |
| 1:33.8 | The federal judges remain points of light, beacons of light amidst the Trump-induced darkness. |
| 1:41.3 | Now, we're going to start briefly with some of the new reporting, but then we're |
| 1:45.0 | going to go right to a scorched earth judicial condemnation of Trump's lawlessness and unconstitutionality. |
| 1:57.0 | Let's start with the new reporting. This from Bloomberg. |
| 2:01.6 | Headline, Judge rebukes masked ICE arrests as secret policing regime. |
| 2:09.6 | And that article begins. |
| 2:11.6 | A federal judge excoriated immigration agents for making arrests while wearing masks that conceal their identities |
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