An Obama-appointed Judge, Sara Ellis, got a verbal beatdown from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, accusing her of “effectively establish[ing]” herself “as the supervisor of all Executive Branch activity in the city of Chicago.” The court shut down her effective effort to control the Federal Immigration policies for the city of Chicago and its surrounding communities.
Parts of her initial order included a requirement the DHS give her a daily brief of all their activities in the city, to assure compliance, They also include preventing federal agents from “using hands-on physical force such as pulling or shoving to the ground, tackling, or body slamming’ anyone who is not causing an immediate threat of physical harm to other…” It also granted anyone calling themselves a journalist be allowed to stay in an area, even of a dispersal order is lawfully given.
Obama Judge Gets Schooled by Appeals Court Following ‘Constitutionally Suspect’ Injunction Against DHS – westernjournal.com
A federal appeals court went out of its way last week to shoot down a federal judge’s ruling in a case regarding Department of Homeland Security operations in the old stomping grounds of former President Barack Obama.
And the Obama-appointed judge who found herself in the appeals court crosshairs probably won’t be forgetting it anytime soon.
It was a lecture that constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley called a “haymaker” to the activist jurist.
The Seventh Circuit just delivered a haymaker to Obama-appointee Judge Sara Ellis for her efforts to limit federal enforcement of immigration laws. It accused her of “effectively establish[ing]” herself “as the supervisor of all Executive Branch activity in the city of Chicago.”
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) March 8, 2026