Judge Jennifer L. Thurston\u2019s injunction did more than rein in Border Patrol;<\/p>\n
it ignited a firestorm over judicial ethics.<\/p>\n
Her order bars warrantless arrests of suspected<\/p>\n
undocumented immigrants across parts of California,<\/p>\n
including Kern County, where her husband, Marc A. Thurston,<\/p>\n
brokers multifamily housing heavily occupied by immigrant tenants.<\/p>\n
His now\u2011deleted Instagram videos, highlighted by Laura Loomer,<\/p>\n
warned that Trump\u2011era deportations would<\/p>\n
devastate local rentals and his own business,<\/p>\n
directly tying immigration enforcement to his bottom line.<\/p>\n
Those public statements, combined with the financial stakes,<\/p>\n
fuel arguments that Judge Thurston should have stepped aside under 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 455,<\/p>\n
which demands recusal when a spouse\u2019s financial interests could be<\/p>\n
affected or when impartiality might reasonably be questioned.<\/p>\n
Supporters frame her ruling as a constitutional safeguard after \u201cOperation Return to Sender.\u201d<\/p>\n
Critics see something darker: a federal judge whose<\/p>\n
household prosperity appears intertwined with the very policies she just constrained.<\/p>\n
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