Boston Municipal Court Judge Mark Summerville must have flunked Constitutional Law 101 from whatever law school he managed to graduate from. He apparently doesn’t realize that he can’t go after federal agents for enforcing federal immigration law.
Summerville held an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent named Brian Sullivan in contempt for detaining an illegal alien charged by local authorities with lying on a driver’s license application. The judge even ordered the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office to investigate the ICE agent for “obstruction of justice.”
The alien, who was going under the alias of Wilson Martell-Lebron in Summerville’s courtroom, is actually a Dominican named Juan Carlos Baez with prior drug convictions who is illegally in the country. ICE picked Baez up as he was leaving the municipal court.
