Martin Koste
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Last year, the Trump administration restricted detainees' right to post bonds to get out while their cases were pending.
Many are now turning to federal courts.
In California's Eastern District, home to three ICE detention centers, Judge Troy L. Nunley says he and his colleagues are getting hundreds of habeas corpus requests a month.
He says most petitioners win their release, but the time to process them is interfering with the federal court's other cases.
California passed the No Secret Police Act last fall, and it applied to all police, with the exception of certain state agencies such as Highway Patrol.
That was the law's fatal flaw.
The administration sued, saying it discriminated between state and federal officers.
The law's sponsor, State Senator Scott Weiner, says he's already introduced a bill to fix it by adding the state police back in.
And he draws hope from another part of the ruling.
The judge also let stand state law that requires federal officers to identify themselves clearly.
California passed the No Secret Police Act last fall, and it applied to all police, with the exception of certain state agencies such as Highway Patrol.
That was the law's fatal flaw.
The administration sued, saying it discriminated between state and federal officers, and the court agreed.
The law's sponsor, State Senator Scott Weiner, says he's already introduced a bill to fix it by adding the state police back in.
And he draws hope from another part of the ruling.
The judge also let stand state law that requires federal officers to identify themselves clearly.