In April, an anti-ICE programmer named Joshua “Aaron” Feinstein issued an app he called “ICEblock,” which enables users to report anonymously sightings of ICE officials to other users within a five-mile radius.
By June 30, the app had acquired about 20,000 users, most of them in the Los Angeles area. On that day, AG Pam Bondi made the following remarks about ICEblock and its developer:
Our ICE agents, all of our federal agents who are working hand in hand on these task forces — our federal agents from the Justice Department could be injured. He’s giving a message to criminals where our federal officers are. And he cannot do that. And we are looking at it, we are looking at him, and he better watch out, because that’s not a protected speech. That is threatening the lives of our law enforcement officers throughout this country.
Ironically, it then turned out that the wife of Feinstein, Carolyn Feinstein, was in the employ of the very Department of Justice that Bondi oversees. Following calls for her ouster, last Friday, Ms. Feinstein was notified by email that she had been fired for “lack of candor.”
The question of whether ICEblock falls under protected free speech — which the administration questions — remains undecided. What has been decided is that the wife of its creator no longer works for the DOJ.
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