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TMIQ Today: Summarily Slow · The Most Important Question

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  [ on-hold music] Welcome back to The Most Important Question Today, where in just a couple minutes or less we apply the Actually Pro-Life Principles to a news headline and then help you answer the most important question: What can I do?
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  [on-hold music] If the government locks you up in this country, you get to make a federal judge answer one question. Whether the government is allowed to be holding you at all.
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  Not a favor; it's the law.
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  And the law says the answer is supposed to come back fast so the law put a clock on the government three days to come back and say why it's holding you twenty at like the absolute outside and then for the judge it says decide it and i am quoting here
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  summarily
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  that's the whole instruction summarily no number no deadline anybody has to meet So each judge picks and where they lock you up because it's America decides which judge you get In Minnesota these are finishing in twelve days In one district in Mississippi half of them take ninety two days or more Same law same year and the difference is which building you're sitting in and which state A federal judge in Georgia looked at his own docket in January 2026 called it an
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  administrative judicial emergency and wrote one order letting his magistrates move these cases without him His court now finishes them in about a month
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  Nobody has to invent anything One man decided what "summarily" means to him Voila Look tonight if you got it
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  give to ProPublica who just covered this yesterday other independent newsrooms like Capital B and 404 in the nineteenth It is a mess out there but these are the folks doing the work to keep society's lights on
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