Yet another manifestation of the ongoing and so far more or less cold Second American Civil War. This has weird echoes of the antebellum fights over fugitive slaves, though in this situation the fugitive is a federal ICE agent. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/ice-agent-shooting-texas-minnesota-extradition
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Have you seen the movie The Second Civil War from 1997? It centers around immigrants and the state of Idaho. He has an all star cast including James Earl Jones.
How about an emergency appeal to the Fifth Circuit combined with renewed federal mandamus proceedings on the district court's now-final order, since Judge Rodriguez's refusal to enjoin Castro's release effectively guts the interstate rendition machinery the Constitution promises?
In Puerto Rico v. Branstad, 483 U.S. 219 (1987), SCOTUS ruled unanimously that federal courts have the power to enforce extraditions based on the Extradition Clause of Article Four of the United States Constitution. The decision overruled a 1861 decision in Kentucky v. Dennison, which had made federal courts powerless to order governors of other U.S. states to fulfill their obligations in the Extradition Clause.
