BREAKING🚨 Trump pardoned the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers — then turned that same Civil War-era conspiracy law on ICE protesters. Treasure Thoreson, a special education teacher, was drinking coffee on her couch in Minneapolis one morning this June when she heard a knock. "I go and I see a woman standing there in office clothes, but with a Homeland Security vest over the top. And I see six more agents standing in my front yard," she said. "She said, 'We have a warrant for your arrest, for conspiracy.'" Still in her pajamas, she was allowed to change and hug her partner goodbye. Thoreson and 14 others are accused of conspiring to impede federal agents outside the Whipple Federal Building, which served as ICE's headquarters during the winter immigration surge in Minnesota. Prosecutors cited meetings and conversations on the encrypted app Signal as evidence, as NPR's Meg Anderson first reported. In Spokane, about 30 people were arrested after protesters linked arms to block a van carrying two detained immigrants. Nine were charged with conspiracy. Six pleaded guilty. Three went to trial and were convicted in May, including Bajun Mavalwalla II, a combat veteran who served in Afghanistan. "Being charged with a federal felony, a conspiracy charge that holds the potential for six years in prison because I showed up to a protest, seems to me to be an attack on a fundamental right that all Americans hold," he said. Richard Barker, the acting U.S. attorney there, resigned rather than sign that indictment. He called the case "a civil war-era law dusted off to punish members of our community who stood up for two young men who were unlawfully detained by ICE." If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.