Participants and activists of a Chicago-headquartered court-reform group face seizure of their properties, assets, goods, licenses, and records, and being stripped of their citizenship and making them detainees without time limits and without trials and without right to consult attorneys.



This stems from recent secret meetings of federal judges chaired in person or via teleconferencing by Antonin Scalia, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The judges asked for and received from George W. Bush, an order signed by proxy Karl Rove, designating certain persons linked to the court-reform group, as "domestic terrorists" during a "war emergency".