The Supreme Court on Tuesday shot down Minnesota antifa activist Kyle Wagner’s request for release while he awaits trial.
The justices didn’t comment on the decision, and no dissent was noted.
Mr. Wagner was arrested during the Trump administration’s antifa crackdown as protests swept Minneapolis earlier this year over an immigration-enforcement surge.
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Mr. Wagner took to social media to urge followers to out and harass U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers “at the barrel of a gun.”
A district court had said he could be released on bond pending trial but an appeals court reversed that. He’d sought the justices’ intervention.
“Each day Wagner is detained, he is deprived of his liberty despite his presumed innocence. Wagner is away from his family; unable to earn an income; and unable to fully participate in trial preparation,” his lawyers wrote in their petition to the court.
The legal issue in the case was whether a circuit court can review the details of a defendant’s case anew, or whether it must generally adopt the factual findings of the district court when handling an appeal of a pretrial detention decision.
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