MAGA Sheriff Fred Harran’s lawyer just reminded Bucks County voters why it is so important to vote for his challenger, Democrat Danny Ceisler, on November 4.
Here’s what Wally Zimolong, whose website says he is the “‘go-to’ lawyer in Pennsylvania for conservative causes,” said as reported by the right-wing Delaware Valley Journal website:
“This case is a political hit job fabricated by a shadowy network of pro-illegal immigration NGOs and their ACLU handlers. The plaintiff groups and NGOs tried to intimidate us. Their conduct is reprehensible, particularly in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk at the hands of a radical leftist and the attempted left-wing assassination of ICE agents in Dallas. My message to the ACLU and their left-wing allies is clear — I have never been intimidated by the violent and radical left and I am not about to start now.”
Who exactly is this “shadowy” group called the NAACP here in Bucks County? Has anyone ever heard of them? And Unitarians? They sound “violent.”
This would be a bad joke if it wasn’t 2025 and the Trump administration wasn’t in power. But sadly, this is where we are at. Trying to equate the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Bucks County NAACP, Make the Road PA, Buxmont Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (whose motto is “Love. No Matter What.”), and local resident and fellow plaintiff Juan Navia and their lawsuit challenging the legality of Harran’s ICE 287(g) agreement — with Charlie Kirk’s assassination — is both sick and dangerous. And then attempting to portray himself as brave for facing them in a courtroom is even more delusional.
What a great job by Harran for choosing such a tough lawyer to be by his side while facing this dangerous opposition. As Zimolong declared, “I have never been intimidated by the violent and radical left and I am not about to start now.”
Stop trying to intimidate Sheriff Fred Harran and his lawyer Wally Zimolong: IT WON’T WORK! Photo courtesy of Bucks County NAACP Facebook page.
Democrat Ceisler chided the two Republicans.
“There is nothing less violent than bringing a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of a government action. Let’s tone down the drama a little bit,” he said.
And just to be clear, Ceisler’s position if elected is to contact and work with ICE “if we have someone in our custody who has been convicted of a violent crime and is in the country illegally,” as he told me back in April. “You don’t need 287(g) to do that.” That’s sensible.
But back to Zimolong.
If you look at his career, this type of buffoonish behavior isn’t out of character. In fact, this “conservative’s conservative” stepped in it after referring to the Black Lives Matter movement as terrorists, among other deplorable comments he vomited on Twitter, as Philadelphia Magazine reported in their 2017 article “Oops! Penn’s Anti-Union Graduate Student Group Hired, Then Immediately Fired This Far-Right Attorney.” Here’s what journalist Haley Weiss reported at the time:
“No Penn Union announced that they would no longer be working with Zimolong. The very same day, pro-union graduate students and other GET-UP supporters began reposting images of the attorney’s Twitter posts, berating No Penn Union for their oversight. They found posts of Zimolong’s that they felt revealed anti-immigrant and Islamophobic sentiments, as well as multiple instances in which the attorney had referred to the Black Lives Matter movement as a ‘terrorist group’ or ‘hate group.’”
Welcome to Wally World.
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I reached out to ACLU of PA for comment. Stephen Loney, the organization’s senior supervising attorney, chose the “when they go low, we go high” tack, as a professional lawyer should.
“We’ll set aside ad hominem attacks and keep focus on the real issues at hand. It suffices to say that a lawsuit challenging the sheriff’s clear legal violation is pending in a court of law, and we hope the court makes the right decision,” said Loney.
But it isn’t just Zimolong lobbing ad hominem attacks. Harran, in behavior unbecoming an elected sheriff, has done the same.
For one, as I reported in May shortly after breaking the story that Harran had applied for ICE’s much maligned 287(g) “task force model” partnership, Bucks County’s sheriff went on a local MAGA media podcast to call the ACLU “lunatics,” and other local critics “liars.”
Then in July, Harran joined MAGA radio host Dom Giordano’s program, gloating over keeping the Bucks County Commissioners in the dark – you know, county residents’ elected representation in local government – about how he and his deputies have been secretly working with ICE.
“Now, I’m not sure the county commissioners listen to you. Maybe they do, spying on you, I should say, but they’re gonna lose their you know what once they hear what I’m about to say, but I don’t really care.
We are now waiting for our official certification back from ICE with our, it’s kind of like a, it looks like a driver’s license card that we’re all certified, like we do with our regular, sheriff’s certification or police certification. So once that gets back from Washington … We’re gonna be out the door, ready to go. And we’re working with them now unofficially.”
And this is who Common Pleas Court Judge Jeffrey Trauger wants the ACLU to negotiate a settlement with – Harran and Zimolong – about how the Sheriff’s deputies with broad, sweeping powers under the 287(g) “task force model’ to act as de facto ICE agents locally may or may not exercise those powers under Harran’s discretion and direction?
Is he serious?
And trust them?
Even though the judge has indicated that he would rule before the election on whether to grant the ACLU’s request for an injunction to stop Harran from potentially working with armed, masked ICE agents in Bucks County neighborhoods, there’s even better news. On November 4 Bucks County voters can elect Ceisler, deport Harran from the sheriff’s office, and derail this agreement permanently – whether the court decides to or not.
In the meantime, my thoughts and prayers go out to Zimolong. Don’t let those scary moms and radical Unitarians in the courtroom intimidate you.
