In Salem Superior Court on Wednesday, Judge Thomas Drechsler had a few reasons to hold Willy Antonio Hernandez Camilo without bail.

Camilo had been charged with attempted murder for stabbing someone in a club in Lawrence. He had used a stolen identity and had failed to show up for an earlier hearing in 2017. But one big reason Drechsler decided to keep Camilo in custody, which he mentioned from the bench, was the judge’s fear that if Camilo was released, he would be deported and the state would miss the chance at justice for a stabbing that left the victim with a severed artery.

Julie Manganis, a staff writer at the Salem News, reported that two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sat in the back of the courtroom and then left after the judge revoked bail.

The federal Bureau of Prisons, which had Camilo in custody, initially rejected the Essex County District Attorney’s office request to hand him over to Bay State authorities, but after a “lengthy process,” the feds agreed.

The push and pull between state and federal law enforcement in Essex County could be taken from the pages of the lawsuit filed against ICE on Monday by Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan and Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins. Ryan and Rollins are trying to keep the feds from taking people into custody when they show up at local courts.

The two DAs, both Democrats, joined public defenders and the Chelsea Collaborative in a federal suit seeking to bar ICE agents from going after their quarries at state courthouses.

Witnesses to crimes are less likely to testify when they fear that by showing up at court they risk being arrested by ICE, Rollins said.

The state prosecutors’ lawsuit followed closely on the heels of US Attorney Andrew Lelling’s controversial indictment last week of Newton District Court Judge Shelley Joseph and a former court officer for allegedly helping a defendant avoid an ICE agent waiting outside the courtroom to arrest him.

State court judges all across Massachusetts are significantly limited in their ability to respond to ICE’s non-judicial requests to detain immigrants in the country illegally. The Supreme Judicial Court’s Lunn decision outlawed detaining people solely at the request of ICE.

President Donald Trump barged into the legal thicket by leveling untrue accusations against the two prosecutors whose offices bring scores of cases against suspected criminals.

“These are people that probably don’t mind crime,” Trump said during a call to Boston Herald Radio on Wednesday, where he noted his 2020 campaign for re-election is underway. As usual, the president conflated the peaceful, otherwise-law-abiding immigrants who are in the country illegally, and thus subject to deportation, with the violent criminals who make up a minority of the population.

In Salem it is the state prosecutors who are bringing Camilo to trial for armed assault with intent to murder and trying to avoid a repeat of a 2018 incident where Victor Ramirez was deported to Guatemala before he could face justice in a Lawrence child rape case.

ANDY METZGER

BEACON HILL

A look inside the House’s private budget debate in room 348. Newcomers to the House, many of them progressives in favor of transparency, seem to like it. (State House News)

Attorney General Maura Healey’s interpretation of the state’s assault weapons ban was upheld by a US Appeals Court. (MassLive)

No Republicans were named to an anti-Citizens United commission created by ballot referendum in 2018. (MassLive)

MUNICIPAL MATTERS

The Civil Service Commission has ruled in favor of the town of Stoughton in a wrongful termination appeal filed by a former police officer Kimberlyn Lydon. (Brockton Enterprise)

WASHINGTON/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

Attorney General William Barr says he won’t appear today before a House committee after getting grilled yesterday at a Senate hearing by Democrats over his handling of the Mueller report. (New York Times) A Washington Post editorial says Barr badly damaged his reputation with his testimony on Wednesday.

ELECTIONS

New polls suggest Elizabeth Warren is getting a little bit of traction among Democratic primary voters. (Boston Globe)

BUSINESS/ECONOMY

The state’s marijuana industry has been a bonanza for a crew of well-connected lobbyists and political players, with political consultant Frank Perullo at the top of the heap. (Boston Globe)

EDUCATION

Former Minnesota state education commissioner Brenda Cassellius was tapped to be the next Boston school superintendent. (WGBH) Globe editorial writer Alan Wirzbicki says Mayor Marty Walsh and his appointed school committee opted for a “play-it-safe” choice.

Springfield officials are investigating an incident caught on security video of a school resource officer pushing a student to the ground. (MassLive)

Students at UMass Lowell are calling for the firing of Oliver Ibe, who was associate dean but was demoted to the position of professor after allegations the 71-year-old sexually harassed a staff member. (Lowell Sun)

Marblehead has three finalists, all from Massachusetts, to serve as interim replacement for the former superintendent of schools who presided over a financial mess that saddled the district with a deficit. (Salem News)

The Provincetown School Committee has voted 5-0 to enter negotiations with Suzanne Scallion for the job of the Provincetown schools superintendent. (Cape Cod Times)

Weymouth officials plan to break ground on the new Chapman Middle School building in 2020, with expected opening in the fall of 2022. (Patriot Ledger)

HEALTH/HEALTH CARE

A federal report alleges sexual abuse between staff and cognitively impaired adults at the Sweet Brook Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Williamstown. (Berkshire Eagle)

The owner of Wingate Residences at Brewster Place in Brewster plans to close the assisted-living facility, giving staff and residents a 90-day notice. COO Jill Bosa did not respond to the Cape Cod Times’ questions about the reason for the closure.

TRANSPORTATION

As part of its efforts to reduce automobile traffic at Logan Airport, Massport will now let those who arrive via Logan Express bus from Back Bay go through security using a special “TSA priority line” that gets them through faster. (Boston Globe)

New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo calls Uber a moral stain on Silicon Valley.

A Worcester resident is trying to launch a free shuttle bus system downtown called Ride the Woo. (MassLive)

ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT

Electric ratepayers, through charges on their electric bills, are paying a big chunk of the $30 million energy efficiency program launched by the MBTA. (CommonWealth)

CASINOS

What you need to know about the Wynn decision to fine the company $35 million and its CEO $500,000. (CommonWealth) The Globe’s Larry Edelman says the fine is little more than a “rounding error” for Wynn. Wynn tells the Globe it is focused on a successful casino launch, but says nothing about the big fines imposed on the company.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/COURTS

Mathew Borges was supposed to distract Lee Manuel Viloria-Paulino while his friends broke into his Lawrence home, but instead the 15-year-old killed Viloria-Paulino and cut off his head “so he wouldn’t be caught,” one of his accomplices in the robbery scheme testified during his trial.

Law enforcement is on the hunt for a bank robbery suspect who allegedly shot at an officer in Somerville. (WBUR)

MEDIA

The Guardian turns a profit after years and years of losses. (Nieman Journalism Lab)