Judge James Boasberg got gutted
last night: the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can
deport illegal aliens, they can invoke the Alien Enemies Act, and
there’s nothing he can do to stop it. The little judge got owned, but
Boasberg was mulling contempt hearings for Trump officials over the
deportation flights, which is absurd. His rulings were vacated, but it
seems he is hell-bent on holding this administration in contempt and
beyond (via WaPo):
At an emergency hearing, Boasberg temporarily blocked the
administration from deporting alleged gang members to El Salvador
without due process. Trump and his allies soon began calling for the
judge’s impeachment. Online influencers, Republican lawmakers and the
White House spokeswoman joined the attacks, drawing warnings from
constitutional scholars about the need to respect the independence of
the legal system.
Boasberg’s next decision may be one of his most
fraught: whether to begin proceedings to potentially hold Trump
officials in contempt for defying one of his orders in the deportation
case.
[…]
In court … the judge grilled a Justice Department lawyer
for answers, his eyebrows raised and eyes wide as he suggested
government officials had acted in “bad faith” and intentionally rushed
to load migrants onto planes and out of the country before he could
order them to stop.
“You’re telling me you had no knowledge
whatsoever that the planes were in the air or shortly would be in the
air,” Boasberg said.
[…]
In a subsequent hearing, the judge demanded that the government explain why it had nevertheless
deported more than 130 Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador that day.
He sounded incredulous after a Justice Department lawyer said that the
planes were already out of U.S. airspace and asserted that the judge’s oral order to turn the planes around would have had force only if he put it in writing.
“A heck of a stretch,” Boasberg said.
At
a tense hearing … to determine whether to open contempt proceedings
against Trump officials, Boasberg calmly pressed the government’s
lawyer, who repeatedly struggled to respond, saying he did not have the
information the judge was seeking.
“Who made the decision either not to tell the pilots anything or to tell them to keep going?” the judge asked.
“Your honor, I don’t know that,” Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign said.
“You’re
standing here telling me you have no idea who made the decision not to
bring the planes back,” Boasberg said, shaking his head from a
high-backed black chair beneath a large U.S. District Court seal.
The core of his argument has been smashed into dust, but one can
still be held in contempt of rulings on appeal. The Federalist’s Margot
Cleveland had more:
Congress must move to rein in these judges,
either by impeachment or by dissolving the district courts that are
knowingly activist. These judges could then submit their rulings to The
New York Times or other liberal newspapers—it would not be a stretch
from what they would’ve written in their unlawful rulings.
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This man is out of control:
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