"[T]hough [Boasberg's verbal order to command an aircraft over international waters over which he had no jurisdiction to return immediately to the US]
"be not law, does it constitute a rule as operative as if it was a law? This would be to overthrow in fact what was established in theory, and would seem, at first view, an absurdity too gross to be insisted on.
“Too gross to be insisted on” is a great phrase.
It almost makes me wish that a judge - maybe one who is dying anyway and wants to save the country before he goes - would order somebody to commit suicide within the next 10 minutes, upon pain of contempt charges if he failed to do so.
Just so we could see the legal shenanigans to try to justify that while Boasberg is making his vaunted claims of the ability to do precisely that, and folks like Norm Eisen and Weisenberg (did I remember his name right?) all applaud and conspire with the bastard as if he is a great legal mind.