Posted on 04/08/2025 8:52:17 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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.
The core of his argument has been smashed into dust, but one can still be held in contempt of rulings on appeal.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
A judge could hold Congress in contempt, but there is no mechanism for enforcement.
In theory, the judiciary is apolitical, but we all know better by now. The discussion of Democrat versus Republican judges is dangerous for the rule of law, but then again, the courts are not the place for legislating. The issue of right versus wrong is to be decided by the people's legislature, not the courts. I should note that Earl Warren told his clerks that he didn't care about the law, only right versus wrong.
The executive cannot rule anybody in contempt.
They weren’t jobs that produced nothing! They are damaging our nation. Abortion clinics and NGO supporting illegal entry into our country, are not do nothing jobs. They are evil. “The Beltway Has Eyes” kinda evil.
He assigned himself the SIGNALGATE lawsuit in true authoritarian fashion. It’s all premeditated and carefully planned out with these leftist NGO Groups that his family is associated with at this very moment.
To clarify: “Can one ‘branch’ of the government find another ‘branch’ in contempt?”...for exercising its Constitutional duties?
It seems to me that the ability to hold members of another branch in contempt is an appropriate check and balance on the other branches. Enforcing it is another matter, entirely. And without the ability to enforce it, the contempt finding becomes nothing more than an historical footnote for future historians to note when relevant. Kind of like a failed impeachment. Unless, of course, the person found in contempt knuckles under.
:: Congress can declare somebody to be in contempt, but only the AG via federal marshals can enforce that ruling. ::
But isn’t that contempt, or contempt of the Judiciary, included in the “high crimes and misdemeanors”?
There seems to be an inequality (set-up!) here, when one branch can visit this on another?
But now I think that only Congress can prosecute impeachment of the other 2.
Sigh, Im spent...
Bigy Winning with a dose of Schardenfreude.
Can’t Trump just pardon anyone held in contempt?
That’s what I was thinking of.
Boasberg might want to rethink the other cases against President Trump’s policies that he finagled to have assigned to himself.
The DOJ really does need to investigate this SOB and I don’t care if it DOES look like retaliation.....if he’s dirty I say let the chips fall where they may.
Good morning, friends. I think this case should be in Kash’s hands to get all the background on this Judge and his family. Then, hand the results to Florida’s finest ex-atty general. Get him, Mrs Bondi, and hang him high so his fellow Judges know who the real leader in America is.
Sorry we had to overrule your unconstitutional overreach but you brought this on yourself. Meanwhile we sent you a pound of this product for you to gavel upon until your widdle feelings recover. - Your employers, the USSC and We The People
Boasberg needs to be permanently relieved of his bench based on mental illness, namely multiple personality disorder; ; he has been both judge and plaintiff lately, even to the extend of doing the usual leftist scam of judge shopping for the anti-Trump crowd.
Ok, so they produced negative vs. positive.
After taking a couple of weeks to ease the shock with hm over a few beers, etc.
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