Posted on 03/20/2025 3:53:22 PM PDT by absalom01
A federal judge on Thursday blasted the Justice Department’s latest response to his demand for more information about deportation flights that were carried out under a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act, calling it “woefully insufficient.”
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote in a three-page ruling that the government “again evaded its obligations” to provide information that he had been demanding for days about the timing of the Saturday flights. President Donald Trump had invoked the rarely used law to deport people the administration claimed were members of a Venezuelan gang deemed a “foreign terrorist organization.”
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The judge called the response “woefully insufficient. To begin, the Government cannot proffer a regional ICE official to attest to Cabinet-level discussions of the state-secrets privilege.”
He said he wanted a sworn declaration by a “person with direct involvement in the Cabinet-level discussions regarding invocation of the state-secrets privilege” by Friday morning, and to be notified of any decision on the issue by Tuesday.
He also directed the Justice Department to submit a filing explaining how it “did not violate the Court’s Temporary Restraining Orders by failing to return class members removed from the United States on the two earliest planes that departed on March 15, 2025.”
In a statement before the judge’s ruling, a DOJ spokesperson said, “The Department of Justice continues to believe that the court’s superfluous questioning of sensitive national security information is inappropriate judicial overreach.”
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This is no impartial judge. This guy is a leftwing political activist.
This judge needs to be reminded who is the boss and who is the employee
The boy appears to have a ton of mental issues. Probably having trouble living with the decisions he made at the urging of his DemonRAT “daughter.”
Hey judge - Pound Sand!
Boarsassberger wouldn’t know the difference between “woefully inefficient” and “woefully efficient.”
This is woefully insufficient. To begin, the Government cannot proffer a regional ICE
official to attest to Cabinet-level discussions of the state-secrets privilege; indeed, his declaration
on that point, not surprisingly, is based solely on his unsubstantiated “understand[ing].”
Although its skepticism concerning the suitability of such privilege expressed in yesterday’s
Order remains, the Court at a minimum requires an official with direct involvement to swear that
deliberations of the privilege’s invocation are ongoing at the level Cerna attests. It further
expects such deliberations to be concluded by March 25, 2025, which only exceedingly good
cause may excuse.
In addition, to avoid further delay, the Court will require Defendants to show cause on
the facts that they have already disclosed as to why the failure to return the class members
aboard the two earliest planes did not violate the Court’s Temporary Restraining Orders. Further
supplementation may be required once particulars are ultimately disclosed.
The Court, accordingly, ORDERS that:
1. By March 21, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., Defendants shall submit a sworn declaration by a
person with direct involvement in the Cabinet-level discussions regarding invocation
of the state-secrets privilege;
2. By March 25, 2025, Defendants shall submit a declaration indicating whether or not
the Government is invoking the privilege;
3. By March 25, 2025, Defendants shall file a brief showing cause why they did not
violate the Court’s Temporary Restraining Orders by failing to return class members
removed from the United States on the two earliest planes that departed on March 15,
2025; and
4. Plaintiffs may file any response to such brief by March 31, 2025.
“This judge needs to be reminded who is the boss and who is the employee”
This will eventually come to violence.
He needs to be removed from the bench. He has already made public information that he assured the Trump administration he would keep private. He is not entitled to national security information upon demand.
Trump’s attorneys should tell him “Hell no”.
This isn’t even a close call. The DC courts in general, and this character in particular are infringing on core plenary powers of the executive branch, and the more they bloviate, the more clear to everyone that becomes.
Of course Boasberg knows that, so what’s he up to?
Obviously he’s fixing to hold some administration officials in contempt, but where does he think that’s going to wind up? The swamp seems to have a degree of confidence in their power that just doesn’t look justified in present circumstances. Do they have something big planned that they think will change the political landscape?
And wife?
John Roberts said once that there are no leftist or conservative judges, there are just judges.
Do these guys realize HOW MUCH OF A JOKE THEY HAVE BECOME.
THEY ARE THE PUNCHLINE IN THE LATEST BUNDLE OF ...VERY FUNNY JOKES.
I LOVE IT.
Oh, and Judge Boogieman...ESAD!!!
National security issue. Above your pay grade. No further info will be available.
“Yeah, uh Judge, got your memo. No.”
That’s the question.
Does the administration seize the initiative and state the obvious that the court no more has the power to direct the executive in its core plenary powers than the executive would to direct the court? Or do they wait for the judge to hold someone (who, Marco?) in contempt.
Kind of a game of chicken at this point.
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