Posted on 03/20/2025 6:03:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
That escalated quickly. On Thursday, Federal District Court Judge James Boasberg rejected the Trump administration's Justice Department filing about the illegal alien deportation flights to our ally, El Salvador, in what's being characterized as an "angry order." He is threatening to hold them in contempt.
As we previously wrote, the judge ordered the planes to turn around mid-flight:
As RedState’s Ward Clark reported Saturday, the president invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua which has been terrorizing cities across the country—and then the administration sent at least one planeload of members of the “Foreign Terrorist Organization” back to their country of origin.
It didn’t take long for Obama appointed Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to kneecap the effort. Not only did he issue a temporary restraining order preventing the deportation of any Venezuelans, but he also ordered that the plane (or planes; it’s unclear) return the gangsters to the U.S.
The actions against the president began even before he signed the order.
Activist Nation: Judge Orders Plane Carrying Gangsters Kicked Out by Trump to Turn Around
The NY Times writes Thursday that Boasberg is implying he might sanction the administration for "possibly having violated an order he issued last weekend" meant to stop the flights:.
In an angrily written order, the judge, James E. Boasberg, told the administration to explain to him by Tuesday why officials had not violated his instructions when they allowed two flights of immigrants to continue on to El Salvador even after he directed the planes to return to the United States.
Judge Boasberg also called out efforts by the Justice Department to repeatedly stonewall his attempts to get information about the timing of the flights.
“The government again evaded its obligations,” he wrote, adding that the Justice Department’s most recent filing about the flights was “woefully insufficient.”
🚨judge in Alien Enemies Act is getting even more ridiculous with demands! No reason for any demands if he wants to order show cause. Let Trump present evidence it believes relevant to question. 1/— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 20, 2025
The judge's move comes after he asked the Trump administration attorneys to file an explanation this week, which it did on Thursday:
The order by Judge Boasberg, the chief judge in Federal District Court in Washington, was the latest turn in his nearly weeklong effort to get the administration to tell him — under seal, if needed — what time the two planes departed the United States, what time they left American airspace and what time they landed.
He originally instructed the Justice Department to provide him with that data by noon on Wednesday. He then extended that deadline by another day after department lawyers asked for more time as they considered whether to invoke a rare doctrine called the state secrets privilege in an effort to get out of turning over the information.
You can read the full order here.
The next deadline to file in the case before the judge is next Tuesday. As this is a developing story, RedState will provide updates as they become available.
There is only one explanation for Judge Boaz Berg actions.
Money. He is obviously on the take. Makes $ cash money from illegal alien criminal terrorist drug cartel Venezuelans.
IRS FBI DOJ need to investigate this joker now, and his family.
Boasberg formerly was a FISA court judge, appointed by his buddy, SCOTUS Roberts.
“Biasberg” was THE judge who issues search warrants on Trump, his campaign and staff,based on the Russia Hoax.
HE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED.
BIASBERG IS A STONE COLD OBAMA APPOINTED MARXIST.
He’s acting for the camera and MSM..
The rats are trying to make something out of it
He won’t. Democrats and their Media will just use it to beat Trump over the head trying to take his popularity down to their level.
Bingo
Exactly.
This is all being done by the Left to give the biased media Anti Trump talking points and allow the fat blue hairs and soy boys something to rail against.
Its not a legal maneuver; its all political.
You are aware of what is daughter does right?
You are 100% correct. Follow the money
Yup - daughter runs an illegal alien criminals grifter business. Wife runs a nursing satanic baby killing business. Seems like the whole family are agents of Satan, no?
In fact, that is their end game.
Can you believe “smart” Democrats are on the side of heinous criminals for the entire world to see? God is brilliant!
We can only hope he does.
We can laugh all we wish about this imbecile of a judicial tyrant. But this order is a bit more dangerous than we might think.
don’t get me wrong. President Trump and AG Bondi should tell the judicial tyrant to buzz off, as a member of an inferior court, the judge lacks jurisdiction to impede the unique and separate powers of the Executive Branch, as discussed here ad infinitum.
The judicial tyrant is looking to catch somebody in a process faux pas under oath.
Two wit, item 1 of the order
“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.”
The “sworn declaration” is the trap the judicial imbecile seeks to set.
Something sworn out via an affidavit that can at some point be used to attempt to impeach and remove, or force the resignation of, the President, the Attorney General, or some other high-ranking or subsidiary official such as another Cabinet officer.
The DOJ’s best course of action: Simply state that it has given all of the information necessary in the matter, that the judge is a member of an inferior court that has no co-equal status to the Executive Branch, and that only an opinion rendered by the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Chief Executive’s actions has any bearing in this matter, and that even the Supreme Court has no authority in that this is a matter of national security.
And make it clear that the DOJ is done discussing the matter.
Bonus insult: The judge’s partisan actions in the FISA court demonstrate his bias toward the indirect defendant, the President, and as a result, the judicial tyrant should recuse himself and cannot be trusted with state secrets, even under seal.
The DOJ needs to file charges against him.
I believe Presidential discussions whether to invoke a presidential privilege are themselves privileged. Plus the original written order said nothing about prisoners in flight, and that controls over different terms in a prior oral order, per over a hundred years of Supreme Court rulings.
You are correct on recusal.
So a judge is going to hold the DOJ in contempt LOL, LOL, LOL, the DOJ is his boss this judge is WAY OVER his ski’s JEEZE!!!
Dude.... lol. That just made my day.
We now have 4 branches of government:
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
And...
King Bores-berg over them all
I’d love to see it… and then watch the Leftardniki scream and thrash.
-PJ
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