Posted on 03/20/2025 6:12:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said that a federal judge who blocked the Trump administration from invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to remove illegal immigrants has “no right” to ask questions on flights carrying deported individuals.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg had given the Trump administration until Tuesday to respond to his questions about deportation flights carrying alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which was designated by the administration as a foreign terrorist organization last month, over the past weekend following an order that he issued to suspend deportations after the administration invoked the 1798 law. He extended the deadline for another day, giving the government until Thursday to respond.
But Bondi told Fox News on Wednesday that such questions are inappropriate and that the judge has “no right” to ask those questions and “no power” to order the government to return those flights back to the United States, adding that she believes “liberal” judges are issuing orders on matters they have no jurisdiction over.
“They’re meddling in foreign affairs. They’re meddling in our government,” she told the outlet. “And the question should be, why is a judge trying to protect terrorists who have invaded our country over American citizens?”
Bondi: This judge has no right to ask those questions. The judge had no business, no power to do what he did. This judge had no right to do that.. pic.twitter.com/0dqgakyVym — Acyn (@Acyn) March 19, 2025
On Wednesday, with the deadline nearing, Bondi said Boasberg had no “business, no power” to order the administration to return the flights. She said it has been a “pattern” from liberal judges to order things they have no jurisdiction to do.
The attorney general said that the Trump administration will continue to carry out deportation flights of Tren de Aragua members who are illegally inside the United States.
“We are going to deport them, and we’re going to continue to deport them. We will honor what the court says, but we will appeal, and we will continue to fight terrorists within our country,” Bondi said, adding that Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys “are working on this” case and “will answer appropriately” to Boasberg’s questions.
Her remarks on Wednesday are the latest development in a showdown between the federal government and the judge, who temporarily blocked deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. President Donald Trump has called for the judge’s impeachment, while other administration officials have said that the judge has exceeded his authority in preventing the government from dealing with what it described as national security matters and foreign policy.
The judge has questioned whether the Trump administration ignored his court order on Saturday to turn around planes with deportees headed for El Salvador, which has agreed to intern them in a prison. A post issued by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on X indicated that his government received the deportees, saying, “too late,” in reference to the judge’s original order.
In court papers submitted Wednesday, the DOJ said it was considering invoking the “state secrets privilege” to allow the government to withhold some of the information sought by the court.
“The underlying premise of these orders ... is that the Judicial Branch is superior to the Executive Branch, particularly on non-legal matters involving foreign affairs and national security. The Government disagrees,” DOJ lawyers wrote. “The two branches are co-equal, and the Court’s continued intrusions into the prerogatives of the Executive Branch, especially on a non-legal and factually irrelevant matter, should end.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed to reporters during a Monday news briefing that 261 people were deported, including 137 under the Alien Enemies law.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
the people who brought this suit had no standing.
I think they should get a bunch of marines and stage a few fake flights.
Has the “judge” overstepped his authority? Stay tuned.
Saying he has no right is NOT enough. Arrest him for sedition or treason. DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE JUDGES NOW. If you don’t, it may very well cost you your life, Trump and Vance’s lives and our lives. Get it stopped. Now.
Wasn’t the Alien Enemies Act proclamation a head fake? All the illegal aliens on the planes were removed because they had removal orders by immigration courts.
And the case was not ripe because no harm had been done. And it has already been ruled to be non-stitiable. And the judge has 2 first-degree relatives who stand to benefit from his decisions; refusal is warranted if there is even one third-degree relative.
I think Bondi should come right out and say, “We have no reason to believe that you won’t take the info you ask us to give you and feed it to your daughter so she can have her company advise similar illegal alien criminals legally. Or give it to your sister so that her colleagues can have LA Raza or the cartels which support LA Raza do acts of violence against personnel involved.
And as to the judge getting hands on cabinet deliberations about how to proceed, Bondi should say, “We’ll give you that right after you give us recordings of all the conversations you’ve had with your daughter, your sister, members of the ACLU, and John Robert’s- along with all your phone records, texts, and emails.
the DOJ said it was considering invoking the “state secrets privilege” . . .
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How about the “ongoing investigation” claim. That worked for the left for years.
Is this the proverbial “Shot across the bow?”
Barbie is good at saying, invoking, believing, etc. She’s a squish. What is she DOING?
Her ineptitude will, as you say, cost lives.
She had PDJT come in for a pep rally for her, but that razzle-dazzle didn’t make her competent.
Of course, ANOTHER appearance on Fox News. What’s that... 50 TV appearances now? Maybe more. Maybe she does it for free hair and makeup.
I thin Pam is not answering the judge i a way that makes him spin.. I think she should out line all of the legal answers she is providing. And the longer the list the better cuz the judge is asking questions like she is saying he has no jurisdiction to ask and he doesn’t know what he is even looking for. He wants to pin this on someone to hold in contempt.
Give it up. Gaetz declined.
Judge belongs locked up on a cell block At CECOT where he can bunk down and socialize with all his gansta/terrist buds.....
Bondi said:
“The attorney general said that the Trump administration will continue to carry out deportation flights”
Then she said
“We will honor what the court says, but we will appeal”
Well it can’t be both. I think the first part was to placate the base but the reality is they are capitulating to this hack Judge who had no right to issue the order in the first place.
THATS THE STUFF!
IANAL, and comprehend legalese poorly. What is meant by, “We will honor what the court says?”
You may be replying to the wrong person. I never mentioned Gaetz.
“I never mentioned Gaetz.”
Hmmmmm
“We needed Gaetz. Even more, we needed the strength of him staying in the race no matter what.”
Just so we all know. Judge Boasberg formerly was the FISA court judge who issued all the warrants to the FBI on the Russia hoax.He was appointed to FISA by Roberts.
Boasberg has a hatred for Trump, an Obama appointee.He should be impeached.
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