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BREAKING: Trump DOJ Invokes State Secrets Privilege, Tells Judge Boasberg it will Provide Him No More Info on Deportation Flights
Gateway Pundit ^ | March 24, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 03/24/2025 8:08:34 PM PDT by Red Badger

The Trump DOJ said it is exercising the State Secrets Privilege and informed Judge James Boasberg it will no longer provide him with any information related to deportation flights.

Boasberg, an Obama appointee, has been grilling DOJ lawyers about the Trump Administration’s move to deport dangerous Venezuelan aliens under the Alien Enemies Act.

Judge Boasberg said Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport criminal aliens is “incredibly troublesome and problematic” and threatened the Trump Admin with consequences if they violate his order in the future.

On Monday evening, the DOJ had enough of Judge Boasberg’s intrusive orders and invoked the State Secrets Privilege.

“The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided in response to the Court’s March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege and the concurrently filed declarations of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security,” the DOJ wrote.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi told the judge that President Trump has plenary authority under Article II to remove from the homeland designated terrorists.

“This is a case about the President’s plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate, and reinforced by longstanding statute, to remove from the homeland designated terrorists participating in a state-sponsored invasion of, and predatory incursion into, the United States. The Court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before it. Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the Court lacks competence to address,” the DOJ said.

The DOJ straight up told Boasberg you will get no more information related to the deportation flights and that’s the end of the story.

“No more information is needed to resolve any legal issue in this case. Whether the planes carried one TdA terrorist or a thousand or whether the planes made one stop or ten simply has no bearing on any relevant legal issue. The need for additional information here is not merely “dubious,” or “trivial,” it is non-existent. The Executive Branch violated no valid order through its actions, and the Court has all it needs to evaluate compliance. Accordingly, the Court’s factual inquiry should end,” the DOJ said.

Earlier Monday Judge Boasberg rejected the Trump Administration’s request to vacate the temporary restraining order (TRO), but offered to convert it to a preliminary injunction.

The judge also said the deported criminal aliens deserve individual hearings.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; article2; boasberg; checksandbalances; conflictofinterest; deportation; dhs; doj; howconvenient; imagineifbidendid; interference; judges15minsoffame; judicialcoup; judicialmisconduct; noauthority; nojurisdiction; obstruction; privilege; ruleoflaw; statesecrets; thejudgeisthestory; undermining; unlawfulorders
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So there................................
1 posted on 03/24/2025 8:08:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

EXACTLY HOW MANY INVADERS GOT INDIVIDUAL “HEARINGS” TO ENTER THE USA?????

THIS JUDGE IS WRONG.....

HE ALSO HAS A SERIOUS CONFLICT OF INTEREST WHEN HIS WIFE’S & DAUGHTER’S INVOLVEMENTS ARE BROUGHT INTO THE PICTURE.


2 posted on 03/24/2025 8:13:10 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Red Badger

MY DAD WOULD SAY:

“THIS JUDGE IS A LITTLE TOO BIG FOR HIS BRITCHES”


3 posted on 03/24/2025 8:14:15 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Red Badger

Calling their bluff?

Next will be the contempt of court charge.

Who will blink?


4 posted on 03/24/2025 8:15:59 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Red Badger

Good! It’s time for this douchey judge to realize his 15 minutes are up. He’s got Little Man syndrome and is too arrogant to realize he’s out of his league. He needs a fat reality check.


5 posted on 03/24/2025 8:18:02 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: Red Badger

Go pound sand Jimbo...


6 posted on 03/24/2025 8:18:34 PM PDT by Beave Meister (Leave the gun. Take the cannoli....)
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To: Red Badger

Forcing the issue


7 posted on 03/24/2025 8:20:35 PM PDT by Fai Mao (All Democrats need to go to prison.)
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To: Red Badger

8 posted on 03/24/2025 8:21:14 PM PDT by Beave Meister (Leave the gun. Take the cannoli....)
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To: Red Badger

The lower court judges seem unable to see that they are no longer trying to break the wallet and will of the lone business man from Palm Beach.

They are taking on the Executive branch of the US government, with resources and attorneys and departments to the horizon.
Gag orders and suppression of evidence won’t work here.


9 posted on 03/24/2025 8:22:17 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: TomGuy

“Next will be the contempt of court charge.”

To be followed by a contempt of the DOJ charge.


10 posted on 03/24/2025 8:22:25 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Red Badger

Ouch...I can hear MSNBC screaming..


11 posted on 03/24/2025 8:24:24 PM PDT by Freeleesy
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To: ridesthemiles

My dad would say:

“He needs to be taken to the woodshed.”


12 posted on 03/24/2025 8:27:34 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: ridesthemiles

...and sister. It is a smarmy judge’s family reunion


13 posted on 03/24/2025 8:29:22 PM PDT by madison10 (God chose President Trump, but Satan chose the judges. This kind come out only by pra and fasting)
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To: Beave Meister
His pronoun is "blowitoutyerassberg".
14 posted on 03/24/2025 8:30:37 PM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations.)
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To: Red Badger

Take a long walk off a short pier would be my response.


15 posted on 03/24/2025 8:30:39 PM PDT by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: Red Badger
So there................................
16 posted on 03/24/2025 8:31:09 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: Red Badger

>>>BREAKING: Trump DOJ Invokes State Secrets Privilege, Tells Judge Boasberg it will Provide Him No More Info on Deportation Flights.

GOOD! Stay in your own guard rails.


17 posted on 03/24/2025 8:31:11 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: Red Badger

Way to go, Pam Bondi!!


18 posted on 03/24/2025 8:31:53 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Red Badger

This so called justice system we have where anyone can go judge shopping and find one that most likely supports his position and his decision in the case of a TRO cannot even be appealed is a joke.

Even in the supreme court a single justice doesn’t have that power!

This type of monkey trial needs a serious overhaul.

In order to prevent judge shopping, one way to do it would be that whenever a lawsuit is filed, three judges should be chosen randomly and all three will hear the case and then the majority decides, or alternatively. each side can choose two judges to hear the case and again the majority would decide. In case of a tie the case is thrown out.


19 posted on 03/24/2025 8:32:42 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you i9s how they. control you. )
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To: Red Badger

Game, Set, Match….. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


20 posted on 03/24/2025 8:33:52 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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