Posted on 04/16/2025 8:15:32 PM PDT by george76
The Supreme Court vacated the order and said the lawsuit was brought in the wrong court.
District Judge James Boasberg has issued an opinion stating that he has found probable cause that the federal government was in criminal contempt by refusing to comply with his order prohibiting certain deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
“The Court ultimately determines that the Government’s actions ... demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt,” Boasberg said in an April 16 opinion.
He said the government would have the opportunity to “purge” its contempt by complying with his order.
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Boasberg’s order came after the Supreme Court vacated his orders and said the case was brought in the wrong court.
“The fact that the Supreme Court determined that this Court’s TROs suffered from a venue defect does not affect—let alone moot—the compliance inquiry presently teed up here,” he said.
He said the “obvious way” for the government to comply with his order is to assert custody over individuals who were removed in purported violation of it. That way, he said, the deported individuals could bring habeas challenges to their removals.
Steven Cheung, White House communications director, said the administration planned to “seek immediate appellate relief.”
“The President is 100% committed to ensuring that terrorists and criminal illegal migrants are no longer a threat to Americans and their communities across the country,” he said in a post on social media platform X.
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Part of the Supreme Court’s reasoning was that the proper avenue for challenging detention under the Alien Enemies Act was through habeas corpus, which means “you should have the body” in Latin. Boasberg had overseen a lawsuit that focused on claims brought under the Administrative Procedure Act. In order to bring a habeas challenge, the justices said, the lawsuit must be brought in the district where the detainees are located.
“The detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia,” the April 7 majority opinion reads. Following that decision, two judges in Texas and New York held hearings related to habeas challenges.
Boasberg’s order is the latest escalation in an ongoing battle between the executive and judicial branches, which have encountered a wave of lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s agenda. Trump had previously called for the impeachment of Boasberg and other judges.
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District Judge Paula Xinis held a hearing on April 15 during which she indicated that she might similarly find cause that the government is in contempt in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the government deported. In that case, Xinis granted expedited discovery, including depositions from administration officials, to determine how it proceeded after her order requiring the facilitation of Abrego Garcia’s return.
Boasberg’s order states that if the government were to choose not to “purge” its alleged contempt, the court would “proceed to identify the individual(s) responsible for the contumacious conduct by determining whose ‘specific act or omission’ caused the noncompliance.” The court, he said, would begin requiring declarations but could move to either depositions or hearings with live witness testimony.
Boasberg said the next step would be prosecution by an attorney from the government or an attorney appointed by the court, if the government were to decline to appoint one.
The Supreme Court vacated the order and said the lawsuit was brought in the wrong court.
Go #### yourself, “judge”
Where is the written order, Mr. Judge?
Trump is doing something illegal (according to the left) no matter what he does so he needs to start ignoring these ingrates.
I said this before on a different thread. Just get the judge who said he couldn’t go back to El Salvador to say that El Salvador is safe for him to go back to since all the gang members are in jail.
This judge is similar to a rabid pit bull.
Hope he gets isolated before he victimizes someone.
The Supreme Court vacated the order? And Boasberg wants to hold the government in contempt for not obeying the order? Man, this bench rectum really needs to be impeached!
The American people have “probable cause” to immediately imprison this tinhorn, judicial tyrant and throw away the key for his unconstitutional trampling of our elected President’s lawful power. If the judge’s “team” of lawless, communist traitors wants to trigger a civil war, bring it on! It won’t take long to settle it. They are hell-bent to FA and they will FO the hard way.
We FINALLY got rid of Fanny Willis, Letitia James, Arthur Engoron, Jack Smith and the rest of the Democrat vipers, but now we have a whole new crop of evil people we have to hear from every day.
I guess he’s playing pretend court and pretend judge now that the SC has ruled he has no jurisdiction so he doesn’t even have a case. Maybe he can get the pretend marshals to go arrest them?
This communist clown is a full blown domestic terrorist that should be arrested and shipped to CECOT never to be seen or hearrd from again. Let him bunk up with his best buds and become their mistress.
These activist judges need to be held in contempt of the constitution.
So this prick is saying the only way to avoid the contempt charges is to bring the gang members back into our country. Team Trump is going to regret not going hard ball with this bastard right from the beginning. Now he’s looking at another contempt charge from that other Judge.
Why do articles call Adolf Boas erg “Judge”?
Judge James Boasberg is delusional. The supreme court already has ruled against him. He must be getting millions or maybe billions like that other person in Georgia. Maybe he has a NGO with $100 in it that qualifies....
You are correct in that the Court always speaks by its written record. Boasberg can let that cob in his ass stay put, but it’s a heck of a way to be a judge.
Any black-robed idiot who is high on drugs can find probable cause in a baloney sandwich.
Hey judge, cry, whine, stomp your feet and piss and moan all you want. You have no authority.
There is much more to this.
It appears that the deported “Maryland Man” was a Biden FBI informant as they stepped in and protected him when he was arrested in Tennessee.
The guy’s life is toast.
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