could be GITMO.....or El Salvador has a nice jail,
and i believe Greenland has some accommodation available...called an Igloo,
Posted on 04/17/2025 6:29:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Despite leftist U.S. District Judge James Boasberg finding probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt of court on Wednesday for violating his previous order, Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz believes Boasberg should be the one held in contempt instead “for issuing such a vague order.”
Boasberg attempted to block the administration from using the Alien Enemies Act for deporting Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members, but Boasberg never issued a binding order, Dershowitz explained.
“He issues an order first orally, in which he talks about bringing the planes back. You can't just bring planes back. That's not easy. That might not be safe. And then he issues a written order, which is the binding order. Look, I've been practicing law for 60 years, and what I was always taught is you follow the judge's written order. And as I understand it, there was no written order requiring bringing back these folks,” Dershowitz told Newsmax. “He's flexing his muscle. He will be reversed on appeal. The United States Supreme Court is not going to allow criminal contempt against an administration for violating as vague an order as was allegedly violated in this case.”
Articles of Impeachment were introduced against Boasberg by Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) last month.
“Let me remind you that one of the biggest issues of the 2024 election, and the reason why so many people voted for President Trump, is because he was going to secure our borders and deport violent, illegal aliens out of our communities," Gill, a House Judiciary Committee member, said at the time. "This judge unconstitutionally and illegally usurped President Trump's power as commander-in-chief of the United States to demand that he turn a plane full of terrorists around and bring them back into our community. It's illegal. It's unconstitutional, and that's why I filed these impeachment articles. But if we allow these judges to continually, and with impunity, usurp the president's authority, we don't have a country anymore. They're nullifying, intentionally, the results of the 2024 election. And it's got to stop."
“Again, we are talking about deporting illegal aliens that have committed crimes that are here illegally," Gill continued. "I don't know why this is controversial. You know, these are members of Tren de Aragua that we're talking about here. These are illegal aliens that are not only murdering and raping and pillaging American citizens, but these are terrorists who take sadistic pleasure in torturing their victims on our soil. And if the Democrats want to explain why they are so obsessed and so bent on keeping these terrorists in our communities, they are welcome to do that. But these are the people that President Trump is trying to get out of our country, to make our country safe, to do exactly what he said he was going to do on the campaign trail."
Dershowitz has a great video on this on YouTubes. Basically he says the same thing and more. Boasberg is going nowhere with this.
He may be going nowhere but your tax money and my tax money is paying for these lawyers and judges to try to stop an elected president from doing what we elected him to do.
Well, Prof, I think a lot of people hold the judge in contempt. It’s his own fault.
could be GITMO.....or El Salvador has a nice jail,
and i believe Greenland has some accommodation available...called an Igloo,
That said, he probably holds himself in high regard. (Is full of himself...)
I wonder what the polar bears like more about that snack? Is it the crunchy outside, or the juicy inside?
Since SCOTUS ruled that Boasberg never had jurisdiction, the order was never valid. You can’t find somebody in contempt for an order that was never valid. But Boasberg is REALLY, REALLY insistent that no matter what a judge orders it HAS to be followed until the system has ruled it to be illegal. I think we all - including all the attorneys who rely on judges to self-regulate even now after we’ve seen the corruption of the lawfare and the society as a whole has flocked to Trump the more we see of it - need to seriously consider what happens when we give judges ABSOLUTE CONTROL (think what the Founding Fathers said about ABSOLUTE CONTROL) during the period before any other judge can hear an appeal and rule on the Constitutionality (or legality) of the orders given
This is my open letter to Boasberg:
Judge Boasberg:
An appeals court just issued an order forbidding you from eating, drinking, pooping, peeing, farting, burping, or breathing until you have in your hand written permission from them to do any individual instance of any of those actions. Are you guilty of contempt if you take a breath before that order can be heard by a higher-level appeals court and ruled unconstitutional?
Using your own logic, you would be - because even unlawful orders have to be obeyed until they are ruled to be unlawful. What your logic fails to consider is that the protection of the law goes both ways - both to insure that judges are able to have lawful orders obeyed AND to insure that judges are NOT able to control other people through unlawful orders - which is called “punishing through the process.” Your reasoning would allow a judge to order a plaintiff to commit suicide within the next 10 minutes and then punish him with imprisonment if he showed contempt for your unlawful order.
In what kind of nation does a judge have that kind of power, and what kind of judge would even claim to have that kind of power?
You, sir, are being charged with perjury and obstruction of justice for deliberately lying in court records regarding how you were “assigned” this case.
You are also being charged with reckless endangerment for ordering a plane in mid-flight to turn around when doing so without adequate fuel, arrangements, etc could have brought down the entire plane and any others on its new route.
You are also being charged with giving air control orders without a license.
You are enjoined from eating, drinking, peeing, pooping, coughing, burping, or breathing until you have written consent from the court to do any single instance of any of those actions.
Welcome to the hell of your own making.
Sincerely, Butterdezillion
I’d like to hear Dershowitz’s take on whether a judge could Constitutionally order a litigant to commit suicide within the next 10 minutes, or whether he could forbid him/her from peeing, pooping, farting, burping eating, drinking, or breathing until having in hand a written permission from the judge to do any one instance of any of those activities.
And most importantly, I would like to know what law or provision in the Constitution would forbid those orders. Do we have ANY limits to what judges can order, or do we - whose whole system relies on accountability as the means to combat corruption - just have to trust that judges are all good, innocent, well-meaning, ethical people who would never violate justice or someone else’s rights?
If anybody knows legal beagles who could help me out on this, I’d appreciate it if you ping them to this.
That is a good question. What are the limits? Clearly ordering someone not to breathe is obviously beyond the limits, but is there a law preventing a judge from ordering such a thing?
Similarly, is there a law preventing a judge from being an air traffic controller? The ego of a man sitting in a courtroom ordering planes to turn around is astounding.
Pilots do not get the credit they deserve for what they are responsible for. Creating flight plans, choosing alternative airports for weather or other issues, calculating fuel loads, holding briefings, and performing checklists... no F that, some dude in a robe thousands of miles away says turn your bird around. Come in without a plan or you’re in criminal contempt.
In an ideal world, any judge who suggests something like this would be removed from the bench for stupidity beyond belief. He should have just told the pilots to hold their breath for the rest of the flight too.
He should be in the El Salvador prison.
He should be FIRED!
I agree! Whenever the ACLU gets involved is because they see deep pockets to milk. In this case the cow is the American people.
In past days people might have said that no judge would ever order something like commit suicide or you can only breathe if you have permission, because it would obviously be a lawless order. But if there isn’t any law saying they can’t, it would actually BE a lawful order. And if they can claim it’s lawful, why WOULDN’T they do it? (Especially after all the heinous lawlessness we’ve seen flaunted and bragged about regarding lawfare against Trump!) It’s not like they’re ever gonna be impeached. And everybody knows that anything you can call “ethics” is totally self-regulated. We leave these people totally “on their honor” - but we’ve seen very clearly that there are a lot of them that simply have no honor. And the Bar Associations? They’re too busy trying to disbar anybody who agreed to represent Trump. They’ve got no time to discipline those who have very clearly and very publicly broken ethics rules. And even if they did, it’s still not impeachment so the judge can sit in that box as long as he wants until they drag his cold, dead, corrupt body away.
Boasberg not only refused to recuse himself but actually cheated to get this case, even though he has 4 first-degree relatives who could stand to gain financially from his decisions, since they are all on the public teat that Trump threatens.
I just saw a senator in a video mentioning what you mentioned, how Boasberg improperly took the case, and that it warranted an investigation of him. That is crazy. Highly improper! What was Boasberg thinking? (Probably exactly what you wrote in your first paragraph...)
Yes, it's called the 8th amendment.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
-PJ
I mean, there was a judge in Colorado who sentenced a man to one hour of listening to Barry Manilow for his crimes. Where was the 8th amendment then!?!
And there sits Hizzoner Judge Boasberg, basking in the warmth of his own regard.
Every single thing that’s bad for our children and our future the democrats seem to be all for.
They’ve literally gone insane.
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