Posted on 11/28/2025 8:29:03 PM PST by Red Badger
Judge James Boasberg took the next step toward ‘contempt prosecution’ after he revived his criminal contempt inquiry against President Trump over Alien Enemies Act deportations.
A federal appeals court recently lifted the hold on Boasberg’s contempt inquiry so the judge is going full steam ahead and harassing Trump Administration officials.
In March Boasberg granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) to stop the Trump administration from deporting thousands of Venezuelan nationals believed to be members of Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang under the Alien Enemies Act.
In an unsigned order earlier in April, the US Supreme Court on Monday vacated Judge Boasberg’s orders barring the Trump Administration’s removals of Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.
The high court said Boasberg lacked jurisdiction.
The Supreme Court however, said the Administration must give reasonable notice for gang members to challenge their deportations in court.
Boasberg then threatened to hold Trump officials in contempt for not bringing some of the world’s most vicious killers, criminals, and rapists back to the United States.
Judge Boasberg said he found probable cause to hold the Trump Administration in criminal contempt of court for defying his order to turn around planes carrying dangerous Venezuelan gang members.
In a 46-page opinion, Judge Boasberg said the Trump Administration showed willful defiance that amounts to criminal contempt.
Boasberg also threatened to appoint a prosecutor if the Trump Administration won’t prosecute the criminal contempt.
This week the Justice Department disclosed that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem greenlit the deportation flights in March despite Boasberg’s emergency order.
On Friday, Judge Boasberg gave the Trump Administration until December 5 to submit declarations from all “individuals involved in the decision not to halt the transfer of class members” out of US custody in March.
“Instead, it must determine whether Secretary Noem or anyone else should be referred for potential contempt prosecution,” Boasberg wrote.
“The Court will adopt the parties’ agreement on starting with declarations; it will then assess the need for witness testimony. It therefore ORDERS that by December 5, 2025, the Government shall submit declarations from all individuals involved in the decision not to halt the transfer of class members out of U.S. physical custody on March 15 and 16, 2025,” Judge Boasberg wrote.
“Such declarations shall detail their roles in such decision,” the judge wrote.
Meanwhile the GOP does nothing to stop this shit.
The Leaders of the House and the Senate need to be primaried!
It takes two thirds of the Senate to convict and remove a jagoff like Boasberg. But they should be put on record anyway.
Neither will be primaried
That’s just plain stupid
Trump needs to pardon everyone involved and end this BS
Trump needs to bring a lawsuit against King Boneyassburger.
It would take a couple of MP’s and a C130 to have his butt hauled to Guantanamo on charges of sedition and treason and a squad of Marines to have him shot after conviction.
Boasberg Isn’t doing all this shit for free.
Find out who’s paying him and bust them!
What does it take to dissolve the DC Circuit?
Simple majorities in both houses.Congress should have been dissolving courts during the shutdown. Assholes.
Republicans dragging their feet on impeachment.
Just ignore this political hack. He has made his rulings now let him enforce them.
Why is dipstick still on the bench creating chaos once again? Impeach the son of a gun.
The point of Boasberg doing this is to set up the contempt as a basis for impeachment if Republicans lose the House in 2026.
I thought they were going to investigate and impeach this guy.
And to add to it, they’re still filibustering
This embarrassment of a judge should be charged with aiding and abetting enemies of the United States and sent to Ugandan prisons, along with his Venezuelan buddies.
Their cowardice is matched only by their cupidity.
Neither will be primaried?
It’s for this reason that Thune, Rounds and Dusty Johnson were picked to do the Democrats dirty work
Someone needs to seriously bi*ch slap these pompous partisan robed hacks.
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