Boasberg Case Against Trump Admin Poised To Escalate… Each Side Making Big Plans
Boasberg and Team Trump clearly don't like each other and are getting ready to REALLY square off
This is the case that goes back to the filing where Boasberg tried to get a plane deporting criminal illegal aliens to turn around and bring them back to America.
Judge Boasberg is very clearly still angry, and looking for ways to overcome the obstacles the Trump administration has put in his path. First, he gave a verbal order, not a written one until the plane had already unloaded its passengers.
Trump won that round. The planeload of people were beyond his reach, so he escalated, making demands about the decision makers among those who (he believes) defied his orders and having a TRO in place against the entire federal government, reaching into actions that are solely Executive Branch functions.
Boasberg is handwaving away specific privilege claims that negate his authority to question Trump’s decisions. And he (a district judge!) has issued an order that denies Trump to use laws on the books against an illegal alien criminal enterprise that (it is alleged) has direct ties to the hostile government of Venezuela itself.
The judge claims ‘bad faith’ use of the National Secrets privilege and is said to be contemplating Contempt proceedings.
The Trump admin is appealing in the usual way, bringing attention to the fact that this judge, for several reasons, ought NOT to have been hearing THIS question in THIS district, with THIS tool seeking THIS remedy.
Harriet Hageman, on the other hand, points to violations of law and process demonstrating he cares more about a politcal win than the correct application of law.
Meanwhile, Congress sees a way to remove him with a simple majority vote.
One guy wants to amass powers that were never granted him to execute, and punish coequal branches for not bending the knee to his intrusions. The other side are looking for ways to have this rogue judge have his leash jerked tight, to remind him of his duty and his oath.
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