Alien Enemies Act - Attempted - Blocked Again - Another L

Judge Gives New Directive After Trump Admin Uses 'State Secrets Privilege'
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg gave lawyers for Venezuelan deportees until Monday, March 31, to respond to the Trump administration's invocation of the state secrets privilege and refusal to provide the court with any additional information about the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.
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The Trump administration, in its court filing: "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."

A Venezuelan immigrant, in an affidavit filed Monday: "While on the plane the government officials were asking the men to sign a document and they didn't want to. The government officials were pushing them to sign the documents and threatening them. I heard them discussing the documents and they were about the men admitting they were members of TdA."

U.S. Appeals Court Judge Patricia Millett, at a hearing on Monday: "There's no regulations, and nothing was adopted by the agency officials that were administering this. The people weren't given notice. They weren't told where they were going. They were given those people on those planes on that Saturday and had no opportunity to file habeas or any type of action to challenge the removal under the AEA."

 

Trump picking fights with the old college roommate of Kavanaugh..yep, ready shoot aim..massive out of control liberal judge

Bondi, Rubio, and Noem should all be held in contempt for signing that document. simply because they signed it does not mean it can or should go uncontested and if presented ot the court in bad faith, which we all know it was, that should carry penalty. regardless of whether Trump pardons them or not. If Trump wants to show open contempt for the judicial systems by pardoning fairly convicted cronies and keeping them in positions of authority, then make him do it blatantly for the middle to see. The judicial system simply can't ignore that sort of open contempt and falsie filings because they feel helpless to do anything about it.

Trump’s Judicial Foe Was Kavanaugh’s Roommate, Had GOP’s Backing

The District Court Judge has sought to obtain as much information as possible from the Trump administration about who was on the flights, but on Monday, officials doubled down, with Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem signing declarations that the information the court wanted was subject to state secrets privileges.
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Boasberg, 62, has a track record of straightforward rulings in complicated cases — including several decisions in favor of Trump — and a history of support from both Republicans and Democrats. He was a homicide prosecutor in 2002 when President George W. Bush tapped him as a judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and after being nominated to the federal bench in 2011 by Barack Obama, Boasberg was confirmed unanimously by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

His defenders also point to his long friendship with conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, his roommate at Yale University’s law school, as further evidence he harbors no anti-Republican bias. The conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts — who issued a rare public rebuke to Trump over the impeachment threat — selected Boasberg in 2014 to serve on the secretive US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a prestigious role.