The formidable Julie Kelly rips the asswart Boasberg a new one, and it’s beautiful, man.
Jeb Boasberg, the chief judge of the D.C. District Court, sure has a knack for timing.
As the national conversation this week revolves around accusations the Trump administration is defying court orders by refusing to return an illegal El Salvadoran, er “Maryland father,” back to the U.S., Boasberg swooped in Wednesday afternoon with a lengthy opinion accusing the administration of “criminal contempt” for ignoring a set of orders he issued on March 15. (I first wrote about Boasberg’s contempt trap on March 19.)
In a series of hasty decisions that day, Boasberg, in another instance of fortuitous timing for foes of the Trump administration as I explained here, halted the deportation of illegal Venezuelans covered by the president’s Alien Enemies Act (AEA) proclamation, which Trump had been signed the night before. Boasberg issued two written temporary restraining orders—one prohibiting the deportation of five unnamed illegal Venezuelans represented in the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and another one turning the five plaintiffs into a class action suit protecting anyone in custody subject to the AEA.
Note the operative word in every one of these cases: illegal. As in, illegal aliens who entered this country illegally, remain here illegally except for those in prison as a consequence of their various illegal actions, thus have no right whatsoever to be here at all. “No human being is illegal,” eh shitlibs? Better ask John Wayne Gacy, DB Cooper, or Al Capone about that. Which, given the body counts racked up by a fair few of these immivaders, isn’t a particularly invidious comparison.
And during an emergency hearing held that Saturday evening, Boasberg also issued what he describes as an “oral command” at around 6:45 p.m. to return planes carrying the newly-designated class of illegals. “[Any] plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States,” Boasberg told the Department of Justice attorney present at the hearing. “However that’s accomplished, whether turning around a plane or not embarking anyone on the plane or those people covered by this on the plane, I leave to you. But this is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately.”
“Oral command.” Get a load of him.
The problem, as Boasberg appears to have known at that time, is that two planes carrying the AEA subjects had already departed and were out of U.S. territory. His “oral command” was impossible to obey or to enforce. (Complicating matters further is Boasberg did not include the “oral command” in his written order published about 40 minutes later.)
The alleged defiance of the two written orders—which were both vacated on April 7 by the Supreme Court after a majority concluded Boasberg’s courtroom was the wrong jurisdiction and the ACLU sought the wrong type of relief—and his “oral command” represent the basis of Boasberg’s contempt allegations. And Boasberg appears prepared to name a court-appointed attorney if the Trump DOJ refuses to bring charges against the yet-unidentified officials he accuses of contempt.
Trump damned well ought to treat this overreaching, officious prick with contempt; he’s about as contemptible as they come. Which, these days, is saying a helluva lot.
Boasberg’s 46-page opinion reads more like a petulant grudge against people who refused to bow to his sense of superiority rather than a cautious, reasoned judgement during a fraught time of conflict between the judiciary and executive branches of government.
Got that right, Jules. Worst part is, as we have seen again and again by now, there are all too many judges just like him out there. All of whom need to be brought up short, told to know their role and shut their hole. If that must come down to handing down a few long-distance, .308 caliber impeachments—well hey, I’m good with it, whatever it takes.
As I always like to say about power-drunk Progtards of every stripe, judges and non-judges alike: they won’t stop. They will NEVER stop. They will have to BE stopped. Yesterday wouldn’t be too soon to suit me. And one Donald John Trump might be just the guy to do it, I’m thinking.
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These fuckers need to be educated as to gravity and its effect when an object is thrown from a building
Said education ending upon landing. Permanently.
We once had an anti-death penalty judge in the 9th Circus who kept issuing restraining orders against this state enforcing the death penalty, and kept having them shoved up his ass by SCOTUS, until finally the presiding SCOTUS member in this case at the time, Sandra Day O’Communist, barred the district court anti-death Penalty asshole from ruling on any cases under the topic, ever, on pain of individual removal for cause. He finally STFU, and we killed a couple of murderers.
As the presiding SCOTUS member supervising the DC appeals circuit is Chief Justice John Roberts, he’s going to have to do the same thing for Boasberg, as he’s proven himself hopelessly prejudiced and biased, something the 47 administration is going to charge openly in about 0.2 seconds.
Right after that, the conga line of deportations is going to become the reverse airlift it needs to be, and Boasberg is liable to be dealing with his own Senate impeachment hearing, pour encourager les autres, and all will be right with the world, at least in this small corner of it.
The minute Sen. Chuck Grassley stops f**king around, and convenes impeachment hearings on Boasberg, the sooner this ongoing silliness ends.
People should start bombarding Grassley’s office with phone calls until he wakes up and smells the coffee, and convenes that hearing.
Asswart, I’m stealing that Mike
“Over a dissent by two of the court’s conservative justices, the Supreme Court temporarily barred the Trump administration from removing a group of Venezuelan men currently in immigration custody in the northern region of Texas under an 18th century wartime law. The prohibition came in an unusual overnight order that followed a Friday evening appeal from lawyers representing the men, who told the justices that “dozens or hundreds” of detainees “are in imminent and ongoing jeopardy of being removed from the United States without notice and opportunity to be heard, in direct contravention of” a ruling by the justices less than two weeks ago.
In a brief unsigned order released to reporters just before 1 a.m. Saturday morning, the court noted that the dispute “is currently pending before” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. Once that court acts, the court explained, Solicitor General D. John Sauer should file a response in the Supreme Court to the detainees’ request to block their removal “as soon as possible.” (After the justices issued their order, the 5th Circuit turned down the detainees’ request for a stay, calling it “premature.”) But, the court emphasized in clear language, the government should not “remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court.”
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the court’s order. They did not provide any explanation for their votes on Saturday morning, but the order indicated a statement from Alito would follow – a relatively rare move, but not unprecedented in light of the hour at which the order was issued and the speed with which the court acted.
The dispute is the latest chapter in the challenges to the Trump administration’s efforts to remove noncitizens who are designated as members of a Venezuelan gang under a March 15 executive order issued by President Donald Trump. The order relied on the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law that allows the president to detain or deport citizens of an enemy nation without a hearing or any other review by a court if Congress declares war or there is an “invasion” or “predatory incursion.” The law has only been invoked three times in U.S. history, during the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II.” https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/justices-temporarily-bar-government-from-removing-venezuelan-men-under-alien-enemies-act/
Will Trump follow Jackson’s footsteps and defy the Supreme Court? i.e.:
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“If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the coordinate authorities of this Government. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval as it is of the supreme judges when it may be brought before them for judicial decision. The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has over the judges, and on that point the President is independent of both. The authority of the Supreme Court must not, therefore, be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.” https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/july-10-1832-bank-veto
The system is irretrievably broken.