🔥🔥🔥Judge Boasberg's order today in Alien Enemies Act case CONFIRMED Government position that it did NOT violate Minute Order. Judge ordered Trump to explain why he did not violate order by "failing to return" but Minute Order DID NOT order Government to RETURN. 1/ 
2/ Minute Order ORDERED Trump Administration "not to remove" tDa members. But Judge, in HIS own words, stated that the tDa members had been "removed" and wants to know why they weren't "returned."
3/ Judge can try to spin it all he wants, i.e. "well, that's not what I meant," but just looking at plain language of two Minute Orders that judge himself issued, there was no violation of the Minute Order.
4/ As to the Order judge gave from bench about turning planes around, here the precedent supports government that later order controls.
5/5 Yes, Trump's team is playing by narrowest reading of actual orders & running stream engine through any exceptions, but he is doing that to AVOID a constitutional crisis & butting Article II against Article III, as this THREAD from yesterday detailed.
https://x.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1902364338909753694
6/ Also, I should note government made point in earlier hearing that dTa terrorists had been "removed" as "removed" is defined by statute, and thus no violation of Minute Order.
7/7 But now you have Judge himself in his own words saying they had been "removed" & issue was they weren't returned--something not orders.
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