🚨A massive win for President Trump against rogue judges.
Chief Judge Boasberg was brazenly trying to punish the President for a dispute over an order the Supreme Court later said he had not power to issue in the first place.
The D.C. Circuit just shut him down. 🧵
Chief Judge Boasberg was brazenly trying to punish the President for a dispute over an order the Supreme Court later said he had not power to issue in the first place.
The D.C. Circuit just shut him down. 🧵
This fight dates back to March 15, when the President invoked the Alien Enemies Act to fast-track the deportation of dangerous Venezuelan gang members and cartel affiliates from our country.
https://x.com/SenEricSchmitt/status/1905319801280491538
Several of the aliens facing removal sued in D.C.
Despite not being the emergency judge on duty, Boasberg assumed control of the case and, in the evening of March 15, issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting their removal under the AEA.
Despite not being the emergency judge on duty, Boasberg assumed control of the case and, in the evening of March 15, issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting their removal under the AEA.
https://x.com/SenEricSchmitt/status/1949855945841836190
However, by the time the order was issued, planes carrying these TdA members were already in the air. Boasberg orally ordered the government to return these criminal aliens to the U.S., but he lacked authority to do so and never memorialized this command in his written minute order.
His written order merely prohibited the government from "removing" class members. The government, for months, has asserted that it didn't violate the order because the TdA members had already been removed from the U.S. when the order issued.
https://x.com/EWess92/status/1953833220895633775
In the meantime, the government appealed Boasberg's order to the Supreme Court, which held he lacked jurisdiction because these were core habeas claims, which under longstanding precedent, must be brought in the district of confinement.
Nevertheless, Boasberg plowed ahead with these baseless contempt proceedings, ordering the government to either return these dangerous criminals to the U.S. or to identify the government officials who purportedly violated his order.
https://x.com/SenEricSchmitt/status/1949855935435866289
Thankfully, the D.C. Circuit has put a stop to the Chief Judge's power trip.
First, Judge Katsas explained that the TRO was insufficiently clear to support a contempt charge. The government's interpretation of the order was perfectly plausible.
First, Judge Katsas explained that the TRO was insufficiently clear to support a contempt charge. The government's interpretation of the order was perfectly plausible.
https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1953841693179957333
Second, Judge Boasberg's oral orders were likely well beyond his authority and the government was correct to base its conduct on his narrower written order.
https://x.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1953828652778410495
Since January, we have faced an epidemic of rogue federal judges ignoring the law and Supreme Court in a mad dash to thwart the President's agenda.
https://x.com/ChadMizelle47/status/1953861683346059619
Hopefully, with this ruling Chief Judge Boasberg and his rogue colleagues will get the message that they too must follow the law.
https://x.com/SenEricSchmitt/status/1929992176059969975
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