Starting Labor Day laboring over the case filed yesterday by immigration "advocates" seeking to block the administration from sending back home hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children here under the sketchiest of circumstances.
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, a Biden appointee, in the wee hours of a Sunday halted what the Trump adm calls the reunification of minors who came here during the Biden regime. The lawsuit accuses the DOJ and HHS of violating the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 related to ten minors (cited only by their initials as all these cases do) between the ages of 10 and 17.
The declarations of the minors contain pretty mind-blowing stuff--I will post in a separate thread--but here is what Judge Sooknanan ordered yesterday in her "return the planes!" Boasberg moment.
But useful to note that she was very explicit in her written order about prohibiting the removal of the unaccompanied minors--quite the opposite of Boasberg's "oral order" which he failed to document in a follow up written order, which is now the subject of litigation in his contempt claims against the Trump DOJ. (More on that later, too!)
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, a Biden appointee, in the wee hours of a Sunday halted what the Trump adm calls the reunification of minors who came here during the Biden regime. The lawsuit accuses the DOJ and HHS of violating the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 related to ten minors (cited only by their initials as all these cases do) between the ages of 10 and 17.
The declarations of the minors contain pretty mind-blowing stuff--I will post in a separate thread--but here is what Judge Sooknanan ordered yesterday in her "return the planes!" Boasberg moment.
But useful to note that she was very explicit in her written order about prohibiting the removal of the unaccompanied minors--quite the opposite of Boasberg's "oral order" which he failed to document in a follow up written order, which is now the subject of litigation in his contempt claims against the Trump DOJ. (More on that later, too!)
This latest version of tyrant-in-a-robe also tried to follow Boasberg's contempt trap model: she moved up a scheduled hearing, gave initial "class action" status to any child slated for return home, then made an unreasonable demand of the DOJ to file a status report related to her order (on a Sunday afternoon.) When they didn't meet her ridiculous deadline, she added another demand for DOJ to "show cause" as to why they didn't:
The DOJ attorney--the same one before Boasberg in the Alien Enemies Act litigation and the same one Boasberg has accused of contempt--had to inform Judge ✨why they hadn't yet filed a status report:
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