Originally published at: Judge Puts Screws To Trump DOJ On Who Exactly May Have Ignored His Orders On Alien Enemies Act
The Trump Justice Department was at times squirrely, at times withholding and at times quick to whip out attorney-client privilege Thursday as a federal judge tried to discern who exactly in the administration may have violated his orders. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, in his Washington D.C. courtroom, pressed Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign…
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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, in his Washington D.C. courtroom, pressed Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign on who exactly told planes carrying Venezuelan detainees deported under the Alien Enemies Act not to turn around, even after he’d ordered that those detainees not be removed from U.S. custody.
“You’ve said that it was perfectly appropriate for the government to act as it did, so who made that perfectly appropriate decision?” Boasberg asked.
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If the tool at the department of Justice is unwilling to tell the court who made a decision, then he should be held accountable. He may be unwilling to throw his boss under the bus, but how willing will he be after a few weeks in jail?
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OTAF, but… Noted national security expert Laura Loomer has had trump fire three people from the NSC. Yup, same person who claimed 9/11 was an ‘inside job’.
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I suppose it’s too much to ask that every representative from the DOJ that comes before Boasberg gets put in jail without representation, without habeas, and without corpus until one of them squeals and spills the beans over this.
Maybe one of the “I don’t knows” will finally know something. After a week; ship them all to El Salvador if they still “I don’t know”.
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Just my guess…I don’t think Boasberg will want to file charges against the ‘I don’t know’ lawyer, but he could do so against the Homeland security boss, the ICE boss, the DOJ boss, and the WH chief of staff since they all knew.
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No clearer demonstration of the inmates running the asylum is needed - though I’m sure we’ll see others.
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What’s OTAF? All I see is “Obligated to Accept Field” which makes no sense at all.
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“Let’s all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.” – Barbara Jordan
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Off Topic As Fuck. At least that’s my interpretation.
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. . . Maybe one of the “I don’t knows” will finally know something. After a week; ship them all to El Salvador if they still “I don’t know”.
I love your idea. The Trump administration folks involved in this process should fit in well with the CECOT population. But they should be reminded to leave their Rolexes at home.
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Thank you.
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Can he do that? Seriously, what tools does he have to reach higher in the food chain than the poor sap standing in front of him? Also, if he suspects the poor sap standing in front of him has chosen to come to court unprepared rather than ask his client obvious questions (“who ordered the planes to keep going? Who dialed in to hear the arguments?”) that he [the sap] knows will show they obstructed his [the judge’s] order, what tools does he [the Judge] have?
ETA: pronoun disambiguation
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Loomer strikes fear into President Trump.
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So, this idiot truly- makes decisions based on the last input he hears or sees (won’t say, reads).
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My, how times have changed. This clip shows Republican Senator Howard Baker, holding a Republucan president’s feet to the fire in order to ferret out the truth. Such things are unthinkable in Trump’s Republican Party.
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Assuming Judgy Wudgy doesn’t go Full Operative and issues a contempt ruling (because the evidence is overwhelming), the more serious concern is enforcement. Will Bondi the blond refuse to enforce? And if so what next. Things may get real interesting.
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But Trent Lott, a freshman Congressman on the Judiciary Committee during the Watergate hearings, voted AGAINST the three articles of impeachment brought against Nixon. Some things have NOT changed.
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who decided that the planes would continue on to El Salvador after the court ordered their reversal.
Question about the sausage making in such a case…
To whom does the judge issue an order? Is it by mail, or does the lawyer check in?
I presume the lawyer or whoever notifies his client of the order. After that, though, the lawyer knows nothing else, with regard to who did or didn’t do what with the order?
I’m trying understand the court order process. I mean, I know who I’d like to see in trouble.
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What is the mechanism for (a) getting a full list of who was brought to this prison, and (b) extracting those who were sent there illegally?
I refuse to believe there’s nothing to be done.
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