Undermining our institutions, our economic wellbeing and our foundation appear to be a Democratic Party trait these days.
Judge James “Jeb” Boasberg is now 0-2 in his unlawful attempts to sabotage President Trump’s immigration agenda. Appointed by President Obama, this federal magistrate just happens to be “randomly” assigned Washington’s highest-profile cases.
Perhaps that should change after the chastisement handed down Friday by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Boasberg was not happy when he learned the administration had rounded up Tren de Aragua gang members illegally present in the United States.
By the time he had a chance to insert himself, the trespassers were being shipped back to Central America. He ordered the government to “turn the planes around” while they were over international waters.
In April, his honor suffered the indignity of a Supreme Court rebuke on this point. Without delving into the absurdity of directing air traffic from a courtroom, the justices concluded this inferior magistrate had no right to weigh in at all.
An honest jurist would have accepted the admonishment and moved on to another case. Not this one. Intervention from above only steeled this black-robed partisan’s resolve. He devised a new stratagem to oblige the Justice Department to restore the immigration policies of Presidents Biden and Obama.
Judge Boasberg said he would levy criminal penalties on the administration lawyers who purportedly disobeyed his “turn the planes around” edict that he had no business issuing in the first place. The attorneys could avoid jail time only if they “cured” their fault by returning the violent thugs to U.S. soil.
Appellate Judge Neomi Rao was scathing in her evaluation of this plot: “Lacking the power to coerce the government, the district court nonetheless sought to achieve the same result with the threat of criminal contempt. Dangling this sword of Damocles to compel the Executive to exercise its foreign affairs powers exceeds the court’s authority and is an abuse of discretion.”
Judge James Boasberg rebuked again
'Turn the planes around' judicial activist shot down a second timeJudge James “Jeb” Boasberg is now 0-2 in his unlawful attempts to sabotage President Trump’s immigration agenda. Appointed by President Obama, this federal magistrate just happens to be “randomly” assigned Washington’s highest-profile cases.
Perhaps that should change after the chastisement handed down Friday by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Boasberg was not happy when he learned the administration had rounded up Tren de Aragua gang members illegally present in the United States.
By the time he had a chance to insert himself, the trespassers were being shipped back to Central America. He ordered the government to “turn the planes around” while they were over international waters.
In April, his honor suffered the indignity of a Supreme Court rebuke on this point. Without delving into the absurdity of directing air traffic from a courtroom, the justices concluded this inferior magistrate had no right to weigh in at all.
An honest jurist would have accepted the admonishment and moved on to another case. Not this one. Intervention from above only steeled this black-robed partisan’s resolve. He devised a new stratagem to oblige the Justice Department to restore the immigration policies of Presidents Biden and Obama.
Judge Boasberg said he would levy criminal penalties on the administration lawyers who purportedly disobeyed his “turn the planes around” edict that he had no business issuing in the first place. The attorneys could avoid jail time only if they “cured” their fault by returning the violent thugs to U.S. soil.
Appellate Judge Neomi Rao was scathing in her evaluation of this plot: “Lacking the power to coerce the government, the district court nonetheless sought to achieve the same result with the threat of criminal contempt. Dangling this sword of Damocles to compel the Executive to exercise its foreign affairs powers exceeds the court’s authority and is an abuse of discretion.”
