The United States District Judge, James Boasberg, the federal judge who blocked the Trump administration to deport non -citizens (Venezuelan immigrants who alleges that they are members of the Trena de Aragua gang, without the due process accused of the Department of Justice to evade “their obligations” to fulfill their order to obtain more information in the sources of confirmation, for a new presentation on Thursday.
Boasberg said in an order on Thursday that after a deadline at noon, the lawyers of the Department of Justice presented a written statement of an immigration field officer and customs compliance with the US Customs Customs. Interest if they are disclosed, according to the Constitutional Rights Center.
“This is unfortunately insufficient,” said Boasberg in response.
Boasberg ordered more information about deportation flights, which the Administration carried out under the Alien Enemies Law, a war authority rarely used. Boasberg ordered that they deliver two flights that the administration said they were deporting the alleged members of migrant gangs to El Salvador. The officials could not change those flights.
The Trump administration has not published the names of the alleged gang members who were deported.
On this March 16, 2023, File Photo, Judge James E. Boasberg, main judge of the Federal District Court in DC, represents a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, DC
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The Department of Justice initially refused to provide more information about flights, citing national security concerns.
Boasberg said Thursday that he is demanding the Government to show the cause before March 25 about why his answers so far and the lack of return of undocumented migrants to the United States did not violate their temporary restriction orders.
In addition, he asked the Government to present a affidavit before 10 am on Friday by a person involved in the Trump cabinet discussions about the privilege of the state’s secrets, and to say before March 25 if they plan to invoke the privilege.
On Thursday, Karen Travers de ABC News asked the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, why the Administration was not delivering information about deportation flights if they trust that they complied with the judge’s order.
“We are sure that we have fulfilled, and as I said from the podium, all the flights that were subject to the written order of the judge took off before the written order was pushed in the courtroom,” Leavitt said. “And the president is everything within his article, his power of article II and his authority under the Aien Enemies Law to make these decisions.”
In this archive photo of October 20, 2022, the registration of the Department of Justice is seen in the building of the headquarters in Washington, DC
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Earlier this week, Trump and some Republicans from the House of Representatives called to dismiss Boasberg, and Trump described the judge “Radical Left”.
The president of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts, issued a rare statement about the threat of political trial, indicating a great difference of opinion between the judicial and executive branches.
“For more than two centuries, it has been established that the accusation is not an appropriate response to the disagreement of a judicial decision,” Roberts said in the statement. “The normal appeal review process exists for that purpose.”
