Harry Litman - Boasberg Will Not Relent. [View all]

D.C. District Court Judge Jeb Boasberg is a man on a mission, and it’s a very good thing he is.

It's a mission that has made him a target and even put him at physical risk—one he easily could have declined to undertake or abandoned. But it's very much in the country’s interest that he stay the course, as he is doing, at considerable personal cost.

The task sounds simple, and it would be simple but for an ongoing campaign of obfuscation and avoidance by the Trump administration. Boasberg wants to know whether the administration intentionally disobeyed the orders he announced at the end of an emergency hearing last Saturday.

That hearing arose because the administration had begun to put plans into place to deport over 250 Venezuelan nationals whom they believed were part of a transnational drug organization known as Tren de Aragua. That was after quietly invoking the Alien Enemies Act in a presidential proclamation on Friday night.

https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/boasberg-will-not-relent