After Trump invoked the rarely used 1798 Alien Enemies Act to round up and deport Venezuelans and other immigrants to El Salvador on several flights, Boasberg temporarily ordered the administration to stop deportation flights, sparking Trump to call for Boasberg’s impeachment.
He failed to impose a bond on plaintiffs as the law requires. Other injunctions have the same deficiency.
The act is a wartime law that grants the commander-in-chief authority to detain or deport non-citizens. The implementation was previously blocked in federal court, sparking a contentious legal back-and-forth between the Trump administration and Boasberg.
U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg won’t lift his earlier ban on the deportation of immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, denying a Trump administration request and ruling it likely violated the due process rights of migrants who were deported to El Salvador.
Judge James Boasberg ordered all Signal chats linked to a planned military strike in Yemen preserved after American Oversight filed a records lawsuit.
After blocking the Trump administration’s use of a wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants, Yale alum Judge James Boasberg faces impeachment efforts, legal challenges and criticism from Republican politicians.
Trump administration lawyers urged Supreme Court justices to lift lower court orders and allow the immediate deportation of Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act.
A federal judge on Thursday said the Trump administration’s response to his request for more information on Venezuelan deportation flights was “woefully insufficient” and “evaded” obligations
President Donald Trump blasted the “highly conflicted” district court judge he says is taking all the cases against the White House for himself while calling for an investigation into