5 Points On How Judge Boasberg Broke Down The Admin's Alien Enemies Contempt - TPM

[justaprogressive]

In a withering 46-page opinion on Wednesday, D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg laid out how he came to believe that the Trump administration was acting in bad faith during its Alien Enemies Act removals.

Boasberg set the stage for potential contempt prosecutions in the order. He also detailed what he came to see as the Trump administration’s scheme to shield its plan to use rarely invoked wartime powers to remove more than 100 Venezuelans to a Salvadoran detention facility, depriving them of due process and the courts of the ability to review what was taking place.

Below are five points on Boasberg’s opinion.

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Hiding the ball
The Trump administration planned the Alien Enemies Act removals to minimize the chances that a judge might intervene.

It was partly baked into the idea from the start: the Venezuelans on whom the law was invoked would not receive due process before being sent to El Salvador. But the Trump administration, Boasberg found, structured the entire process so as to avoid the possibility of judicial scrutiny, staging people near the airport from which flights would depart and launching planes after a hearing into the removals began.

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[RobinA]

1. Boasberg

came to play!

Be safe, Judge