Judge expands criminal contempt probe over deportation flights, saying Kristi Noem failed to provide answers

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Days after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem provided little information about her actions in a high-stakes deportation case, a federal judge on Monday expanded his criminal contempt probe into the matter, ordering a top Justice Department attorney to testify under oath about the episode.

US District Judge James Boasberg ordered Drew Ensign, a top DOJ lawyer involved in immigration litigation, to testify next week about decisions made by administration officials in mid-March that resulted in the deportation of migrants to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, despite the judge’s order for flights carrying the migrants to turn around pending a legal challenge to Trump’s use of the act.

Boasberg also said he wanted to hear from Erez Reuveni, an ex-Justice Department lawyer who alleged in a whistleblower complaint earlier this year that a then-top DOJ official told his colleagues in March that the administration intended to ignore court orders as part of the President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation effort.

The judge said the live testimony was necessary because Noem, who made the decision to allow the migrants to continue to be transferred to El Salvador, provided little information about the affair to the court in a sworn statement last week.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/judge-expands-criminal-contempt-probe-221320291.html

[Walleye]

1. The judiciary system is too slow. Still operating at 20th century speed.

They need to do these judgments and hearings as quickly as the administration is snatching up people and deporting them

[Irish_Dem]

2. People are dying as American judges pretend to do their jobs.

[Walleye]

4. I wish they showed the urgency to match the situation

[Irish_Dem]

5. Like they all slow walked Trumps MANY serious crimes so he could steal the WH again.

And destroy the country.
Good job judges.

[PatSeg]

3. I think at present,

the judicial system is on overload and can only process so many cases at a time.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

6. LOCK HER UP

[BurnDoubt]

7. And send her to El Salvador ...

without “Due Process”.
Ironic?
Yes, Please!
And, then, too, maybe tie a dead dog around her neck til it drops off.
That’s how they teach dogs not to kill chickens.
Maybe it’ll work on her.