The DC Circuit stepped in Friday night to halt contempt proceedings against Trump administration officials who ordered the deportation of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gangsters to El Salvador pending further review.
If you ever needed an example of an arrogant and overbearing liberal judge, Judge James Boasberg is your man. He tried to rewrite federal law to give himself jurisdiction in a case that had no attachment to his district and ignored the black-letter requirement that deportation cases go through a habeas corpus appeal before heading to federal district court. After being slapped down by the Supreme Court (see SCOTUS Hands Trump a Major Win on Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Some Illegals – RedState), he decided to hold contempt proceedings on federal officials who carried out a deportation operation that Boasberg didn’t have the authority to…
