Boasberg held there was probable cause to show the government's transfer of immigrants to CECOT without due process was a willful violation of his order.

Cross-posted from “A Federal Judge Is on the Brink of Criminally Prosecuting Trump Officials for Contempt” by @[email protected] in [email protected]

In a thundering opinion on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg announced that he had found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for defiance of his orders. It is “obvious,” Boasberg wrote, that government officials “deliberately flouted” his commands by deporting Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran prison on March 15 under President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. And now they must answer for their unlawful conduct. “The Constitution,” he declared, “does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders—especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it.”

  • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈
    20•2 months ago

    So what? Do it. Nothing will come of it. Congress sure as hell won’t impeach and remove. Certainly no one will be put in any type of custody.

    Sure. Do it for the record. Unfortunately it’s meaningless for the foreseeable future.

    • @[email protected]
      11•2 months ago

      If members of his administration are convicted of crimes for following his orders, their replacements may not be as willing to overstep the law.

    • @[email protected]
      6•2 months ago

      I can’t believe people still believe in the courts. It’s insane to watch from the outside. You enshrined a dictator who has proven many times in the past that he has no regard for the courts at all.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 months ago

      It can be pardoned too. Congress is the only entity that can stop this bullshit but it won’t.

    • Match!!English
      5•2 months ago

      So what: we have to protect this judge and act as deputies to enact his rulings or else the system collapses in favor of monarch Trump and 4chancellor Musk

      • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈
        1•2 months ago

        Oh yeah? What’s your plan for that? You volunteering to stand guard at his home with enough weapons to protect him?

        How will you help take those that face charges into custody?

        • Match!!English
          2•2 months ago

          as someone who stood guard for drag nights back before fascists forgot about drag, yeah i could do that