I have previously written against calls to impeach federal judges who have ruled against the Trump Administration in the issuing of temporary restraining orders (TROs) and preliminary injunctions. The latest target of such calls in the House is District Court Judge James Boasberg, who issued a temporary restraining order against Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. GOP members are making a mistake in engaging in the same impeachment craze that took hold of the Democratic members in prior years (and continues this year). The way to respond to such rulings is to appeal them, not to try to remove judges (which is neither warranted nor likely).
One of the greatest abuses of the Democratic party in the past eight years has been their use of impeachment investigations and charges against their political opponents. From President Donald Trump to conservative justices, liberal members have demanded impeachments over everything from opposing the NFL kneelers to hanging revolutionary-era flags.
Now, some Republican members (and Elon Musk) have joined this frenzy in calling for the impeachment of judges who ruled against Trump’s earlier executive orders and programs. Elon Musk has supported this effort.
The Trump Administration was fully aware that the executive proclamation invoking the use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport members of Tren de Aragua would be controversial. While the Administration believes that it can establish the legal basis for such use of the largely dormant law, the issuing of a temporary restraining order within hours of the EO was not unexpected. We expect an expedited and intense appeal process to now unfold.
The Alien Enemies Act is best known as one of the notorious Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 used by the Adams Administration. I discuss the abuse of those acts in my book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
The case presents a number of novel issues. First, as a threshold matter, is whether a presidential determination of the underlying criteria is even reviewable by the federal courts. Some argue, and the Trump Administration is likely to assert, that this is a political question that is heavily laden with international and national security determinations.
Second, assuming that it is reviewable, the Act was designed for deportations in wartime or in cases of “invasion.” We have previously discussed how states sought to broaden the definition of “invasion” under Article IV, Section 4, the so-called Guarantee Clause. The Trump Administration is arguing that Tren de Aragua is different because it is being used or directed by the Venezuelan government. Trump has previously alleged that the radical regime is emptying its prisons to undermine the United States. Under this argument, the gang is being used by a “foreign nation or government.”
The treatment of this as an invasion could also trigger other powers from states closing the borders unilaterally to even a move to suspend habeas corpus.
The point is only that there are good faith arguments on both sides to be made in the courts. That is why we have independent courts and the finest judicial system in the world.
I have criticized Judge Boasberg, who was involved in the controversial FISA surveillance during the first Trump term and made a poor choice of the attorney tasked with investigating that matter. I also criticized him in prior treatment of pro-life litigants in a case reversed by the D.C. Circuit. However, he has also ruled against Trump critics).
The response for the Administration should be to seek an expedited appeal. The district court cannot drag out a TRO very long before issuing an order that can be appealed.
This country is facing novel issues and the Administration is not surprisingly trying to use novel means to address them. I expect that it will prevail in many of these initial fights while losing others. That is part of the process in a nation committed to the rule of law.
The Trump Administration can appeal and leave impeachment out of it.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
The frequency of district judges attempting to block executive actions (as an evolution of lawfare tactics), will be directly proportional to the frequency of judicial impeachments, as an equal and opposite reaction. Wherever you see permutations of lawfare, expect to see equal and opposite changes to forestall it.
The republicans should not waist their time on impeaching this judge. They should use their collective the implement Trump’s agenda.
It’s difficult to comprehend how anyone could be against deporting violent criminal gang members who entered out country illegally in the first place.
There are few opinions I respect more than Johnathon Turley’s. However, there has to be SOME downside for judges making rulings for such obvious political grandstanding. There are something like 670 district court judges in the United States. If all of them feel free to obstruct the POTUS so casually, NO president of EITHER party is ever going to be able to achieve anything.
The Supreme Court held in Ledecke that courts could not review the exercise by the President of his discretion whether to deport an enemy alien under the Alien Enemy Act. But it accepted that the courts could construe the Act to determine whether the conditions for the exercise of that discretion were met. In that case, it concluded that a state of declared war still existed between the US and Germany long after VE Day, notwithstanding the absence of continuing military conflict and the destruction of the German state and its replacement by rule by the four allied powers.
In this case, there is no declared war but the courts must interpret the meaning of “invasion” under the Act. They must also decide whether the President alone determines whether an “invasion” is happening. Declaring war is a function delegated to Congress by the constitution; nothing is said there about who determines whether an invasion is underway.
So Boasberg appears to have been acting with proper authority in hearing this case, and an order preserving the status quo would seem appropriate while the merits are being considered. His written order appears not to have extended to the planes already in the air, however.
Thank you for the interpretation and historical precedent. I’ll look up the case.
Look for ‘Ludecke’.
The opinion seems to lean strongly in favor of not sticking judicial noses into executive business on this issue.
Daniel: “nothing is said there about who determines whether an invasion is underway.”
I think the invaders have a say in that one.
The Commander in Chief [President] can’t be expected to wait on a district court judge and maybe the appellate process before dealing with an intrusion by thousands of military age men bent on harming citizens and the country.
After Pearl Harbor could we shoot back at Japanese forces right away or did we have to wait for the opinion of a stupid district judge?
So Boasberg has the power to void the exercise of power by the President and usurp and exercise executive power himself from his perch on the judicial branch.
That makes perfect sense.
There’s no due process. This can be used to deport anyone, including a US citizen.
Think about it. What’s the check in the process?
What’s the check in the process? Don’t know. Must be good. You are still here.
Well the first check is that we’re dealing with “illegal aliens”, not citizens. And dangerous ones at that. Were you kidding and I missed it?
It’s not at all difficult to comprehend why and how Deep State operatives are against deporting criminals. The Deep State wants to destroy America from within to usher in a 100% Controlled Corrupt Deep State Operation. What better way to destroy America than to import as many criminals and terrorists as possible. That’s exactly what they’ve been doing the past 10 years, but most Americans haven’t been paying close attention.
The legislative and judicial branches may not usurp and exercise the power of the executive branch.
No legislation or adjudication may usurp and exercise the power of the executive branch.
All officers of the executive branch may be impeached and convicted for egregious acts.
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Article 2, Section 4
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors
The solution for Boasberg and the judicial branch is not TROs, preliminary injunctions, etc., against the executive branch.
The solution is impeachment.
The People put the President in.
The People’s House must remove the President “during [bad] behaviour.”
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1137 AD, about The Anarchy: ” It was said openly that Christ and his saints slept,” while evil reigned.
Now we wonder if the Supreme Court and its justices sleep while bandit district judges sow chaos.
Christ and his saints didn’t end The Anarchy so perhaps we, too, must forget about the Court and look to the President and Congress to stop this mess.
Strip some of the jurisdiction from all the district courts and abolish the DC courts.
A bit of clarity for those who are unable to distinguish the differences between different ideologies.
Fascism:
Rejection of Individualism & Liberal Democracy: places the collective nation-state above individual freedoms.
Totalitarianism: The State is absolute
Militarism & Nationalism: unity under a single authoritative leader.
Corporate State: rejects both capitalism and communism,
US Republican values:
personal freedoms
free markets
limited government intervention,
Constitutional framework
oppose communism
Fascism Vs. Communism:
*Fascism is nationalistic; Communism is internationalist.
*Fascism keeps private property but controls the economy; Communism abolishes private property.
*Fascism opposes class struggle and promotes unity under the state; Communism calls for class war and revolution.
Joe Biden acted as a fascist mixed with some socialism, restrained by US Republican values
Donald Trump promotes personal freedoms, free markets and limited government intervention. He has worked under the constitutional framework and opposed communism along with totalitarianism (a feature of fascism).
This is directed to those that can only talk but not listen like Franke. If someone believes differently say so, but remember the Doctrine of Fascism, the Communist Manifesto and the Constitution are easily accessible.
S. Meyer: NOPE. Republican values: Read Project 2025–that Trump lied about but is fully implementing. Constitutional framework, free markets and limited government intervention–what about tariffs, taking over Canda, Greenland and the Panama Canal? How about Trump ignoring Court Orders, ignoring the power of Congress to establish and fund agencies and set forth their agendas, how about handing over the reins of power to his largest campaign donor who has invaded government agencies, taken over computer systems, downloaded confidential records and is firing government employees so the agencies will fail, all to set up privatization so that Trump allies can get their hands on our tax money? Does the Constitution allow any of this? Oppose communism? Are you joking? How about removing sanctions from Russia to help it succeed in defeating Ukraine, trying to coerce the G- 7 into taking Russia back, withdrawing aid to Ukraine to try to force it to capitulate to Russia, lyng about who started the war?
Donald Trump is trying to prosecute anyone and everyone who opposes him. You are simply l ying about him “working under the constitutional framework”–he’s trying to help Russia reacquire the USSR, starting with Ukraine–Trump IS trying to be a totalitarian.
S. Meyer: you can repeat the MAGA media lies all day along, but Americans see Trump for the dictator he is trying to be who sells power to his largest campaign donor who is arbitrarily firing the federal government to set up privatization to reward his campaign donors and supporters. Americans KNOW this which is why we are taking to the streets to oppose Trump and Musk and crowding town halls to voice our opposition.
“this which is why we are taking to the streets to oppose Trump and Musk and crowding town halls to voice our opposition.”
“ALL OUT BULLETIN: Be on the lookout for Gigi: description, wide-bottomed, wide-mouthed, hates blondes, likely will be rude and discourteous at any meetings, talks like a sailor, makes no sense on her own and will likely be citing/paraphrasing/or plagiarizing things she has read in Left media sources. Call local authorities if sighted.”
Proclamation 80—Calling Forth the Militia and Convening an Extra Session of Congress
“On April 15, 1861,…President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling forth the state militias, to the sum of 75,000 troops, in order to suppress the rebellion. He appealed ‘to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union.’”
Proclamation 92—Warning to Rebel Sympathizers
“[On] July 17, 1862,…I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion or any rebellion against the Government of the United States and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.”
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Now President Donald J. Trump MUST pull a full “Lincoln” and close the border, impose martial law, prosecute a war against the communist rebellion without a formal declaration, shred the Communist Manifesto and irrevocably extirpate all principles of communism in America, implement the “manifest tenor” of the Constitution and Bill of Rights including absolute freedom, absolute free enterprise, absolute free markets, absolute private property, and a substantial diminution of taxation and regulation, eliminate the Departments of Labor, Education, Agriculture, Energy, HUD, and EPA, issue the “Deportation Proclamation” deporting all illegal aliens, past and present, including those who illegally pursued citizenship as criminal border crossers and “asylum” seekers who all made false and fraudulent claims of phantom, nonexistent persecution as foreign citizens with no U.S. rights, establish coherent voter qualifications by State legislatures per the Constitution, declare English the sole official language of the United States, suspend habeas corpus, smash opposition printing presses, networks, podcasts, social media platforms, etc., and throw anyone and everyone who opposes him in prison to Save the Union until America is placed squarely back on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
You’re mumbling again. Can you repeat that?
All one has to do is look at what Trump did and compare them to Biden. You are all over the place and demonstrate you don’t know what US Republican values are.
Trump permitted the Constitution to remain untouched. Biden trampled on the Constitution.
Trump supports free markets and limited government interference in our liberties and the economy.
“what about tariffs, taking over Canda, Greenland and the Panama Canal? How about Trump ignoring Court Orders, “
Tariffs have little to do with our free market system and existed from the beginning. Trump hasn’t taken over any of these countries and is not preparing to send troops to do so. 13 colonies expanded across to the Pacific Ocean. What type of nut are you to say increasing the size of America is something outside of America’s values? You don’t understand what US Republican values are. Trump didn’t ignore court orders outside of the Constitution.
You don’t know the difference between the ideologies. You are brain-dead. However, America is alive and back again. The country is heading for the best of times, and all we have to do is keep the Democrats away. They acted like fascists and nearly destroyed the nation.
#74. The old folks should take their nest eggs and travel before the fat lady sings. If you’re still ambulatory, put away politics and hit the road.
See what the place has to offer. Get your passports and bon voyage!
UPDATE:
In-air transport has landed in El Salvador. Trump administration has filed appeal of Boasberg’s Order to D.C. Circuit. Appellate panel has ordered briefs/arguments NLT Tues, Wed. respectively.
Lin,
Maybe the rash of impeachments helped make the Court of Appeals take this seriously.
Jurists at every level don’t like being made to look bad, lawless, stupid or vulnerable.
Sean Davis brings the heat:
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1901312684814893173
Lest anyone think judicial insurrectionists like Russiagate co-conspirator James Boasberg are plowing new ground with regard to deportation of hostile foreign enemies, they are not. In fact, Boasberg is maliciously violating the law as part of a corrupt conspiracy to seize the powers of the presidency for himself.
We know this because the Supreme Court ruled in 1948—long after World War II was over—that the Alien Enemies Act gave the U.S. president absolute authority to detain and deport a German who had been in the U.S. legally since the 1930s.
In the case of Ludecke v. Watkins, the Supreme Court ruled explicitly that not only could the president deport legal foreign residents even if they weren’t members of a foreign army, but that the courts had no authority to even review the president’s decision to do so.
“The Alien Enemy Act precludes judicial review of the removal order,” the Supreme Court ruled, years after World War II had ended.
“Such great war powers may be abused, no doubt, but that is a bad reason for having judges supervise their exercise, whatever the legal formulas within which such supervision would nominally be confined,” the Supreme Court majority declared. “Accordingly, we hold that full responsibility for the just exercise of this great power may validly be left where the Congress has constitutionally placed it—on the President of the United States.”
The Founders in their wisdom made him not only the Commander-in-Chief but also the guiding organ in the conduct of our foreign affairs,” the Supreme Court ruling continued. “He who was entrusted with such vast powers in relation to the outside world was also entrusted by Congress, almost throughout the whole life of the nation, with the disposition of alien enemies during a state of war.”
In the current instance, the president on January 20 declared a national emergency at the border, noting an ongoing invasion by hostile and violent foreign enemies.
“This assault on the American people and the integrity of America’s sovereign borders represents a grave threat to our Nation,” the president declared. “Because of the gravity and emergency of this present danger and imminent threat, it is necessary for the Armed Forces to take all appropriate action to assist the Department of Homeland Security in obtaining full operational control of the southern border.”
The president further designated multiple violent foreign drug cartels, including the Venezuelan organization Tren de Aragua, as foreign terrorist organizations, putting them in the same category as ISIS and al Qaeda. And to protect the safety and sovereignty of the United States, the president ordered the immediate detention and removal all Venezuelan individuals associated with that violent enemy force.
In the Ludecke case from 1948, the petitioner being detained and removed was a German writer who had legally resided in the U.S. for over a decade with no history of violence and no direct ties to any German military or paramilitary unit, years after the war with Germany was over. And in that case, the Supreme Court said the president’s authority under the law and the Constitution was absolute and could not even be reviewed, let alone blocked, let alone reversed.
Compare those facts to the current case: the president is removing foreign aliens who are members of a violent foreign terrorist organization who entered the U.S. illegally for the purpose of committing illegal and often brutally violent acts the United States in the midst of a national emergency at the border and ongoing military action against the drug cartels.
It is simply impossible to look at the law and the facts in this case and somehow conclude that a single inferior and unelected judge with a long history of conspiring against the president and the United States somehow has the authority to personally direct the elected Commander-in-Chief on how he is to prosecute a war to protect our sovereignty from a violent invading force. The Supreme Court ruled that no judge has the authority to do that.
Yet James Boasberg, the corrupt federal judge who also personally made sure a key Russiagate hoaxer and felon whose own fabrications he oversaw never spent a day in prison, is now trying to extort the Commander-in-Chief into pre-emptively submitting all presidential decisions—including individual flight plans—for him to review.
This isn’t just a constitutional abomination. It is an attempt by an inferior and unelected judge to corruptly seize the powers of the presidency from the Commander-in-Chief on behalf of a hostile foreign invading force.
For this reason, Boasberg needs to be placed under criminal
investigation, any security clearances currently granted to him must be revoked, all his communications must be seized and reviewed, and he must be removed from the bench until the criminal investigation into his activities is concluded.
The law is clear, and Boasberg is maliciously ignoring it, putting the safety and sovereignty of the entire country at risk. It’s time for him to be held to account for his actions.
JT has said many times that judges should not be impeached while never saying what mechanism should be used to remove oviously biased or incompetant judges! For example Dr Turley what if this happened:
https://babylonbee.com/news/federal-judge-appoints-himself-president
Clarksbackup,
Federal judge appoints himself president per Babylon Bee.
Humor but dark humor, because that is what these judges are doing.
Judge sat on the FISA gave FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith a slap on the wrist for manufacturing evidence used in the Carter Page FISA application that defrauded the court. The same Judge Boasberg who appointed former DOJ-NSD head Mary McCord as amicus curiae advisor to the court, after she knowingly and fraudulently submitted the FISA application to the court.
This is the same Judge Boasberg gave J6 FBI agent provocateur Ray Epps a sentence of probation. This is the same judge who, on his vacation, went to sit in the DC courtroom to observe defendant President Trump who was forced to appear in DC court. This is the same Boasberg who established a horrible precedent in forcing Vice-President Mike Pence to testify before a DC grand jury about his conversations with President Trump (breaking executive privilege). Etcetera Etcetera Etcetera. If not now? When?
When Roe V Wade was overturned Justices homes and lives were invaded. Maybe these activists judges need visits from Americans who’ve been negatively affected by the deported monsters? Turnaround is fair play.
Boasberg is an out of touch fascist authoritarian just like Democrats.
“Asked in an open-ended question to name the Democratic leader they feel “best reflects the core values” of the party, 10% of Democratic-aligned adults name New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 9% former vice president Kamala Harris, 8% Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and 6% House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Another 4% each name former president Barack Obama and Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, with Schumer joining a handful of others at 2%.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/politics/cnn-poll-democrats/index.html
I have criticized Judge Boasberg, who was involved in the controversial FISA surveillance during the first Trump term and made a poor choice of the attorney tasked with investigating that matter. I also criticized him in prior treatment of pro-life litigants in a case reversed by the D.C. Circuit. However, he has also ruled against Trump critics).
Send Boasberg to Paradise in Panama to bask in his biased bullsheet with of the other peaceful protestors there
Democratic Party’s favorability sinks to record low, CNN poll shows
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/03/16/democratic-party-cnn-poll/
Soon not even the Devil will want Democrats in Hades
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The problem with Turley’s piece is that it begins with a lie: “One of the greatest abuses of the Democratic party in the past eight years has been their use of impeachment investigations and charges against their political opponents. From President Donald Trump to conservative justices, liberal members have demanded impeachments over everything from opposing the NFL kneelers to hanging revolutionary-era flags.”
Donald Trump was impeached because he tried a quid pro quo to leverage aid appropriated by Congress for Ukraine in exchange for getting Zelenskyy to fake up dirt on Joe Biden that Trump could use. Donald Trump was impeached a second time because he lied about widespread voter fraud as being the reason he lost to Joe Biden, he exhorted his fans to “fight like hell or you’re not going to have a country any more”, and sat by over 3 hours while they carried out the “fight like hell” decree–trashing the Capitol, hunting for Pence and Pelosi with the intent to kill them, and beating up police officers. In fact, the lying about nonexistent fraud continues–at the speech to the DOJ, Trump claimed that HE is the chief law enforcement officer in this country. He’s a convicted felon, a chronic, habitual liar and a sociopathic narcissist–and he is NOT the chief law enforcement officer. The fake blondie is, but she does what she is told–she also is an election denier and defended Trump.
The “hanging revolutionary-era flags” was done by Alito—clearly intended to be a political statement at his private home. All judges, but most of all, SCOTUS justices, are required by the Canons of Judicial Conduct to avoid any scintilla of political activism. Alito violated this Canon and should have resigned voluntarily. Turley implies that Alito didn’t do anything wrong–but he DID–so Turley turns it against Democrats, implying that they were playing politics by suggesting that he should be impeached for raw political activism. Alito was WRONG to display publicly a symbol of partisan politics. Since Trump came on the political scene, there is no such thing as ethics for anyone–politicians, judges, members of Congress–anyone.
Trump doesn’t just threaten to impeach judges whose rulings he doesn’t like–he just ignores them. There was a TRO issued that he should not deport any more Venezuelans–and he ignored it and sent some back to Venezuela, where they were badly treated. But, Turley hasn’t addressed THIS Constitutional crisis–what should be done to Trump when he refuses to obey Court orders? Everything Turley writes is biased–everything– he cannot write a piece saying that it’s wrong to threaten impeachment of a judge with whom you disagree–and, that the remedy is by appeal– without getting in digs at Democrats—invalid ones at that. Trump began is 2d fake presidency by priortizing pardons for the J6 Defendants who beat up cops and trashed our Capitol. Next, he’s going after anyone, everyone, who, in any respect, was involved in their prosecutions and his criminal cases. Turley doesn’t criticize this, either, probably because he can’t find a way to accuse Joe Biden of similar behavior.
“Everything Turley writes is biased–everything– he cannot write a piece saying that it’s wrong to threaten impeachment of a judge with whom you disagree–and, that the remedy is by appeal– without getting in digs at Democrats—invalid ones at that.”
why are you reading what Turley writes everyday? You told JohnSay you didn;t have the time…but here you are again. every dam day.
God, would you just. please.shut.up.and.go.away.
GooGoo
How many times did the Demowits impeach President Trump? So once again, please STFU with your ignorant posts. The collective IQ drops 10 points every time you post your drivel.
America may have “the best judicial system” as you so eloquently stated, but it’s EXTREMELY CORRUPTED AND CAPTURED!!!
Maybe people will start to get that judges are selected for confirmation by the president or governor in the state courts. In my own state of Minnesota it took 16 years of terrible governors to turn over practically all the district court judges when the good ones retired. Now our judiciary is full of democrats and liberal progressive ones at that. It will take 30 years due to retirements to get rid of them. They are the ones that let people out of jails who have committed terrible crimes against Americans. I think its another example of how votes matter. They really matter not just in spending our country and states into oblivion but in who runs the judiciary. I was a liberal Democrat that day I was sworn into the bar and I never would have thought I’d have seen this day.
It will take 30 years due to retirements to get rid of them.
Krista – I don’t think even 30 years will solve the problem. The voters of your fair state are the problem, and they keep voting blue. Just like with California, the terrible results they suffer from their bad voting habits don’t seem to make an impression on them in terms of maybe voting differently in the future. Then there is that cesspool of Twin Cities voters which the outstate communities can’t compete with in terms of numbers.
“Minnesota nice” – good people but with terrible judgment in matters of politics. You should move to a red state if you want any relief from the extreme left-wing policies of your current state. Minnesota must have reciprocity with at least a few red states, where you could be admitted to the bar on motion.
California? Think of those stellar environs: Pelosi, Schiff, Waters, Newsom, Harris. Calif has no chance. They’ll be gone when there’s not a nickel left.
Elon Musk has seen the machinery from the inside, and now he explains to Joe Rogan the immigration scam launched by the Dems.
Millions in FEMA dollars were paid for illegals to stay in luxury hotels in NYC, where it should have gone to Americans in distress from hurricanes and the fire in Maui. The Dems were giving illegals a standard of living greater than 90% of the rest of the world, so 90% of the world was incentivized to illegally immigrate.
Why? To convert the swing states into deep-blue states, so there would be permanent deep-blue one-party socials rule in America forever. Illegals can vote in New York state, and once they became legal they’d be able to vote anywhere. Hear his explanation here:
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1901329265926238291
While appeal is a wonderful tool created and utilized by the legal infrastructure it has also become a weapon of delay, stalling, and obstruction of legal decisions in hopes that a regime change opportunity arises and is successful to render cases MOOT! These District Judges are well aware of this tactic AND ARE COMPLICIT in many cases. The use of nationwide injunctions by these low-level jurists can only be described as OBSTRUCTIONIST and if SCOTUS does not take a stand on this abuse many citizens will eventually conclude District Rulings are a political farce! Running out the clock is a football strategy but should not be applicable to legal decisions!
Jonathan: I agree here as I agreed before that MAGA Republicans in the House should not try to impeach judges whose decisions they are opposed to. The present controversy surrounds US District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg’s TRO yesterday halting DJT’s deportation of Venezuelans to El Salvador.
Under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 DJT claims he has the authority to deport Venezuelan immigrants because they are part of a “foreign terrorist organization” and that alleged members of criminal gangs here constitute an “invasion” carried out by Venezuela’s government. First problem. The AEA applies only in wartime and we are not at war with Venezuela. Second problem. There is absolutely no evidence the Venezuelans were sent here by the Maduro government as part some orchestrated “invasion” plan. Some of those picked by ICE say they were escaping violence by Tren de Aragua and MS13 criminal gangs inside Venezuela.
Boasberg’s order found no predicate for the deportation of Venezuelans based on the AEA and ordered deportations to stop for 14 days and any flights to El Salvador to return to the US. In the wee small hours this morning DJT defied Boasberg’s order and flew about 300 Venezuelans to EL Salvador where they were immediately incarcerated and brutally treated by the Salvadoran military. We will probably hear shortly from Judge Boasberg about DJT’s violation of the TRO.
Elon Musk immediately got involved in the deportation controversy. He posted this on X: “You can’t truly call yourself ‘peaceful’ unless you’re capable of great violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless. Important distinction”. Musk often employs Orwellian doublespeak–where “violence” suddenly becomes “peace”!
Not content with that Musk also joined Texas MAGA House Republican Brandon Gill in calling for the impeachment of Judge Boasberg. We have three branches of government. Elon Musk is not part of any of them. But he thinks he runs the show through his fascist cadre of DOGE twenty somethings who are hell bent on remaking the government in their own image. Reminds me of when Hitler took power in a bloodless coup in 1933. In took less than 3 months for the Nazi regime to gain absolute power–starting with replacing independent judges with Nazi judges. Musk thinks he can replicate what Hitler did in Germany!
First-generation Missouri farmer Skylar Holden said he wishes he’d been more careful with his vote for Trump now that he faces financial ruin due to a freeze instituted by President Donald Trump on funding for key conservation programs.
The father of three says he is dependent on that funding to keep his cattle farm afloat, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture has put a hold on the funds pending a federal review of all spending programs.
Holden had signed a $240,000 contract with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to improve water lines, fencing, and wells on his farm.
USDA officials recently notified him that his contract was frozen — after Holden had already spent $80,000 on materials and labor. It’s unclear when or if those funds will be made available.
“I’ve already done a bunch of the work, already paid for the material and the labor, so I’m out all that cost,” he said. “We are possibly going to lose our farm if NRCS doesn’t hold up their contract with us.”
Anti-Trumpers told Holden he “got exactly what he voted for.” Many have lampooned his claim that he relied on a 25-question online quiz to tell him how to vote rather than researching the candidate’s policies himself.
STUPID IS, AS STUPID DOES !!!!!!!
So is it better for America to collapse its economy with a $36Trillion debt and a $2Trillion dollar per year deficit moving forward or for farmers making their living off of subsidy payments from the federal government to go under? Let me explain so you can understand, Fuggem. Hang on and/or figure out how to run an ag business without a government handout, it’s not a welfare system.
Elon Musk gets it:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1901195900568928406