For some on the far left, “The Rachel Maddow Show” is a godsend. Otherwise, you would have to go to the subway to compete against others raving about microchips and oligarchies. Just take Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who went on the show on Friday to explain that Trump officials can now be arrested for “interfering with a legal proceeding” or “kidnapping.” It now stands as second only to Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe’s claim on MSNBC that President Donald Trump could be charged (“without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt”) with the attempted murder of former Vice President Michael Pence.
(For the record, I have maintained since the start of this controversy that Garcia should have been returned to the United States and should still be brought back to what I believe would be an inevitable deportation).
Raskin prefaced his legal analysis with a heavy dose of hyperbole, warning viewers that “they’re arresting judges” and portraying Judge Hannah Dugan in Wisconsin as an innocent victim of a law-hating, authoritarian regime. It is a claim that was echoed by other leading Democrats before any of the underlying facts have been established.
He then explained his case for a mass arrest of Trump officials:
“all of the people in the Trump Administration who participated in defying that order by Judge Boasberg themselves could be arrested for interfering with a legal proceeding and perhaps other criminal charges like kidnapping.”
It was another fevered Democratic dream, imagining lines of Trump officials being frog-marched to the federal penitentiary as kidnappers.
This is not the first time that the left has claimed that officials have kidnapped undocumented persons. After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent undocumented immigrants to California (after Gov. Gavin Newsom invited them to come to the state), Newsom and Attorney General Ron Bonta claimed that the trip constituted “State-sanctioned kidnapping.”
Other Democratic leaders and legal experts repeated the earlier claim. As is often the case, sites from MSNBC to NPR then gave fawning attention to the claims despite knowing that they are legally absurd. The breaking news angle is then forgotten for the next media jump scare.
The same is true for the widespread claims of experts that Trump could be charged with incitement due to his speech on Jan. 6th. Despite some of us noting that the speech was clearly protected under the First Amendment, the press portrayed such a charge as credible and heaped coverage on District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine who announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks and charging them with incitement. So what happened to that prosecution?
Racine’s failure to charge Trump was not due to any affection or loyalty to the former president. It was due to the utter lack of legal and factual foundation.
Under 18 U.S.C. 1201,
“whoever unlawfully seizes, confines, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds for ransom or reward any person, or when the person is willfully transported in interstate or foreign commerce across a state boundary is guilty of kidnapping and shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or life and, if the death results, by death or life imprisonment.”
In this case, federal employees were acting under a claim of executive authority and a little-used federal statute. It is true that there was an order during the flight to return to the United States. However, the Administration has made a series of arguments as to why the Boasberg order was not carried out. Notably, other deportations were halted after additional court orders. There is no evidence of the specific intent to kidnap in this case.
Moreover, as to the alleged failure to “facilitate” his return, the decision of the Supreme Court is hopelessly vague and unclear on what that term means. Since most of us do not know what the term means, it would hardly be a credible basis for a criminal, let alone a kidnapping, charge.
There is also an interesting wrinkle under 18 USC 1201, which contains a 24-hour rule:
“With respect to subsection (a)(1), above, the failure to release the victim within twenty-four hours after he shall have been unlawfully seized, confined, inveigled, decoyed, kidnapped, abducted, or carried away shall create a rebuttable presumption that such person has been transported in interstate or foreign commerce. “
This would not be dispositive but shows the relatively short period of time for the order and flight. Within 24 hours of the court order, Garcia and others were released into the custody of the El Salvadorian government.
In Trump v. United States, the Supreme Court recently held:
“we conclude that the separation of powers principles explicated in our precedent necessitate at least a presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for a President’s acts within the outer perimeter of his official responsibility. Such an immunity is required to safeguard the independence and effective functioning of the Executive Branch, and to enable the President to carry out his constitutional duties without undue caution. Indeed, if presumptive protection for the President is necessary to enable the ‘effective discharge’ of his powers when a prosecutor merely seeks evidence of his official papers and communications, id., at 711, it is certainly necessary when the prosecutor seeks to charge, try, and imprison the President himself for his official actions. At a minimum, the President must therefore be immune from prosecution for an official act unless the Government can show that applying a criminal prohibition to that act would pose no ‘dangers of intrusion on the authority and functions of the Executive Branch.'”
As for other federal officials, they have clear immunity for carrying out discretionary duties. Of course, a violation of a court order is not within that discretion. However, they were carrying out this order under the advice of the Justice Department under highly novel circumstances. This was a plane in international airspace and the Justice Department did not believe that it required the aircraft’s return. I disagree with that view, though we have not seen the entire record of what occurred. However, it would not constitute kidnapping even if the legal opinion of the Justice Department were rejected by the courts.
Notably, these individuals were arguably subject to being detained and held. It was the continued deportation after the issuance of the court order that was the primary conflict. The Administration still argues that it has this authority under federal laws and Article II of the Constitution. They can be wrong without converting that error into a federal crime.
Even civil actions alleging kidnapping have done poorly in the courts, as in El Masri v. Tenet. Khalid El Masri was kidnapped by the CIA and renditioned to a foreign prison where he was tortured. It was a horrific case that many of us condemned. Yet, the district court dismissed the lawsuit after the administration invoked the state secrets privilege. The United States Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case.
Most courts would not seriously consider such a charge. Presumably, anyone assisting in these flights would be participants in the alleged mass kidnapping.
Taken to its full possible application, Raskin’s argument could produce an outcome where hundreds of alleged gang members and terrorists (according to the earlier presidential finding) would be freed from the El Salvadorian jail and brought back to the country while dozens of federal law enforcement officials could be sent to prison.
Raskin’s insistence that officials could be criminally charged with kidnapping is also curious given his silence on President Barack Obama actually killing an American citizen without a criminal charge, let alone a trial.
Of course, Judge Boasberg is considering the possible criminal contempt of officials for violating his orders. However, even that lesser offense seems doubtful. He would likely have to appoint a private lawyer to prosecute such a case, raising serious constitutional questions in the usurping of Article II authority.
– Maybe every Congressional Representative should read this! – The Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) Supreme Court ruling established that speech inciting imminent lawless action is not protected under the First Amendment. If a congressperson explicitly encourages violence against the president, they could face legal consequences.
Raskin….what more needs to be said other than why waste a moment on anything he has to say about anything.
He is just the Role Model for those that wish to be “Poison Dwarfs”.
Same as that Reich fellow from a past Democrat Administration….except Raskin makes Reich look sane by comparison.
And Alan Dershowitz was his law professor ar Haaarrvard! Dersh must be very proud of this numbskull.
When Raskin’s wife was going to be given a position of extremely high power over the Federal Reserve, it was stopped once the secrecy surrounding it was torn away.
I’m grateful for the rampant TDS and I think Trump intentionally maximizes the effect to illustrate how absurd and out of touch the left has become. Trump stakes out a position must people would agree with and support, the left dutifully opposes it, no matter what.
The same five virulently anti-Trump judges in D.C. are getting all these cases, under the direction of the also virulently anti-Trump chief judge. This is undeniable evidence of abuse of impartial justice.
If there were actual impartial justice in D.C., the other ten judges would be getting 2/3 of the cases.
I haven’t seen Turley addressing this judicial corruption.
Rep. Jamie Raskin’s parents were worse.
Raskin is a perfect example of a leftist with the disease – TDS – that has infected almost all of the democratic party and their base. He is a lying, arrogant, condescending little man, who feels he has an obligation to oppose ANYTHING if it comes from Trump. He is obsessed with finding a way to get rid of him and usurp the will of the American people, so he and his party get can back to fundamentally changing the US into the globalist, socialist utopia that these treasonous little malcontents long for. The democratic party really has become ‘the enemy within’ in America.
We need to replace the Constitution with a Central Government run by Jaime Raskin, James Boasberg, Occasio Cortex, Bernie Sanders, and Ray Epps!!!
Only THEY can save America and preserve our precious Democracy and round up all the political opposition and imprison them.
Luigi Mangione will be Secretary of Health. Mahmoud Kahalil will be Secretary of Education. Abrego Garcia will be Secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Hannah Dugan will be the SLA (Supreme Legal Authority). Philonise Floyd, George Floyd’s brother, will be Secretary of Drugs and Distribution. Rachel Maddow will be Minister of Propaganda.
There are are only a few of the outstanding leaders that will transform America so that you will no longer have to worry about who to elect. All decisions will be made for you by the Central Government.
#. Bring Garcia back, ask for his visa and passport, deport him to El Salvador.
^^^ no, just send a registered letter to Garcia requesting those items. Cheaper…
Raskin story is babble and nonsense. It seems that’s all we get. What a cuckoo nest.
Just get government out of our lives.
No one needs cuckoos like this in their life.
Biden had no moral reason nor rational reason to say surge the border and this is the nightmare aftermath.
What a fate. Sometimes people are born just to cause misery to others and for no other reason. There is no meaning to their lives except trouble to others and sometimes it’s this nightmare affecting the peace of so many other people causing extreme unrest within. Raskin is irrational and fixated . He is a pleasure to no one.
Jonathan: When the DJT regime put Albrego Garcia and the Venezuelans on the planes to El Salvador that was in defiance of Judge Boasberg’s clear order that the deportees be immediately returned. Refusal to abide by a court order means AG was “unlawfully” abducted and “transported” in “foreign commerce across a state boundary” and those who authorized the illegal deportations could all face “kidnapping” charges under 18 USC 1201.
In a unanimous ruling the SC ordered the AG should be returned to the US. You acknowledge that order but you apparently think that even if AG is returned he would be subject to “inevitable deportation”. Are you sure? When/if AG is returned he would be entitled to a due process court hearing–something he was denied in the first instance. AG and his family have denied he is an MS-13 gang member. So far the DOJ attorneys have offered no evidence in court to dispute AG’s claims. DJT posted a fabricated photo of AG’s left hand to try prove AG is a gang member. Not even Pam Bondi’s DOJ would dare try to offer that as evidence.
There is only one reason the DJT regime did not take AG before an immigration judge before they deported him to the notorious CECOT prison. It’s because they couldn’t, and still can’t prove, that Abrego Garcia is a gang member! So what “inevitable deportation” can you possible be talking about?
Worse noe an ex judges wife has to defend the ‘lable”. Indeed taken to task if the are 100 ven tar sets whatever in USA – there are 100 landlords. And here to for it was illegal to inquire! Fact of inquiry lets HUD stay a deportation case. So land lords catch 22. And while the feds offered e verify…states only started to make it count. So tons of landlords trying to comply with cha …rock and hard place! Now I’m wife sees letting her cabanna…a hard place? But it looks like buds rules are to jail mom and pop – who should of been omnicient. Black rock and cal pets will never go to jail for not asking ….but mom and pop will? Sick
HUD makes it illegal to ask status! If you are patriotic and ask you shot your foot! Because asking gives them a stay to stop deportation!
Landlords are in a bind – but would not be if the govt had obeyed us in the first instance and not let so many in. But think about it – globalist win – control the migrants and the host…all left are good little leftists like Turkey and trump
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New talking point from the echo chamber? “Regime” Word of the Day. Say it three times, click your heels and wish upon a star.
This comes from the morally bankrupt party that offers no new ideas, no solutions, who love endless wars, open borders, rising debt, fentanyl, rampant crime, reckless spending, putting grown men in girls sports, place pornography in elementary schools and calls it “free speech.”
The New Democratic mandate: “Whatever President Trump says or does, we will fight his administration tooth and nail and do the polar opposite.”
The current President of the United States of America is duly elected and sworn in.
These are the same people who swore Biden was mentally alert and fit for office. Now, they are turning on him in droves, not all.
Can we say TDS? How about Bovine excrement?
Don’t like “regime”? How about “convicted felon”?
And what happened after those “convictions”? Ah yes, literally nothing. He was never convicted, only indicted. The charges were all either dropped, found unliable, or are currently in the mess of appeals processes.
WHAT A —-ING JOKE, JUANITA IS
TOTALLY CORRUPT “FAKE” TRIAL RESULTS IN “FAKE” SENTENCE OF NOTHING
Trump convicted and sentenced to “unconditional discharge.”
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“[“Fake,” illegal alien] Judge [Juanita Merchanita] gave Trump an “unconditional discharge”—meaning his conviction stands, but he won’t face any penalties—after Trump was found guilty in May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, letting the president-elect walk free without any punishments.”
“The sentence falls far short of the maximum penalties that Trump could have faced, as each of his 34 counts was punishable by up to four years in prison and/or a maximum $5,000 fine—meaning the harshest sentence could have seen Trump imprisoned for the rest of his life, though that was always unlikely to happen.”
– Forbes
duh
Get over it
When Judge Boasberg issued the order to return planes – that order was unlawful – as SCOTUS subsequently decided he did not have jurisdiction.
Therefore because Judge Boasberg’s order – like many many other judicial orders was later determined to be unlawful.
Judge Bosberg like Judge Dugan in Colorado obstructed the lawful deportation of TdA members – that would mean like Judge Dugan in Milwaukee that Judge Boasberg is a felon.
See two can play that game.
The FACT is you are clueless about the law.
No Boasberg is not guilty of felony obstruction of justice any more than these absurd left wing nut claims.
I would further note that no FINAL determination has been made on any of the pending cases – nearly all final determinations so far Trump has won.
Are you idiotically claiming that AG was kidnapped – then what happens when as is near certain that SCOTUS actually finds that AG’s deportation was perfectly legal ? After all the court order that Trump allegedly violated barred AG being deported to … GUATAMALA – not El Salvador – because in 2019 AG’s family was in Guatamala and they were being harrassed by Rosario 18 in Guatemala.
Further TPS orders are EXECUTIVE orders – not judicial branch orders. they can be rescinded by the executive branch – you know THE PRESIDENT. Further the Order barring AG’s deportation was based on the threat from Rosario 18. Rosario 18 no longer exists in El Salvador – President Bukelle has successfully eradicated numerous gangs in El Salvador, AG May still have to fear being deported to Guatamala, but not el salvador – well that is except for the fact that multiple courts have found that AG is an MS13 member and Bukelle takes MS-13 members STRAIGHT TO JAIL – which is where he is now. Where he belongs. AG did not get US Due process in El Salvador – but he is NOT entitled to US due process in El Salvador. He did get US due process in the US. He was an admitted illegal alien and therefore deportable. He was based on multiple evidence an MS13 gang member – and therefore also deportable. He was ordered deported – he appealed and lost.
Instead of appealing he sought TPS status, and the IJ ordered that he NOT be deported to Guatamala.
He has not been deported to Guatamala.
The law just does not work the way that you and Raskin and other left wing nuts pretend – if it did, everytime a judge was overruled by an appelate court or SCOTUS on an immigration issue the judge would magically become a felon.
Next Judge Boasberg – and in fact ALL us judges do not have jurisdiction outside the US – they also do not have jurisdiction outside their federal circuit. Does that mean Boasberg is a felon for obstructing lawful efforts to deport illegal immigrants ?
Your also engaged in total idiocy.
Those of you on the left loved to rant about the possibility that Trump might order Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival.
In the vein of stupid left wing nut style hypotheticals – if Judge Boasberg orders the executive to assassinate VP Vance – would Trump be in contempt for failing to follow that order.
Presidents have disobeyed court orders int he past – but it has been rare.
One of the reasons is because courts took care not to issue highly dubious and legally and constitutionally suspect orders.
Your ranting about all this nonsense. But the FACT is that it is near certain that all this left wing nut judicial idiocy will be reigned in.
The only question is HOW.
The best resolution is for judges on their own to back down from this lawless stupidity.
The next best solution is for SCOTUS to slap the lower courts.
But the house has already passed legislation severely limiting nationwide TROs and similar stupid judicial orders
Like DC judges pretending they control military aircraft over the caribean.
That legislation has been sponsored by Senator Grassly and likely will pass in the senate soon enough, and Trump will sign it.
But Congress should not fix this idiocy – the courts should.
The credibility of the courts is further diminished when they can not restrain their own lunacy.
The US has one president at a time and the current president is not named boasberg or Xinis or howell.
“In a unanimous ruling the SC ordered the AG should be returned to the US.”
False. This has been addressed over and over.
“you apparently think that even if AG is returned he would be subject to “inevitable deportation”.”
Turley is correct that if AG somehow was returned he would instantly be deported.
“Are you sure?”
Absolutely
” When/if AG is returned he would be entitled to a due process court hearing”
Nope – he already had due process. BTW due process is not a court hearing. It is a general term for the process required for a specific issue.
Due process means that people being prosecuted for a crime are entitled to a criminal trial and all the procedure that goes with that.
For those being deported under the AEA due process consists of Habeaus review by an IJ court – that may not involve a hearing.
Due process for an illegal alien is an IJ hearing – Garcia already had that and lost.
He appealed and lost. He then sought TPS status and received a TEMPORARY oprder delaying his deportation to … Guatamala.
There is no more due process AG is entitled to.
“something he was denied in the first instance.”
False.
” AG and his family have denied he is an MS-13 gang member.”
So Two separate IJ courts and an IJ appellate board AND the IJ TPS court have ALL concluded that AG is an MS13 member.
Further AG dropped his appeal and that finding is FINAL.
” So far the DOJ attorneys have offered no evidence in court to dispute AG’s claims.”
That is both false and irrelevant. Multiple courts in 2019 determined that he was and no court today has the power to review that.
Xinis like many of this idiot left wing nut judges is way out over her skis.
” DJT posted a fabricated photo of AG’s left hand to try prove AG is a gang member.”
Not relevant.
“Not even Pam Bondi’s DOJ would dare try to offer that as evidence.”
DOJ need not present any evidence – Judge Xinis does NOT have the power to reopen final judicial decisions form 6 years ago.
That is not how our legal system works.
garcia fas found to be an MS13 member – in multiple courts. He ceased to appeal that determination – it is final.
I would further note that the public has heard LOTS of evidence that AG is an MS13 member.
He was arrested with other MS13 gang members wearing MS13 gang colors, and holding large amounts of cash from drug deals.
The prince georges police department on the basis of that arrest and information from informants determined he was an MS13 gang member.
During the Biden adminstration in 2022, he was pulled over in Tennesse admittedly transporting 8 other people from TX to MD in a car owned by an MS13 gang member.
“There is only one reason the DJT regime did not take AG before an immigration judge before they deported him to the notorious CECOT prison. It’s because they couldn’t, and still can’t prove, that Abrego Garcia is a gang member! ”
They did not do so because they did not need to.
AG can be deported because he has admitted that he is an illegal alien. Further he was determined by the courts in multiple procedings in 2019 to be an MS13 gang member and he had and still has a valid deportation order from a court against him.
He has gotten all the due process he is entitled to.
“So what “inevitable deportation” can you possible be talking about?”
This is moot because he is not returning to the US.
“In a unanimous ruling the SC ordered the AG should be returned to the US.”
If you want to get away with a lie, don’t make it so obvious.
“AG and his family have denied he is an MS-13 gang member.”
That’s also false. He *admitted* in court to being a gang member.
Still lying Dennis.
“Racist wackjob Joy Reid recently went on a racist rant, crediting White people for the fall of Rome, suggesting that Whites will be responsible for the United States’ collapse, and embracing Great Replacement.”
Reid: “If you take that away and try to distill us just down to white folks, we’ll be like Europe, an aging, slowly dying former empire. The Roman Empire didn’t survive because it didn’t have enough strength in its diversity. It suppressed its diversity, and it died. If the US wants to be the Roman Empire, keep votin’ the way you votin’ y’all.”
– Jordan Conradson
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The only thing in play here is the desire of communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) to confiscate everything and dispose of it all as their property.
They want the money, the government, the development, and the territory—everything in the once-free United States of America.
They are entitled to everything; everything is theirs to claim and exercise dominion over.
Why?
Because they are communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs), and you are stinking, inferior “white people.”
The only question is, are you going to give it to them?
The communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) say of course you are because you are idiots and just stupid enough to do precisely that while not standing up for yourselves and what is yours.
They call you racists when they started the racist acts by imposing affirmative action, quotas, forced busing, “non-discrimination” and “fair housing” laws, etc., in 1961.
Borders schmorders. And who gives a dam about the citizens. And it’s too bad OJ didn’ t live long enough to find the real killer. if the world were flat the democrats would drive us right off the left side of it.
While I appreciate your legal analysis – the start of your article demonstrated why such analysis is unnecescary.
We should not be indulging in the lunatic fantasies of the left.
You addressed Judge Boasberg, the real question is Why is he still doing anything.
While the recent stay made a mess of SCOTUS’s prior correct decision,
Baosberg does not and will never have jursidiction over the case he is so irate about.
There is no such thing as a class action habeaus case, even it if was it would have to be filed in TX, for the purported class representatives.
Boasberg is unhappy that his verbal order in court was not followed – independent of the fact that he had no jurisdiction,
We have a case where plantiffs rushed to court in the wrong jurisdiction and the platinffs and the court wither any real hearing of any substance. attempted to disrupt actions that were in progress before the hearing started.
It appears that one or both planes were in the air and possibly well outside US airspace at the time Boasberg’s oral order occured,
And that both planes were not either on the ground in El Salvador or about the land when Boasbergs written order came out, which was significantly different from his oral ranting.
Boasberg is now threatening criminal contempt and threatening to appoint a special prosecutor is Bondi does not prosecute the contempt.
We have a long recent history of democratic presidents and AG’s ignoring contempt referals.
Further we have a massive separation of powers problem.
Boasberg is a judge not a prosecutor. He has no legal authority to prosecute or to appoint a prosecutor.
He is way out over his skis and trying very hard to manufacture the case where the adminstration justifiably tells him to go F#$K himself.
Except for the fact that Boasberg is acting within his capacity as a federal judge he is not all that different from the two state judges who are facing prosecution for obstruction.
With respect to Garcia – NO he is not coming home, No the Trump administration should not try to bring him home.
And the recent revelation that the protective order on Garcia, asserts he IS an MS13 gang member, that he is time barred from claiming asylum, and that he can not be deported to GUATEMALA unless circumstances in GUATEMALA change – Why Guatemala ? Becaue in 2019 when that order was issued Garcia’s family had moved to Guatemala to escape Bario 18 threats – threats that followed them into GUATEMALA.
It it is a requirement that the executive dot its i.s and cross its ts that is even more binding on the judiciary.
Every few days there are more revelations on Garcia. This is not the hill the left should be dying on.
Garcia was legally deported to El Salvador – the protection order was for GUATEMALA, he was not in the US legally,
he is no longer in CECOT and Bukelle is NOT giving him back.
SCOTUS should never have tried to play this fascilitate vs effecturate game.
They should have just said Garcia is in El Salvador, and the US courts have no jurisdiction.
Where’d you read that, John Say?
The Maryland dad. Independent Bob.
So the snafu is release from prison only. Just deport to El salvador. Ok, suspend the prison sentence. He’s in el salvador.
They deported him to El Salvador. the government there then imprisoned him. Ultimately, we didn’t have much to do with that.
What about his trauma from having lunch with the senator..
Just no shame…
#. So who won the biggest loser contest, the worst enemy of the US? Which group?
^^^ Obama started it and Joe followed orders. There’s your shadow government. IMO
Professor, I’m confused. You state that your position is that Garcia should have been returned, following Boasbergs order, hence the plane charting a course back to the US. Yet the Supremes have said these cases should stay in the governing district, thus Boasberg would not be on the bench in this case, and the President has lead way in these types of cases. Vague language which is the norm, is why laymen have such a problem with these issues. So which is it, respectfully decline to honor the ruling from the bench why carrying out Presidential duties, and/or ask the higher court to make a definitive ruling so we can understand why, not parsing a small sliver of legal jargon so the high court really does not make a practical final ruling.
Judge Boasberg’s order was legal. The idea that the planes couldn’t be turned around because they were in International waters is irrelevant. The aircraft are still subject to U.S. Jurisdiction because they are under American control.
The Trump administration deliberately ignored the court, acting ignorant of the judge’s orders. The government admitted the deportation was illegal when they acknowledged their “administrative error.”
Aircraft outside of territorial waters of the Gulf of America are not under FAA control.
The planes had radios, Perhaps you were not aware of that. Fact, look it up.
Radio waves travel at the speed of light (all right, technically not true, they travel at a smidgeon less than the speed of light but pretty darn close).
Fact, Pilots listen to those radios, all the time.
Fact, the U.S. attorney could have phoned his superiors about the order (again those radio waves from the attorney to his superiors travel at nearly the speed of light), and had them turn the plane around.
Fact, U.S. Pilots were in control of the plane while in international airspace.
Fact, They do know how to turn the plane around
Don’t act stupid. Someone might call you stupid. I would never do that.
Fuel? Oh I know, other passengers? Oh yeah 🤔
i love it
GULF OF MEXICO, HOMBRE
No, see, he said, “Gulf of America,” Seengyor! It’s right there:
“Aircraft outside of territorial waters of the Gulf of America are not under FAA control.”
#. The error if any was in not changing the order not to send garcia to El salvador by an immigration judge because el salvador has been cleaned up. That’s a piece of paperwork.
Go to the American or El salvador embassy by an app. It was already found twice that he is in their judgement Ms 13 most likely but change the order to deport. Not a big deal. Release to repatriation. Inform law enforcement. He’s their problem.
Garcia has had since 2019 time to get a passport or sneak into another country.
Boasberg has no power to usurp and exercise executive power, which is exclusively “vested in a President” in Article 2, Section 1.
Boasberg may attempt to locate a workaround.
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“John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
– President Andrew Jackson
The SC kinda disagrees with you. The SC (9-0) told trump to bring him back.
“I HAVE, HOWEVER, BEEN PREPARED TO MEET THIS USURPATION OF FEDERAL POWER WITH THE MOST PROMPT AND DETERMINED RESISTANCE.”
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“On November 6, Lumpkin delivered his annual message to the Georgia state legislature, announcing he would continue to resist the Supreme Court’s decision:
‘The Supreme Court of the United States . . . have, by their decision, attempted to overthrow the essential jurisdiction of the State, in criminal cases . . . I have, however, been prepared to meet this usurpation of Federal power with the most prompt and determined resistance.’”[21][18]
– Governor Wilson Lumpkin, 1832
They did not. They said ‘release’ not ‘return.’
When the next President tells the FBI to confiscate all AR-15s and the court says no you can’t, and he does it anyway.
What will your response be?
And further, the next Prez tells the FBI that if anyone gives resistance, kill them.
Then what?
That’s absurd because that action would violate the Constitution and would not be legal under any circumstances.
At least try to be logical and rational.
Immigration is an Article I power.
Enforcing it is Article II.
..it appears that Raskin believes that Executive Criminal Pardons come with the Entitlement of being a fountain of unhinged mis/disinformation that has fallen off the map of legal & lawful Reality…
rtaskin he better watch it he had brain cancer while back
he is an idiot
No one is in any doubt why Jamie Raskin’s son committed suicide, and this considering he was a star student and had the best of the best academic resources like Amherst College and Harvard Law. He just had a monster for a father where politics, not Judaism, were his guiding principles. If he had any integrity he would attend a treatment center for his cult ideologies. All Democrats today are cults with Jamie Raskin being the prototype
“Jamie Raskin details how politics painfully contributed to his son’s depression before his death”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jamie-raskin-son-book-jan-6-b1986455.html
In his attempt to make people believe that Abby Hoffman is alive and well, and living in the skin of Jamie Raskin, there is no doubt in my mind, that the Dems are so bankrupt of any policies that would excite either their base, or any new potential voters (excluding border hoppers) in the near future. No viable candidates, no platform, no agenda (except get rich off of a USAID grift), no alternative policy! Abortion, Illegals, vaccines, and gender oblivion, are just not going to get it for them. So, Raskin is out there throwing anything at the wall, to see if it will stick. Thank you, Prof. Turley, but you could have concluded the article after the attempted assassination of Mike Pence! Wow!
Since insanity, by definition, is doing the same thing and expecting different results, the Democrats will almost certainly impeach Trump if they get the chance after the midterms. Not only will it not advance the Democratic agenda, but it will interfere with any plans. They have of regaining the White House in 28th. by all means, Chuck, impeach away
Unlikely. The rules or normal US politics are gone. All Americans are beginning to see the Republicans for who they really are: authoritarians who will hurt anyone to get their way, even their own voters.
Franke believes it is illegal for America to have borders and immigration laws. Franke hates America and Americans. Franke says, Make America A Third World S—hole Again! You go, Franke! I would take over an idiot country too if it would let me. If a country is going to make itself available for conquest, takeover, “free stuff,” and “free status,” who wouldn’t just go in and take it?
#. A rich man’s house is always looted, robbed and the occupants murdered if it is unprotected.
So it was….
What was it that Jesus said…
“The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy?”
ROFL
We hear form those of you on the left constantly about Trump’s poll numbers,
but on nearly every issue Trump and republicans has supper majority support.
Further Trump is the most popular politician in the country.
He he 10pts about the rpublican party which is 10pts about the democratic party.
To drive Trump down 4pts you had to drive your own party down 10.
Regardless, the political future is trivially simple.
If the country is better off in 4 years than it is today – which is highly likely.
Republicans will own the future.
And america first will be the mantra of the country.
Frankly a serious disaster is the only thing that will save the democratic party.
Face it, you should not be talking about Trump’s popularity.
No one likes democrats.
Your nasty, stupid and irrelevant.