Judge who Trump says should be impeached gives DOJ another deadline for details on deportation flights
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A federal judge is giving the Justice Department until Wednesday at noon to provide him, under seal, with more information about deportations the Trump administration carried out pursuant to President Donald Trump’s use of a sweeping wartime authority.
A federal judge is giving the Justice Department until Wednesday at noon to provide him, under seal, with more information about deportations the Trump administration carried out pursuant to President Donald Trump’s use of a sweeping wartime authority. The demand from US District Judge James Boasberg comes as he continued on a hurried “fact-finding” mission about the administration’s compliance with his orders last weekend that the government temporarily stop deporting individuals while he considered a legal challenge to Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to quickly remove individuals the government has accused of being affiliated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Among the questions Boasberg said the Justice Department must answer under seal are ones concerning the exact timing of when two planes took off from US soil and left US airspace on Saturday, as well as the specific times individuals deported pursuant to Trump’s proclamation were transferred out of US custody that day. Boasberg’s order for the sealed answers comes a day after he was stonewalled by a DOJ attorney during a hearing on the matter. Following the proceedings, the judge issued a pair of written orders later that night and on Tuesday demanding the department provide details on the flights. Also Tuesday, Trump called for the impeachment of Boasberg, an appointee of former President Barack Obama and the current chief judge of the federal trial-level court in Washington, DC. The Justice Department – via a sworn declaration from a senior ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations official – provided some of the answers Boasberg had sought on Tuesday, including whether one flight that took off shortly after he temporarily ordered any planes carrying the migrants to turn around included any individuals who were being removed “solely on the basis” of the Alien Enemies Act.
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A federal judge is giving the Justice Department until Wednesday at noon to provide him, under seal, with more information about deportations the Trump administration carried out pursuant to President Donald Trump’s use of a sweeping wartime authority.
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