A federal judge said Wednesday that he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for failing to return two planes deporting migrants to El Salvador last month.
In the 48-page opinion, Judge Boasberg said the court had ultimately determined that the Trump administration’s actions on the March 15 deportation flights, which took place after he issued a bench ruling ordering their immediate return to U.S. soil, demonstrate a “willful disregard” for the court that is sufficient for the government to be found in criminal contempt.”
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the Justice Department in a filing Wednesday to answer additional questions by April 23 if they want to “purge” the contempt.
Fox News reports:
That would involve identifying the individuals responsible for what he described as “contumacious conduct,” and by “determining whose ‘specific act or omission’ caused the noncompliance,” Boasberg said.
The Justice Department could then request that the contempt be prosecuted by an attorney for the government and, should they decline to prosecute the matter, could “appoint another attorney to prosecute the contempt.”
“The Court does not reach such conclusion lightly or hastily; indeed, it has given Defendants ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions,” the judge continued. “None of their responses has been satisfactory…”
“As this Opinion will detail, the Court ultimately determines that the Government’s actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt,” Boasberg said Wednesday.
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It’s obvious that Judge Boasberg is part of the deep state, if SCOTUS decides to step in and remind these judges that their authority ends at their district boundaries. IF they don’t they congress will need to enact more laws. Under Biden deep state country was headed towards civil war, like Trump or not he unknowingly he saved us from that.
If we do bring back any or all of these criminal invaders, let’s be sure to move them into the judge’s house with him & his family!
It’s past time to tell these communist judges to go pound sand! SCOTUS has ruled, and Trump need not listen to this total communist moron! Even before SCOTUS ruled, Trump could have ignored this POS excuse for a judge. His jurisdiction is very limited and POTUS needs to ignore their overreach, then let the judges go to SCOTUS themselves for the ass kicking they’ll receive!
President Trump is not the one that needs to go to jail in this case. The Supreme Court has already ruled on this. It was against this judge. If there is a rule of law, arrest the one breaking it right now. And it isn’t President Trump!
Who the heck is running this country anyway? The leftist judges that the leftist Dems search out to fulfill their leftist political agenda? Or the duly elected President of the United States? It seems that these judges have forgotten more about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights than We, the People. When is it going to stop? When we as a country don’t exist as a free state but a dictatorship under come commie leftist A-hole?
This “judge” is mental. As we say, “exhibiting an extreme terminal case of TDS.”
“finds probable cause” – or did he just use his blatant biases to ‘invent’ it due to DJT ignoring an out of jurisdiction ‘decision’ made by this ‘judge’?