Appeals Court Overrules Partisan Operative "Judge" Boasberg, Rebukes Him For "Overstepping His Authority" When He Presumed to Hold Trump In Criminal Contempt

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11

🚨BREAKING: The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia just vacated radical activist Judge Boasberg's order holding the Trump admin in criminal contempt for deporting illegals using the Illegal Alien Enemies Act.

Boasberg embarassed. Deportations march on.

Two Trump judges overturned Boasberg's attempt to arrest Trump officials. One Obama judge dissented (of course).

The Trump judges found that Boasberg lacked authority to continue his judicial witchhunt. They also found him wrong on the legal merits. Boasberg is claiming that his ambiguous order should be read in a certain way, and by that reading, Trump officials acted in contempt. The judges on the Appeals panel found that the abiguous ruling could be read either of two different ways, and by one reading, the Trump Administration obeyed the order.

They also note that Boasberg is attempting to conjure a contempt charge out of the facts of a confusing and quickly-changing situation where the facts were unclear (as was his corrupt ruling).

Fox:

US appeals court blocks Trump contempt proceedings ordered by Boasberg The 2-1 ruling in President Donald Trump's favor will likely go to the full court for review, or be appealed directly to the Supreme Court

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 Friday that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg cannot move forward with possible contempt proceedings against the Trump administration.

The case involves the administration's alleged violation of an emergency court order blocking the administration from using a 1798 law to summarily deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador -- the latest in an evolving, high-stakes court clash that has played out for months in various courts.

Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, two Trump appointees on the majority-Democrat bench, sided with the Trump administration Friday in blocking Boasberg's contempt motion from moving forward.

Judge Nina Pillard, an Obama appointee, dissented.

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"The district court here was placed in an enormously difficult position," Katsas said Friday, writing for the majority.

"Faced with an emergency situation, it had to digest and rule upon novel and complex issues within a matter of hours. In that context, the court quite understandably issued a written order that contained some ambiguity."
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"Regardless, the government's initial implementation of the proclamation clearly and indisputably was not criminal."

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The long-awaited ruling comes months after Boasberg ruled that the court had found probable cause to move on criminal contempt proceedings after he issued a late-night temporary restraining order on March 15 blocking the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to summarily deport certain migrants to El Salvador.

Boasberg had also ordered all migrants to be "immediately returned" to U.S. soil, which did not happen.

Despite the order, hundreds of migrants were deported to the Salvadorian prison, CECOT, in March, where they remained until late last month, when they were sent from the prison in El Salvador to Venezuela, as part of the prisoner exchange.

Although the opinion does not state this explicitly, the gist seems to be: Boasberg, you rushed to involve yourself in this matter without bothering to fully appreciate the facts or the law, and you wrote a sloppy, rushed opinion which was open to multiple interpretations. You can't pick and choose which parts of your ruling are "real" and you can't claim that your sloppy, ambiguous opinion only had one interpretation. It has multiple fair interpretations, and you probably could have cleaned it up to be enforceable if you weren't in such a mad partisan rush to Get Trump.

ulie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2

Jeb Boasberg needs to step down as chief judge.

He has embarrassed himself and inflicted a permanent (and well deserved I might add) black eye on the federal court system in our nation's capital.

Republicans in Washington must demand his resignation or pursue impeachment. Enough.

posted by Ace at 02:28 PM

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