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A US judge on Monday ordered #Trump administration officials to explain whether the administration violated his order when they deported hundreds of *alleged* Venezuelan gang members over the weekend & potentially set up a constitutional clash between the president & the federal #judiciary.
#law #Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/group-seeks-answers-deportation-venezuelans-despite-court-order-2025-03-17/
The White House asserted Sun that federal courts "have no jurisdiction" over #Trump's authority to expel foreign *enemies* under an 18th-century #law historically used only in wartime.
Judge James Boasberg in Washington set a hearing for 5PM ET (2000 GMT) on Mon & instructed the govt to provide details on whether the flights that transported the #Venezuelans to #ElSalvador took off after his order or were in the air at the time.
#Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration
The hearing was scheduled in response to an overnight filing by the ACLU & other advocates seeking clarity on the flights.
The rapid developments represent a potential escalation in #Trump's challenge to the US #Constitution's system of #ChecksAndBalances & the #independence of the #JudicialBranch of govt.
At an emergency hearing on Sat requested…Boasberg issued a 2wk temporary block on Trump's use of the #AlienEnemiesAct of 1798 to deport 238 alleged members of Tren de Aragua….
The judge said in court that any flights already en route should return to the #US. His written order following the hearing appeared in the court's online docket at 7:26PM ET….
WH press sec Karoline Leavitt issued a stmnt on Sun denying the #Trump admin had violated Boasberg's order, while also questioning his #power to issue it:
"A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft ... full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from US soil.”
The flights suggest the #Trump admin may be growing more brazen in its defiance of judicial restraint. The #US #Constitution established the #judiciary as a co-#equal & #independent branch of government.
Trump has sought to *push* [illegally expand] the boundaries of #ExecutivePower since taking office in Jan, cutting spending authorized by #Congress, dismantling #FederalAgencies & firing tens of thousands of #FederalWorkers.
On Mon, #Trump's border czar, #TomHoman, said the flights were already in international airspace when the judge's orders came & that more flights would continue.
"Once you're outside the border, you know, it is what it is. But they're in international waters, already on the way south, close to landing. You know what? ... We did what we had to do," he told FauxNews…. [The law applied to the admin’s actions who were not in international jurisdiction; idiot.]
Asked what was next, #TomHoman said: "Another flight, another flight every day."
"We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think," he added.
With the #Republican-controlled #Congress largely backing his agenda, federal judges have often been the only constraint on #Trump, putting many actions hold while they consider their legality. In several cases, the admin has refused to comply w/judicial orders.
@Nonilex lying fucking bastards
@Nonilex Tom Homan should be put in jail until his department can satisfactorily prove to the judge that every single person on that flight was a criminal or dangerous gang member. Since they have no evidence of that, we could then be happy knowing Homan was rotting in prison where he belongs.
@Nonilex They need to throw that big ass in jail. They can’t jail tfg, but I don’t see why they can’t jail that sub human.
@Nonilex fuck that Nazi and the couch he rode in on!
Question to ask any state AG; if US federal government doesn't recognize the US Constitution, why should states?
The US is dissolved, and states are fully justified in withholding sending federal tax revenue, until such time as the Fed decides to be compliant with the laws it wrote.
All of them, ESPECIALLY the ones limiting executive power.
@Nonilex
"Once you're over international waters, you can just open the doors, it is what it is, the plane can then just turn around for another load..."
@Nonilex
He's InHoman
I was going to say so this means American soldiers fighting in in foreign wars are no longer under American legal jurisdiction, but I think that may already have been their policy.
@Nonilex
Seems someone needs to refresh himself on the issue: https://www.noaa.gov/jurisdiction-over-vessels
But ignorance of the law ....
(Which is why one hires lawyers who are more the just sycophants and ideologues)
Tom Homan is an idiot as well as a liar