Liberal Judge Who Ordered Migrant Gang Flights Halted Gives DOJ New Deadline
Charlie Kirk Staff
2 days ago

A federal judge who ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to stop deportations using the Alien Enemies Act has given the Department of Justice a new deadline.
He gave them until noon on Tuesday to provide the court with more information about the suspected gang members who were deported to El Salvador this weekend, The Daily Wire reported.
United States District Judge James Boasberg, who was furious that the administration to not bring back the flights that were in the sky when he gave his order, gave the new deadline on Monday.
“If the government takes the position that it will not provide that information to the Court under any circumstances, it must support such position, including with classified authorities if necessary,” the judge said after Department of Justice officials said they could not answer several of his questions due to national security concerns.
He gave the order after an attorney for the administration said, “Those are operational issues, and I am not at liberty to provide information.”
The liberal judge got heated with members of the administration during the hearing after he said “My orders don’t seem to carry much weight.”
The administration has claimed that it did not have to follow his order because, when he made the decision, the flights were over international waters.
“You’re saying that you felt that you could disregard it because it wasn’t a written order,” the judge said.
“It wasn’t until this flight was already in international waters heading down to El Salvador that the judge made some comment about returning the flights,” border czar Tom Homan said of the flights. “We’re already in international waters. We’re outside the borders of the United States.”
The Department of Justice on Monday demanded a federal court step in and take the judge off of the case.
“The Government cannot—and will not—be forced to answer sensitive questions of national security and foreign relations in a rushed posture without orderly briefing and a showing that these questions are somehow material to a live issue. Answering them, especially on the proposed timetable, is flagrantly improper and presents grave risks to the conduct of the Government in areas wholly unsuited to micromanagement supervision by a district court judge,” it said.