A judge's order
Link to quote: Why we disobeyed judge’s order on deportation of 200 Venezuelan gang members – White House
A few days ago, an Obama judge, Chief U.S. Judge James Boasberg granted a temporary restraining order halting the deportation of five Venezuelan nationals cited in a lawsuit brought by two leftwing organizations, Democracy Forward and the American Civil Liberties Union. The order followed President Trump's proclamation, signed the day before, targeting Tren de Aragua members for immediate deportations under the Enemies Alien Act. The President invoked the Act out of safety concerns for US citizens. The Act allows for the deportation of non-citizens without a hearing. Since Saturday, Boasberg expanded his restraining order to a class action and extended the temporary restraining order to all noncitizens in the United States covered in Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.
There are serious questions about District judges going beyond their authority to interfere with Executive branch policies. It appears that the left is using these courts and judge shopping to resist Trump policies.
This particular judge is the same judge accused of a long list of overreach & political bias in cases on the border, Trump-Russia, January 6, US energy and more: This judge ordered the shutdown of the Dakota Access Pipeline in March of 2020. He was partially overturned on appeal. He blocked New Hampshire’s Medicaid work requirements in 2019. He barred ICE from detaining asylum seekers for more than 7 days so ICE could check potential criminal backgrounds in 2018. He was notorious for imposing prison sentences decried as excessively harsh and politically motivated on Jan 6th defendants. He sent even non-violent offenders to prison. He also endorsed the use of the Enron statute, which legal pros criticized as stretching a corporate fraud statute until it snapped to charge defendants with obstructing an official proceeding (Congress’s certification of the 2020 election). Boasberg sentenced FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith to probation rather than prison for altering an email during the Trump-Russia investigation in order to speed up FBI spying on the Trump campaign.
Some democrats are claiming that Trump ignored the judge's order that planes in the air with deportees be turned around. The White House denied that it had violated the order, saying that the president had broad powers to deport the migrants under an 18th-century law and that the federal courts had no jurisdiction over his power to expel foreign enemies.
House Republicans are now considering impeaching radical judges who are exceeding their authority in trying to resist Trump policies:
Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) said he is drafting articles of impeachment against Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York, who in a ruling last weekend temporarily restricted Musk and DOGE aides from accessing a Treasury Department payment system.
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) is working on an impeachment resolution against Rhode Island District Judge John McConnell Jr. over his ruling halting the Trump administration’s freeze on federal funding.
And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), chair of the House Oversight Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee, pledged in a hearing this week while referencing Engelmayer that “We will hold this judge and others who try to stop the will of the people and their elected leaders accountable.”
House Republicans plot impeachment against judges blocking Donald Trump, DOGE
In other news:
Ukrainian forces have almost entirely withdrawn from Russia's Kursk region and the pocket that almost had them trapped.
President Trump will speak to Vladimir Putin tomorrow.
A large storm system has killed 40 people across seven states.
President Trump voids Biden's pardons because they were issued via autopen.
Yesterday Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan that she should “watch the news” after she asked him whether there was “any evidence” supporting the U.S. State Department’s justification for revoking the visa of a Columbia student who helped organize protests against Israel that, Homeland Security said, “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.”
Good morning and welcome to the news
It will rain all day today in Boston.
St. Patrick's Day celebrated by the pols in what once was the nation's most Irish city.
Gotta say....He is probably right but we all know our "friends" on the left will insist he be "fact checked" by a far left wing rag.
I may start my own fact-checker.
I believe he's already stated that he doesn't have the authority to do this and this would need to be reviewed by the courts. I disagree with the pardons but we both know the power of a presidential pardon is almost unlimited.
Correct. It seems that he picked up on something he liked on social media.
cool. it'll be fun tracking down J6 traitors in a few years ...
President Trump doesn't use autopen AND he knows what he is signing.
... kind of looks like most anything project 2025 puts in front of him.
I don't understand why some as so dead set against doing what is right.
so everything comrade trumpski has done so far is what's right in the eyes of maga?
Fighting inflation, getting fair trade deals, securing the border, ending wars and returning the nation to normalcy is exactly what I call the right thing.
Got any proof of this or just more poo poo out the ass?
As do, at least, the plurality of Americans.
You can be assured the lunacy that calls themselves the democrat(ic) party will fight tooth and nal to go against EVERYTHING Trump.
Oh yes, that I'm sure of.
It is going to be much harder this time. Aside from these District judges, they are out of power like never before.
District Court judges are going to start ordering troops movements if we go to war again.
President Donald Trump ordered the dismantling of news agency Voice of America, the U.S.'s state-funded media outlet that Trump has railed against for promoting biased media reports.
"Voice of America has been out of step with America for years. It serves as the Voice for Radical America and has pushed divisive propaganda for years now," a senior White House official told Fox News Digital.
Trump signed an executive order on Friday that commands the dismantling of seven government offices, including the United States Agency for Global Media, which is the parent company of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Trump orders the dismantling of government-funded, 'propaganda'-peddling media outlet VOA | Fox News
It was time.
MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend announced live on air that she’s quitting her beloved Democratic Party because she is so “pissed” at Chuck Schumer siding with the Republicans on the latest spending bill.
Sanders Townsend — a former press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and senior adviser for both former President Joe Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris — said she was done with her party because Senate Minority Leader Schumer (D-NY) folded “like a paper napkin” to President Trump.
MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend announces live on air she's quitting Dem party
It seems the only one smart enough to realize that the Schumer shutdown was stupid, was Schumer.
He might have spared the party from a midterm defeat.
I guess there are some democrats who hate Trump so much, they are willing to go down in flames.
Scary days when chuck Schumer is the voice of reason for democrats
And now Schumer has to cancel his book tour over security concerns. A victim of the democratic coalition of hate,
The democrats pander to crazy people like her, which is why they are more unpopular than they’ve ever been in their history
Now they are even trading in their Teslas for gas powered cars.
What happened to the green new deal?
We even have a former astronaut calling the man who is recuing astronauts an asshole.
They are desperate and ridiculous.
If anything the left is further proving that hate is more important than anything they have been virtue signaling about over the past decade
Hate seems to be their defining characteristic.
Take a look at how they lie & mislead about everything.
Quitting her beloved party and going where?
That is the question of the day my friend.
It's all theatre.
The first time one of the looniest of the leftists come out and says something she agrees with, she will proclaim she is back on the plantation.
Falcon 9 completes three missions in 13 hours, launching four astronauts to the space station.
74 rideshare payloads are now in orbit.
23 Starlink satellites have been added to the Constellation.
Well done Elon.
Good thing they launched before the leftist loons could figure out how to get to them and paint swastika's on them.
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have shared a video of NASA 's two stuck astronauts—which included one thanking the pair—ahead of their return to Earth.
They shared the clip from earlier this month on their social media accounts as a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering replacements for NASA's Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams.
Donald Trump, Elon Musk Share Stranded Astronaut Video Ahead of Return
Musk is a hero.
I am sure many on the left will turn on them.
Everything they do is awful and terrible.
I'll be back with my conclusions in a bit.
In Conclusion:
With over 100 lawsuits filed with leftist district judges, it is high time that the SCOTUS steps in and ends the resistance. The jurisdictions of all these judges are overwhelmingly in democrat districts. They have no authority over hiring and firing of federal employees. They have no authority over immigration decisions. As we discovered in Trump's first term, they also have no authority over bans that a President may place on terrorist/rogue states.
All are executive branch decisions. The SCOTUS must put a stop to it or congress needs to impeach the out-of-control district judges.
"Good night and good luck."