Boasberg held there was probable cause to show the government's transfer of immigrants to CECOT without due process was a willful violation of his order.

Cross-posted from “A Federal Judge Is on the Brink of Criminally Prosecuting Trump Officials for Contempt” by @[email protected] in [email protected]

In a thundering opinion on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg announced that he had found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for defiance of his orders. It is “obvious,” Boasberg wrote, that government officials “deliberately flouted” his commands by deporting Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran prison on March 15 under President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. And now they must answer for their unlawful conduct. “The Constitution,” he declared, “does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders—especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it.”

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Just skip to the bit where you start screaming “genocide” because I voted for harris like you wanted me to.

    That’s where all our conversations end up anyway because it’s what you do when you have nothing worthwhile to say.

    • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      Just skip to the bit where you start screaming “genocide” because I voted for harris

      Hmmm…. that sure sounds a lot like someone else I’ve seen around here. Can’t quite place who though.