Supreme Court needs to respond to Boasberg's bad decisions

 DC  Daily Journal:

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The Trump administration is locked in yet another courtroom clash, this time with James Boasberg, chief judge of the federal district court for the District of Columbia, over the deportation of Venezuelan gang members. This dispute is piling even more pressure on the U.S. Supreme Court, which seems content to sit on its hands while lower courts run roughshod over the Executive Branch. The justices’ sluggishness in addressing these mounting legal challenges—particularly the scope of lower court power and its clash with presidential authority—is nothing short of unacceptable.

The latest standoff stems from Trump’s push to deport members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. Boasberg’s courtroom has turned into a battleground, with the administration digging in its heels. On Tuesday, the government invoked state secrets privilege, refusing to hand over additional details about the deportations that Boasberg demanded.

“This is a case about the President’s plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate, and reinforced by longstanding statute, to remove from the homeland designated terrorists participating in a state-sponsored invasion of, and predatory incursion into, the United States,” the administration argued in its filing.

“The Court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before it. Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the Court lacks competence to address.”
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I suspect that the only ones happy about Boasberg's decision are the Venezuelan gang members.  We will probably have to wait for the Supreme Court to step in and clean this matter up.

See also:

Trump signs election order calling for proof of U.S. citizenship to vote

And:

 Judge fighting Trump over El Salvador deportations assigned to lawsuit over Signal chat leak

US District Judge James Boasberg handling the case is 'legally provocative,' legal analyst says

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