Who is in contemp in standoff with judge?
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Veteran trial attorney and legal analyst Alan Dershowitz predicted on Wednesday that a federal judge’s quest to appoint a special prosecutor to pursue criminal contempt charges against the Trump Administration will fail.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg — an appointee of former President Barack Obama — placed a temporary hold on President Trump’s ability to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The act, which gives the federal government expanded powers to detain and deport members of foreign criminal or terrorist organizations, was invoked in order to better deal with members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, which originated in Venezuela and rapidly expanded in the U.S. during the Biden presidency.
The judge attempted to order the administration to turn around a flight filled with MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gang members while it was already in the air for El Salvador, which offered to house TdA members in its supermax prison after Venezuela’s dictator Nicolas Maduro refused.
While Boasberg’s ruling was ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court, the left-wing judge said in court earlier this week that he will be attempting to hold Trump Administration officials in contempt over their “failure” to comply with his unfeasible attempt to turn around planes that were already in the air.
When reacting to the bizarre development, Dershowitz stated that not only will the bizarre request result in failure, he further argued that Boasberg is the one who should be held in contempt. This, he explained, is due to the “vague” nature of the judge’s order, which failed to include a binding order, Dershowitz explained.
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Dershowitz is probably one of the smartest lawyers in the US. I remember reading his remarks when I was in law school back in the sixties. I agree with him about Judge Boesberg. I suspect that the reason Boesberg's order was so vague is that he did not have much grounds for stopping Trump beyond his own opposition to what Trump was doing. In other words, the judge had a political difference with Trump and not a legal one.
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