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 @remington@beehaw.org in !politics@beehaw.org

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.”

    • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      So what are you doing bedside bitching in a community forum in a far darkened corner of the Internet where no one is who they say they are, and there’s no one around that would care if they were.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day 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
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          1 day 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.