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From Fox News: A federal judge said Thursday that the Trump administration missed a court deadline to disclose details on deportation flights to El Salvador, escalating President Donald Trump’s ongoing legal battle with the judiciary.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said that the government’s lawyers failed to meet the deadline he set for them to submit information about the administration’s deportation flights, which included individuals who were targeted for immediate removal under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, and whether they knowingly defied his court order.
In a blistering order sent Thursday evening, the judge noted that the government “again evaded its obligations” to submit information about the flights, even after he offered the opportunity for them to do so under seal. The filing they did submit was hours late and failed to answer his questions.
Instead, he said, the court was sent a six-paragraph declaration from a regional ICE office director in Harlingen, Texas, which notified the court that Cabinet secretaries are “actively considering whether to invoke the state secrets [act] privileges over the other facts requested by the Court’s order.”
Boasberg had demanded to know the answers to many questions which the Trump administration had refused to answer, citing national security concerns:
- How many planes left at any time Saturday based solely on the proclamation.
- How many people were on each plane.
- In what country did the planes land.
- What time did they take off and land.
- When were they in air space.
- What time were individuals on the plane transferred to custody.
Now the judge has blasted out an order, demanding, “”By March 21, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., Defendants shall submit a sworn declaration by a person with direct involvement in the Cabinet-level discussions regarding invocation of the state-secrets privilege.”
Boasberg now thinks he’s entitled to obviously privileged information related to discussions over fighting his order on Venezuelan terror flights. Insane. pic.twitter.com/1QKqPM0nfs
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) March 20, 2025
President Donald Trump has fired back with his own scorching rebuttal. In a pair of Truth Social posts Thursday evening, Trump wrote:
Judge James Boasberg is doing everything in his power to usurp the Power of the Presidency. He is a local, unknown Judge, a Grandstander, looking for publicity, and it cannot be for any other reason, because his “Rulings” are so ridiculous, and inept. SAVE AMERICA!
Trump added:
Unlawful Nationwide Injunctions by Radical Left Judges could very well lead to the destruction of our Country! These people are Lunatics, who do not care, even a little bit, about the repercussions from their very dangerous and incorrect Decisions and Rulings. Lawyers endlessly search the United States for these Judges, and file lawsuits as quickly as they find them. It is then the obligation of Law abiding Agencies of Government to have these “Orders” overturned. The danger is unparalleled!
These Judges want to assume the Powers of the Presidency, without having to attain 80 Million Votes. They want all of the advantages with none of the risks.
Again, a President has to be allowed to act quickly and decisively about such matters as returning murderers, drug lords, rapists, and other such type criminals back to their Homeland, or to other locations that will allow our Country to be SAFE.
It is our goal to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and such a high aspiration can never be done if Radical and Highly Partisan Judges are allowed to stand in the way of JUSTICE. STOP NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS NOW, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation IMMEDIATELY, our Country is in very serious trouble!
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— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 20, 2025
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