BREAKING: Judges issue rulings on deportation flights, including wartime act targeting violent gang

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From Fox News: A D.C. federal judge on Friday extended a restraining order against the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 wartime immigration law the Trump administration enacted to deport Venezuelan nationals who are Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members in the U.S. illegally.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled the extension will run through April 12.

Also on Friday, in a separate ruling, a federal judge in Boston blocked the deportation of migrants to countries where they have no existing relationship without a chance to go into court to contest that move.

Last week, Boasberg issued a temporary restraining blocked the president from using the act to deport Venezuelan nationals, stating he needed more time to consider the merits of the case.

Reuters shared details on the Boston judge: A federal judge on Friday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting migrants to countries with which they had no existing relationship without giving them a chance to raise claims that they would face persecution or torture if sent there.

U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston issued a nationwide temporary restraining order, opens new tab designed to protect migrants subject to final orders of removal from being swiftly deported to countries other than those that had already been identified during immigration proceedings.

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said in a Fox News interview on Thursday that the Trump administration is “likely to win” in the Supreme Court involving cases against judges attempting to block deportations.

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On Friday, the Trump administration submitted a filing to the Supreme Court, asking for the judges’ orders to be vacated.

ABOUT THE JUDGES: Judge James Boasberg, 62, was nominated to his position on the D.C. Circuit Court by Barack Obama in June 2010, and was confirmed by the Senate in March 2011. He became the chief judge on March 17, 2023.

Boasberg is the same judge who oversaw the FISA court from 2014-2021, which includes the period when it approved warrants to spy on the Trump campaign.

In a serious conflict of interest, it has been revealed that Boasberg’s daughter, Katherine Boasberg, works for for a 501(c)(3) organization called Partners for Justice, which strongly opposes deportations and receives 76% of its funding from federal grants.

Judge Brian E. Murphy, 45, is a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Murphy was recommended by progressive Democrat senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, and was nominated by Joe Biden in March 2024. He was confirmed by the Senate on December 2, 2024, in a 47-45 vote… one of the last group of leftist judges Democrats rushed to get confirmed before the end of Biden’s term.

BREAKING: Serious potential conflicts of interest are raised about judge who tried to stop deportation flights

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