NEWS ALERT: Judge throws huge roadblock into Trump immigration crackdown in sweeping ruling

June 5, 2025

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From Fox News: U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to provide all non-citizens deported from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador to be afforded the opportunity to seek habeas relief in court, and challenge their alleged gang status— the latest in a heated fight centered on President Donald Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport certain migrants.

“In short, the Government must facilitate the Class’s ability to seek habeas relief to contest their removal under the Act,” Judge Boasberg said in the order, filed late Wednesday afternoon. “Exactly what such facilitation must entail will be determined in future proceedings. Although the Court is mindful that such a remedy may implicate sensitive diplomatic or national-security concerns within the exclusive province of the Executive Branch, it also has a constitutional duty to provide a remedy that will ‘make good the wrong done.’”

Notably, the order also includes Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Salvadorian migrant and alleged MS-13 member who was deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March in what administration officials have acknowledged was an administrative error. That case alone had touched off a heated court fight, which prompted intervention from the Supreme Court in April.

At least 261 migrants were deported in the first wave of flights to El Salvador, including more than 100 Venezuelan nationals who were subject to removal “solely on the basis” of the law temporarily blocked by the federal district court.

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ABOUT THIS JUDGE: 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 also 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.

Channeling his inner Franz Kafka, Jeb Boasberg pens a dramatic description of the treatment of illegal Venezuelans tied to Tren de Aragua in his new order demanding Trump adm give due process rights to illegals covered by the Alien Enemies Act–incarcerated in El Salvador: pic.twitter.com/pzLxucnF6J

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) June 4, 2025

BREAKING: James Boasberg, an Obama-appointed US District Judge, just ruled that the Trump administration must provide all the criminal illegal aliens deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act an opportunity to challenge their detainments as “unlawful.” pic.twitter.com/HRsI7oT6C4

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 4, 2025

At what point will @SpeakerJohnson and @LeaderJohnThune take action against this radical Boasberg? Congress created these courts. You can eliminate them.

Stop actiing helpless!

— Joe Pags Pagliarulo (@JoeTalkShow) June 4, 2025

NEWS

The Trump admin must facilitate the ability of immigrants incarcerated in an El Salvador prison to seek habeas relief, Judge Boasberg ruled, denouncing the Kafka-esque dystopia into which the men were “plunged.”

Here’s the introduction.

Doc https://t.co/BiZoIJfXmv pic.twitter.com/bz9ORByWkW

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) June 4, 2025

Sen. Eric Schmidt (R-Mo.) just pointed out on Tuesday, “Judge James Boasberg has somehow been assigned FOUR major Trump cases. A statistical impossibility. That isn’t “random.” It’s rigged.”

Judge James Boasberg has somehow been assigned FOUR major Trump cases.

A statistical impossibility.

That isn’t “random.” It’s rigged. pic.twitter.com/wHpj6XqjUF

— Senator Eric Schmitt (@SenEricSchmitt) June 3, 2025