Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg this week pushed forward his fact-finding inquiry into whether Justice Department officials under the Trump administration deliberately defied his emergency order blocking the removal of more than one hundred Venezuelan detainees to El Salvador earlier this year.
Boasberg on Monday summoned former DOJ attorney-turned-leaker Erez Reuveni to testify next week on Dec. 15, saying the government’s recent declarations offer scant details about why the judge’s March instruction to halt the flights was allegedly ignored. Republican allies of President Donald Trump reacted in outrage to Boasberg’s latest move in the monthslong contempt inquiry that Boasberg has pushed since the Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act in March to deport illegal alien criminals with associations to the transnational gang Tren de Aragua.
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who called on the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to suspend Boasberg from his duties after Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) introduced articles of impeachment for the judge, said the judge’s continued pursuit of evidence to support contempt “is making mockery of our judiciary.”
“Rogue Judge Boasberg is holding sham ‘contempt’ proceedings for a case the Supreme Court said he had no jurisdiction over,” Schmitt posted to X on Monday. “This is outrageous and he must be immediately SUSPENDED pending his impeachment inquiry.”
Boasberg stressed that it remains “premature”...
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