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Where it gets scary and this is what was so frightening about the interview is when he starts saying ‘I don’t care what the courts say – we have the right to do it anyway’ and he wouldn’t even commit to following even a Supreme Court order’ – that’s why we are so obviously in a constitutional crisis,
Brettschneider said
We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the left thinks. We’re coming,
Homan told Lawrence Jones of Fox NewsThe whole point of Marbury v. Madison … is that you go first to the district court for federal questions and questions of constitutional law, so he’s not understanding that, ... If you think that the Supreme Court can ultimately opine, then you think the district court can opine on these matters.”
said Corey Brettschneider, a Brown University professor and host of the podcast “The Oath and the Office.”The idea that somehow there’s a class of actions that cannot be reviewed is nonsense. Everybody who lived through the 2000s knows that the war on terror was litigated in the courts over and over.”
Williams went on
Yes, separation of powers. This is the judiciary interfering in the executive function.”
When Hunt raised the separation of powers in relation to the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants – apparently without due process – Miller repliedI have an Article II, where I have to the right to do whatever I want as president,
he said in July 2019, during his first term
That is not something that a district court judge has any authority whatsoever to interfere with, to enjoin, to restrict, or to restrain in any way.”
Miller added
This is a showdown. This is akin to inter-branch March Madness,
former Federal Judge John E. Jones III told CNN’s Kaitlan CollinsYou can read the law yourself,
Miller said
Isn’t then the better course to return the planes to the United States and figure out what to do, than say: ‘We don’t care; we’ll do what we want’?”
An incredulous Boasberg at one stage asked the administration
I’ve never seen anything like this,
said Rosenow
You shall inform your clients of this immediately, and that any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States,
the judge said
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Oopsie … Too late.” ... Fed judge orders deportation flights carrying alleged Venezuelan gangbangers to return to US, blocks Trump from invoking Alien Enemies Act.”
At 7:46 a.m., President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador posted on social media ... The post referred to a New York Post headline that said
I think so. It's not my decision, that'll be up to a court."
Asked by reporters early on Monday whether everything Biden signed with an autopen should be voided, Trump said
They weren't supposed to be in our country to begin with,
Rubio told Fox News Radio host Guy BensonIt’s not a question that the plane was or was not in US airspace.”
Boasberg addedOral statements are not injunctions and the written orders always supersede whatever may have been stated in the record,
Abhishek Kambli, the deputy assistant attorney general for the justice department’s civil division, argued for the administrationThe problem is the equitable power of United States courts is not so limited,
Boasberg saidYou will see the full suite of presidential authorities used to extirpate this gang, this terrorist organisation, from our soil,
he said
It is the most outrageous thing I have seen from a District Court judge in my lifetime, but frankly going back multiple lifetimes,
he said