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This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges' I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!
Trump wrote
This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President - He didn't WIN the popular VOTE (by a lot!), he didn't WIN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, he didn't WIN 2,750 to 525 Counties, HE DIDN'T WIN ANYTHING!"
Trump wroteNo question they're going to push the limits of our country's immigration laws until a judge, probably the justices of the United States Supreme Court, stops them,
Rahmani said
CBP questioned Dr. Alawieh and determined that her true intentions in the United States could not be determined,
a DOJ prosecutor wroteIt's creative, to put it mildly, maybe just blatantly unlawful,
Neama Rahmani, a former California-based federal prosecutor, told the Washington Examiner of Trump’s recent immigration enforcement movesConflating 'pro-terrorist,' 'anti-Semitic,' and 'anti-American' activity is an incredibly dangerous step to take,
he saidThis has been a habit of the Trump administration to overstate the danger of the people they've arrested,
he said
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
The 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
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,
Boasberg told the government's lawyer
I’m just asking how you think my equitable powers do not attach to a plane that has departed the U.S., even if it’s in international airspace,
Boasberg added at another pointThere’s been a lot of talk about constitutional crisis, people throw that word around. I think we’re getting very close to it,
warned Lee Gelernt of the ACLU, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, during the Monday hearingThat's one heck of a stretch, I think,
Boasberg replied, noting