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“Hours after President Donald Trump invoked a wartime law to target terrorist organization Tren de Aragua (TdA) Saturday,” Fox News reports, “a federal judge ruled the law could not be used to deport five Venezuelans and ordered the plane they were believed to be on to return to the U.S.” The wartime law was the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The man who ordered their return was James Boasberg, Chief U.S. District Judge of the D.C. Circuit, and there’s more about him the people should know.
A San Francisco native, Boasberg moved to Washington as a child when his father accepted a position in the Office of Economic Opportunity, administrator of President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” programs. So Boasberg fils is something of a “Great Society” diaper baby. The Yale law alum rose through the ranks and in 2011 Obama appointed Boasberg to the DC District Court. He would soon gain promotion to a more powerful post.
In 2014, Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Boasberg to the court established by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a secret body with no precedent in American history. In January 2020 Boasberg began serving as presiding judge of the FISA court. In that role, Boasberg handled a case central to the deep state campaign against candidate and President Donald Trump.
U.S. Navy veteran Carter Page, who worked with the Trump campaign in 2016, had also served as an asset for the CIA. One of the applications to surveille Page came from Kevin Clinesmith, the Assistant General Counsel in the National Security and Cyber Law Branch of the FBI’s Office of General Counsel. Clinesmith altered an email to show that Page was not a CIA asset, exposing him to surveillance as part of the FBI’s covert “Crossfire Hurricane” operation.
In August of 2020, Clinesmith pleaded guilty to altering the email, a felony carrying a maximum five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. That case also came before Boasberg in his post on the DC Circuit. Boasberg told the court that Clinesmith “went from being an obscure government lawyer to standing in the eye of a media hurricane,” a curious choice of words. The FBI’s Assistant General Counsel in the National Security and Cyber Law Branch was hardly an “obscure government lawyer.”
“By altering the email,” Boasbert explained, Clinesmith was “saving himself some work and taking an inappropriate shortcut.” According to the Obama judge, the FISA warrant to surveille Carter Page, would have been approved even without Clinesmith’s “misstatement,” a curious description of a major felony but in one sense accurate. There was no lawyer representing Carter Page when the warrant came before the FISA court. In effect, Boasberg was confirming that he knowingly approve a bogus operation of the Hillary Clinton campaign.
The Obama judge also contended that Clinesmith’s “misstatement” was the “only stain on the defendant’s character that I have been able to discern.” Trouble was, since Clinesmith had already pleaded guilty he was no longer a “defendant” but an admitted criminal awaiting sentence. For a crime commanding a five-year maximum, Boasberg gave Clinesmith 12 months probation and 400 hours community service. In light of the offence, that falls short of the classic tap on the wrist. This travesty of justice was hardly Boasberg’s only service for deep state Democrats, celebrated by their media allies.
“James ‘Jeb’ Boasberg, 60, presides over a building where trials of rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are underway, as are grand jury investigations of former President Donald Trump,” NPR explains. “In one of his first official acts, Chief Judge Boasberg issued what could become a landmark ruling that directs former Vice President Mike Pence to testify about his contacts with Trump in the days before the insurrection.” Those are tough acts to follow but faithful “Jeb” is up to the task.
At the request of the American Civil Liberties Union, the left’s chief criminal lobby, the Obama judge now blocks the president of the United States from deporting some of the worst violent criminals. This should be challenged all the way to the Supreme Court, which raises another issue.
As Boasberg’s career confirms, the presiding judge of the FISA court is the nation’s true chief justice. Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett et al must operate in public, hear arguments from all parties, and cannot slide down to a lower court and rule on cases they previously heard. The secret FISA court is America’s true robed politburo.
Like the U.S. Department of Education and Senior Executive Service (SES), the FISA court is a legacy of the disastrous Carter Era. Democrats such as Ron Wyden and Richard Blumenthal recognize FISA as a group of judges exercising “vast invisible power” with no accountability to the people. What could possibly go wrong is now evident to all but the willfully blind.
At first opportunity, Congress should eliminate FISA and the DC Circuit, also home to Obama judge Tanya Chutkan, who handled the case of the Democrats mysterious IT man Imran Awan.
Meanwhile, despite Boasberg’s order, Trump continued deporting hundreds of criminal illegals to El Salvador.
“Oopsie. . . too late” posted Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele. Secretary of State Marco Rubio added: “We sent over 250 alien enemy members of Tren de Aragua which El Salvador has agreed to hold in their very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars.”
Swift deportation of criminals and terrorists will make for a safer nation moving forward.
Hold this Judge total resposible for any crimes give them Life in Prison without Parole and Pardons or Clemency
If any judge tries to prevent the deportation of illegals he or she is in violation of U S law, 8 USC 1324, aiding an illegal can carry up to 10 years in prison. This is valid U S law and applies to judges, mayors, politicians, everyone. Maybe someone should alert the President and he can have U S Marshals arrest the judges and stop having to play expensive games with these left wing obstructionists.
Congress should pass, and the President sign, a law which requires AUTOMATIC REMOVAL of any judge who gets overruled twice in a row with no decisions upheld in between.
This would remove the requirement for politically messy judicial impeachments ….and all the passing vicissitudes that go with.
A better course would be to work to remove them for violating the “good behavior” clause associated with their office.
Thanks Lloyd!!! This is a continuation of the way the left has undermined the legal system in the way started by the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s, throwing out legal principles dating back to Ancient Rome and adopted by all civilized nations. Lots of judges making rulings based on public perceptions is one example.
They certainly did and it’s happening everywhere in the western world where the party system has become the source of most problems.
Nobody ever voted for the party system and it has become the weapon used by totalitarian establishments, I’m not going to call them governments anymore because they don’t govern me.
Thanks Mo!!!!!!
A single judge should not have any sway over the elected President’s decisions.
From what I’ve seen, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele is confining and housing these criminals for far less than NYC is paying to house so-called migrants in those 5 star hotels.
As I commented when I first saw this news, mimicking our leftist friends, “this judge was never elected”. How can an unelected official overrule an elected POTUS?
BTW – Happy St. Patty’s Day
And looking at the video of the gangsters’ reception in El Salvador, I am sure their cronies will consider self-deporting to avoid ending up there too. Adios amigos!
Yeah, I think I figured it was about $20,000 a year per criminal, which sounds like a lot, but is actually cheap after one becomes familiar with government spending.
“Oopsie. . . too late” Mr. Obama Judge loser. Maybe they should dropped off at Boasbert’s house.
Ever notice how every ruling that comes down from an Obama/Biden/Clinton fake judge always enables the Left or hamstrings.
Now that the autopen scandal is gaining traction how many of these Biden Judges were advanced to the Senate via the autopen
Typo alert: “should be dropped off”
Hmm, secret courts accountable to no one, how could that possibly go wrong?
That was one of the features of the Nazi judicial system during WW2. Thanks for pointing that out !!!
Thank you for a great piece. There is so much going on that I am not able to keep track across the board. I think that that is turned into the plan. We are heading to the crossroads with the “pen” and the DOGE.
THE ACLU, and their massive picks from the NLG, already have all the “unconstitutional” counters to everything Trump does. They advertise it on their FB posts. They have their Judges who only repeat what the ACLU documents say.
STRANGELY, in the ’80s, most all Democrats supported the Communist Sandinistas and protected Daniel Ortega, who still rules Nicaragua and who arrests all opponents, including a Bishop and nine Priests, with chants and protests: “NO CONTRA AID!” They acted like Peacemakers against War but then THEY SUPPORTED THE COMMUNIST FMLN REBELS IN EL SALVADOR in their goal of ovethrowing the pro-U.S. government. (I spoke to President Alfredo Cristiani of El Salvador on the Larry King talk show, and informed him of all the CPUSA fronts raising aid to overthrow his goverment… INCLUDING BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS like Ron Dellums (D-CA) who let Farid Handel, head of CISPES, to use his offices to raise the aid and to get support from the Democrats. The next week Cristiani imposed a travel ban of all Americans entering the FMLN Zonas de Controlidad!)
In 2009, the FMLN won the Presidency and Hillary was at the inauguration. Obama visits, now the influx of Salvadoreans and Sanctuary. (In 1986, NM Gov. Toney Anaya declared the first sanctuary state. I told him of these CPUSA fronts and he didn’t care because he was on of them and approved it at UNM’s law school.)
THEN NOW…. EL SALVADOR with a leader that’s pro-U.S. and getting control of his country and THE DEMOCRATS ARE MAD? BUKELE IS HELPING US WITH THE MS-13 AND OTHER GANGS?
Trace the past associations of all these actors back to the ’80s when they support COMMUNISM… including Cuba, the Zapatistas/Chiapas, with all in common… PRO-COMMUNIST WHO ARE NOW HIDING IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WHO ARE NOW EQUAL TO CPUSA.ORG!
Who was it that said “there are not obama judges or biden judges”? That’s TRUE in some respects – as in RESPECT for OUR CONSTITUTION!
People are under the FALSE assumption that judges “serve for life”! Our Constitution DOES NOT SAY THAT! It states that judges serve in times of GOOD BEHAVIOR! What these political activist hacks in black are doing is NOT GOOD BEHAVIOR – they should be REMOVED! OR, simply IGNORED as the biden bunglers did when the SUPREME COURT declared their “student loan forgiving” (VOTE BUYING) was UNCONSTITUTIONAL! That’s another kick in the nads that should be corrected!
Rein in the judges. They are the leaders of the loser Democrat “resistance.” They operate as if the black robes they wear and the benches they sit on bestow on them power and authority that they do not have and pose a real threat to Trump’s agenda as we’ve recently seen. They must be reined in now, but who’s going to do that? Not the Supreme Court. Some of its black robes are tainted, too.
if James Boasberg was appointed by one POTUS another POTUS can fire him. Right?
Sadly, no. The remedy for judicial malfeasance is impeachment and conviction by Congress. Our congress critters have the courage of your average rabbit, and their morals would shame an alley cat.
Boasberg is anti-American as his decisions show. He should be removed, immediately. But, just as bad is the Chief Justice Roberts who promoted Bberg, Roberts is a disaster to law abiding, hard working, tax paying Americans. Something needs to be done to the Federal Judiciary to uphold the votes that put the Trump administration in power.
These are traitors. Indict them and puppet masters. WE WILL DESTROY DEEP STATE AND EVERY MINION.
Every deportee that judge wants to stay in the US should be delivered to his residence and compelled to remain there.
This judge is just a part of the filthy and corrupt remains of the defunct
Democrat apparatchik. His position is in need of a cleansing evacuation
as well the likes of his fellow judicial moles. He is the weaponized
judicial system and a prime example of what must be permanently
dismantled and disposed of.
Of course this nut bar wants them back, they’re his soulmates. It wouldn’t surprise me if he had them in his home for dinner but the unfortunate thing is, they didn’t eat him for dinner. Maybe next time they will.
Find out legally if someone is a dangerous criminal or a terrorist before you deport him. If he is, throw him out and let someone else pay to keep him. We have our own criminals to waste taxpayer money on room and board in our prisons. They have been convicted legally. If you do not do it that way, you are not an American who supports law and order.
This ‘judge’ is just a Deeo State Dip Shit who has the Look-At-Me-See-How-Nice-I-Am Syndrome. No common sense here. Somebody check his bank account.