WorldNetDaily’s right-wing lawfare against judge James Boasberg for committing the sin of ruling against President Trump continued in an April 16 article by Bob Unruh:
A federal judge is threatening President Donald Trump and his administration with criminal contempt charges for removing illegal aliens, those who also were described as members of violent criminal gangs, from America.
The judge had ordered several jetliners carrying the deportees, apparently already in flight, to turn around and bring the criminals back to America, and the administration didn’t, as it explained the flights already were in international airspace and the judge had no authority for his order.
Now the judge, James Boasberg, who is well known for his open antagonism for the president, has unleashed his ire.
He claims to have decided there was “cause” to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt for refusing to follow his political ideology.
Boasberg now alleges the administration can “clear” the contempt by following his latest strategy to accommodate illegals, likely members of criminal gangs.
Unruh supports this action because … well, because Trump can get away with not complying:
The demand for “steps” suggests that the judge is insisting the criminals be brought back to the United States, a move that the president of El Salvador where they now are imprisoned has said, in another similar high-profile case, won’t happen.
The judge, in his opinion, said he had decided that the administration’s actions were a “willful disregard” for the court.
Of course, the judge has no resources to enforce his “contempt” campaign.
Yes, Unruh really is claiming that Trump can defy Boasberg’s order because he can’t enforce it with “resources.” Joe Kovacs continued on that note in an April 20 article uncritically quoting a Republican senator:
A top Republican senator says the federal district judge who has opposed President Donald Trump’s deportation flights of violent, criminal illegal aliens apparently wants to be president instead of his current position on the bench.
“It can’t be like getting an act of Congress every time you want to export a dangerous violent felon illegal immigrant,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on “Sunday Morning Futures” on the Fox News Channel.
“And yet, you’ve got people like Judge [James] Boasberg who apparently wish they had gone into politics and would rather be serving as president of the United States than a federal district judge who are essentially cosplaying as chief executive officers of the United States government.”
“The minute you start to have judicial officers performing the tasks that belong fundamentally to the either the executive or legislative branch, you’ve got a problem. And I’m hoping the Supreme Court can help us get this cleared up and cleaned up quickly.”
Kovacs refused to contact Boasberg for a response.
Unruh tried to scaremonger about Boasberg in a May 8 article announcing Jeanine Pirro as an interim U.S. attorney, declaring that “If a replacement isn’t in place, anti-Trump Judge James Boasberg would play a role in picking a temporary for the post.” HE saerved up even more in a May 28 article:
“Last month, Rep. Darrell Issa’s, R-Calif., bill to block district courts’ ability to issue nationwide injunctions passed the House. Another attempt came from Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, who introduced articles of impeachment against District Judge James Boasberg, who blocked the deportation of Venezuelan migrants. Boasberg has threatened contempt proceedings over the order,” the [right-wing Washington Examiner] report explained.
Democrats argue the plan to have judges require bonds, or lose the ability to enforcement their rulings, is unconstitutional.
This even continued in the “Judicial Insurrection” issue of WND’s sparsely read Whistleblower magazine, in which David Kupelian ranted:
The drama has sometimes reached almost comical heights, with one jurist – James Boasberg, the chief judge of the United States District Court in Washington, D.C. – actually ordering planes carrying Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador to turn around mid-flight and bring back those criminals to the U.S.! Fortunately, the Trump administration did not comply, and Judge Boasberg is now facing a motion for impeachment from the House of Representatives.
As we documented, Kupelian went on to rant — without evidence, of course — that “many top legal analysts say what is happening in America right now constitutes nothing short of an attempted judicial coup d’etat“