A memo has leaked showing infamous left-wing Judge James Boasberg expressing bias towards Donald Trump. The D.C. Circuit Court judge was at the center of several arguable national injunctions earlier in the year, including blocking the administration from deporting illegal immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act.
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Boasberg took the extraordinary step of finding the federal government in contempt for failing to turn deportation flights that had already left American airspace before his order. An Appeals Court eventually put the kibosh on that, and the Supreme Court ended up giving the administration a soft victory on the issue.
Regardless, Boasberg has become the face of judicial activism under the Trump administration (though he's facing some stiff competition with a recent ruling on Planned Parenthood funding), and the existence of this memo isn't going to help his case for credibility. According to legal analyst Margot Cleveland, Boasberg expressed his "concern" at a judicial conference in March that the president would ignore federal rulings and touch off a "constitutional crisis."
Federal judge James Boasberg advised Chief Justice John Roberts and some two dozen other judges that his D.C. colleagues were “concern[ed] that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis,” according to a memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist. That Judge Boasberg and his fellow D.C. District Court judges would discuss how a named Defendant in numerous pending lawsuits might respond to an adverse ruling is shocking. Equally outrageous is those judges’ clear disregard for the presumption of regularity — a presumption that requires a court to presume public officials properly discharged their official duties...
...In a memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist, a member of the Judicial Conference summarized the March meeting, including a “working breakfast” at which Justice Roberts spoke. According to the memorandum, “District of the District of Columbia Chief Judge James Boasberg next raised his colleagues’ concerns that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis.”
“Chief Justice Roberts expressed hope that would not happen and in turn no constitutional crisis would materialize,” according to the memorandum. The summary of the working breakfast added that Chief Justice Roberts noted that “his interactions with the President have been civil and respectful, such as the President thanking him at the state of the union address for administering the oath.”
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts, who oversees the D.C. Circuit, reportedly pushed back on Boasberg, stating that he did not foresee that happening and that the president had been "civil and respectful" in their prior interactions. More importantly, there was no evidence at the time that the Trump administration was going to ignore rulings, and to date, that has not happened. What truly makes Boasberg's comments so improper, though, is that it was likely meant to bias other judges against Trump, given that the president was and remains a defendant in dozens of lawsuits before the courts.
Donald Trump, however, is not merely the president: He is a Defendant in scores of lawsuits, including multiple cases in the D.C. District Court. As such, this conversation did not concern generic concerns of the judiciary, but specific discussions about a litigant currently before the same judges who expressed concern to the Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court that the Trump Administration would disregard the court’s orders...
...Judge Boasberg’s comments reveal he and his colleagues hold an anti-Trump bias, for the Trump Administration had complied with every court order to date (and since for that matter). The D.C. District Court judges’ “concern” also went counter to the normal presumption courts hold — one that presumes public officials properly discharged their official duties. Apparently, that presumption does not apply to the current president, at least if you are litigating in D.C.
As Cleveland goes on to note in her report, Boasberg would go on to enter a ruling that he lacked the jurisdiction to even be involved in, ordering the Trump administration to cease deportations to El Salvador. Again, the Supreme Court was forced to step in and overrule him.
In summary, it is not a judge's job to express "concern" to his colleagues, who have their own cases before them involving the administration, that rulings might be ignored. By doing that, he was essentially encouraging other judges to hold a bias against the president by suggesting he would push the country into a "constitutional crisis." We already knew many of these judges were hacks, and Boasberg's comments only further evidence the unfair environment the administration is facing with these lower court judges.
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