President Donald Trump’s issues with the judiciary are continuing as U.S. District Judge James Boasberg extended his temporary restraining order to halt deportation flights using the Alien Enemies Act on Friday. The order was set to expire on March 29, but Boasberg extended it to April 12, “or until further order of the Court,” Newsweek reported.
The daughter of DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is employed by a nonprofit that received millions in government funding, opposes the Laken Riley Act — and whose founder argued that the jurist “rightly” blocked President Trump from swiftly deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members.
The court fight focuses on the Trump administration's use of a 1798 law to deport people it claims are part of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
Government lawyers were back in court Friday to debate the legality of President Trump's invocation of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to target members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan prison gang he says is invading the U.S. Judge James Boasberg said the ...
In a twist, Boasberg is now set to preside over a new court case against five of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members and a Signal chat.
As President Donald Trump's battle with the judiciary escalates, House Republicans are eyeing ways to rein in judges from blocking parts of his agenda.