President Trump’s Well-Deserved Chastisement by Chief Justice Roberts
Good for John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States, for chastising President Trump and lecturing him on the principles of our constitutional judicial system.
After federal judge James Boasberg issued a restraining order prohibiting federal officials from sending Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, Trump and his minions went on the attack against Boasberg. Trump called the judge a “troublemaker and agitator” and called for his impeachment. It was a cry that was repeated by Trumpster members of Congress.
There are two issues arising in this case:
One, whether Trump can deny due process of law to Venezuelan immigrants, some of whom might well be innocent of the criminal offenses with which Trump is charging them — by renditioning them to El Salvador, where they will be punished as if they have been convicted of crimes, including through brutal incarceration and, most likely, torture.
Two, whether Trump and his minions knowingly, deliberately, and intentionally violated the judge’s order to return the immigrants to the United States rather than deliver them to El Salvador, where Boasberg lost jurisdiction over them. That’s what El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele meant when he mockingly exclaimed, “Oppsie … Too late.”
To make his determination as to point two, Boasberg needs to know when the flights to El Salvador took off and landed. He also needs to know whether U.S
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