The Anti-Trump Judge Who Gets All Anti-Trump Lawsuits Assigned to Him to Hold Contempt Hearings Against Trump

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday that "probable cause exists" to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt after they violated his orders by continuing deportation flights, according to CNN. The ruling follows the Supreme Court determining that Boasberg's court was in an improper venue for the case altogether.

He's still exercising authority over the case that the Supreme Court specifically told him he had no authority -- jurisdiction -- over.

Boasberg halted the administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans that were allegedly gang members.
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Boasberg ordered the administration to stop the flights in an oral decree from the bench, but the administration refused on the grounds that it wasn't in his written order.

John Sexton reports that even CNN has problems with this judge continuing to assert his jurisdiction in defiance of the Supreme Court.

CNN legal analyst Steve Vladeck said these moves are rare.
"Holding federal executive branch officials in criminal contempt is just about unheard of, once in a blue moon," said Vladeck, a professor at the University of Georgetown School of Law. "Part of why Chief Judge Boasberg is moving cautiously is because he's trying to walk a tightrope, not letting the government off the hook for its misbehavior, but also not provoking pushback from either the DC Circuit or the Supreme Court."

Sexton continues -- the judge actually acknowledged he had no jurisdiction in the case, but then asserted that Trump needs to Respec My Authoritah anyway:

Early on in his 46-page decision, Boasberg acknowledges that the Supreme Court already vacated his temporary restraining order. How then can the Trump administration be held in contempt for something that was already dismissed by a higher court?

One might nonetheless ask how this inquiry into compliance is able to proceed at all given that the Supreme Court vacated the TRO after the events in question. That Court's later determination that the TRO suffered from a legal defect, however, does not excuse the Government's violation. Instead, it is a foundational legal precept that every judicial order "must be obeyed" -- no matter how "erroneous" it "may be" -- until a court reverses it. If a party chooses to disobey the order -- rather than wait for it to be reversed through the judicial process -- such disobedience is punishable as contempt, notwithstanding any later-revealed deficiencies in the order...
So that's his argument. It doesn't matter that his TRO was wrong, it matters that the administration didn't obey it before it was vacated. From there, Boasberg eventually gets to the payoff, which is that he's giving the administration a week to "purge" its contempt, something it can do by obeying the TRO which the Supreme Court has already vacated.

At some point, Trump has to deploy the nuclear option and just declare he will not submit to this judge's authority, and if any higher court orders him to submit to this judge, then he will ignore that court's authority going forward as well.

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Posted by: BruceWayne at April 16, 2025 04:10 PM (MGB5H)

2 I think he has to #Persist under pain of having his kiddie diddle vids released tho

Posted by: kallisto at April 16, 2025 04:10 PM (dCxaZ)

3 Proofread lead.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 16, 2025 04:12 PM (d7ais)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 04:12 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Here come da judge!!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 16, 2025 04:12 PM (0nHVk)

6 'However erroneous it may be'. The balls on this guy.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 16, 2025 04:12 PM (MGB5H)

7 ...the judge actually acknowledged he had no jurisdiction in the case,

Well then judge, how about shutting the eff up???
Asshole.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 16, 2025 04:12 PM (W/lyH)

8 just declare he will not submit

Or keep ignoring him.

Posted by: DaveA at April 16, 2025 04:12 PM (FhXTo)

9
That other cunt "judge" warned it's not time for "gamesmanship."

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 04:12 PM (GSWOH)

10 Roberts, through his idiocy and lack of spine, is forcing the showdown he's worked very hard to avoid.

"No more spine than a chocolate Eau Claire."

PTR

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 16, 2025 04:12 PM (tT6L1)

11 The Bolsheviks are relentless.

Posted by: toby928 at April 16, 2025 04:12 PM (jc0TO)

12 Cannot wait to see the government's response.

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 16, 2025 04:12 PM (MUmiO)

13 Boasberg needs to BOHICA at Gitmo.

Open insurrection and sedition.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2025 04:13 PM (oP4FC)

14 The Bee nailed it when they said "Trump resigns as President and becomes federal judge so he can enjoy REAL power."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 04:13 PM (Zz0t1)

15 Boasberg is declaring himself the Law.

Posted by: dantesed at April 16, 2025 04:13 PM (Oy/m2)

16 "We just have to let the process work"
Fucking assholes.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 16, 2025 04:13 PM (xcxpd)

17 There is a traffic court judge in Massachusetts watching this closely, to see if he can imprison the president for being a poopy head.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 16, 2025 04:13 PM (lTGtQ)

18 Can one charge 'The Government' with contempt? Doesn't it have to be some person?

Posted by: toby928 at April 16, 2025 04:13 PM (jc0TO)

19 He's still exercising authority over the case that the Supreme Court specifically told him he had no authority -- jurisdiction -- over.

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Can judges issue illegal orders, and, if so, are executive functionaries required to follow illegal orders?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

20 Hey, Your Asshat Boasberg, what percentage of the popular vote did you get in '24? How many electoral votes?

Oh, 0% and 0? Well, you can just STFU then.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:13 PM (77rzZ)

21 15 Boasberg is declaring himself the Law.
Posted by: dantesed at April 16, 2025 04:13 PM (Oy/m2)

I thought Judge Dredd had that covered already?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 16, 2025 04:14 PM (xcxpd)

22 Oh, and it has been revealed that the police have multiple videos of Karmelo Anthony murdering the white kid.

You can be damn sure if it was damning for the white kid, it would've been leaked already.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 04:14 PM (Zz0t1)

23 This corrupt Judge should be fed to the Wild Pigs of Ephrata WA.

Posted by: I KNOW MY PIGS at April 16, 2025 04:14 PM (IUmF8)

24 Ok, fuck this guy.

Kick his ass out, remove his pension.

He can exercise jurisdiction under the overpass turning tricks for dimes.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 04:14 PM (ufFY8)

25 Ah, I see the game the judge is playing.

He's trying to get the Administration in his court to vacate the Contempt ruling. From there, the judge will bootstrap his way into declaring he obviously has jurisdiction because the Administration granted the premise.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 16, 2025 04:14 PM (tT6L1)

26 The bad news is thirty percent of Americans want to bring home a dude from El Salvador, who is El Salvadoran.

Bring. Home.

Sense is gone...Moose should have told ya

Posted by: Francis at April 16, 2025 04:14 PM (bbuBP)

27 Boasberg, what country does he think this is?

Nazi Germany?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2025 04:14 PM (oP4FC)

28 Who the h*ll does this judge think he is?

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2025 04:15 PM (NpAcC)

29 I think that's the game plan, push Trump into a corner where he's says, F**K You and What Army, then the NPC's can squawk,
CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS... AWWK... CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS...

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 16, 2025 04:15 PM (XV/Pl)

30 >>just declare he will not submit to this judge's authority,

Can't
If he makes it personal against that particular judge, the rest of the judiciary will take it as an attack on the entire system, as the system assigns judges and creates an illusion of impartiality.
They will bend over backward to defend their guild.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 16, 2025 04:15 PM (ldybU)

31 Boasberg Is Asshoe

Posted by: The Law Is An Ass at April 16, 2025 04:15 PM (cnVbw)

32 Just ignore all Fedboi judges.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 16, 2025 04:16 PM (l3YAf)

33 At some point, Trump has to deploy the nuclear option and just declare he will not submit to this judge's authority, and if any higher court orders him to submit to this judge, then he will ignore that court's authority going forward as well.

This was always how it had to end, from the moment Trump obeyed a Federal Judge over Jim Acosta.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 16, 2025 04:16 PM (GmTq4)

34
it is a foundational legal precept that every judicial order "must be obeyed" -- no matter how "erroneous" it "may be" -- until a court reverses it.

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So, "reversed" isn't the same thing as "vacated"? Is that the nit here?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 04:16 PM (M4PBL)

35 When Boasberg walks into the courtroom he has demanded they play Hail to the Chief.

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 04:16 PM (E0p3T)

36 At some point, Trump has to deploy the nuclear option and just declare he will not submit to this judge's authority, and if any higher court orders him to submit to this judge, then he will ignore that court's authority going forward as well.

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If SCOTUS is smart, they know that one of two things will happen:

Marbury v. Madison will be preserved for SCOTUS alone. Lower courts will be stripped of many of their powers that were never actually granted but have been accepted.

or

Marbury v. Madison is going out the window completely because it only exists as caselaw because the executive allows it to be. It has been allowed because the judiciary has traditionally used the caselaw established there rarely. There are exceptions throughout American history, and things did ramp up with the Warren Court, but lower court judges telling the president how to conduct foreign policy is so very blatant and Trump's team so dedicated to a unitary executive, that Trump's team will be willing to pull that trigger.

The only one with a metaphorical gun in this fight is Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

37
Can't
If he makes it personal against that particular judge, the rest of the judiciary will take it as an attack on the entire system, as the system assigns judges and creates an illusion of impartiality.
They will bend over backward to defend their guild.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 16, 2025 04:15 PM (ldybU)
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The administration does not dare go back into the courtroom, else they're granting the premise which SCOTUS has already ruled on.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 16, 2025 04:16 PM (tT6L1)

38 If that powerful, when is he going to void the "Biden pardons?"

Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 16, 2025 04:16 PM (NFX2v)

39 At some point, Trump has to deploy the nuclear option and just declare he will not submit to this judge's authority, and if any higher court orders him to submit to this judge, then he will ignore that court's authority going forward as well.

AMEN!!! And the sooner the better.

Posted by: Paco at April 16, 2025 04:17 PM (mADJX)

40 Think of a rogue cop who beats up an innocent citizen for no reason.

If the guy complains, the entire police force will have it in for him. They are not independent - the guild uber alles.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 16, 2025 04:17 PM (ldybU)

41 I wonder what Boasberg's third term will look like.

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 04:17 PM (E0p3T)

42 Instead, it is a foundational legal precept that every judicial order "must be obeyed" -- no matter how "erroneous" it "may be" -- until a court reverses it.

And this is the problem. This is so UnConstitutional as to be insane, yet they really believe it. A Judge can order anything and it must be obeyed! EVEN IF ILLEGAL.

And this power all stems from a Rule, written by the Judges themselves (Rule 42 written by the Supremes).

The Constitution says that the Judicial Powers shall be vested in the Supreme Court... BUT, unlike all the other branches of Government, did not say what those powers were, or their limitations... so the Court has written them for themselves...

The arrogance of the Judiciary has caused a Constitutional crises.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 16, 2025 04:17 PM (QAkQ3)

43 Who the h*ll does this judge think he is?
Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2025 04:15 PM (NpAcC)

Arnold Palmer.

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 04:17 PM (E0p3T)

44 OK, judge, we'll purge this, but first...

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 16, 2025 04:17 PM (2UnvF)

45 The Americans already brought home the El Salvadoran.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 16, 2025 04:17 PM (d7ais)

46 Maybe he's looking to be a historic first. Because this is how you become a historic first.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 04:17 PM (FCbAQ)

47 Tell the judge to eabod.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 16, 2025 04:18 PM (W2Pud)

48 ust declare he will not submit to this judge's authority,

Can't
If he makes it personal against that particular judge, the rest of the judiciary will take it as an attack on the entire system, as the system assigns judges and creates an illusion of impartiality.
They will bend over backward to defend their guild.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 16, 2025 04:15 PM (ldybU)

So what? Enough of this bullshit. None of those little pipsqueak "judges" have jurisdiction. Let the left squeal. They want a crisis? Let it begin.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 16, 2025 04:18 PM (5xuJ/)

49 "No more spine than a chocolate Eau Claire."

PTR
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 16, 2025 04:12 PM (tT6L1)

I know that Eau Claire, Wisconsin is made of cheese. I've heard that Eau Claire, Michigan is made of blueberries. But which state has a chocolate Eau Claire?

Posted by: mrp at April 16, 2025 04:18 PM (rj6Yv)

50 think that's the game plan, push Trump into a corner where he's says, F**K You and What Army, then the NPC's can squawk,
CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS... AWWK... CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 16, 2025 04:15 PM (XV/Pl)

Zactly.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 16, 2025 04:18 PM (eaOja)

51 If someone just happened to put a bunch of pro-IDF signs in Boasberg's lawn, do you think some deranged Leftist would rid Trump of this turbulent judge?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 16, 2025 04:18 PM (HlyYF)

52 Dear Judge Boasberg.
Fuck you. No answer follows.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 16, 2025 04:18 PM (lXCUP)

53 I do think it would be very useful for the DOJ to find out how this one rabid zealot keeps getting handed these cases. And to take the entire idea of inferior courts ruling on executive branch actions to the Supreme Court

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 04:18 PM (ehZkr)

54 The is the TDa guys right? Not Kilmar.

I get all these criminals confused.

Posted by: toby928 at April 16, 2025 04:19 PM (jc0TO)

55 Trump:

1. Arrest John Roberts
2. Resign
3. Pardoned by Vance
4. Appointed to Chief Justice by Vance
5. Vengeance tour

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 16, 2025 04:19 PM (l3YAf)

56 Marbury v. Madison

I KNEW Marbury v Madison would pop up eventually.

Now let's do Longbows v Crissbows.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 04:19 PM (ufFY8)

57 I know that Eau Claire, Wisconsin is made of cheese. I've heard that Eau Claire, Michigan is made of blueberries. But which state has a chocolate Eau Claire?
Posted by: mrp at April 16, 2025 04:18 PM (rj6Yv)
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I claim, "Moron!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 16, 2025 04:19 PM (tT6L1)

58 District court judges were never intended to be able to issue global injunctions or interfere in foreign policy. This is absurd. Hopefully, scotus castrates many of these “injunction” powers at the district level.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 16, 2025 04:19 PM (NNmoL)

59 I've heard that Eau Claire, Michigan is made of blueberries.
Posted by: mrp

It's cherries there. Every year they have the cherry festival, which includes the cherry-pit-spitting contest.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:19 PM (77rzZ)

60 I long to play the role of Queen Wilhelmina operating in exile after the Nazis overran my beloved Netherlands in 1940.

Posted by: Judge Boasberg at April 16, 2025 04:19 PM (bhV/D)

61 Orange Justice mad.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 16, 2025 04:20 PM (d7ais)

62
Here come da judge!!!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Murder in my heart for the Judge.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 16, 2025 04:20 PM (63Dwl)

63 26 The bad news is thirty percent of Americans want to bring home a dude from El Salvador, who is El Salvadoran.

Bring. Home.

Sense is gone...Moose should have told ya
Posted by: Francis at April 16, 2025 04:14 PM (bbuBP)

And one that TWO Judges have said was an MS 13 gang member.... and one Judge who did not even hear evidence in the case, somehow said 'that didn't matter'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 16, 2025 04:20 PM (QAkQ3)

64 28 Who the h*ll does this judge think he is?
Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2025 04:15 PM (NpAcC)

THE LAWWW!

Posted by: Dredd at April 16, 2025 04:20 PM (gKWVE)

65 If that powerful, when is he going to void the "Biden pardons?"
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 16, 2025 04:16 PM (NFX2v)

what rhymes with "autopen"?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 16, 2025 04:20 PM (D7oie)

66 If he makes it personal against that particular judge, the rest of the judiciary will take it as an attack on the entire system, as the system assigns judges and creates an illusion of impartiality.

If he doesn't, then the Judiciary is the supreme branch of government.

Sometimes, you just have to fight.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 16, 2025 04:20 PM (GmTq4)

67 Use the DOUBLE nuclear option and just ignore the dumbass.

They have a week to purge their contempt or offer up who made the decision to not comply with his TRO.

Provide NO RESPONSE AT ALL and effectively tell him to fuck off.

Posted by: deadrody at April 16, 2025 04:20 PM (vgB0v)

68 I KNEW Marbury v Madison would pop up eventually.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Well, now that Doof v. Madison has entered a ceasefire phase...

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:21 PM (77rzZ)

69

No, no, the other one. Pull the one in the middle.

Unbelievable. The only difference between God and a federal judge is that God doesn't think HE is a federal judge.

Posted by: imp at April 16, 2025 04:21 PM (g6TN6)

70 That's just it though, these guys have already put us into a constitutional crisis with their rulings which lack jurisdiction. They can no more order the executive to do or not do something than they can Congress or the Supreme Court

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 04:21 PM (ehZkr)

71 The Drinking lamp it LIT

So ordered

Also, Ladies' Nite

Posted by: Miklos, pretty hot in these robes from Alibaba Express at April 16, 2025 04:22 PM (UOzvC)

72 Boasberg has a screw loose, Roberts is his bud. Sucks to be Roberts, all his plans brought down buy a friend.

The whole system is out of order. Ive been over here working the whole time. Minding my own business.

Posted by: Francis at April 16, 2025 04:22 PM (bbuBP)

73 41 I wonder what Boasberg's third term will look like.

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 04:17 PM

His personal chef will probably die in a tragic drowning?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 16, 2025 04:22 PM (HlyYF)

74 26 The bad news is thirty percent of Americans want to bring home a dude from El Salvador, who is El Salvadoran.

Bring. Home.

Sense is gone...Moose should have told ya
Posted by: Francis at April 16, 2025 04:14 PM (bbuBP)
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Well, at least that's an improvement for Democrats. Now they're not backing the 20% side of an 80 / 20 issue, now they're just backing the 30% side of a 70 / 30 issue. That should really help them.

Posted by: deadrody at April 16, 2025 04:23 PM (vgB0v)

75 There is an old guy on Youtube who's good with a longbow.

https://is.gd/rHY57L

He is one of those guys who don't pay gambling debts.
He's Welsh.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 16, 2025 04:23 PM (d7ais)

76 Lawfare time?

Boasberg is ORDERING the return of an admitted illegal Alien... that is a direst violation of USC 18 1324 aiding and abetting an illegal alien.

Now, add in a Judge getting involved in Foreign Relations... ie... Logan Act Violation?

Then lets have Trump sign an EO directing the outcome of the case as President... and the Supremes said a President can't be prosecuted for official acts as President...

Then ARREST Boasberg in a dawn raid with SWAT teams...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 16, 2025 04:23 PM (QAkQ3)

77 roberts and Boasberg appear to be almost as good of friends as Roberts and Norm Eisen

Posted by: Kindltot at April 16, 2025 04:23 PM (D7oie)

78 how long before some judge decides he can overturn a presidential veto?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 16, 2025 04:23 PM (CWTWj)

79 That's just it though, these guys have already put us into a constitutional crisis with their rulings which lack jurisdiction.

Exactly. The Judiciary has been pushing toward this crisis for over 100 years.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 16, 2025 04:23 PM (GmTq4)

80 No, no, the other one. Pull the one in the middle.

Unbelievable. The only difference between God and a federal judge is that God doesn't think HE is a federal judge.
Posted by: imp at April 16, 2025 04:21 PM (g6TN6)

The raging narcissism, capriciousness, and demand for blind, unquestioning obedience are indeed quite similar.

Posted by: One of these things is quite like the other at April 16, 2025 04:24 PM (TbWk/)

81 includes the cherry-pit-spitting contest.
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:19 PM (77rzZ)

Traverse City Pit-Spitters

https://northwoodsleague.com/traverse-city-pit-spitters/

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 04:24 PM (ufFY8)

82 I've heard that Eau Claire, Michigan is made of blueberries.
Posted by: mrp

It's cherries there. Every year they have the cherry festival, which includes the cherry-pit-spitting contest.
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:19 PM (77rzZ)

Best cherries in the world come from the Wolverine State.

Posted by: mrp at April 16, 2025 04:24 PM (rj6Yv)

83 I find the Supreme Court in contempt.

Posted by: Judge Boasberg at April 16, 2025 04:24 PM (WKe+J)

84 I’m so old I remember when scotus rulings were settled law never to be questioned again.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 16, 2025 04:25 PM (DKKgv)

85 Have Bongino go arrest the f*cker, and charge him with attempting to seize control of an aircraft in flight.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 16, 2025 04:25 PM (9Pd8W)

86 This is why it was such a good strategy to start with deportations of the worst of the worst first. The public supports the deportation of illegals, but they OVERWHELMINGLY support the deportation of TdA and MS 13. The judiciary is on the wrong side of an 80/20 issue.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 16, 2025 04:25 PM (2UnvF)

87 I think Boasburg needs to be smacked down for collusion with the group bringing the case. In one of their midnight meetings he saw that they included a charge that instantly nullified their case. He had them rewrite the claim.

He's not a judge, he's a participant.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:25 PM (n7h9X)

88 Boasberg should get the Commisar position in the White House, every decision should be under his signature

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2025 04:25 PM (ypFCm)

89 the judge actually acknowledged he had no jurisdiction in the case, but then asserted that Trump needs to Respec My Authoritah anyway:

Dear judge,
Fuuuuuuuccccckkkk youuuuuuuuuuuuu.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 04:25 PM (GxM4+)

90 Well, at least that's an improvement for Democrats. Now they're not backing the 20% side of an 80 / 20 issue, now they're just backing the 30% side of a 70 / 30 issue. That should really help them.
Posted by: deadrody at April 16, 2025 04:23 PM (vgB0v)

========

It's an issue no one will change their votes on, but the more 80/20 issues Democrats take the losing side on, the greater effect the mass will have on enthusing turnout which could combine nicely with an, on average, cleaner election in 2026 than 2022.

"I'm a Democrat since birth, but damn has the party taken on some weird positions recently...maybe I'll vote this year...maybe."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

91 I think it's time to "Drone" this judge

Posted by: DiesIrae at April 16, 2025 04:26 PM (UCxBs)

92 At some point, Trump has to deploy the nuclear option and just declare he will not submit to this judge's authority,

I don't think he even has to go that far.

He just has to point out, "This judge is ruling on things outside his jurisdiction and has no authority to make the rulings he's making."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 16, 2025 04:26 PM (hB7mE)

93 President Trump is stepping down from the Presidency.

He will become a district judge where he will then have unlimited powers.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 04:26 PM (GxM4+)

94 The raging narcissism, capriciousness, and demand for blind, unquestioning obedience are indeed quite similar.
Posted by: One of these things is quite like the other at April 16, 2025 04:24 PM (TbWk/)

And you have slightly less evil versions like Judge Auntie Bev Cannone and Judge Gull...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 04:26 PM (ufFY8)

95 Best cherries in the world come from the Wolverine State.
Posted by: mrp

Not a chance. Rainier cherries reign supreme.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (W2Pud)

96 76 Lawfare time?

Boasberg is ORDERING the return of an admitted illegal Alien... that is a direst violation of USC 18 1324 aiding and abetting an illegal alien.

Now, add in a Judge getting involved in Foreign Relations... ie... Logan Act Violation?

Then lets have Trump sign an EO directing the outcome of the case as President... and the Supremes said a President can't be prosecuted for official acts as President...

Then ARREST Boasberg in a dawn raid with SWAT teams...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 16, 2025 04:23 PM (QAkQ3)

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I don't think he's ordering any return. The issue's been stripped from him by SCOTUS.

What he's doing is going back to the initial hearings and wanting to hold someone, anyone, in contempt for not turning the planes around based on his verbal order.

I hope he puts it on Rubio. Could be funny.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

97 Boasberg is declaring himself the Law.
Posted by: dantesed

As long as I keep The Science

Posted by: Big Tony Fauci at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (UOzvC)

98 Dissolve his court.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (d7ais)

99 If someone just happened to put a bunch of pro-IDF signs in Boasberg's lawn, do you think some deranged Leftist would rid Trump of this turbulent judge?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 16, 2025 04:18 PM (HlyYF)

Jimmy Kimmel would say it's wrong to do such a thing, totally wrong. While smirking.
But only if the roles were reversed

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (FCbAQ)

100 Well why not try to overrule the SCOTUS, he is trying to the Executive. Constitutionally, what's the difference?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (ehZkr)

101 Defund-Impeach-STAT!

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (KjELq)

102 How long before a lower federal judge overturns a Supreme Court decision?

Posted by: dantesed at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (Oy/m2)

103 who wants a Van Hollen update ? OK! "A Democratic lawmaker's attempt to 'rescue' a Maryland man accused by the Trump administration of being a criminal backfired after he was denied access to him despite flying to El Salvador. ...Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen was left red faced after authorities in the country denied his request to meet with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, 29. "

lol

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (g47mK)

104 Best cherries in the world come from the Wolverine State.
Posted by: mrp

I was born and grew up in Michigan, and generally love fruit, but I've never been able to cotton to cherries. Don't know why.

Cherry flavoring is fine, but I guess there's just something about the mouthfeel of the fruit that I find off-putting.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:28 PM (77rzZ)

105 Trump should walk in to this motherfuckers courtroom with full security detail, stand directly in front of this so called judge and say..
"You are a pissant district court judge and you have no authority over the office of the President. You have no authority over the executive branch of the government. Read the constitution, dumbass."

Then turn around and walk out.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 16, 2025 04:28 PM (2J/Lj)

106 Press conference up shortly on Agenda Free-TV

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 16, 2025 04:28 PM (ufFY8)

107 go back to your country ...while you still can "Senator"...

--Govt of El Salvador

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 04:28 PM (g47mK)

108 Fug Dis Guy

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 16, 2025 04:28 PM (KjELq)

109 Woulda been funnier if they’d arrested Van Hollen.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 16, 2025 04:28 PM (l3YAf)

110 How long before a lower federal judge overturns a Supreme Court decision?
Posted by: dantesed at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (Oy/m2)

Look at all the things that are against Bruen.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 16, 2025 04:29 PM (MGB5H)

111 Maryland Man is another word for El Salvadoran National.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 16, 2025 04:29 PM (d7ais)

112 86 This is why it was such a good strategy to start with deportations of the worst of the worst first. The public supports the deportation of illegals, but they OVERWHELMINGLY support the deportation of TdA and MS 13. The judiciary is on the wrong side of an 80/20 issue.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 16, 2025 04:25 PM (2UnvF)

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And the administration is inuring the people to the idea of deportations with the help of Democrats, their judiciary arm, and their marketing department (the MSM).

By the time the administration starts deporting Consuela who just wanted to work as a maid and never had any connection to gangs, we'll be months into a narrative campaign where everyone now assumes that every deportee is MS-13. Individual stories will drift to background noise faster than normal, and the media's own inability to keep to a story (remember Signalgate?) in the face of an administration that doesn't care what they say will just mean that no individual story lasts for long.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

113 Woulda been funnier if they’d arrested Van Hollen.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 16, 2025 04:28 PM (l3YAf)
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and President Trump had to ask for his release.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 16, 2025 04:29 PM (tT6L1)

114 What needs to happen is at the next Order of the Carnival Judges meeting, Grand Pubah Roberts needs to tell Mini Pubah Boasberg to knock it off. Otherwise, he will be forced to not only put his tassel on the right, but hand his fez over all together.

Posted by: Piper at April 16, 2025 04:29 PM (pRpzT)

115 can somebody please of an investigation on how cases are being assigned because there is clearly some sort of rigging going on.

Posted by: Leupold at April 16, 2025 04:29 PM (4pwAx)

116 Best cherries in the world come from the Wolverine State.
Posted by: mrp

Not a chance. Rainier cherries reign supreme.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (W2Pud)

Nurse is right. Buuuuut, they are extremely expensive comparitively. As a dollar value, I'd go with Michigan cherries. As a luxe treat, Raniers.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 04:29 PM (FCbAQ)

117 How apropos is it that a MS13 gang banger’s name is Kil?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 16, 2025 04:30 PM (DKKgv)

118 Not a chance. Rainier cherries reign supreme.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (W2Pud)

No. They have a libtardian aftertaste.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 04:30 PM (ufFY8)

119 103 who wants a Van Hollen update ? OK! "A Democratic lawmaker's attempt to 'rescue' a Maryland man accused by the Trump administration of being a criminal backfired after he was denied access to him despite flying to El Salvador. ...Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen was left red faced after authorities in the country denied his request to meet with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, 29. "

lol
Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (g47mK)

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You have to pay El Salvador $12 for a tourist card when you enter the country without a visa.

He paid $12 to the El Salvadorian government to get told to get bent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

120 Look at all the things that are against Bruen.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 16, 2025 04:29 PM (MGB5H)

Look at all the things that are against the Second Amendment.

Like Bruen.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 16, 2025 04:30 PM (l3YAf)

121 who wants a Van Hollen update ? OK! "A Democratic lawmaker's attempt to 'rescue' a Maryland man accused by the Trump administration of being a criminal backfired after he was denied access to him despite flying to El Salvador. ...Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen was left red faced after authorities in the country denied his request to meet with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, 29. "

lol
Posted by: runner

Bwahahahahahahaha! No. Wait. (Gasping for breath)
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 04:30 PM (GxM4+)

122 One thing I don't understand is the timing.

The judge orders something and expects it done the next second.

Can't the administration just have said "Yes, we are working to fulfill your order and have started the process."

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 16, 2025 04:30 PM (ldybU)

123 Pretty sure it's a straight majority vote in the house to change, add to, or dissolve a federal court?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 04:30 PM (ehZkr)

124 Trump and Co. will take this and run with it to victory.
Good job assholes lol

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (XLfSN)

125 Boasberg is really being stupid. I don't like Roberts but his phrasing "facilitate" was a signal to Boasberg to knock it off. "Facilitate" means nothing except "please be nice Mr President" as the courts behave no power here to order anything, but apparently Boasberg didn't get the hint

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (6TePA)

126

What he's doing is going back to the initial hearings and wanting to hold someone, anyone, in contempt for not turning the planes around based on his verbal order.

I hope he puts it on Rubio. Could be funny.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman

Problem is, oral orders from the bench are not enforceable or binding. They must be reduced to writing, which this one wasn't until the next day

Posted by: imp at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (g6TN6)

127 Facilitate the Senator's release.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (d7ais)

128 Oh, hay

SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging President Trump’s use of emergency powers to enact broad-sweeping tariffs that hurt states, consumers, and businesses. The lawsuit argues that President Trump lacks the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs through the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, creating immediate and irreparable harm to California, the largest economy, manufacturing, and agriculture state in the nation.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (D7oie)

129 103 ....Van Hollen was denied access to him despite flying to El Salvador. ...Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen was left red faced after authorities in the country denied his request to meet with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, 29.

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 04:27 PM (g47mK)
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Yes, who could ever foreseen such a thing?!??!?! Why, anyone, really.

Posted by: deadrody at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (vgB0v)

130 IT'S A TAX!

Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (Geoni)

131 Marbury v. Madison is going out the window completely because it only exists as caselaw because the executive allows it to be. It has been allowed because the judiciary has traditionally used the caselaw established there rarely. There are exceptions throughout American history, and things did ramp up with the Warren Court, but lower court judges telling the president how to conduct foreign policy is so very blatant and Trump's team so dedicated to a unitary executive, that Trump's team will be willing to pull that trigger.

The only one with a metaphorical gun in this fight is Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

The worst was Dredd Scott. Since war was coming the Republicans just put it aside and handled business in reality. But if enforced it made free states illegal.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (n7h9X)

132 126 Problem is, oral orders from the bench are not enforceable or binding. They must be reduced to writing, which this one wasn't until the next day
Posted by: imp at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (g6TN6)

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Which is why the Trump led appeal will probably get approval from SCOTUS really quickly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

133 A few minutes until the "Special Guest" WH briefing. Probably just some new Department head or something similarly boring, but might be something totally novel.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (2cS/G)

134 The judge is counting on the Dems taking back Congress. He is going for criminal contempt in hopes that this will be used so the Dems can file articles of impeachment

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (NpAcC)

135 109 Woulda been funnier if they’d arrested Van Hollen.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 16, 2025 04:28 PM (l3YAf)

And even funnier still if Trump was the one who had to intervene to get Van Hollen home, bringing him back on a rescue mission Air Force 2 flight with JD.

Posted by: Piper at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (pRpzT)

136 131 The worst was Dredd Scott. Since war was coming the Republicans just put it aside and handled business in reality. But if enforced it made free states illegal.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (n7h9X)

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I was told the Confederacy was states-right supporting, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

137 He paid $12 to the El Salvadorian government to get told to get bent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Not wasted. Next stop is Tikal for some baby sacrifices.

Posted by: Miklos, occasional mayanist at April 16, 2025 04:32 PM (UOzvC)

138 Can't the administration just have said "Yes, we are working to fulfill your order and have started the process."

Thats not the point. Sooner or later, Trump is going to have to either say No or subvert the Presidency to the Judiciary. There is no clever way to work around it.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 16, 2025 04:32 PM (GmTq4)

139 408 If you want wild pigs you go to Southern California. There are no sounders of wild pigs in the northwest. If there are, please tell me where.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 16, 2025 04:03 PM (D7oie)
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Go to Ephrata in Central WA. You will find your wild pigs.
Posted by: I KNOW MY PIGS at April 16, 2025 04:07 PM (IUmF

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Family lived in Cashmere, WA for 100 years and yes.

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Cazadero north to the Oregon border. Pop over to Fort Ross and the Russian River. Now drive east across the North Sacramento Valley and visit Red Bluff and then drive up hogsback ridge.

Posted by: 13times at April 16, 2025 04:32 PM (g2A7E)

140 boasberg-contempt
PDF (s3.documentcloud.org)

Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 81 Filed 04/16/25 Page 1 of 46

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA J.G.G., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 25-766 (JEB) DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION On the evening of Saturday, March 15, 2025, this Court issued a written Temporary Restraining Order barring the Government from transferring certain individuals into foreign custody pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act. At the time the Order issued, those individuals were on planes being flown overseas, having been spirited out of the United States by the Government before they could vindicate their due-process rights...

III. Conclusion For the foregoing reasons, the Court will find probable cause that Defendants’ actions constitute contempt. It will provide them an opportunity to purge such contempt. If they opt not to do so, the Court will proceed to identify the contemnor(s) and refer the matter for prosecution. A separate Order so stating will issue this day. Date: April 16, 2025 /s/ James E. Boasberg JAMES E. BOASBERG Chief Judge

Not just what's his name, the El Salvadorian.

Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 16, 2025 04:32 PM (NFX2v)

141

I mean, it's a fundamental principle of our justice system that judicial authority can't just be told to someone, it must be proven in writing. "Sure I have a warrant" means nothing.

Posted by: imp at April 16, 2025 04:32 PM (g6TN6)

142 109 Woulda been funnier if they’d arrested Van Hollen.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 16, 2025 04:28 PM (l3YAf)
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At a minimum

Posted by: deadrody at April 16, 2025 04:33 PM (vgB0v)

143 One thing I don't understand is the timing.

The judge orders something and expects it done the next second.

Can't the administration just have said "Yes, we are working to fulfill your order and have started the process."

Followed immediately by everyone making a wanking motion.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 16, 2025 04:33 PM (s8j++)

144 SW Michigan is mostly berries - blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries. Lots of Paw Paw trees, too. Cherries become more predominant farther north. i was born near Detroit, but all of my kin lived in Berrien County.

Posted by: mrp at April 16, 2025 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)

145 76 Lawfare time?

Boasberg is ORDERING the return of an admitted illegal Alien... that is a direst violation of USC 18 1324 aiding and abetting an illegal alien.

Now, add in a Judge getting involved in Foreign Relations... ie... Logan Act Violation?

Then lets have Trump sign an EO directing the outcome of the case as President... and the Supremes said a President can't be prosecuted for official acts as President...

Then ARREST Boasberg in a dawn raid with SWAT teams...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 16, 2025 04:23 PM (QAkQ3)

Maryland Man is also a member of a designated TERROR organization ms13

CRAZY

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 16, 2025 04:33 PM (FCrpy)

146 And even funnier still if Trump was the one who had to intervene to get Van Hollen home, bringing him back on a rescue mission Air Force 2 flight with JD.
Posted by: Piper at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (pRpzT)

And funnier still if Trump said “Keep him!”

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 16, 2025 04:33 PM (l3YAf)

147 I want Judge Bozoburg's crawl space (and the rest of his house) to be searched... I'd settle for having all of the non-SCOTUS courts disbanded.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 16, 2025 04:33 PM (Vqx30)

148 134 The judge is counting on the Dems taking back Congress. He is going for criminal contempt in hopes that this will be used so the Dems can file articles of impeachment
Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (NpAcC)

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Dems will impeach Trump for being a big ole meano.

Remember, impeachment is a political, not a legal process.

Go back and read the articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson. Maybe the first two have some relation to law. The next seven are complete bullshit. Also, the first two were bullshit, just legalistic bullshit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:33 PM (GBKbO)

149 Big meano clause?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 16, 2025 04:34 PM (d7ais)

150 lived in Berrien County.
Posted by: mrp at April 16, 2025 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)

Are you still in Berrien Co?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 04:34 PM (ufFY8)

151 While I don't advocate violence in any form, against anyone or anything, for any reason, ever (whew)...

it would be hilarious if Trump found the biggest person at DOJ, handed them a pardon for anything which might happen in this judge's courtroom and told him to go in and beat the shit out of the guy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2025 04:34 PM (ExV1e)

152

Not to mention, he can refer all he wants. The DOJ won't prosecute.

Posted by: imp at April 16, 2025 04:34 PM (g6TN6)

153 SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging President Trump’s use of emergency powers to enact broad-sweeping tariffs that hurt states, consumers, and businesses. The lawsuit argues that President Trump lacks the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs through the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, creating immediate and irreparable harm to California, the largest economy, manufacturing, and agriculture state in the nation.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (D7oie)

As far as I know he can enact tariffs for the hell of it.

"the largest economy, manufacturing, and agriculture state in the nation."

The largest economy state, manufacturing state, and agriculture state. The editor is not covering himself with glory in that press release. Or is that a lawyer

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:35 PM (n7h9X)

154 22 Oh, and it has been revealed that the police have multiple videos of Karmelo Anthony murdering the white kid.

You can be damn sure if it was damning for the white kid, it would've been leaked already.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 16, 2025 04:14 PM (Zz0t1)

These have to be from people's cell phones right? Curious why they wouldn't already have been posted somewhere.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 16, 2025 04:35 PM (lg881)

155 We should start referring to this judge as "Berg-ASS-Bo": he's turning the Constitution upside down and backwards.

Posted by: Kurtz at April 16, 2025 04:35 PM (DJUN3)

156 At some point, Trump has to deploy the nuclear option and just declare he will not submit to this judge's authority, and if any higher court orders him to submit to this judge, then he will ignore that court's authority going forward as well.

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It would be fitting for Benedict Roberts (Piss Be Upon Him) -- who's single-handily destroyed the once greatest healthcare system in the world -- to ultimately destroy the once greatest judicial system as well.

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 16, 2025 04:35 PM (Gg7oU)

157 149 Big meano clause?
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 16, 2025 04:34 PM (d7ais)

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It's essentially what Congress impeached Johnson for.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

158 much like the charges against warren hastings prosecuted by edmund burke, on the recommendation of the pamphleteer called janus

Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 16, 2025 04:35 PM (bXbFr)

159 @134

>>The judge is counting on the Dems taking back Congress. He is going for criminal contempt in hopes that this will be used so the Dems can file articles of impeachment

Well, if the GOP still holds the Senate, they can simply do what the Donks did for the Myorkas Impeachment, and say the articles of impeachment are unconstitutional, and , voila, no Impeachment.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 16, 2025 04:35 PM (XV/Pl)

160 Thats not the point. Sooner or later, Trump is going to have to either say No or subvert the Presidency to the Judiciary. There is no clever way to work around it.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 16, 2025 04:32 PM (GmTq4)

Exactly. People are always trying to come up with clever ways to avoid confrontation through malicious compliance, which only legitimizes the abuse.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 16, 2025 04:35 PM (l3YAf)

161 Not to mention, he can refer all he wants. The DOJ won't prosecute.
Posted by: imp

Volksgericht von Boasberg is threatening to appoint his own prosecutor.

Posted by: Miklos, never heard of such at April 16, 2025 04:36 PM (UOzvC)

162 I don't think Boasberg gives one shit about illegal aliens. I think what he really cares about is building himself up as a Great Hero of the Revolution so that when the next Dim regime comes to power he's at the top of the list for AG or SCOTUS.

Posted by: Bert G at April 16, 2025 04:36 PM (VARTN)

163 Fun fact: When we toured the Manassas Battlefield a couple of weeks ago, we learned that a Northern Congressman, who had been one of those from DC who had gone out to watch the battle, was captured by the Confederates, and sent to Libby Prison in Richmond, to be freed in Dec. 1861 in a prisoner exchange.

Rep. Alfred Ely (R-NY).

Make locking up Congresscritters great again?

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:36 PM (77rzZ)

164 Are you still in Berrien Co?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 04:34 PM (ufFY

I lived there when Dad worked for Whirlpool, and of course, when visiting grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. But now I only return for funerals

. NC nowadays.

Posted by: mrp at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (rj6Yv)

165 161 Not to mention, he can refer all he wants. The DOJ won't prosecute.
Posted by: imp

Volksgericht von Boasberg is threatening to appoint his own prosecutor.
Posted by: Miklos, never heard of such at April 16, 2025 04:36 PM (UOzvC)

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"Lower court judge usurps Constitutional Executive Power. Constitutional Executive to blame."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

166 He paid $12 to the El Salvadorian government to get told to get bent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April

Perhaps, just throwing this out there, he should have called ahead to see if they would speak with him and let him see the domestic abuser? Maybe before flying there? And maybe the other dumb congresscritter threatening to visit should not continue this parade of nonsense?

Posted by: Piper at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (pRpzT)

167 145
Maryland Man is also a member of a designated TERROR organization ms13

CRAZY
Posted by: Patrick

But he is also a union apprentice?

Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (NFX2v)

168 I want Judge Bozoburg's crawl space (and the rest of his house) to be searched... I'd settle for having all of the non-SCOTUS courts disbanded.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

I want forensic audits of his wife's and daughter's non profits.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (GxM4+)

169 @152

>>Not to mention, he can refer all he wants. The DOJ won't prosecute.

He will probably hire his own layers and prosecutors like Mike Flynn's judge tried to do.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (XV/Pl)

170 I went all the way to El Salvador and all I got was this used dildo.

Posted by: Chrissy Van Hollen at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (paSBy)

171 And yeah going after the worst of the worst illegals makes it particularly difficult for the Dems to get and popular momentum against the Trump administration.

"So let me get this real straight here. You want me to feel bad about them fellers what was holding apartment buildings hostage and murdered schoolgirls? Maybe y'all should find the exits while you can voluntarily."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (ehZkr)

172 166 He paid $12 to the El Salvadorian government to get told to get bent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April

Perhaps, just throwing this out there, he should have called ahead to see if they would speak with him and let him see the domestic abuser? Maybe before flying there? And maybe the other dumb congresscritter threatening to visit should not continue this parade of nonsense?
Posted by: Piper at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (pRpzT)

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The point was to bloviate and get attention.

He succeeded.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

173
8 just declare he will not submit

Or keep ignoring him.
Posted by: DaveA at April 16, 2025 04:12 PM (FhXTo)

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I like the idea of ignoring the judge. He'll screech louder and louder to make himself heard, and he'll still get nothing.

The judge appears to be pursuing the "Viking funeral" theory of law. He's burning up his career in a final bonfire.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (AUcO/)

174 Nurse is right. Buuuuut, they are extremely expensive comparitively. As a dollar value, I'd go with Michigan cherries. As a luxe treat, Raniers.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 04:29 PM (FCbAQ)

Actually she is mistaken, because the Bing and Lapin dark cherries grown in the Columbia Gorge, and the the Willamette valley are better than the Rainier cherries.
the mistake is understandable, because the Raniers are a far better cherry than anything you can find in the rest of the country.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (D7oie)

175 Volksgericht von Boasberg is threatening to appoint his own prosecutor.
Posted by: Miklos, never heard of such at April 16, 2025 04:36 PM (UOzvC)
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Interesting. I wonder who pays for the prosecutor? Or, does Boasberg have a lawyer honey on the side?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (tT6L1)

176 It's essentially what Congress impeached Johnson for.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Try, how you say, impeach THIS

Posted by: Paolo Johnson at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (UOzvC)

177 https://is.gd/olYIbs

Chief_Engineer
@ChiefNiftyswell
Big changes are underway for U.S. visas, quietly.

The age of cheap, temporary H-1B labor is ending.

The Trump administration isn’t just slowing new approvals.
It’s laying the groundwork to make visa sponsorship financially painful.

Under the H-1B Modernization Rule and USCIS’s new fee schedule, costs are rising....

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 16, 2025 04:38 PM (Vqx30)

178 Until the Trump administration treats this as what it is... a soft judicial coup, nothing will happen.

Boasberg needs to be removed, sent to GITMO and never heard from again. Making examples is what will get this shit tamped down pronto.

And the right need not worry about "their judges" being removed the same way. Because we don't have any.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2025 04:38 PM (Q4IgG)

179 We're on the cusp of a constitutional crisis and you're discussing cherries?

Oh Nurse is involved?

I'll allow it.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 16, 2025 04:38 PM (wBaIH)

180 II. Conclusion For the foregoing reasons, the Court will find probable cause that Defendants’ actions constitute contempt. It will provide them an opportunity to purge such contempt. If they opt not to do so, the Court will proceed to identify the contemnor(s) and refer the matter for prosecution. A separate Order so stating will issue this day. Date: April 16, 2025 /s/ James E. Boasberg JAMES E. BOASBERG Chief Judge

Not just what's his name, the El Salvadorian.
Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 16, 2025 04:32 PM (NFX2v)

Boasberg's terrorist is a Venezualan, being kept in El Salvador becuase Venezuala refused to take him.

A different rogue judge is the "Maryland man" sponsor.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:38 PM (n7h9X)

181 179 We're on the cusp of a constitutional crisis and you're discussing cherries?

Oh Nurse is involved?

I'll allow it.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 16, 2025 04:38 PM (wBaIH)

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You just wait for the weekend threads.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

182 . i was born near Detroit, but all of my kin lived in Berrien County.
Posted by: mrp

I grew up in Cassopolis, in one county to the east.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

183 The Left declared their intent to wage lawfare if Trump won well before the election. This should be no surprise to anybody, least of all Trump's team. In any case, Boasberg needs to be unequivocally batted down by somebody. The Supreme Court is clearly not capable of the job.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 16, 2025 04:39 PM (h/ffs)

184
The point was to bloviate and get attention.

He succeeded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)
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For that, we should probably thank him.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 16, 2025 04:39 PM (tT6L1)

185 Hopefully, scotus castrates many of these “injunction” powers at the district level.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 16, 2025 04:19 PM (NNmoL)

SCOTUS won't because a majority of them want to stop Trump but some of that majority don't want to be seen as working to stop Trump. So they'll rule with the Constitutionalists but force the ruling to be as narrow as possible to keep open the lines of attack.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2025 04:39 PM (ExV1e)

186 I went all the way to El Salvador and all I got was this used dildo.
Posted by: Chrissy Van Hollen

Wasn't used when I bought it

Posted by: Chrissy Van Hollen, clarifying at April 16, 2025 04:39 PM (UOzvC)

187 We're on the cusp of a constitutional crisis and you're discussing cherries?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

OK, then: BOOBS!!

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

188 The Senator who cast the deciding vote to not remove Johnson from office was one of JFK's Profiles in Courage as I recall

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 04:40 PM (ehZkr)

189 A Democratic lawmaker's attempt to 'rescue' a Maryland man accused by the Trump administration of being a criminal backfired after he was denied access to him despite flying to El Salvador.
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Do you know who *I* am???

Posted by: Chris Van Cocksucker at April 16, 2025 04:40 PM (jrfbg)

190 I want Judge Bozoburg's crawl space (and the rest of his house) to be searched... I'd settle for having all of the non-SCOTUS courts disbanded.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 16, 2025 04:33 PM (Vqx30)

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You'll get SCOTUS Chief Justice Bozoberg in a future Hunter Biden Administration.

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 16, 2025 04:40 PM (Gg7oU)

191 Haven't read the comments yet, but I'd guess Congress has made no move to throttle this "judge." Tells you how much they want to stop him.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 16, 2025 04:40 PM (Np6sw)

192
Is it me, or does PDT mostly agree with Vivek the Swammy on Visas?

Because it's obvious PDT wants to issue Visas, but he wants the foreigners to PAY for the visas -- $5M a piece.

Were we too harsh on Vivek?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 04:40 PM (GSWOH)

193 really thinking about taking a Vacation to El Salvador to help support, everything I have heard from Friends and seeing what he's doing, He's really cleaned up the country and it's safe.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 16, 2025 04:40 PM (FCrpy)

194 Miklos, when does happy hour commence?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 16, 2025 04:41 PM (0nHVk)

195 185 SCOTUS won't because a majority of them want to stop Trump but some of that majority don't want to be seen as working to stop Trump. So they'll rule with the Constitutionalists but force the ruling to be as narrow as possible to keep open the lines of attack.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2025 04:39 PM (ExV1e)

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There have been signals from SCOTUS for a while that they're sick of this shit and have been for a while.

Ending national injunctions probably gets 6 votes on SCOTUS.

But, the stupid process being what it is, they need the perfect vehicle for it.

Which should tell everyone that judicial review is a terrible system. Unconstitutional laws can sit on the books for decades because SCOTUS needs the right lawsuit to undo it. It's almost like it's a rigged game that the political world has taken advantage of for decades.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:41 PM (GBKbO)

196 I don't think Boasberg gives one shit about illegal aliens. I think what he really cares about is building himself up as a Great Hero of the Revolution so that when the next Dim regime comes to power he's at the top of the list for AG or SCOTUS.
Posted by: Bert G at April 16, 2025 04:36 PM (VARTN)

He wants to save his daughter's NGO scam. In fact, I think there was some questionable bit about him being a trustee or personally involved with them as well.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:42 PM (n7h9X)

197 Anyone else think the end game on all these cases is to force the Supreme Court into shooting down their efforts (not on a decision basis, but an over-extension basis), so that the Democrats have an actual issue to campaign on in 2026?

They have a solid collection of losing issues across the board. But, if they make the "partisan" Supreme Court their clarion call they can move away from transgenders, immigration and the like....and concentrate their campaign on controlling Trump's ultimate additions to the Supreme Court by taking back the senate. Stalling the Executive Orders and forcing the WH to extend resources to defend their positions is just a happy bonus.

Posted by: Orson at April 16, 2025 04:42 PM (dIske)

198 188 The Senator who cast the deciding vote to not remove Johnson from office was one of JFK's Profiles in Courage as I recall
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 04:40 PM (ehZkr)

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Johnson getting successfully convicted and removed from office creates a vastly different precedent for the future.

Does FDR dare to act so strongly with a history of Congress actually removing a president?

The case against Johnson was bullshit, but I think they should have pulled him from office for the long-term health of the nation. A president afraid of Congress is overall a better way to operate than an imperial presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

199 Are you still in Berrien Co?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 04:34 PM (ufFY

I lived there when Dad worked for Whirlpool.
Posted by: mrp

Are you of an age to have ever crossed paths with the Whirlpool heiress Kate Upton?

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

200 OK, then: BOOBS!!

I'm in favor of boobs

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 04:42 PM (ehZkr)

201 Boasberg is trying to run tje County like a good Marxists would

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2025 04:42 PM (ypFCm)

202 It's essentially what Congress impeached Johnson for.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:35 PM (GBKbO)
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Well, it was for violating the incredibly unconstitutional Tenure of Office Act, but still...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 16, 2025 04:43 PM (6K6Eu)

203 We're on the cusp of a constitutional crisis and you're discussing cherries?

Oh Nurse is involved?

I'll allow it.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 16, 2025 04:38 PM (wBaIH)

Nice lady. But Rainier cherries? Really? Nothing like a 10lb pack of cherries packed in sugar in a metal can.

Posted by: mrp at April 16, 2025 04:43 PM (rj6Yv)

204 Miklos, when does happy hour commence?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 16, 2025 04:41
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It was noon here (CDST). Cardinal's were televised.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 16, 2025 04:43 PM (hoCmQ)

205 202 It's essentially what Congress impeached Johnson for.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:35 PM (GBKbO)
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Well, it was for violating the incredibly unconstitutional Tenure of Office Act, but still...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 16, 2025 04:43 PM (6K6Eu)

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Which SCOTUS later ruled was unconstitutional.

Lord, I hate judicial review as the sole arbiter of what's constitutional or not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

206 A Democratic lawmaker's attempt to 'rescue' a Maryland man accused by the Trump administration of being a criminal backfired after he was denied access to him despite flying to El Salvador. ...Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen was left red faced after authorities in the country denied his request to meet with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, 29.

Wow. Who could have foreseen that. Other than absolutely everyone with a functional brain.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2025 04:43 PM (ExV1e)

207 Which should tell everyone that judicial review is a terrible system. Unconstitutional laws can sit on the books for decades because SCOTUS needs the right lawsuit to undo it. It's almost like it's a rigged game that the political world has taken advantage of for decades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:41 PM (GBKbO)

Yet these wreckers can get an instant case after hours in hours and a national restraint order that takes weeks to unravel. Over and over. Why can't a conservative get a pocket judge to declare covid lockdowns banned?

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:44 PM (n7h9X)

208 The Senator who cast the deciding vote to not remove Johnson from office was one of JFK's Profiles in Courage as I recall

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 04:40 PM (ehZkr)

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Yes, I remember reading and enjoying that book as a young teenager.

IIRC, after JFK's murder, Ted Sorensen admitted to his involvement in writing the book -- stating that he was the ghostwriter with Kennedy assisting.

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 16, 2025 04:44 PM (Gg7oU)

209 Boasberg needs to get impeached

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2025 04:44 PM (ypFCm)

210 Are you of an age to have ever crossed paths with the Whirlpool heiress Kate Upton?
Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

The Belle of St. Joe? No. I'm a bit older and out of her league

Posted by: mrp at April 16, 2025 04:44 PM (rj6Yv)

211 Karoline Leavitt is late. Maybe I should discipline her.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 16, 2025 04:44 PM (paSBy)

212 Haven't read the comments yet, but I'd guess Congress has made no move to throttle this "judge." Tells you how much they want to stop him.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 16, 2025 04:40 PM (Np6sw)

We’ve got to stop Orange Man’s tariffs!

Posted by: Republicuck Senators at April 16, 2025 04:44 PM (l3YAf)

213 207 Yet these wreckers can get an instant case after hours in hours and a national restraint order that takes weeks to unravel. Over and over. Why can't a conservative get a pocket judge to declare covid lockdowns banned?
Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:44 PM (n7h9X)

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The Fifth Circuit ruled the student loan forgiveness unconstitutional under Biden.

They held that it only applied to the states in the Fifth Circuit, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

214
Anyone else think the end game on all these cases is to force the Supreme Court into shooting down their efforts (not on a decision basis, but an over-extension basis), so that the Democrats have an actual issue to campaign on in 2026?

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I don't think they're playing that long a game. I think their guiding principle is just Stop Trump Right Now.

The big message right now seems to be Anti-Oligarchy. If they can tie SCOTUS into that, however...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (M4PBL)

215 Trump should walk in to this motherfuckers courtroom with full security detail, stand directly in front of this so called judge and say..
"You are a pissant district court judge and you have no authority over the office of the President. You have no authority over the executive branch of the government. Read the constitution, dumbass."

https://youtu.be/ICZ06gYpu6w

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (ExV1e)

216 Congress almost NEVER uses it's impeachment power against judges. The last one I am aware of got himself elected to Congress and served several terms.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (ehZkr)

217 133 A few minutes until the "Special Guest" WH briefing.
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (2cS/G)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (CQE5S)

218 I always get Ted Sorenson mixed up with Pierre Salinger.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (77rzZ)

219 >>@paulsperry_
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>>11m
BREAKING: DC prosecutor Ed Martin is probing ex-Mueller Russiagate aide Aaron Zelinsky re "contacts" w ChiComs during trips to Guangdong. In letter I've obtained,Martin requests he come in for questioning re Chinese nat'ls "you remained in contact w during Mueller investigation"

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (LkLld)

220 Bring back the Salvadorian MS-13 Gangbanger and drop him off at the judge's residence and say, "Here You Go".

I returned him per your order ...........

Posted by: Jack Mehoff at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (cBi2+)

221 The Belle of St. Joe? No. I'm a bit older and out of her league
Posted by: mrp

I only learned recently ( in the last ten years) that the Upton family was part of the Whirlpool company.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (ufFY8)

222
Haven't read the comments yet, but I'd guess Congress has made no move to throttle this "judge." Tells you how much they want to stop him.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

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I thought Mike Johnson had made some threatening remarks about it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (M4PBL)

223 I took a bit of a beating today trying to catch a falling knife.

Tomorrow will be better.

Posted by: toby928 at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (jc0TO)

224 Roberts' legacy is going to be the destruction of the supreme court.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 16, 2025 04:46 PM (CHHv1)

225 This is a Deep State Federal Agency and Union thing more so than 1st meets the eye.

AFL-CIO, Working People Respond to Executive Order Attacking Federal Worker Collective Bargaining Rights

Labor and DHS passing out certain visas to non-citizens.

The NLRB which gets on their last nerve:
Federal Judge Voids New NLRB Union Election Rules
By Paul D. Satterwhite on June 10, 2012
Posted in Board Decisions, Court Cases & Legislation, Federal, NLRB
On May 14, 2012, a U.S. District Court issued a decision that effectively voids the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new election rules that went into affect on April 30, 2012. Judge James Boasberg of the District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion for summary judgment filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in which the chamber argued that the rules were enacted without the three-member quorum required by law.

Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 16, 2025 04:46 PM (NFX2v)

226 The best cherries were the ones from the tree in our backyard when I was little.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at April 16, 2025 04:46 PM (6/frM)

227 Is it me, or does PDT mostly agree with Vivek the Swammy on Visas?

Because it's obvious PDT wants to issue Visas, but he wants the foreigners to PAY for the visas -- $5M a piece.

Were we too harsh on Vivek?
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 04:40 PM (GSWOH)

Well if the guy is that valuable, paying for it makes sense. If he's just another cog, well make it an American cog.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:46 PM (n7h9X)

228 Two weeks ago Trump DOJ sent two armed US Marshalls to deliver a letter to the chick that spoke to a Dem committee trying to screw Trump. The DOJ sent two armed US Marshalls to deliver a letter warning the woman not to testify.
I think Trump DOJ was sending a message and look forward to having US Marshalls intervene for Trump when he rewrites the Constitution and names Pete Hegseth SOPW
Secretary of Perp Walking.

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 16, 2025 04:46 PM (KjELq)

229

Volksgericht von Boasberg is threatening to appoint his own prosecutor.
Posted by: Miklos, never heard of such

They are outright forbidden from filing certificate petitions, and I'd hazard a guess that criminal contempt prosecutions against the exec branch might raise a separation of powers issue

Posted by: imp at April 16, 2025 04:47 PM (g6TN6)

230 Just for kicks: I'll bet it's someone who can sing. Maybe sing an Easter song?

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 04:47 PM (CQE5S)

231 Mark Levin has repeatedly stated that his organization, Landmark legal foundation, won a SCOTUS case that disallowed oral judicial directives.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 16, 2025 04:47 PM (Qab63)

232 The Belle of St. Joe? No. I'm a bit older and out of her league
Posted by: mrp

Same here. I was a college graduate and a Navy petty officer when she was born.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:47 PM (77rzZ)

233
Lord, I hate judicial review as the sole arbiter of what's constitutional or not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:43 PM (GBKbO)
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System wasn't designed to work that way, either. The people who wrote the Constitution expected the people writing laws to be well acquainted with the Constitution and write their laws accordingly. Somewhere along the way, Congress was given the ability to write a law, knowing with judicial review, there was a good chance they'd get the law, regardless of the actual text of the Constitution.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 16, 2025 04:47 PM (tT6L1)

234 "A Democratic lawmaker's attempt to 'rescue' a Maryland man..."

Put through the media-de-propaganda processor:

"A mentally unbalanced Leftist politician's attempt to free a known illegal alien and confirmed terrorist..."

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 16, 2025 04:47 PM (h/ffs)

235 It's going to be nothing but constant legal speedbumps for the rest of Trump's term. They'll never stop.

Posted by: jsg at April 16, 2025 04:47 PM (1MTK1)

236 43 Who the h*ll does this judge think he is?
Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2025 04:15 PM (NpAcC)

Arnold Palmer.
Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 04:17 PM (E0p3T)

The punchline to an excellent and appropriate joke.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 16, 2025 04:48 PM (y5Bkh)

237 223 I took a bit of a beating today trying to catch a falling knife.

Tomorrow will be better.
Posted by: toby928 at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (jc0TO)

Yikes!

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 04:48 PM (CQE5S)

238 >>> 220 Bring back the Salvadorian MS-13 Gangbanger and drop him off at the judge's residence and say, "Here You Go".

I returned him per your order ...........
Posted by: Jack Mehoff at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (cBi2+)

"drop"? With or without a parachute?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 16, 2025 04:48 PM (Vqx30)

239 226 The best cherries were the ones from the tree in our backyard when I was little.

I disagree and the best Cherries are between female intern legs ........

Posted by: Bill Clinton at April 16, 2025 04:48 PM (smB1O)

240 We're on the cusp of a constitutional crisis and you're discussing cherries?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 16, 2025 04:38 PM (wBaIH)

We can't do anything about it but observe and comment.
Lemme know when the tanks ring Boasbergs courthouse.
Then it's a crisis.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 16, 2025 04:48 PM (FCbAQ)

241 I thought Mike Johnson had made some threatening remarks about it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (M4PBL)

I've heard that a strongly-worded letter is being drafted and hearings may be considered.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 16, 2025 04:49 PM (h/ffs)

242 >>@paulsperry_
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>>11m
BREAKING: DC prosecutor Ed Martin is probing ex-Mueller Russiagate aide Aaron Zelinsky re "contacts" w ChiComs during trips to Guangdong. In letter I've obtained,Martin requests he come in for questioning re Chinese nat'ls "you remained in contact w during Mueller investigation"
Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (LkLld)

Russiagate prosecutor named Zelinsky, huh? Must be like “Smith” over there..

Posted by: Is everything an op? at April 16, 2025 04:49 PM (l3YAf)

243 Perhaps Boasberg can hold Congress in contempt. And why not the Supreme Coirt while he is at it? He seems to think he is in control of the country

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 16, 2025 04:49 PM (cvWHI)

244 I only learned recently ( in the last ten years) that the Upton family was part of the Whirlpool company.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

They founded it. Even though I grew up in SW Michigan, I never knew that growing up. But it wasn't until Kate and her doofus uncle became public figures that I had even heard of that family.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:49 PM (77rzZ)

245 Haven't read the comments yet, but I'd guess Congress has made no move to throttle this "judge." Tells you how much they want to stop him.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 16, 2025 04:40 PM (Np6sw)

We’ve got to stop Orange Man’s tariffs!
Posted by: Republicuck Senators at April 16, 2025 04:44 PM (l3YAf)

I heard one guy was trying to get an impeachment going but they are busy on the budget.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:49 PM (n7h9X)

246 233 System wasn't designed to work that way, either. The people who wrote the Constitution expected the people writing laws to be well acquainted with the Constitution and write their laws accordingly. Somewhere along the way, Congress was given the ability to write a law, knowing with judicial review, there was a good chance they'd get the law, regardless of the actual text of the Constitution.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 16, 2025 04:47 PM (tT6L1)

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What they expected was constant jarring between Congress and the Executive. An explicit call out for what to do with unconstitutional laws passed by Congress and signed by the president probably should have been called out. I'd put it on the state legislatures.

Like, a bare majority of state legislatures can overturn a federal law, or something. Maybe 60%.

Keep that vertical power dynamic strong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

247 I suspect that Trump.p does generally agree with Viveck on most things

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 04:49 PM (ehZkr)

248 Oooh, sweet pink outfit.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 16, 2025 04:50 PM (ufFY8)

249 The SCROTUMS will not do anything to support President Trump and will actively oppose him willy nilly with long winded, confusing opinions which will solve nothing. In the meantime, Amy Conehead Bareassed will be out adopting more Rainbow Children for her collection.

Posted by: The Law Is An Ass at April 16, 2025 04:50 PM (cnVbw)

250 217 133 A few minutes until the "Special Guest" WH briefing.
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (2cS/G)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (CQE5S)

It's on!

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 04:50 PM (CQE5S)

251 So CVHJr got stiff-armed by the Palestinian savior of El Salvador? Yes, shocka. But Chris gets red-faced pretty easily (if he really did). He was red-haired before he went gray, person of white pallor.

Was hoping/expecting this would happen.

But the very fact that he and his party could attempt these kinds of stunts remains jaw-dropping. Politically, I mean. But suppose it's just redundant confirmation that much of the country is politically dead (like CA), the Dems have guaranteed victory in many many places, the GOP is pathetic, the electorate incredibly lazy, uninformed, and dumb (aside from their votes not necessarily determining outcomes in some jurisdictions).

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2025 04:50 PM (1m82a)

252 180. A different rogue judge is the "Maryland man" sponsor.
Posted by: Oldcat

My apologies. 😕

Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 16, 2025 04:50 PM (NFX2v)

253 I hope Tom Homan is there to greet him when he gets back to the states with handcuffs and a Army Escort to Club GITMO.

.....234 "A Democratic lawmaker's attempt to 'rescue' a Maryland man..."

Put through the media-de-propaganda processor:

"A mentally unbalanced Leftist politician's attempt to free a known illegal alien and confirmed terrorist..."

Posted by: Buster Hymand at April 16, 2025 04:50 PM (I8HuZ)

254 U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday that "probable cause exists" to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt

So on his days off from Presidentin', Boasberg is the Attorney General?

Posted by: t-bird at April 16, 2025 04:51 PM (g8z90)

255 43
Arnold Palmer.

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 04:17 PM (E0p3T)
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I got that.

Posted by: Ciampino - non-metallic club at April 16, 2025 04:51 PM (sPQoU)

256 If a judge ordered that FDR could not prosecute the war against the Japanese in Alaska and other US possessions and had to instead give each of these "undocumented immigrants" a hearing how would have FDR have reacted?

How is this any different?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2025 04:51 PM (t0Rmr)

257 Oooh, sweet pink outfit.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

Caroline, or Admiral Levine?

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:51 PM (77rzZ)

258 Just undo two more buttons, Karoline...

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 16, 2025 04:51 PM (ufFY8)

259 Chief_Engineer
@ChiefNiftyswell
Big changes are underway for U.S. visas, quietly.

The age of cheap, temporary H-1B labor is ending.

The Trump administration isn’t just slowing new approvals.
It’s laying the groundwork to make visa sponsorship financially painful.

Under the H-1B Modernization Rule and USCIS’s new fee schedule, costs are rising....
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 16, 2025 04:38 PM (Vqx30)

https://youtu.be/YKUOB8MN4Kc

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2025 04:52 PM (ExV1e)

260 Isn' Tattoo the attorney general?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 16, 2025 04:52 PM (d7ais)

261 Amy Conehead Bareassed will be out adopting more Rainbow Children for her collection.

Gotta catchem all!

Posted by: Gym Leader Barrett at April 16, 2025 04:52 PM (t0Rmr)

262 Roberts' legacy is going to be the destruction of the supreme court.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 16, 2025 04:46 PM (CHHv1)

You can't serve two masters, its either the law and fidelity to the good of the country, or being popular and uncontroversial.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:52 PM (n7h9X)

263 It's gonna be a long flight home for Van Hollen.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2025 04:52 PM (LkLld)

264 Cert, not certificate

From certiorari

Posted by: imp at April 16, 2025 04:52 PM (g6TN6)

265 Just undo two more buttons, Karoline...
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 16, 2025 04:51 PM (ufFY

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One deep breath and it may take care of itself.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 16, 2025 04:52 PM (tT6L1)

266
Miss Karoline is giving the Fake News THE WOOD!

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 04:53 PM (GSWOH)

267
I wish Karoline would remind the idiot MSM that Abrego Garcia crashed the border in 2011 and was ordered deported in 2017. So he's illegal even if he's not MS-13.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 04:53 PM (M4PBL)

268 Miklos, when does happy hour commence?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

see 71

kinda busy back here

Posted by: Genial Miklos, currently making a pitcher of Old Fashioneds at April 16, 2025 04:53 PM (UOzvC)

269
Karoline just torched the Democrats and their new pet cause celeb kilmar.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 04:53 PM (GSWOH)

270 Put through the media-de-propaganda processor:

"A mentally unbalanced Leftist politician's attempt to free a known illegal alien and confirmed terrorist..."
Posted by: Buster Hymand at April 16, 2025 04:50 PM (I8HuZ)

its illegal for a Congressman do foreign policy...

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:54 PM (n7h9X)

271 She's being a bit histrionic, IMHO.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 04:54 PM (CQE5S)

272 Congress almost NEVER uses it's impeachment power against judges. The last one I am aware of got himself elected to Congress and served several terms.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (ehZkr)

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Alcee Hastings

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 16, 2025 04:54 PM (lG79J)

273 Sure the order was void an initio, but I will punish you for my illegal order while there is no legal recourse for me to punished for mine.

Guy really is a piece of work.

Posted by: Novanglus at April 16, 2025 04:54 PM (Jl+gQ)

274 Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia
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For you language nerds, this is Spanish for "Aspiring Rapper"

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 04:54 PM (E0p3T)

275 Valero notified California regulators it intends to either idle, restructure or stop operations all together at its oil refinery in Benecia by April 2026.

This comes after Phillips 66 CEO said its LA area refinery will shut down by October of this year.

How can anybody live in this failed state

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 16, 2025 04:54 PM (FCrpy)

276 The mom standing beside her is a rock.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 04:54 PM (CQE5S)

277 I also read somewhere that this walking phallis also indicated that if contempt is brought and not prosecuted. He would assign a prosecutor himself, ala Sullivsn. Is that correct?

Figure this is going to get good.

Someone tell Bondi to cancel the interview on Fox and pull every DOJ employee from the federal district Court. No lawyers, no security, no nothing. Let's see the run the court without the feds.

Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at April 16, 2025 04:55 PM (oaPfe)

278 So the guest is the Mother of a victim of an illegal. Grim.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 16, 2025 04:55 PM (2cS/G)

279 Patty is the special guest.

Shove it down the MFM's throats, Patty!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 04:55 PM (ufFY8)

280 So he's illegal even if he's not MS-13.

And if he's scared of MS-13 gang violence, why would he come here?! Go home to the one place that has eradicated them.

Posted by: t-bird at April 16, 2025 04:55 PM (p0167)

281 273 Sure the order was void an initio, but I will punish you for my illegal order while there is no legal recourse for me to punished for mine.

Guy really is a piece of work.
Posted by: Novanglus at April 16, 2025 04:54 PM (Jl+gQ)

=======

He's legit one of the most powerful people in America.

Not because of this sideshow, but because, being on the DC Circuit, most of the stuff he rules on is the highest it will ever go, making his word final on something like 99% of what he touches.

And he seems to be a lunatic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:55 PM (GBKbO)

282
One thing I like, Karoline says "Democrat party," not "Democratic party" like they insist.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 04:56 PM (M4PBL)

283 You can't serve two masters, its either the law and fidelity to the good of the country, or being popular and uncontroversial.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:52 PM (n7h9X)

Actually he's very well rounded. He serves Epstein *and* Maxwell.

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 04:56 PM (E0p3T)

284
Do Note: This grieving mother is a resident of Maryland.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 04:56 PM (GSWOH)

285 This comes after Phillips 66 CEO said its LA area refinery will shut down by October of this year.
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Oh, no, who will decorate their big storage tank to look like a jack o' lantern at Halloween?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 16, 2025 04:56 PM (6K6Eu)

286 its illegal for a Congressman do foreign policy...
Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:54 PM (n7h9X)

Also illegal for a judge to violate a Supreme Court ruling. They. Don't. Care.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 16, 2025 04:56 PM (h/ffs)

287 LOL, but remember:
Trump is the one causing the Constitutional crisis.

Not the judges issuing nationwide restraining orders.
Not the judges ordering him how and when to conduct diplomacy.
Not the judges ordering him to spend money regardless of fraud or abuse.
Not the judges ordering him not to enforce immigration law.
Not the judges seizing jurisdiction illegally in habaes cases.
And certainly not the judge, as here, ordering him to follow an illegal order.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 16, 2025 04:57 PM (d0Edb)

288

Just undo two more buttons, Karoline...
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

Absolute CANS

Posted by: imp at April 16, 2025 04:57 PM (g6TN6)

289
Chief Justice Roberts regretfully declares martial law based on his constitutional authoritah.

Posted by: Auspex at April 16, 2025 04:57 PM (j4U/Z)

290 Just undo two more buttons, Karoline...
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

Is she wearing a cross, like she usually does. Probably best that that she remove that first.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

291
Also note: the murderer of her daughter was an illegal from El Salvador.

So, yeah, just like kilmar.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 04:57 PM (GSWOH)

292 You going to report this, fucking press?

Poor victim and this mother.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 04:57 PM (ufFY8)

293 Keep that vertical power dynamic strong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 16, 2025 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

Hey!!!

Posted by: Robert Reich at April 16, 2025 04:57 PM (E0p3T)

294 I picture VanHollen wandering around San Salvador saying "does anyone here speak English ' , like Marcus Brody in The Last Crusade.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 16, 2025 04:57 PM (6TePA)

295 Guess you just got to ignore the douchebag and when he tries to have somebody actually arrested for 'contempt' come down on him personnally as the ringleader in an insurrection.

The guy is trying to foment a civil war.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 16, 2025 04:58 PM (/lPRQ)

296 Judge Sullivan ran a similar line of attack.
Endless judicial attacks knowing Roberts had his back.
Lawyer's Professional Ethics demand that litigation cannot vex annoy or harassment an opponent.
So this makes the ABA complicit in Boasberg's TDS.

Posted by: torabora at April 16, 2025 04:58 PM (5GCin)

297 I would rather Bondi would put the DOJ on investigating these activist judges, this dude is acting like he has an awful lot to hide

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 04:58 PM (ehZkr)

298 >>>At some point, Trump has to deploy the nuclear option and just declare he will not submit to this judge's authority, and if any higher court orders him to submit to this judge, then he will ignore that court's authority going forward as well.

LFG. Let's get the party started. He got about three years.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 16, 2025 04:58 PM (hjueh)

299 Chief_Engineer
@ChiefNiftyswell
Big changes are underway for U.S. visas, quietly.

The age of cheap, temporary H-1B labor is ending.

The Trump administration isn’t just slowing new approvals.
It’s laying the groundwork to make visa sponsorship financially painful.

Under the H-1B Modernization Rule and USCIS’s new fee schedule, costs are rising....
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 16, 2025 04:38 PM (Vqx30)

NOOOO!! Trump is a big dumb redneck who is ruining this country! America would be nothing without Indian geniuses like me!!!

Posted by: Vivek Ramaswamy at April 16, 2025 04:58 PM (l3YAf)

300 These Maryland Men are on a roll.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 16, 2025 04:58 PM (d7ais)

301
And if he's scared of MS-13 gang violence, why would he come here?!

Posted by: t-bird

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Hah! Good one. For that matter, the left should tell anyone claiming asylum from evil oligarchs and tribalist repression to go back to where they came from.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 04:58 PM (M4PBL)

302 71
Posted by: Miklos, pretty hot in these robes from Alibaba Express at April 16, 2025 04:22 PM (UOzvC)
----
Buy cotton not polyester unless she's got big bewbs.

(Hi Miklos)

Posted by: Ciampino - definitrly not chainmail at April 16, 2025 04:58 PM (sPQoU)

303 This comes after Phillips 66 CEO said its LA area refinery will shut down by October of this year.
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Oh, no, who will decorate their big storage tank to look like a jack o' lantern at Halloween?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 16, 2025 04:56 PM (6K6Eu)

Local knowledge 👍

Posted by: LASue at April 16, 2025 04:58 PM (lCppi)

304 A Democratic lawmaker's attempt to 'rescue' a Maryland man accused by the Trump administration of being a criminal backfired after he was denied access to him despite flying to El Salvador. ...Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen was left red faced after authorities in the country denied his request to meet with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, 29.

wow this is deeeeelicious. and funny as well.

https://tinyurl.com/yx6w9nuj

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 16, 2025 04:59 PM (KjELq)

305 You can't serve two masters, its either the law and fidelity to the good of the country, or being popular and uncontroversial.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:52 PM (n7h9X)

Actually he's very well rounded. He serves Epstein *and* Maxwell.
Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 04:56 PM (E0p3T)

Haven't seen much evidence of that. His vagaries seem more personal and decorum based than directly in opposition. Roe was knocked down on his watch. He does hate Trump, for sure, but when he publically bitched last it was because Trump wanted to get him to decide NOW and not waste time with middle courts and crap like that.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:59 PM (n7h9X)

306
I think he has to #Persist under pain of having his kiddie diddle vids released tho
Posted by: kallisto at April 16, 2025 04:10 PM (dCxaZ)

If this be-robed douchecanoe doesn't have Lolita videos (doubtful), then start releasing the vids from every other judge in the Epstein files "rein in this motherfucker or you can take his place in the Law and Order SVU Very Special Episode.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 16, 2025 04:59 PM (y9nCu)

307 I picture VanHollen wandering around San Salvador saying "does anyone here speak English ' , like Marcus Brody in The Last Crusade.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 16, 2025 04:57 PM (6TePA)
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"Or ancient Greek?"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 16, 2025 04:59 PM (6K6Eu)

308 And if he's scared of MS-13 gang violence, why would he come here?!

Posted by: t-bird

Fuck that's funny

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 04:59 PM (E0p3T)

309 The treacherous hand of Chief Justice John Roberts is behind all of this.

It is Roberts who gave us James Boasberg as his appointee. Boasberg oversaw the corrupt FBI FISA filing which was deliberately falsified by FBI agent Kevin Clinesmith. Despite Clinesmith having been caught red-handed falsifying evidence before the FISA court, Boasberg gave him a slight rap on the hand. Clinesmith didn't even lose his law license. That's how dedicated to "justice" James Boasberg is.

John Roberts is also good buddies with lawfare architect Norm Eisen. Roberts flew to Czech Republic in 2015 and spent a week "discussing legal matters" with Eisen in the secure diplomatic compound there.

There is legal collusion behind the scenes, all targeting President Trump, and John Roberts is at the heart of it.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 16, 2025 05:00 PM (X+xvk)

310
Actually she is mistaken, because the Bing and Lapin dark cherries grown in the Columbia Gorge, and the the Willamette valley are better than the Rainier cherries.
the mistake is understandable, because the Raniers are a far better cherry than anything you can find in the rest of the country.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 16, 2025 04:37 PM (D7oie)

Damn. All this talk about WA state cherries, and it's not the end of May yet, when they start getting ripe and hit the fruitstands. I love the darker ones that Kindltot mentioned more than Rainiers, which are incredibly sweet, even more so than the dark ones. The Rainiers have their argent supporters, nothing like any cherry out there.
Those little red nuggets are bursts of flavor. There is nothing like a central Washington state cherry for flavor. Yum.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 16, 2025 05:00 PM (y5Bkh)

311
Haven't seen much evidence of that.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:59 PM (n7h9X)

Sometimes is best not to take my comments at face value.

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 05:00 PM (E0p3T)

312 308 And if he's scared of MS-13 gang violence, why would he come here?!

Posted by: t-bird

No.. You've got that wrong... He was afraid of the Eight st gang or something.. They were strong arming His Abuelas Pupusa stand...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 16, 2025 05:01 PM (VE6XX)

313 the funny part is his wife filling a restraining order for domestic violence in 2021 kept him from being considered for a visa

Posted by: DanMan at April 16, 2025 05:01 PM (8uzBS)

314 I picture VanHollen wandering around San Salvador saying "does anyone here speak English ' , like Marcus Brody in The Last Crusade.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

"Yo soy un abogado bueno. Llamame!"

Posted by: ambulance-chasing late-night lawyers on Univison at April 16, 2025 05:01 PM (77rzZ)

315 The Democrats judicial champion isn't going to get any votes for impeachment

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2025 05:01 PM (ypFCm)

316 Valero notified California regulators it intends to either idle, restructure or stop operations all together at its oil refinery in Benecia by April 2026.

This comes after Phillips 66 CEO said its LA area refinery will shut down by October of this year.

How can anybody live in this failed state
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 16, 2

Im sure yall know that Chevron, a fixture in NoCal for more than 100 years, is abandoning California for Texas

Posted by: LASue at April 16, 2025 05:02 PM (lCppi)

317 They were strong arming His Abuelas Pupusa stand...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 16, 2025 05:01 PM (VE6XX

LMAO

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 05:02 PM (E0p3T)

318 Use the DOUBLE nuclear option and just ignore the dumbass.
Posted by: deadrody

That ain't double. Double would be to arrest Biasberg and throw his ass in the Salvador jail and feed him piss flakes.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 16, 2025 05:02 PM (mlg/3)

319 While that scene with Marcus was funny, it was in direct contradiction to how he had been portrayed up to that point in three movies. Just for one gag.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 05:02 PM (ehZkr)

320 Haven't seen much evidence of that. His vagaries seem more personal and decorum based than directly in opposition. Roe was knocked down on his watch. He does hate Trump, for sure, but when he publically bitched last it was because Trump wanted to get him to decide NOW and not waste time with middle courts and crap like that.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:59 PM (n7h9X)

The dude just straight-up rewrote Obamacare twice to prevent it from being overturned.

He’s another crybaby bleeding heart liberal.

Posted by: Vivek Ramaswamy at April 16, 2025 05:02 PM (l3YAf)

321 No.. You've got that wrong... He was afraid of the Eight st gang or something.. They were strong arming His Abuelas Pupusa stand...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 16, 2025 05:01 PM (VE6XX)

I think it was the Van Buren Boys

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 16, 2025 05:02 PM (MGB5H)

322 Haven't seen much evidence of that.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 04:59 PM (n7h9X)

Sometimes is best not to take my comments at face value.
Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 05:00 PM (E0p3T)

I don't see unforced cowardice as more moral than blackmail.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 05:02 PM (n7h9X)

323 Off grifter sock.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 16, 2025 05:02 PM (l3YAf)

324
There is nothing like a central Washington state cherry for flavor. Yum.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

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How come every cherry I ever get in California is hard, fibrous, and sour? There was an orchard in NoCal once where you could pay something and go pick to your heart's content, but the family shut it down a few years ago. They were the only real cherries I ever ate.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 05:03 PM (M4PBL)

325 2.5 million were deported by Obama. Try doing whatever it is he did.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 16, 2025 05:03 PM (882kw)

326 I was going to say something about Boasberg, but he is simply a compromised asshole that hates America and is a power hungry twit. Boasberg is doing his best to bring down a Constitutional America.

Oops, I wasted too much time on him already.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 16, 2025 05:03 PM (y5Bkh)

327 I wonder if the Corey Booker group left for El Salvadore yet.

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, of New Jersey, is reportedly looking to lead a trip to El Salvador, as he demands the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who officials have said was wrongly deported to a supermax prison in the Central American country.

Booker is said to be among a number of Democratic lawmakers in Congress who are planning trips to El Salvador, where the Trump administration has been sending deportees.

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 16, 2025 05:03 PM (KjELq)

328 The fucking press had no questions.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 05:03 PM (ufFY8)

329 I saw Hard, Fibrous and Sour open for Earth, Wind and Fire. They were the pits.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 16, 2025 05:04 PM (6K6Eu)

330 Oh no one has any questions. Lemme get my shocked face.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 16, 2025 05:04 PM (MGB5H)

331 Kevin Dalton
@TheKevinDalton
Gavin Newsom is upset at Trump’s terrifs because 80% of the Christmas presents he buys for his kids are made in China… Why are you laughing? That is literally what he said."

Watch the video. Gavin UNLEASHED.

Posted by: 13times at April 16, 2025 05:04 PM (g2A7E)

332 328 The fucking press had no questions.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 05:03 PM (ufFY

Of course... I'm surprised they didn't walk out

Posted by: It's me donna at April 16, 2025 05:04 PM (VE6XX)

333 I was going to say something about Boasberg, but he is simply a compromised asshole that hates America and is a power hungry twit. Boasberg is doing his best to bring down a Constitutional America.

Oops, I wasted too much time on him already.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 16, 2025 05:03 PM (y5Bkh)

You left out corrupt. He's in bed with the pure souls bringing this case. Literally since he grabbed the case while on vacation.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 05:04 PM (n7h9X)

334 I saw Power Twits open for The Sex Pistols in 87'

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 16, 2025 05:05 PM (KjELq)

335 $12 per head. Profit in El Salvador.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 16, 2025 05:05 PM (d7ais)

336 Goodness, that was some briefing.

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 05:05 PM (g47mK)

337 Booker is said to be among a number of Democratic lawmakers in Congress who are planning trips to El Salvador, where the Trump administration has been sending deportees.
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 16, 2025 05:03 PM (KjELq)
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El Salvador: *installs revolving door*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 16, 2025 05:05 PM (6K6Eu)

338 If it's criminal contempt Trump can just pardon the DOJ attorneys. Civil contempt could have teeth because that could not be pardoned.

This is all just Boasburg being butthurt because he got his ass handed to him. Personally I hope he doubles down until he does something really stupid that could get him locked up.

Posted by: Paladin at April 16, 2025 05:05 PM (dfcVK)

339 337 Booker is said to be among a number of Democratic lawmakers in Congress who are planning trips to El Salvador, where the Trump administration has been sending deportees.
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 16, 2025 05:03 PM (KjELq)

I hear there's plenty of room in the prison

Posted by: It's me donna at April 16, 2025 05:06 PM (VE6XX)

340 Dictatorships need judges like Boasberg and Sullivan to grease the wheels of oppression.
In 1789 the French for just a while understood the game being run on them and used the National Razor to even up the score.

Posted by: torabora at April 16, 2025 05:06 PM (5GCin)

341 When you travel to a supermax prison is South America, it’s important to remember to bring your own bar of soap.

Posted by: Cory Booker at April 16, 2025 05:06 PM (l3YAf)

342 Have you actually seen anything more expensive because of the tariffs so far? Because the news is acting like we're all Grapes of Wrath out here

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 05:07 PM (ehZkr)

343 I picture VanHollen wandering around San Salvador saying "does anyone here speak English ' , like Marcus Brody in The Last Crusade.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Some folks here have criticized the third movie for turning Brody into a buffoon. I just see it as portraying how a learned academic in a classroom can turn into an absolute buffoon in the field of the real world.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)

344 328 The fucking press had no questions.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 16, 2025 05:03 PM (ufFY

Somebody at the back right, at the wall, did. The person said, "I have a question," and Karoline said o.k. if there are no questions ....

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 05:07 PM (CQE5S)

345
The fucking press had no questions.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

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I think that's one of those situations where you don't ask questions. fr. I wouldn't know what to ask.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 05:07 PM (M4PBL)

346 Some woman's voice said that she had a question (MEMEMEMEME!! - and we can all guess who it was) and Karoline said no. That retard from CNN...

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 05:07 PM (g47mK)

347
Mike Johnson is the Paul Ryan of Mike Pence's.

Hiya Blonde Morticia!

Posted by: Auspex at April 16, 2025 05:07 PM (j4U/Z)

348 I hear there's plenty of room in the prison
Posted by: It's me donna at April 16, 2025 05:06 PM (VE6XX)

not so much, Trump was advising him to build more.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 05:07 PM (n7h9X)

349 I thought Mike Johnson had made some threatening remarks about it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 04:45 PM (M4PBL)

Oooh! A letter! That'll put the kibosh on him!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 16, 2025 05:07 PM (fHCGA)

350 A Democratic lawmaker's attempt to 'rescue' a Maryland man accused by the Trump administration of being a criminal backfired after he was denied access to him despite flying to El Salvador. ...Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen was left red faced after authorities in the country denied his request to meet with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, 29.

wow this is deeeeelicious. and funny as well.

https://tinyurl.com/yx6w9nuj
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not
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Should have denied the fvcker a visa then tossed him into a holding cell for deportation.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 16, 2025 05:08 PM (/lPRQ)

351 Booker is said to be among a number of Democratic lawmakers in Congress who are planning trips to El Salvador, where the Trump administration has been sending deportees.
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 16, 2025 05:03 PM (KjELq)

The state department should just explain they are violating the Logan act (after they're already there) and then pull their passports...lol.

Posted by: GMan at April 16, 2025 05:08 PM (GfWuY)

352 2.5 million were deported by Obama. Try doing whatever it is he did.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 16, 2025 05:03 PM (882kw)

Be a black Democrat? Interesting play.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2025 05:08 PM (ExV1e)

353 El Salvador: *installs revolving door*
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 16, 2025 05:05 PM (6K6Eu)
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I know what you wrote but my brain said CIWS.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 16, 2025 05:08 PM (tT6L1)

354
Somebody at the back right, at the wall, did. The person said, "I have a question," and Karoline said o.k. if there are no questions ....
Posted by: m

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Yeah, what was with that? I think Karoline had no intention of taking questions. Not gonna subject the mother to that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 05:08 PM (M4PBL)

355
Wasn't there a congressman in the late 70's who went to, Africa?, and got murdered?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 05:08 PM (GSWOH)

356 The poor mother is from Maryland, Chris Van Asshoe's state. WHo never bothered with the victim, or her family, but was on the first plane out to help a sadistic creep.

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 05:09 PM (g47mK)

357 I picture VanHollen wandering around San Salvador saying "does anyone here speak English ' , like Marcus Brody in The Last Crusade.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Or, better, Dr. Frederick Chilton in Jamaica.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 16, 2025 05:09 PM (mlg/3)

358 "I wouldn't know what to ask.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia"

Why are you a racist?

Posted by: The question you know they wanted to at April 16, 2025 05:09 PM (vFG9F)

359 Have you actually seen anything more expensive because of the tariffs so far? Because the news is acting like we're all Grapes of Wrath out here
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2025 05:07 PM (ehZkr)

I haven't intentionally bought anything not American for a while.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 05:09 PM (n7h9X)

360
Hiya Blonde Morticia!
Posted by: Auspex

============

Hiya!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 05:09 PM (M4PBL)

361 Wasn't there a congressman in the late 70's who went to, Africa?, and got murdered?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 05:08 PM (GSWOH)

Jonestown Guyana. Leo Ryan. Jackie Spier was with him and survived.

Posted by: LASue at April 16, 2025 05:09 PM (lCppi)

362 355
Wasn't there a congressman in the late 70's who went to, Africa?, and got murdered?
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Leo Ryan.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 16, 2025 05:10 PM (paSBy)

363 Wasn't there a congressman in the late 70's who went to, Africa?, and got murdered?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 05:08 PM (GSWOH)

Leo Ryan. He tried to stop the Jim Jones by traveling to Guyana. Got shot in the face for his troubles.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at April 16, 2025 05:10 PM (k9OZB)

364 What if El Salvador jails the Congress critters for not having a visa?

LOL. They are not ambassadors. They do not have plenapotentiary privileges.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 16, 2025 05:10 PM (ZmEVT)

365 Some woman's voice said that she had a question (MEMEMEMEME!! - and we can all guess who it was) and Karoline said no. That retard from CNN...
Posted by: runner at April 16, 2025 05:07 PM (g47mK)

Are CNN reporters required to wear cones of shame when they attend WH briefings?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2025 05:10 PM (ExV1e)

366
Jonestown Guyana. Leo Ryan. Jackie Spier was with him and survived.
Posted by: LASue at April 16, 2025 05:09 PM (lCppi)

And evidently didn't learn a thing...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 16, 2025 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

367 Those little red nuggets are bursts of flavor. There is nothing like a central Washington state cherry for flavor. Yum.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 16, 2025 05:00 PM (y5Bkh)

My mother's prize-winning cherry pie was made with Michigan cherries. None better!

Posted by: mrp at April 16, 2025 05:10 PM (rj6Yv)

368 That'll leave a mark.

>>@ExxAlerts
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>>14m
BREAKING: 🚨 Harvard's tax exempt status to be REMOVED by the IRS.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2025 05:10 PM (LkLld)

369
How come every cherry I ever get in California is hard, fibrous, and sour? There was an orchard in NoCal once where you could pay something and go pick to your heart's content, but the family shut it down a few years ago. They were the only real cherries I ever ate.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 05:03 PM (M4PBL)

California cherries ripen about 3 or 4 weeks earlier than central Washington cherries. I pass on the Cali ones exactly because of what you say, Blonde. When the WA cherries hit the market, I buy pounds of them and gorge. The season lasts about a month, and by then, I'm done until next year, when the cherry fix begins again.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 16, 2025 05:10 PM (y5Bkh)

370
Why are you a racist?
Posted by: The question you know they wanted to

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Exactly! Which is why Karoline sweetly said "Oh, there are no questions!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 16, 2025 05:11 PM (M4PBL)

371 Sometimes is best not to take my comments at face value.

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2025 05:00 PM (E0p3T)

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You should change your nic to three sarc tag slashes.

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Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 16, 2025 05:11 PM (lG79J)

372 FlavorAid is thirst Aid.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 16, 2025 05:11 PM (d7ais)

373 Remember the discovery of the "Journ-O-list," revealing the behind-the-scenes collusion of the American Media in feeding a distinctly left-wing narrative to our nation?

Similar behind-the-scenes collusion is happening between James Boasberg, Norm Eisen and Chief Justice John Roberts. None of this is coincidence. All of it is part and parcel of the lawfare strategy being employed to take down President Trump.

I would love to see Boasberg, Eisen and Roberts questioned as to what communication, direct or indirect, they have with each other. Pull that thread, and see what treachery is revealed.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 16, 2025 05:11 PM (X+xvk)

374 Wasn't there a congressman in the late 70's who went to, Africa?, and got murdered?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 05:08 PM (GSWOH)

Jim Jones the cultist assassinated a congressman when he landed in South America to investigate his cult.

There might have been others, but that is what triggered the cult to kill themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 05:11 PM (n7h9X)

375 I will say the Trump cabinet members need to get their act together and release accurate statements. I'll chalk it up to not havint worked at this level in the past. I saw a report where they released confusing stats stating Trump put a 254% tariff on China... The fact they even admitted to a paperwork error about deporting the Maryland Man was stupid. The MSM ran with that. Yesterday in the oval office Bondi said Yes there was a mistake but it was not the facts he was a criminal MS13 gangster. It was not related to the facts. The guy has two deportation orders signed by judges.. since 2011 I beleive.

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 16, 2025 05:11 PM (KjELq)

376 Kool-Aid got a bum rap.

It was Flavor-Aid.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 16, 2025 05:11 PM (ZmEVT)

377 My mother's prize-winning cherry pie was made with Michigan cherries. None better!
Posted by: mrp at April 16, 2025 05:10 PM (rj6Yv)

Pie cherries, vs sweet cherries. WA sweet cherries don't make great pies, the sour ones are far superior.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 16, 2025 05:12 PM (y5Bkh)

378 Harvard's tax exempt status to be REMOVED by the IRS.
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WOW!

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 16, 2025 05:12 PM (paSBy)

379 At some point, Trump has to deploy the nuclear option and just declare he will not submit to this judge's authority, and if any higher court orders him to submit to this judge, then he will ignore that court's authority going forward as well.
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I've been saying this for weeks. There's no escaping the lawfare quagmire they've conspired to stymie Trump. He needs to marshal his legal team and bring in well-reputed Constitutional lawyers from the outside and form a declaration of defiance. Make it specific to certain cases, within a larger frame of reference as a warning for further judicial incursions into Constitutional Executive authority. You can keep appealing into the midterms, which is the plan. Face it, the system is rigged, and the mealy-mouthed Roberts court will not rescue him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 16, 2025 05:12 PM (h/ffs)

380 BREAKING: 🚨 Harvard's tax exempt status to be REMOVED by the IRS.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2025 05:10 PM (LkLld)

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One down, hundreds to go ...

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 16, 2025 05:12 PM (lG79J)

381 Those little red nuggets are bursts of flavor. There is nothing like a central Washington state cherry for flavor. Yum.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 16, 2025 05:00 PM (y5Bkh)

My mother's prize-winning cherry pie was made with Michigan cherries. None better!
Posted by: mrp at April 16, 2025 05:10 PM (rj6Yv)

Ace O Spades CIVIL WAR IMMENENT

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 05:12 PM (n7h9X)

382
Bud Dwyer. That's him. He traveled to Jimstown and drank poison Hawaiian Punch. Or was it HI-C?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 05:12 PM (GSWOH)

383 Charge Boasberg with attempted human trafficking, and giving aid and comfort to a terrorist organization.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 16, 2025 05:13 PM (u/Ave)

384 Have you actually seen anything more expensive because of the tariffs so far? Because the news is acting like we're all Grapes of Wrath out here

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Yeah. I had my eye on a 40 watt laser engraver / cutter for $800. It's now $1800.

I still want it, but I sure as fuck ain't paying a dime over $800. I can wait until Chyna is trying to give them away to get one.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 16, 2025 05:13 PM (MsrgL)

385 Boasberg is really being stupid. I don't like Roberts but his phrasing "facilitate" was a signal to Boasberg to knock it off. "Facilitate" means nothing except "please be nice Mr President" as the courts behave no power here to order anything, but apparently Boasberg didn't get the hint

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (6TePA)
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He really is entering the stage of losing his mind. He has TDS of such a strong manner that he is losing sight of what at some point he must have thought was a noble cause. He is going to cause it to all come crumbling down - and the dems won't care to save him for having allowed their one tactic to be eliminated.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 16, 2025 05:13 PM (GZYu7)

386 In 1789 the French for just a while understood the game being run on them and used the National Razor to even up the score.
Posted by: torabora at April 16, 2025 05:06 PM (5GCin)

Fun fact: French revolutionary leaders briefly appointed the infamous Marquis de Sade as a judge after he was freed from prison, thinking he would be a madman on the bench, sentencing everyone in front of him to horrible punishments and adding more terror to The Terror. He refused to sentence anyone to death or punishment. He had principles, however twisted. They didn't have any.

Posted by: troyriser at April 16, 2025 05:13 PM (DPeYO)

387 380 BREAKING: 🚨 Harvard's tax exempt status to be REMOVED by the IRS.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2025 05:10 PM (LkLld)

Here comes the Hawaiian Judge

Posted by: It's me donna at April 16, 2025 05:13 PM (VE6XX)

388 Nood Van Hollen

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 16, 2025 05:13 PM (MGB5H)

389 Judge proving Shakespeare right:

The law is an ass.

Posted by: River Commander at April 16, 2025 05:13 PM (YoT4f)

390
And if he's scared of MS-13 gang violence, why would he come here?!

Posted by: t-bird

Especially since MS-13 was first formed in Los Angeles, from FMNL commie terrorists who fled El Salvador as illegal aliens after losing the Salvadoran Civil War.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 16, 2025 05:14 PM (y9nCu)

391 I've been saying this for weeks. There's no escaping the lawfare quagmire they've conspired to stymie Trump. He needs to marshal his legal team and bring in well-reputed Constitutional lawyers from the outside and form a declaration of defiance. Make it specific to certain cases, within a larger frame of reference as a warning for further judicial incursions into Constitutional Executive authority. You can keep appealing into the midterms, which is the plan. Face it, the system is rigged, and the mealy-mouthed Roberts court will not rescue him.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 16, 2025 05:12 PM (h/ffs)

That's a bit alarmist, even with Roberts he's making good progress, and he's still moving faster than they can line up judges to stop them.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 05:14 PM (n7h9X)

392 BAHAHA Bend over, Hahvahd.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 16, 2025 05:14 PM (gKWVE)

393 Posted by: Sam Adams at April 16, 2025 05:11 PM (X+xvk)

Absolutely right.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 16, 2025 05:14 PM (h/ffs)

394 Cherry growers get a good year out of every five years. Probably the reason the CA ones are crappy. Lots of cherries grown inYakima too, but the ones from the Gorge are the best.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 16, 2025 05:14 PM (cvWHI)

395

He could be deported anywhere but his home country. As if someone is going to volunteer to take a proven MS13 gangbanger.....

Posted by: imp at April 16, 2025 05:15 PM (g6TN6)

396 .
NOOD

Democrat Senator goes to El Salvador

NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 16, 2025 05:15 PM (O7YUW)

397 379 At some point, Trump has to deploy the nuclear option and just declare he will not submit to this judge's authority, and if any higher court orders him to submit to this judge, then he will ignore that court's authority going forward as well.
***
I've been saying this for weeks. There's no escaping the lawfare quagmire they've conspired to stymie Trump. He needs to marshal his legal team and bring in well-reputed Constitutional lawyers from the outside and form a declaration of defiance. Make it specific to certain cases, within a larger frame of reference as a warning for further judicial incursions into Constitutional Executive authority. You can keep appealing into the midterms, which is the plan. Face it, the system is rigged, and the mealy-mouthed Roberts court will not rescue him.

Posted by: Ordinary American

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Nailed it.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 16, 2025 05:15 PM (X+xvk)

398
I'll bet my left nut the ONLY reason she's an American "citizen" is because she was born here to illegal parents.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 05:16 PM (GSWOH)

399 Boasberg is really being stupid. I don't like Roberts but his phrasing "facilitate" was a signal to Boasberg to knock it off. "Facilitate" means nothing except "please be nice Mr President" as the courts behave no power here to order anything, but apparently Boasberg didn't get the hint

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 16, 2025 04:31 PM (6TePA)
==
He really is entering the stage of losing his mind. He has TDS of such a strong manner that he is losing sight of what at some point he must have thought was a noble cause. He is going to cause it to all come crumbling down - and the dems won't care to save him for having allowed their one tactic to be eliminated.
Posted by: Black JEM at April 16, 2025 05:13 PM (GZYu7)

The facilitate case isn't Boasbergs but some woman judge. The supremes case is the Maryland Man MS13, Boasbergs is about a handful of Venezuelan Gang members that flew out while he screwed around with his order.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 16, 2025 05:16 PM (n7h9X)

400 So Van Hollen got the Wizard of Oz treatment huh?

Van Hollen knocks
Guard sticks his head out.
Aint nobody gonna see him NO WAY NO HOW!!!

ha ha ha

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! now I'm not. at April 16, 2025 05:17 PM (KjELq)

401 [Not confirmed, but too good to check:]

MAGA Voice
@MAGAVoice

HOLY SH*T 🚨 Senator Chris Van Hollen was just REJECTED in El Salvador. They said he will have to arrange a meeting through the Trump admin

I LOVE THIS 🤣

https://is.gd/wJ7gdj

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 16, 2025 05:17 PM (lG79J)

402 "Guyana Tragedy: Jim Jones Story" (1980) with Powers Booth scared the crapola out of me.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 05:17 PM (CQE5S)

403

Especially since MS-13 was first formed in Los Angeles, from FMNL commie terrorists who fled El Salvador as illegal aliens after losing the Salvadoran Civil War.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

I thought they were MS13 before getting here (death squads), and the US just allowed them to stay criminals and avoid going back to face the music in ES

Posted by: imp at April 16, 2025 05:17 PM (g6TN6)

404 388 Nood Van Hollen
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 16, 2025 05:13 PM (MGB5H)

Posted by: m at April 16, 2025 05:18 PM (CQE5S)

405 Those little red nuggets are bursts of flavor. There is nothing like a central Washington state cherry for flavor. Yum.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

Jeez, an Manhattan used to be Canada House Whiskey, Stock Vermouth, bitters and cheap cherries.

Now it Bulliet Rye, Chambery sweet vermouth and some damn Luxardo cherry that rounds it up to a $12 home pour.

Posted by: Auspex at April 16, 2025 05:20 PM (j4U/Z)

406 He paid $12 to the El Salvadorian government to get told to get bent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

One can only hope that Van Hollen bought a tainted burrito at the airport and gets a bad case of the San Salvador Trots that he won't soon forget. Fool.

Posted by: Cheri at April 16, 2025 05:23 PM (oiNtH)

407
Cephalopod

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 16, 2025 05:23 PM (xG4kz)

408 361 Wasn't there a congressman in the late 70's who went to, Africa?, and got murdered?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 16, 2025 05:08 PM (GSWOH)

Jonestown Guyana. Leo Ryan. Jackie Spier was with him and survived.

Posted by: LASue at April 16, 2025 05:09 PM (lCppi)
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Guyana is in South AMERICA.

Posted by: Ciampino - Madagascar is not Japan, CNN! at April 16, 2025 05:23 PM (sPQoU)

409 BREAKING: 🚨 Harvard's tax exempt status to be REMOVED by the IRS.

Posted by: JackStraw

I will grant the IRS a reprieve while they ransack the endowments of colleges.

Posted by: t-bird at April 16, 2025 05:25 PM (AJ8yr)

410 So Boasberg is going to hold people in contempt based on an order he issued verbally in a matter he had no jurisdiction over and now he’s saying that even though his order was invalid he can still hold people in contempt because all judges rulings must be upheld at all times until they are successfully appealed by a higher court.

This guy is fighting this fight solely to establish that he and the rest of the rogue judges can do what they want, when they want, with presidential powers because they said so, and the administration has to do what they say until another court tells them they don’t have to do what they say or have to do what they say for the sole purpose of tying up Trump for as long as possible by having multiple judges issuing orders every week and then weeks or months for the judiciary to decide if the president can exercise his presidential powers or not.

Willie was right.
The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 16, 2025 05:28 PM (6ydKt)

411 BTW, for fun, check out the guy on TicTok making Snow Woke but saying lines of retards from other movies.

So far, Snow White as SlingBlade asking "if'n you have any of them there biscuits. uh-huh."

And Snow White as Happy Jack (Tropic Thunder) "you ma, ma, ma, make me happy"

LMFO

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 16, 2025 05:38 PM (d0Edb)

412 Kilmar's wife had a restraining order on him.
I'M ROTFL
But now she's smelling money so wants him back.

Posted by: torabora at April 16, 2025 05:47 PM (5GCin)

413 Since no one else seems to be willing to go there, I will. I like mascara cherries, the ones from the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. You may have had the imitators that pass themselves off as the real thing, but if you’ve had the authentic article you know the difference. I’d put them up against any American cherry, and if you disagree, well, chacun à son gout.

Oh, and fie at thee, Blonde Morticia!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 16, 2025 05:53 PM (ZVgZ4)

414 I thought we didn't have show trials in the USA. I was proved wrong by the Demonrats on many instances.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at April 16, 2025 05:59 PM (bXvrr)

415 I wonder if there is not some basis on which the Supreme Court could rule a lower court in contempt of its rulings?

Probably not, they seem to exclude themselves from any sort of accountability.

Posted by: Thatch at April 16, 2025 06:03 PM (bbi0+)

416 Number of trips Democrats have made to bring a member of MS-13 back to America:

1.

Number of trips Democrats have made to bring home American hostages in the Gaza Strip:

0.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 16, 2025 06:04 PM (yxhux)

417 Boasberg's actions have all the earmarks of a judicial insurrection.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at April 16, 2025 06:29 PM (Fp6BA)

418 "There are no Democrat judges and no Republican judges. We just call balls and strikes."

Posted by: Mr. Barky at April 16, 2025 06:37 PM (Fp6BA)

419 The Derps must have a deep bench for backup players. How many judge seats can to the D's call them up to commit criminal malfeasance?

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at April 16, 2025 07:20 PM (Jd5sf)

420 Squishy Roberts and ACB write stuff like this in their orders to the disctrict court via order:

"The rest of the District Court’s order
remains in effect but requires clarification on remand."

It is this nonsense that fuels more of the same moves against the will of the People rather than telling them yes or NO, you cannot do this per article 2.

Margot Cleveland read this order from SCOTUS more than ten times and couldn't figure out any definitive things 'NOEM v. ABREGO GARCIA'

Posted by: Danimal28 at April 16, 2025 10:35 PM (nT4HF)

421 The last time a federal judge held an official if the executive branch in contempt was in 2021
Not in the far distant past

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at April 17, 2025 10:28 AM (lYngK)

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