Deportation Judge Rips DOJ’s “Disrespectful” Lawyers

Reuters reports:

The U.S. judge who temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members under a 1798 law said government lawyers had been “intemperate and disrespectful” in court filings at the outset of a hearing on Friday over whether to maintain the ban. Washington-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is also considering whether officials violated the order.

At the hearing, Boasberg told Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign that he could not recall ever having heard government lawyers address him in the way the government had in its filings. Boasberg did not specify the language he took issue with. A government filing on Wednesday accused Boasberg of engaging in a “judicial fishing expedition” in seeking more information about deportation flights.

Read the full article. Trump has called Boasberg a “radical left lunatic” and demanded his impeachment. Yesterday Karoline Leavitt was embarrassed on live TV when a reporter corrected her to note that Boasberg was first appointed by Bush I, not Obama as Leavitt and Trump have both claimed.

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