Trumpists in Robes Strike again

[NWRatCon]

Two Trump-appointed judges on the DC Court of Appeals blocked the investigation of District Judge Boasberg of the regime's contempt hearing.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.41957/gov.uscourts.cadc.41957.01208764800.0_1.pdf

Judges Katsas and Rao are the most rabid Trumpists on the Circuit and routinely find the flimsiest of excuses to protect Trump. This decision is not an exception.

The Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge PILLARD applies the law correctly. It does not create un-precedential bases for ignoring existing law as both Katsas and Rao do.

 

[Pyrite]

Two Trump-appointed judges on the DC Court of Appeals blocked the investigation of District Judge Boasberg of the regime's contempt hearing.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.41957/gov.uscourts.cadc.41957.01208764800.0_1.pdf

Judges Katsas and Rao are the most rabid Trumpists on the Circuit and routinely find the flimsiest of excuses to protect Trump. This decision is not an exception.

Judges are supposed to uphold the rule of law. These two - Katsas and Rao - decided instead that their priority is protecting trump's ass.

Normalizing defiance of court orders by the Chief Executive, who is tasked with enforcing the law. MAGA members will support this, because, after all, it's trump....

Appeals Court Blocks Judge Boasberg’s Contempt Inquiry Into Trump Officials (Gift Article)

The case involves deportation flights to El Salvador and whether the administration ignored the judge’s order that they return to the United States.

www.nytimes.com

A federal appeals panel delivered a major blow on Friday to a district judge’s plan to assess whether Trump administration officials were guilty of criminal contempt for sending flights of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, despite the judge’s verbal order that they turn around and return to the United States.

The ruling by the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will make it more difficult for Judge James E. Boasberg to determine the details of who was made aware of his order in March, and why the planes continued on to El Salvador.

Judge Boasberg had ruled in April that there was probable cause to believe the administration had committed criminal contempt by ignoring his order. But the administration appealed, and Friday’s ruling reversed Judge Boasberg’s finding of probable cause.

The brief order was accompanied by 57 pages of concurrences by Judges Gregory G. Katsas and Neomi Rao, who were in the 2-to-1 majority. It represents a victory for Mr. Trump and a brushback of a judge who had sought to curb Mr. Trump’s second-term agenda, earning his ire....

In a 49-page dissent, the panel’s third member, Judge Cornelia Pillard, wrote that government officials “appear to have disobeyed” Judge Boasberg’s order and that she would have let Judge Boasberg move forward with criminal contempt proceedings. “The rule of law depends on obedience to judicial orders,” she wrote....

 

[Safiel]

This will likely be reversed by an en banc DC Circuit.

 

[Mycroft]

Two Trump-appointed judges on the DC Court of Appeals blocked the investigation of District Judge Boasberg of the regime's contempt hearing.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.41957/gov.uscourts.cadc.41957.01208764800.0_1.pdf

Judges Katsas and Rao are the most rabid Trumpists on the Circuit and routinely find the flimsiest of excuses to protect Trump. This decision is not an exception.

The Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge PILLARD applies the law correctly. It does not create un-precedential bases for ignoring existing law as both Katsas and Rao do.

Gotta find a way to keep those criminals and terrorists in the country...at any cost. Right?

 

[NWRatCon]

Judges are supposed to uphold the rule of law. These two - Katsas and Rao - decided instead that their priority is protecting trump's ass.
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The ruling by the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will make it more difficult for Judge James E. Boasberg to determine the details of who was made aware of his order in March, and why the planes continued on to El Salvador.

Judge Boasberg had ruled in April that there was probable cause to believe the administration had committed criminal contempt by ignoring his order. But the administration appealed, and Friday’s ruling reversed Judge Boasberg’s finding of probable cause.

The brief order was accompanied by 57 pages of concurrences by Judges Gregory G. Katsas and Neomi Rao, who were in the 2-to-1 majority. It represents a victory for Mr. Trump and a brushback of a judge who had sought to curb Mr. Trump’s second-term agenda, earning his ire....

In a 49-page dissent, the panel’s third member, Judge Cornelia Pillard, wrote that government officials “appear to have disobeyed” Judge Boasberg’s order and that she would have let Judge Boasberg move forward with criminal contempt proceedings. “The rule of law depends on obedience to judicial orders,” she wrote....

Here's the thing, they didn't address the merit of Judge Boasberg's determination that probable cause exists, they used procedural maneuvering, instead, to make investigating it difficult.

 

[Athanasius68]

Judges are supposed to uphold the rule of law. These two - Katsas and Rao - decided instead that their priority is protecting trump's ass.

Normalizing defiance of court orders by the Chief Executive, who is tasked with enforcing the law. MAGA members will support this, because, after all, it's trump....

Appeals Court Blocks Judge Boasberg’s Contempt Inquiry Into Trump Officials (Gift Article)

The case involves deportation flights to El Salvador and whether the administration ignored the judge’s order that they return to the United States.

www.nytimes.com

A federal appeals panel delivered a major blow on Friday to a district judge’s plan to assess whether Trump administration officials were guilty of criminal contempt for sending flights of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, despite the judge’s verbal order that they turn around and return to the United States.

The ruling by the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will make it more difficult for Judge James E. Boasberg to determine the details of who was made aware of his order in March, and why the planes continued on to El Salvador.

Judge Boasberg had ruled in April that there was probable cause to believe the administration had committed criminal contempt by ignoring his order. But the administration appealed, and Friday’s ruling reversed Judge Boasberg’s finding of probable cause.

The brief order was accompanied by 57 pages of concurrences by Judges Gregory G. Katsas and Neomi Rao, who were in the 2-to-1 majority. It represents a victory for Mr. Trump and a brushback of a judge who had sought to curb Mr. Trump’s second-term agenda, earning his ire....

In a 49-page dissent, the panel’s third member, Judge Cornelia Pillard, wrote that government officials “appear to have disobeyed” Judge Boasberg’s order and that she would have let Judge Boasberg move forward with criminal contempt proceedings. “The rule of law depends on obedience to judicial orders,” she wrote....

SCOTUS had overturned Boasberg order.
There was nothing for him to enforce.