If anti-Trump judges don’t get the message soon, the country’s in big trouble
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If anti-Trump judges don’t get the message soon, the country’s in big trouble
It looks like the judicial lawfare against Team Trump is passing its peak, as feral federal jurists get slapped down and state justices learn they can’t break the law to serve the Resistance.
Wednesday saw the comeuppance of obsessive anti-Trump Judge James Boasberg, the DC Circuit Court judge who’d repeatedly arrogated to himself the authority to overrule the president on national immigration policy.
In March 2025, he issued an emergency order stopping any deportation of illegal immigrants to El Salvador.
Team Trump complied, but a plane bearing some deportees was already out of US airspace before the order came down; it followed instructions and handed them over to El Salvadoran authorities — prompting Boasberg to hurl contempt charges at administration officials with despite the lack of any evidence they’d willfully or improperly defied him.
Indeed, Team Trump is scrupulous in complying with federal court........
