#boasberg — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #boasberg, aggregated by home.social.
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#TimWu: "Tuesday’s ruling is clearly wrong on the merits. The government charged that #Meta, then called Facebook, broke the law when it bought up its competitors Instagram and WhatsApp in 2012 and 2014. Judge #Boasberg threw out the case by concluding that Meta lacks #monopolypower now, when the relevant question should have been whether it had monopoly power at the time."
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Judge #Boasberg cites the #Trump admin’s gloating after his order was violated, noting the “oopsie”tweet from #Bukele & its amplification by admin ofcls.
Boasberg says the admin can “purge” its #contempt by bringing back the people he ordered not to be sent in the first place & giving them appropriate #DueProcess. If not, he will conduct further proceedings.
Boasberg said he’s skeptical of the admin’s invocation of #StateSecrets #privilege.
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The #Trump admin invokes the #StateSecrets privilege, saying it will give Judge #Boasberg no more information about the #deportation flights to inform his decision about whether the govt defied his order.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.56.0.pdf
#law #Constitution #immigration #DueProcess #CivilRights #DualState #ConstitutionalCrisis #AlienEnemiesAct #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower #Trump
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#Trump is now attempting to invoke #StateSecrets privilege [🚩] in the #AlienEnemiesAct case, claiming that due to “state secrets” (ignore the fact that trump live tweeted the entire affair) & therefore will give Judge #Boasberg no more information about #deportation flights to inform his decision about whether the gov't defied his orders
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.56.0.pdf
. #law #Constitution #immigration #DueProcess #ConstitutionalCrisis #AlienEnemiesAct #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
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“To begin, the Govt cannot proffer a regional ICE ofcl to attest to Cabinet-level discussions of the #StateSecrets privilege; indeed, his declaration on that point,…is based solely on his unsubstantiated 'understand[ing].' Although its skepticism concerning the suitability of such privilege…remains, the Court at a minimum requires an ofcl w/direct involvement to swear that deliberations of the privilege's invocation are ongoing at the level Cerna attests.“
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“He then stated, 'I understand that Cabinet Secretaries are currently actively considering whether to invoke the #StateSecrets privilege over the other facts requested by the Court's order. Doing so is a serious matter that requires careful consideration of national security & foreign relations, & it cannot properly be undertaken in just 24 hours.'
“This is woefully insufficient.”
[a seriously scripted declaration]
#Trump #Boasberg #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ConstitutionalCrisis
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Judge #Boasberg is exasperated.
“On March 18, 2025, the Court ordered Defendants to provide by noon the following day specific information regarding flights carrying individuals subject to the Court’s Temporary Restraining Orders issued 3 days before.…Defendants instead filed a pleading shortly before the deadline seeking to stay the Order in large part on the ground that they were considering whether to invoke the #StateSecrets privilege.…