#emilbove — Public Fediverse posts
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Judge #Boasberg …has rejected that interpretation of his orders & found probable cause to initiate #contempt proceedings over potential defiance of his rulings. That process has been halted for now by an appeals court.
The messages also revealed tension between #DOJ attorneys & their counterparts at #DHS as they sought to mount a defense of the #Trump admin’s #deportation policies in court.
#EmilBove #law #corruption #judiciary #immigration #rendition #AmericanAutocracy
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The email indicates #EmilBove said it was OK to do so because the flights had left US airspace before #Boasberg, who initially delivered his order orally, followed up with a written order….
“I have been told…that the principal associate deputy attorney general advised DHS last night that the deplaning of the flights that had departed US airspace prior to the court’s minute order was permissible under the law & the court’s order,” Roth wrote to Reuveni & 2 DOJ colleagues on March 16….
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The messages show that in the hours after #Boasberg’s ruling, #ErezReuveni repeatedly relayed to colleagues that the #immigrants covered by the judge’s order should not be turned over to #ElSalvador. And he later expressed concern that they seemed to have been handed over anyway.
In one of the newly-disclosed emails, the acting head of #DOJ’s Civil Division, Yaakov Roth, told Reuveni & other ofcls that the men were unloaded based on #legal advice given by #EmilBove.
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Just prior to Boasberg’s decision, #DOJ officials worried that the effort might be stopped by a #court. That’s when, according to #ErezReuveni, #EmilBove told colleagues that they might have to consider telling the #courts “fuck you.”
After #Boasberg’s decision, Reuveni sent a text message to an unidentified colleague referring back to Bove’s alleged comment: “Guess we are going to say ‘fuck you’ to the court. Super,” he wrote. The colleague responded: “Well, Pamela Jo Bondi is. Not you.”
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…Many of the messages pertain to an extraordinary showdown on March 15, when #ImmigrantRights lawyers persuaded a federal judge in Washington, James #Boasberg, to order the admin to halt an in-progress #deportation [#rendition] of 130 #Venezuelans to #ElSalvador. Boasberg ordered that planes containing the men, whom #Trump deemed “alien enemies” under a wartime #law, be turned around, if necessary, & in any event that the men not be handed over to the Salvadoran govt.