Obama Judge Blocked from Receiving Deportation Info, 'Lacks Competence' to Address National SecurityA federal judge has been slapped down in his effort to gain information about deportation flights to El Salvador in which members of the violent Venezuela-based Tren de Aragua gang were deported after President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, has sought details about the flights, which he ordered to turn around while he considered whether using the 1798 law was constitutionally sound.
The flights did not do as he ordered, and on Monday, the Department of Justice argued that due to “state secrets privilege,” it did not have to divulge the information, according to the Associated Press.
Boasberg also issued an order preventing further flights, which the Trump administration is appealing.
The Alien Enemies Act allows for deportation without a non-citizen’s case being reviewed by a federal judge.
In a Monday court filing, the Department of Justice said Boasberg’s court “has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before it,” according to Newsweek.
“Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the Court lacks competence to address,” the filing said.
“Accordingly, the states secrets privilege forecloses further demands for details that have no place in this matter, and the government will address the Court’s order to show cause tomorrow by demonstrating that there is no basis for the suggestion of noncompliance with any binding order.”............
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