WASHINGTON (AP) — A split appeals court panel tossed out a judge’s contempt finding against President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday in a case over deportations to an El Salvador prison.
The decision comes after planes carrying Venezuelan migrants landed at the prison even after U.S District Judge James E. Boasberg said in court they must return to the United States.
Boasberg found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court. The ruling marked a dramatic battle between the judicial and executive branches of government.
But the divided three-judge panel in the nation’s capital found that Boasberg had exceeded his authority and intruded on the executive branch’s foreign affairs powers.
Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, both of whom were nominated by Trump in his first term in the White House, agreed with the unsigned majority opinion.
“The district court’s order attempts to control the Executive Branch’s conduct of foreign affairs, an area in which a court’s power is at its lowest ebb,” Rao wrote.
Judge Cornelia Pillard, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, dissented. “The majority does an exemplary judge a grave disservice by overstepping its bounds to upend his effort to vindicate the judicial authority that is our shared trust,” she wrote.
Even the legal system can be rigged by a simple grifter. How shaky it must have been to begin with.
But surely, the checks and balances…
These traitorous Trump judges need to go away.
It’s absolutely insane that our judiciary allows Trump appointees to hear Trump cases. Isn’t the rest of the legal profession supposed to take conflict of interest very fucking seriously?
Remember this next time some news of a small win in court comes out and all the people not paying any attention start celebrating like they’re defeating fascism. The role of the Democratic party is to pacify us and let us vent our anger, small victories don’t last long and that’s by design, we are shifting right full speed and there’s no stopping this swing except with a real revolution.
Nice work, judiciary. You’re not only continued to fuck the rest of us, you just completely and totally fucked your own selves, because you just said you don’t have the authority to hold these assholes accountable when they don’t do the things you told them to do under the law. So now when they come for you, you’ve got zero recourse. You stupid Muppets
So much for checks and balances. It’s been wild to see Congress and the judiciary just roll over in the face of the Trump admin. You’d think they would be a little more jealous about protecting their own power. They’ve made the president a king practically
I’m not going to shed a tear when MAGA rounds up and executes all the Judges or Congress.
I wish it would happen as quickly as possible, because the longer they wait the less shocking it’ll be and the more likely the public will be to just roll over and accept it.
Wow, America is actually completely gone now.
Came here to say this, it’s just totally broken through and through. How is this even salvageable…? with a full reset of the judiciary, all these fascist muppets will just find a way back in…
Is this the same 3 judge panel taken at random for the 11 judges on the circuit, that has for the last 6 months always had the furthest right judges randomly assigned to it?
Read the article and yes, yes it is. July was the first month neither of those 2 appeared in the emergency review panel, and now they’re back.
It’s so fucking corrupt, I’m not sure why nobody from the media has covered this.
It’s so fucking corrupt, I’m not sure why nobody from the media has covered this.
Because the major media outlets and almost all politicians are owned by the same handful of billionaires who rule over us.
Because corruption is foul play this might just be working as intended
Tbh… This split perfectly represents why there is no going back to how it was before. There is only whatever comes next and the battle to shape that. Anyone that was hoping for a return to pre-Trump America needs to come to terms with this and pick a side (and hopefully realize there is more than two to pick from)
