Trump administration due to respond on deportations as judge weighs possible violations
Washington-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has given the administration until noon (1600 GMT) to either provide specifics on when the deportation flights took off and landed so he can determine whether they violated his order, or to invoke a legal doctrine involving state secrets to avoid sharing those details and explain their reasons for doing so.
Boasberg gave the Justice Department the option of giving him the flight details under seal, meaning they would not be made public. But the judge expressed skepticism that the state secrets doctrine — which protects sensitive national security information from being disclosed in civil litigation — was applicable, given that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted details of the flights on social media.
The dispute between the judge and the Republican president's administration came to a head on Tuesday when Trump called for Boasberg's impeachment by Congress — a process that could remove him from the bench — drawing a rare rebuke from the U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts.
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«I'm just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges' I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!» Trump wrote on Tuesday, also calling Boasberg a «Radical Left Lunatic.»
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Trump has said he would not defy any court orders.
The episode has raised concerns among Trump critics and some legal experts about a potentially looming constitutional crisis if his