“The judge said Trump’s actions raised a series of “very frightening” possibilities, including that the president could declare an invasion by almost any group of foreigners and throw them out of the country.”
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“The (deported) group included at least one man who was not Venezuelan as well as some women, all of whom the Salvadoran government declined to accept and were instead returned to the United States.”
The return of some prisoners “undercut the Trump administration’s claims that, by the time Judge Boasberg ordered the planes to turn around, it wasn’t practical to bring the prisoners back to the U.S.”
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~(Judge) Boasberg has repeatedly demanded more details about the timing of the flights, but has received few specifics…
He set a NEW DEADLINE of Tuesday (3/25) for the admin to answer his questions about the flights or to invoke the state secrets privilege to block the information from being disclosed.
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#USA #venezuelans #deportations
~ Judge vows to determine if #Trump admin violated his order on deportation flights ~
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/james-boasberg-trump-administration-deportations-00003815
#MyThoughts (on the above posts) —
If the #Trump admin has not invoked the “state secrets privilege” yet, they ain’t got no state secrets to block from disclosure.