The administration's appeal is no surprise. At the hearing where Boasberg heard arguments before issuing the order the Trump DOJ is now appealing, he said sardonically: “I’m not going to rule today. They may appeal anyway today because that seems to be the MO in this case.”
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The ACLU notified Boasberg on Friday that 19 former detainees "wish to travel independently to a U.S. port of entry or...wish to be flown from a 3rd country to the U.S. for their court proceedings, understanding that...they will be detained upon arrival.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
04.03.2026 20:28 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0The Trump administration is now appealing Boasberg's Feb. 12 order for it to "facilitate" the return from third countries of former detainees who wish to do so knowing they will be detained (and permitting other detainees to contest their cases from abroad). www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
04.03.2026 20:25 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0As we approach the anniversary of the Alien Enemies Act removals, the Trump DOJ tromps back to the DC Circuit yet again in the original AEA case. The appeals court has already bottled up Judge Boasberg's contempt of court inquiry for most of the past year. 1/ www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
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This reversal here is so unusual that it’s difficult to find comparable incidents in DOJ history. But it’s of the caliber of unprofessionalism, political interference, and personal embarrassment that you’d expect multiple resignations rather than be involved with such nonsense. So far, crickets.
04.03.2026 16:11 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0It is truly a shitshow. Those involved, all the way up to and including the Oval Office, care not whether they befool themselves in public and further damage their standing with an increasingly incredulous judicial branch.
04.03.2026 16:11 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The sheer disorder and chaos that runs through the Trump administration — subject as it is to the whims of one man — makes it nearly impossible to reconstruct what happened in this instance based on past practice, formal hierarchies, and the players involved.
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... the attorney general, the solicitor general, and multiple other senior leaders, in close consultation with the White House Counsel’s Office.
Once made, after a thorough and well-trod process, and then presented to a court, decisions were not willy nilly reversed.
The level of mismanagement, poor communication, bad faith, and ineptitude involved in something like this happening is staggering and hard to even begin to explain. As a threshold matter, this never happens.
Decisions like this were, in the past, made at the highest levels of the DOJ, including...
One day after asking to voluntarily withdraw its appeal in the law firm EO cases, the Trump DOJ humiliatingly reversed course. In an extraordinary glimpse into who really runs DOJ, its No. 3 official sought to withdraw his request to withdraw the appeal. Follow?
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can you believe this?
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The administration did not respond by last month’s deadline for evidence in the Good shooting. The deadline for it to respond in the other two shootings is today. Moriarty is considering suing the administration if it does not cooperate.
03.03.2026 15:43 — 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0the Trump administration continues to refuse to cooperate the state investigations into the federal shootings Good, Alex Pretti, and Julio Sosa-Celis. Moriarty previously sent formal demand letters to federal agencies for evidence in those three shootings.
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Bovino was also present at the high school incident, where chemical irritants were deployed: www.youtube.com/shorts/v17lo...
03.03.2026 15:43 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Bovino’s conduct in Mueller Park is one of 17 incidents that Moriarty says her office is now investigating. The only other incident under investigation that she identified was the immigration enforcement operation conducted at Minneapolis Roosevelt High School on Jan. 7, the same day Renee Good
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Specifically, Moriarty is looking into Bovino’s deployment of a chemical irritant in a local park on Jan. 21, which was captured on video:
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CBP commander Gregory Bovino is under criminal investigation in Minneapolis for his conduct during Operation Metro Surge, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced in a Monday press conference.
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1. defending democracy at home in order to preserve the capacity for legitimate regime change here via free and fair elections;
2. defending the rule of the law and the independence of the judiciary; and
3. protecting blue states and marginalized peoples from a weaponized federal government.
The conundrum for Americans opposed to Trump is that while foreign affairs may be the realm in which he sows the most long-term chaos, the best way to rein him in remains in the domestic arena:
02.03.2026 16:13 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The misadventures on the high seas of the Western Hemisphere, in Venezuela, and now in Iran are just the beginning of what is likely to be more cowboying abroad, as his lame duck status becomes increasingly obvious and his political power at home begins to wane.
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The scale of damage that President Trump could wreak in a second term was always greatest in foreign affairs, where the president’s powers are, generally, most robust and least subject to judicial oversight.
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In covering the Trump II rampage, I keep bumping up awkwardly against a comforting notion that so many of us have long harbored as a way of making sense of this complicated, dynamic, sprawling world: Someone must be taking care of that.
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For the Trump DOJ, the most uncomfortable fact to intrude on its narrative in today’s testimony was that Associate Deputy Attorney General Aakash Singh already knew more about the criminal investigation of Abrego Garcia than the local U.S. attorney did when they first discussed the case.
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My report from Nashville on the Abrego Garcia case, where the Trump DOJ tried to keep the spotlight narrowly focused on the work of one U.S. attorney but, as hard as it tried, couldn’t keep some uncomfortable facts from sneaking into the glare of its spotlight: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...
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Substack Live coming up soon on today’s just-concluded vindictive prosecution hearing in the Abrego Garcia case: morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com
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Correct!
(About NOT prosecuting nonexistent voter fraud…)
