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........."the cover up is always worse than the crime." In this case I'm not sure it holds but it certainly isn't helping.
The move sharply escalated the growing conflict between the administration and the judge — and, by extension, the federal judiciary — in a case that legal experts fear is precipitating a constitutional crisis.
For almost 10 days, the judge, James E. Boasberg of the Federal District Court in Washington, has been trying to get the Trump administration to give him information about the two flights in an effort to determine whether officials allowed them to continue on to El Salvador in violation of his order to have them return to the United States.
But in a patent act of defiance, the Justice Department told Judge Boasberg that giving him any further information about the flights — which the Trump administration maintains were carrying members of a Venezuelan street gang called Tren de Aragua — would “undermine or impede future counterterrorism operations.”
www.nytimes.com
No matter what you think about the deportation of the alleged, not proven, gang members to a notoriously awful El Salvadorian prison I think we can all agree claiming it “undermine(s) or impede(s) future counterterrorism operations” is total BS. It's the kind of transparently duplicitous excuse you give when turning over the info being requested is incriminating.
We are a little more than 2 months in and trump is already flirting with an impeachable offense. However, these are the days when checks and balances on the power of the executive branch have been neutered. Repubs in the House aren't even going to investigate the admin's actions let alone impeach trump. Who is in the process of trying to strip the judiciary of the power to hold him accountable for illegal acts. Interesting times.
Justice Dept. Refuses to Give Judge Flight Data, Citing State Secrets
The Trump administration told a federal judge on Monday night that it would not disclose any further information about two flights of Venezuelan migrants it sent to El Salvador this month despite a court order to turn back the planes, declaring that doing so would jeopardize state secrets.The move sharply escalated the growing conflict between the administration and the judge — and, by extension, the federal judiciary — in a case that legal experts fear is precipitating a constitutional crisis.
For almost 10 days, the judge, James E. Boasberg of the Federal District Court in Washington, has been trying to get the Trump administration to give him information about the two flights in an effort to determine whether officials allowed them to continue on to El Salvador in violation of his order to have them return to the United States.
But in a patent act of defiance, the Justice Department told Judge Boasberg that giving him any further information about the flights — which the Trump administration maintains were carrying members of a Venezuelan street gang called Tren de Aragua — would “undermine or impede future counterterrorism operations.”
Justice Dept. Refuses to Give Judge Flight Data, Citing State Secrets
The extraordinary move by the Justice Department was an escalation of its conflict with the judge in the case and, by extension, the federal judiciary.
No matter what you think about the deportation of the alleged, not proven, gang members to a notoriously awful El Salvadorian prison I think we can all agree claiming it “undermine(s) or impede(s) future counterterrorism operations” is total BS. It's the kind of transparently duplicitous excuse you give when turning over the info being requested is incriminating.
We are a little more than 2 months in and trump is already flirting with an impeachable offense. However, these are the days when checks and balances on the power of the executive branch have been neutered. Repubs in the House aren't even going to investigate the admin's actions let alone impeach trump. Who is in the process of trying to strip the judiciary of the power to hold him accountable for illegal acts. Interesting times.
