Thursday, 19 June 2025

DOJ DOUBLES DOWN, Refuses to Hand Over Sensitive Information to Judge Boasberg

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The Department of Justice has just refused, for the second time, a request from Obama-appointed Judge James Boasberg to hand over sensitive information about the deportation flights to El Salvador over the weekend.

Judge Boasberg is the rogue, activist judge who tried to block the deportations of violent illegal gang members. The DOJ argued against his order, claiming that he does not have jurisdiction in international airspace.

On Monday, Boasberg asked the DOJ to respond to several questions, giving them a deadline of Tuesday.

Here are those questions:

1) How many planes departed US on Saturday carrying anyone based on Proclamation;
2) How many people in each category;
3) What foreign country/countries did they landed;
4) Time took off & wear; time you contend left US air space; what time landed in each country; what time transferred into that countries custody

However, the DOJ is essentially telling Judge Boasberg to go pound sand on that…

AG Pam Bondi and the DOJ have already refused once to answer the questions.

Pam Bondi says they won’t disclose any flight information for the time being, citing national security concerns.

Daniel Baldwin explained:

Here’s the DOJ’s full response:

In yesterday’s 6:47 PM minute order, the Court ordered the Government to provide a sworn declaration on two points: the timing of the Proclamation and the fact that no individual removable under the Proclamation was removed from the United States after the Court’s order at 7:25 PM EDT on March 15, 2025. That declaration is attached. The declaration also addresses a third issue the Court inquired about: estimates as to the number of individuals subject to the Proclamation.

The Court also ordered the Government to address the form in which it can provide further details about flights that left the United States before 7:25 PM. The Government maintains that there is no justification to order the provision of additional information, and that doing so would be inappropriate, because even accepting Plaintiffs’ account of the facts, there was no violation of the Court’s written order (since the relevant flights left U.S. airspace, and so their occupants were “removed,” before the order issued), and the Court’s earlier oral statements were not independently enforceable as injunctions. The Government stands on those arguments. Moreover, given that the Government’s motion for a stay remains pending before the D.C. Circuit, the Government should not be required to disclose sensitive information bearing on national security and foreign relations until that motion is resolved, especially given that this information is neither material nor time- sensitive. If, however, the Court nevertheless orders the Government to provide additional details, the Court should do so through an in camera and ex parte declaration, in order to protect sensitive information bearing on foreign relations.

However, Judge Boasberg pressed the DOJ again, extending the deadline to Thursday.

In response, the DOJ has doubled down on that refusal.

Bluntly, Bondi told Boasberg that his request is “continuing to beat a dead horse.”

Per Axios:

The Department of Justice continued Wednesday to push back against a federal judge’s request for information about Venezuelan migrant deportations and whether it defied a court order, saying the request is “continuing to beat a dead horse.”

The big picture: It’s the latest response in the back and forth between the Trump administration and U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who has repeatedly requested that the government provide details on the migrant deportation flights conducted over the weekend.

  • Boasberg extended the filing deadline to Thursday from Tuesday’s initial deadline for the DOJ to answer his questions regarding flight departure times and the passengers aboard the flights.
  • When the DOJ resisted answering in its Tuesday filing citing concerns about “sensitive information bearing on foreign relations” being made public, Boasberg agreed they could do so under seal.

    • What they’re saying: In its Wednesday filing, the DOJ accused Boasberg of “continuing to beat a dead horse solely for the sake of prying from the Government legally immaterial facts and wholly within a sphere of core functions of the Executive Branch is both purposeless and frustrating.”

    Hold the line!

    Meanwhile, Judge Boasberg has become the subject of an impeachment attempt in Congress…

    Let’s see how this all ends up.

    This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

    View the original article here.


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