April 2025. Blues Vol 41 No.4

GUEST COMENTARYFar-left

GUEST COMENTARYFar-left DC Judge Exceeded His Authority:WASHINGTON, DC - AnObama-appointed judge appearsto have gotten way out ofhis lane Saturday when he attemptedto halt the deportationof violent gang members to anEl Salvadoran prison, The GatewayPundit reports.Federal District Judge JamesBoasberg, a partisan hack whowas prominent in the incarcerationof January 6 politicalprisoners, granted a temporaryrestraining order (TRO) inan attempt to stop the Trumpadministration from deportingviolent members of the Tren deAragua criminal gang, whichPresident Trump has declaredto be a threat to national securityas a terrorist organization.The administration invoked theAlien Enemies Act to remove themembers from the U.S.In an appeal filed by the farleftgroups the ACLU and DemocracyForward in a leftist-friendlyWashington, D.C. courtroom,Boasberg happily agreed to put arestraining order on the administrationto ostensibly stop the deportationof TdA gang members.Unfortunately for the plaintiffsand Boasberg, the aircraft carryingthe violent criminals wasout of US airspace by the time heissued his verbal TRO.Who is Judge James Boasberg?He allowed the use of20 The BLUES - APRIL ‘25Pat DroneyTried to overrule the Executive Branch under the Alien Enemies Act.1512c2–an Enron-era corporatefraud obstruction statute usedto persecute January 6 protesters.According to investigativejournalist Julie Kelly, Boasbergoversaw over 70 Jan 6 cases,all of which ended up in eitherguilty pleas or conviction at trial.It was an unprecedented 100%conviction rate.Boasberg, who has an affinityfor violent gang bangers, imposedprison time for even themost minor of offenses, Kellywrote, including merely “parading”at the US Capitol.As an example, Boasberg sentenceda 60-year-old womanfrom Pennsylvania, Sandra Weyer,who committed no violenceat the “great insurrection,” to 14months in prison using the Enroncorporate fraud charge.In another case, Boasbergsentenced Cynthia Ballenger tofederal prison for four monthsfor a conviction of four minormisdemeanors.A former New York City policeofficer, Sara Carpenter, received22 months in federal prison fromBoasberg on counts of unlawfulobstruction, nonviolent civil disorder,and some misdemeanors.Fox News reported that Boasbergserved as the presidingjudge of the FISA Court from2020 to 2021 after being appointedin 2014. That court, you mayrecall, authorized surveillanceof some members of PresidentTrump’s 2016 campaign.Boasberg also oversaw thesentencing of former FBI attorneyKevin Clinesmith, who pleadedguilty to doctoring a 2017email where he asked to extendsurveillance permissions for awiretap of former Trump campaignadviser Carter Page.Instead of sentencing Clinesmithto prison, Boasberg gavehim 12 months of probation and400 hours of community service.Boasberg said Clinesmith’s involvementin a years-long media“hurricane” was sufficient punishment.“Anybody who has watchedwhat Mr. Clinesmith has sufferedis not someone who will readilyact in that fashion,” Boasbergsaid at the time.President Trump invoked theAlien Enemies Act on Tren deAragua after he issued executiveorders declaring the administrationwould secure the bordersof the United States, whichincluded “removing promptly allaliens who enter or remain inviolation of Federal law.” Trumpthen noted in a White Houserelease on March 15 that “Trende Aragua (TdA) is a designatedForeign Terrorist Organizationwith thousands of members,many of whom have unlawfully

infiltrated the United States andare conducting irregular warfareand undertaking hostile actionsagainst the United States.”The president also noted thatTdA “is closely aligned with,and indeed has infiltrated, the[Venezuelan President] Maduroregime, including its military andlaw enforcement apparatus.”The Alien Enemies Act states:Whenever there is a declaredwar between the United Statesand any foreign nation or government,or any invasion orpredatory incursion is perpetrated,attempted, or threatenedagainst the territory of the UnitedStates by any foreign nationor government, and the Presidentmakes public proclamation ofthe event, all natives, citizens,denizens, or subjects of the hostilenation or government, beingof the age of fourteen years andupwards, who shall be withinthe United States and not actuallynaturalized, shall be liableto be apprehended, restrained,secured, and removed as alienenemies.” [emphasis added]The Alien Enemies Act is apower authorized to the ExecutiveBranch and based on aSupreme Court decision [Ludeckev. Watkins, 335 U.S. 160 (1948)],the Alien Enemy Act “precludesjudicial review of the order" (Pp.335 U.S. 163-166).In the decision, the majoritywrote:"Such great war powers maybe abused, no doubt, but that isa bad reason for having judgessupervise their exercise, whateverthe legal forums within whichsuch supervision would nominallybe confined.”“Accordingly, we hold that fullresponsibility for the just exerciseof this great power mayvalidly be left where the Congresshas constitutionally placedit–on the President of the UnitedStates. The Founders, in theirwisdom, made him not only theCommander in Chief but also theguiding organ in the conduct ofour foreign affairs. He who wasentrusted with such vast powersin relation to the outside worldwas also entrusted by Congress,almost throughout the whole lifeof the nation, with the dispositionof alien enemies during astate of war…”The law provides, and theSupreme Court affirmed in 1948,that the Executive Branch in theperson of the President–not aleft-wing partisan hack judge–possesses the authority to invokethe Alien Enemies Act and toproceed as he sees fit.Trump senior adviser StephenMiller completely eviscerates aleft-wing hack reporter fromCNN who has zero understandingof the Alien Enemies Act.So, Judge James Boasberg…stay in your lane.The BLUES - APRIL ‘25 21