Attorney General Pam Bondi blasted Judge James E. Boasberg on his latest court order as an “egregious overreach” into the constitutional powers of the Executive Branch.
Bond filed a scathing motion to stay Boasberg’s intrusive demands, arguing that the judiciary has no business micromanaging national security decisions made by the President.
The Gateway Pundit reported a while ago that District Judge James Boasberg ordered President Trump to turn over national security details on illegal migrant flights to Latin America by noon Wednesday.
Boasbreg is demanding national security details from President Trump on the routes and times of his flights of violent illegal aliens to El Salvador and Latin America.
According to the filing reviewed by The Gateway Pundit, Judge Boasberg’s order disregards long-standing legal precedent affirming the president’s “absolute and unreviewable” authority under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) and his inherent Article II powers.
Bondi and her team stressed that the judge’s actions interfere with the Executive Branch’s ability to conduct foreign policy, warning that his insistence on information disclosure could have “catastrophic” consequences on diplomatic relations and national security operations.
“What began as a dispute between litigants over the President’s authority to protect the national security and manage the foreign relations of the United States pursuant to both a longstanding Congressional authorization and the President’s core constitutional authorities has devolved into a picayune dispute over the micromanagement of immaterial factfinding,” the Justice Department wrote.
“The Government continues to object to the compelled disclosure of the immaterial information sought and believes that the court’s actions to date represent grave usurpations of the President’s powers under the Alien Enemies Act (“AEA”) and his inherent Article II powers. Subject to that continuing objection, the Government submits that a stay is warranted here for four reasons,” Bondi’s motion reads.
“The risks created by addressing the Court’s pending questions would undermine the Executive Branch’s ability to negotiate with foreign sovereigns in the future by subjecting all of the arrangements resulting from any such negotiations—as well as the negotiations themselves—to a serious risk of micromanaged and unnecessary judicial fishing expeditions and potential public disclosure,” the motion added.
According to the conclusion of the motion:
“The Court has now spent more time trying to ferret out information about the Government’s flight schedules and relations with foreign countries than it did in investigating the facts before certifying the class action in this case.
That observation reflects how upside-down this case has become, as digressive micromanagement has outweighed consideration of the case’s legal issues.
The distraction of the specific facts surrounding the movements of an airplane has derailed this case long enough and should end until the Circuit Court has had a chance to weigh in.
The Government respects this Court and has complied with its request to present the Government’s position on the legality of the Court’s TRO and the Government’s compliance with that TRO.
The Government now asks the Court to accord it the same respect as a coequal branch by staying its order until the important issues raised by this case are considered by the circuit court. Defendants’ request for a stay of this Court’s March 18 order should be granted.”
Read the motion below:
This is a developing story.
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