The president’s legal struggle continues Donald Trump’s Immigrants are deported, especially those involved in Venezuelan immigrants sent to El Salvador. Former Attorney General Bill Barr said the judges who blocked these flights exceeded their authority.
“There is a model where these district court judges are trying to usurp the responsibility of the president of the national security region,” Barr said Tuesday.Newsrooms in the United States. ”
“The president is absolutely right about being frustrated and paying attention to the way the court handles this.”
Barr’s comments follow the decision of U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg, who allegedly was deported by a gang member on the grounds of proper procedural issues. Boasberg also ordered the government to return planes carrying immigrants who have been deported.
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Former Attorney General William P. Barr ((Photo by Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images))
According to Barr, the ruling exceeded the power of the judge and interfered with the president’s constitutional power.
“The Constitution gives the president the authority to make a judgment on how we deal with foreign nationals when we are excited about national security issues,” said Barr, who served as Trump’s attorney general in 2019 and 2020.
“It was his phone call, not the District Court judge.”
Judge Boasberg has asked for more details on the El Salvador flight, including when to land and who is on board. However, the Trump administration cites State Secret Privilegesallowing it to withhold the information from the court.
President Donald Trump and U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg see this side-by-side split image. (Getty)
On Monday, government lawyers asked the appeals court to lift Boasberg’s order and allow deportation flights to resume. The judge on the panel appeared. Judge Patricia Millett Compare the situation with World War II policies.
“The Nazis were treated better in the Foreign Enemy Act than here,” she said.
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Barr said the case highlighted a broader issue, namely, a national ban affecting the entire country, which was issued nationwide.
“Even if the courts play the traditional role of protecting American civil liberties is appropriate, we have this nationwide injunction phenomenon, namely, the lowest level judges, district judges, who try to bind the entire country and bind the president in the initial decision. That’s not what judicial power is meant under our constitution,” Barr said.
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan expressed similar concerns in a 2022 speech at the Pritzker Law School in Northwest.
“It is wrong for a magistrate to stop a national policy on his track and stop it in the years it takes to stop it in normal processes,” she said.
Barr is calling on the Supreme Court to intervene and resolve the issue.
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“If they [the U.S. Supreme Court] Finally getting up and deciding on a case, not getting back from those decisions, I think that will come in the right way. ” he said.
“I think most judges like how ridiculous it is.”
