One can safely argue the trouble started on March 15 in the federal courtroom of Judge Jeb Boasberg.
President Donald Trump and California Governor Gavin Newsom are pointing fingers as to who shoulders the blame for days of anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles. Newsom, considered a 2028 Democratic frontrunner for president, filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming the administration violated the Constitution in deploying the national guard to quell the rising violence.
The president continues to hammer Newsom for his complicity in the riots, suggesting the two-term governor should be arrested for defying federal law.
Trump, of course, is right. Recent polls indicate he has the public’s support in removing illegals, particularly those with criminal records outside of their unlawful entry into the country, and using force to do so.
But as riots now spread to major cities from Seattle and Chicago to New York City, one can safely argue the individual most responsible for initiating the chaos is D.C. Judge James Boasberg. Few people have worked harder to keep illegals here while seeding a dangerous—and false—account of what the president is trying to do.
Boasberg lit the match on March 15 during a series of hasty proceedings to advance the first lawsuit against the president’s Alien Enemies Act (AEA). Within hours of the president signing the act, the American Civil Liberties Union sought a restraining order to stop the removal of illegal Venezuelans associated with the multi-national crime racket known as Tren de Aragua, the basis of the AEA.
Working quickly that Saturday, Boasberg immediately banned the deportation of anyone covered by the AEA. But that wasn’t enough. During a Saturday evening hearing, Boasberg made an outrageous demand of the DOJ, which had been given no time to file a response or even gather their collective thoughts on the matter.
Boasberg: “[Any] plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States, but those people need to be returned to the United States. However that’s accomplished, whether turning around a plane or not embarking anyone on the plane or those people covered by this on the plane, I leave to you. But this is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately.”
At the time, two planes carrying AEA subjects were about to land in Central America—far out of U.S. airspace and clearly outside of Boasberg’s jurisdiction. Further complicating the issue, likely by design, Boasberg failed to include his unhinged verbal demand to return planes in a subsequent written order.
