‚SUCH A CONFLICT OF INTEREST!‘
A judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to expedite deportations of gang members once participated in a mock trial with former Vice-President Kamala Harris’ husband — and he is not the only judge stonewalling Trump’s orders that has a conflict of interest.
Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court James Boasberg temporarily blocked the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act, a 18th-century wartime law, to arrest and deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
Now the president is accusing Boasberg of having a “conflict of interest” because of his past relationship with Harris’s husband, entertainment lawyer Doug Emhoff.
In 2022, Boasberg participated in a mock trial with Emhoff. Trump posted a photo of Emhoff with Boasberg at the Shakespeare Theater Company’s (STC) 2022 Mock Trial on Truth Social.
“SUCH A CONFLICT OF INTEREST!” Trump wrote.
The mock trial was moderated by Abbe David Lowell, who previously served as Bill Clinton’s lawyer during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. He was also Hunter Biden’s attorney amid legal battles related to a failure to pay his taxes and illegal possession of a firearm. In 1998, The deemed Lowell the “Defender of Democrats in Trouble.”
Boasberg was recently assigned to a lawsuit filed against some of the officials in the leaked Signal chat, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe.
The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was inadvertently added to a group chat about Houthi strikes on the messaging app Signal by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, according to a piece published Monday.
Boasberg was appointed by former President Obama, and he has an extensive history of ruling against the Trump administration.
