U.S. District Judge James Boasberg Thursday pushed, once again, the Justice Department to explain its use of the Alien Enemies Act and provide key details and the timeline of the flights.
A federal judge on Thursday said there is a «fair likelihood» the Trump administration violated his orders over its decision to allow two flights carrying migrants to continue to El Salvador last month despite his ruling ordering the planes back.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg Thursday pushed, once again, the Justice Department to explain its use of the Alien Enemies Act — a rarely-used wartime power — and key details and the timeline of the flights, something the administration has suggested is confidential information covered by state secrets protections.
«If you really believed everything you did that day was legal and could survive a court challenge, I can’t believe you ever would have operated in the way you did», Boasberg told the attorneys for the Justice Department.
He also voiced skepticism about the government invoking the state secrets doctrine, pressing the government to name another case where unclassified information was covered by that privilege.
