Federal Judge Boasberg blocked Trump’s deportations and now faces the calls to the accusation

Washington (AP) – The federal judge who failed against Donald Trump deportation plans And now he faces Ask for your accusation It is no stranger to politically tense cases, including those involving the president.

In his 14 years at the Federal Bank, James “Jeb” Boasberg has Disputes of the secret jury resolved which arose during the investigation of special lawyers on Trump, supervised the improvements after Trump-Russia research in how the Department of Justice carries out national security surveillance and handled its share of Sentences for fuss who assaulted the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.

A former homicide prosecutor in the capital of the nation who played basketball at Yale University, where he also obtained his lawyer, Boasberg has cultivated a reputation among colleagues as a jurist of principles with the respect of Bipartisan.

“The judges should not work from a desired result to evaluate the law and facts,” Boasberg wrote about a federal judges questionnaire in response to the questions of then- Republican senator Jeff Sessionswho would later become a general prosecutor.

“On the other hand,” he wrote, “they must follow the law and the facts to any result they dictate.”

Trump’s great jurors

Boasberg’s position gave him a unique window in the investigations of special lawyer Jack Smith about Trump as a witness after the witness reached the court for the secret testimony of the Grand Jury.

As the main judge, he was called to arbitrate closed doors about the scope of witness cooperation such as the then vice president Mike Pence, who questioned a citation of prosecutors who sought to force their cooperation with the Smith team. Boasberg in 2023 issued a sealed opinion Require that the vice president testifies before the Grand Jury investigated Trump’s effort to cancel the 2020 presidential elections, but also agreed that certain questions could be months later.

Trump was accused months laterBut the case, and a separate one that accuses him of monopolizing documents classified in his Mar-A-Lago farm, was dismissed by prosecutors After his presidential victory last November.

Boasberg presided over dozens of cases against accused accused of assaulting the United States Capitol after Trump lost the 2020 presidential elections, often issuing significantly more indulgent sentences than prosecutors recommended and showing a measured and patient approach.

Last year, he calmly listened to a proud member of the Boys extremist group, rebuked him and insulted him during a judgment hearing on January 6. The defendant, Marc BruHe called him a “clown” and a “fraud” that presided over a “kangaroo court.”

“I am happy to let him say what he wants, but again, I have not interrupted it. The government has not interrupted it. I have treated you with courtesy in all these procedures,” the judge told Bru before sentencing him to six years in prison.

And during the sentence of Ray EPPSWho became the objective of right -wing conspiracy theories and death threats for his role in the Capitol Motor, Boasberg without surrounding violence as a “insurrection by the supporters of the former president and not a violent act instigated by Antifa or the FBI.”

The main work in the Surveillance Court

Boasberg is also well known among Trump’s allies through his role as a judge in the Secret Court of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance during the period in which the FBI was Investigating whether Trump’s successful campaign in 2016 He had colluded with Russia to bow the result of the elections.

The Inspector General of the Department of Justice concluded that the Department of Justice made significant errors and omissions in the requests presented to Eavesdrop about a former National Security Advisor of the Trump campaign.

Later, as President of the Surveillance Court, Boasberg rebuked the Department of Justice for “breaking his duty to open before the court with respect to those requests” and said that the frequency and severity of the errors during Russia’s investigation had “questioned the reliability of the information he offered in other FBI requests.”

In response to errors, he ordered the Department of Justice to provide information about your efforts to implement reforms aimed at improving the accuracy of guarantee requests submitted to the Surveillance Court.

Although critic with the FBI and its surveillance practices, Boasberg has also generated a renewed scrutiny of Trump’s supporters about what they see as a Indicative form of probation imposed in 2020 In an FBI lawyer who declared himself guilty of a doctor of an email in which the Department of Justice trusted his surveillance of Trump’s campaign advisor, Carter Page, during Russia’s investigation.

A tangle about deportations

The most controversial outbreak occurred on Saturday when Boasberg issued an order Low deportation flight lock War authorities of a law of the 18th century Trump invoked to carry out his plans.

The president has cited the law to combat what he says was an invasion of the Venezuelan gang Aragua train and the administration is paying El Salvador to imprison the alleged members.

Boasberg convened a audience on Monday to discuss what he called “possible challenge” of his order after two deportation flights continued to El Salvador despite their verbal order to be given to the United States.

The Department of Justice is pressing in the Court so that Boasberg has eliminated the case, and Trump intensified the conflict of his administration with the Judiciary on Tuesday in a position on the social networks that described the judge as a “uprising and agitator” not chosen and urged his impediment in capital letters.

The post attracted a public reprimand of the president of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, who said in a rare statement: “For more than two centuries, it has been established that the accusation is not an appropriate response to the disagreement of a judicial decision. The process of review of the normal appeal exists for that purpose.”