Judge Lays the Smack Down on Trump over War Powers

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The only thing standing between the Trump Administration’s open defiance and our constitutional Republic and rule of law is Chief Judge of the DC District Court, Jeb Boasberg, who dressed down Trump DOJ lawyers who tried to argue that they did not have to comply with his oral rulings and that the Chief Judge was not qualified to obtain classified information and had no jurisdiction to stop Trump’s use of his presidential powers to deport people without a hearing to a brutal supermax prison in El Salvador. Things went downhill from there for Trump’s DOJ. Michael Popok looks closely at last night’s bombshell hearing, and what the Judge and appellate courts up to the Supreme Court will do next. Dose: Save 30% on your first month of subscription by going to https://dosedaily.co/LEGALAF or entering LEGALAF at checkout. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	Well, using an apt analogy from sports, a litigation hearing broke out during a fight last night.
0:36.8	That's the only way I can describe what happened with
0:39.9	the Trump administration escalating its assault and open defiance of federal judge orders,
0:47.1	the federal courts themselves during a hearing in front of the chief judge of the district
0:52.7	court for D.C. Jeb Bosberg. The hearing was supposed to be
0:56.9	about whether the Trump administration had violated a temporary restraining order issued by the judge
1:04.9	to stop the continued deportation of people subject to a last-minute secret proclamation of Donald Trump, which he made
1:14.5	public only on Saturday, trying to invoke war powers and a phony war to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport people
1:25.2	as young as 14 years old and purported gang members and send them to a notorious
1:31.1	barbaric supermax prison in El Salvador. It appeared to everyone who watched, including the judge
1:39.4	that had violated the judge's orders, which he issued late on Saturday evening in court with the lawyers present,
1:47.4	that planes should not take off as of the time of his order, that everyone in the Trump
1:51.9	administration, in the relevant departments and agencies need to know about his order, and if planes
1:57.0	were in the air, they needed to turn immediately around. That did not happen. And when you hear
2:02.7	what the Trump administration's excuse was, you'll understand why the judge was so upset and started to
2:09.6	push back hard against the Trump administration. I'm Michael Popock. You're on the Midas Touch Network
2:14.3	and legal AF. This is a fast-moving story, all breaking since Saturday.
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