Judge didn't like the co-operation he got, eh? KEK

Judge Extends Trump Deportation Info Deadline

https://www.newsmax.com/us/trump-immigration-deportation/2025/03/19/id/1203507/

Wednesday, 19 March 2025 01:25 PM EDT

A federal judge on Wednesday extended the deadline for the Trump administration to provide details on the Venezuelan deportation flights.

Administration officials now have until noon ET Thursday to satisfy the judge's demands. The original deadline was noon Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who was nominated to the federal bench by former President Barack Obama, also said that officials, instead of offering details, can invoke the state secrets doctrine and explain why Venezuelan gang members were deported.

He took issue with the government's characterization of his request as a "unnecessary judicial fishing" expedition, saying it was necessary to "determine if the government deliberately flouted" his order to turn around the flights "and if so, what the consequences should be."

President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, which has only been used three times previously, and claimed there was an invasion by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

Boasberg ordered the administration not to deport, through that 1798 law, anyone in its custody. However, flights that were in transit at the time of the judge's order continued and landed in El Salvador, which had agreed to house the gang members in a notorious prison.

The judge originally ordered the Trump administration to answer several questions under seal, where the information would not be publicly exposed. There were questions about the planes' takeoff and landing times and the number of people deported under Trump's proclamation.

Earlier Wednesday, administration officials accused Boasberg of overstepping his judicial authority in demanding more details about the deportation flights.

In a court filing, Justice Department lawyers said the Washington-based district judge was improperly intruding on presidential discretion to handle sensitive diplomatic and national security matters.

"The pending questions are grave encroachments on core aspects of absolute and unreviewable executive branch authority," DOJ lawyers wrote.

The administration contends that a judge lacks the authority to tell the president whether he can determine the country is being invaded under the act or how to defend it.

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>>22789391

C'mon now, you know as well as I do, there's always one in a crowd.

>>22789393

GENTLEMEN! Prepare to defend yourselves!

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>>22789541

The Judicial Act of 1801

WSJ: Columbia Close to Meeting Trump's Demands

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/columbia-close-trump/2025/03/19/id/1203527/

Wednesday, 19 March 2025 03:20 PM EDT

Columbia University appears close to meeting President Donald Trump's demands that could restore $400 million in federal funding, it was reported Wednesday.

The Trump administration late last week said it would permanently end federal funding to Columbia unless the Ivy League school ceded control of an international studies department and implemented sweeping changes to other campus policies.

In a letter sent Thursday night, federal officials said the university must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department under "academic receivership for a minimum of five years."

The school also must ban masks on campus meant to conceal the wearer's identity "or intimidate others," adopt a new definition of antisemitism, abolish its current process for disciplining students, and deliver a plan to "reform undergraduate admissions, international recruiting, and graduate admissions practices."

The letter gave Columbia a week to agree to the demands.

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that board of trustees discussions remained fluid and could turn in a different direction before Thursday.

One senior university official told the outlet conversations with federal regulators were continuing and productive, though the school wasn’t ready to publicly talk about negotiations.

Some board members have expressed concern the university is "trading away its moral authority and academic independence for federal funds," the Journal said. Other board members have argued Columbia has limited options because it needs federal money.

The Journal also reported that Columbia agreeing to the demands wouldn't guarantee that federal funds will return. It simply would meet a "precondition for formal negotiations."

Other "immediate and long-term structural reforms" need to be done at Columbia, the letter said.

On March 7, just 32 days after opening an investigation at Columbia, the Trump administration pulled $400 million in research grants and other federal money. It threatened to cut billions more over the university’s handling of protests against the war in Gaza and allegations of antisemitism.

Kenneth Marcus, who led the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights during Trump’s first term, said the administration appears to be using its wide latitude over federal contracts to pressure Columbia, rather than limiting itself to the "cumbersome, bureaucratic, and relatively weak" Title VI process.

"The Trump administration is moving faster and punching harder than we’ve seen in the past, and that clearly is going to have a greater impact than prior administrations," said Marcus, who now leads the Brandeis Center, a Jewish civil rights nonprofit.

When is it EVER going to stop!?

Judge Orders Trump to Return 2 Trans Inmates to Women's Prisons

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/federal-prisons-transgender-trump-executive-order-inmates/2025/03/19/id/1203536/

Wednesday, 19 March 2025 04:14 PM EDT

A judge on Wednesday ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer two transgender women inmates back to federal women’s prisons after they had been sent to men’s facilities in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order that truncated transgender protections.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington issued a preliminary injunction after the women were added as plaintiffs in ongoing litigation over the impact of Trump’s executive order on transgender women in federal prisons.

Lamberth ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to “immediately transfer” the two women – identified in court papers by the pseudonyms Rachel and Ellen Doe – back to women’s facilities and said the agency must continue to provide them with hormone therapy treatment for gender dysphoria.

The plaintiffs said in court papers that they were living in constant fear of sexual assault and other violence after being moved to male prisons. Male inmates repeatedly propositioned them for sex and male officers subjected them to strip searches without female officers present, they said.

“The fact that they have already been transferred and, allegedly, have been abused at their new facilities can only strengthen their claims of irreparable harm,” Lamberth wrote.

An official for the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment.

The preliminary injunction is the latest in a series of rulings thwarting the agency’s efforts to comply with the executive order, which calls for housing transgender women in men’s prisons, and for halting gender-affirming medical care.

Lamberth, who was appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan, previously blocked the bureau from transferring a dozen other transgender women inmates to men’s prisons.

In a ruling last month, he ordered that their “housing status and medical care” remain as they were prior Inauguration Day, when the president signed the executive order. Separately, in January, a federal judge in Boston halted the transfer of another transgender women’s to a men’s prison.

At the time, Rachel and Ellen Doe were not plaintiffs to any lawsuit challenging Trump’s executive order and were not covered by Lamberth’s initial rulings.

In a court filing last month, a Trump administration official said that as of Feb. 20, there were 22 transgender women housed in federal women’s facilities. That’s about 1% of the nearly 2,200 transgender inmates the agency said it has in its custody.

With Lamberth’s order Wednesday, at least 15 people are now covered by orders blocking or reversing the moves.

Lamberth has yet to rule in a lawsuit filed last week by three other inmates – a transgender woman housed in a men’s prison and two transgender men housed in women’s prisons. They are challenging the executive order’s ban on gender-affirming hormone therapy and other care.