Trump Judicial enemy was the roommate of Kavanaugh, had Gop -support

President Donald Trump says that the judge is a “radical left madman” that must be dropped off. The attorney general says he protects terrorists. Lawyers from the Ministry of Justice say that his statements undermine an essential effort to deport Venezuelan gang members.

But for those who know James “Jeb” Boasberg personally, because of his early work as an public prosecutor and later as a judge, the accusations seem wild of the base. They reject the description of Trump of the lawyer and say that the president and his supporters do not seem to know him at all.

The impasse reached new heights on Monday evening when the Trump administration in a court said that it would not hand over Boasberg about deportation flights. Earlier in the day, the Ministry of Justice's lawyers argued during a hearing that the statements of Boasberg trample the authority of the executive power. It is a fight that could end at the American Supreme Court.

In the meantime, another controversial legal fight landed this week on Boasberg's Docket through the random allocation system of the court. He will also chair a lawsuit that accuses various members of Trump's cabinet of violating American laws that are intended to retain official data by using the coded message signal for messages.

Boasberg, 62, has a track record of simple statements in complicated cases – including various decisions in favor of Trump – and a history of support from both Republicans and Democrats. He was a public prosecutor in 2002 when President George W. Bush tapped him as a judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and after he was appointed by Barack Obama in 2011 as the federal bank, Boasberg was unanimously confirmed by the Senate Judger.

His defenders also point to his long friendship with the conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, his roommate at the Law School of Yale University, that he does not accommodate anti-republican bias. The conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts – who has issued a rare public reprimand to Trump about the threat of accusation – selected Boasberg in 2014 to serve on the secret American foreign intelligence trade, a prestigious role.

Lionel André, a White-collar criminal lawyer who overlaps Boasberg in the early 2000s in the office of the American lawyers in Washington, said that the accusations against his former colleague are unfounded.

“This claims that he is a kind of partisan judge or activist democrat – nothing is further from the truth,” André said. “You would never have known that he was a bush -appointed unless you read it, and you would never know that he had been elevated by Obama unless you read it because you could never tell his statements.”

The criticism of Boasberg is part of the growing gap of the Trump government with the judiciary over federal powers, in particular related to immigration and the workforce of the government. . than 150 challenges for Trump's policy are currently finding their way through the courts.

A Panel with three judges held a hearing on Monday about the efforts of the government to eliminate the temporary order of Boasberg that limits new deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 until those who are removed are given the opportunity to challenge their connection with the violent Tren the Aragua gang. Members of the Federal Appeals Court Panel seemed divided while we weighed the issue.

Boasberg tried to stop the Deportations on 15 March, whereby a Class Action law case was certified for those who may have been affected and the orders of a lawyer from the Ministry of Justice to tell the government to reverse any flights that the US had already left.

As Boasberg spoke, two aircraft already brought alleged gang members to a notorious El Salvador prison. They didn't turn around. A third flight left after the end of the hearing and since then Boasberg and the Trump government have repeatedly bumped.

The American Attorney General Pam Bondi destroyed Boasberg during an interview on Fox News last week and said that the judge “interferes with our government” and “tried to protect terrorists who invaded our country.”

The bitter attacks on Boasberg claim that he has exceeded his authority and biased. His family also arrived for checking. Trump's supporters have cited his wife's donations to Democrats and the work of his daughter for a non -profit organization that operates in disadvantaged communities as proof that the court should not be impartial.

Boasberg, through a spokesperson for the court, refused to comment.

Boasberg grew up in Washington. His mother was a landscape architect and was described in her death notice of 2012 as a 'chased lawyer' for the green spaces of the city. His father was a lawyer; The couple moved to Washington when he was recruited for a Johnson Administration initiative.

The younger Boasberg passed on for the basketball team of Yale as a student all four years at the university, although he was not a regular starter. After graduating on law studies, he worked in California for a few years and returned to Washington in 1995.

The confirmation hearings of Boasberg provide insight into its dual attraction. During his hearing to become the judge of the Supreme Court, the deceased American senator John Warner of Virginia, a Republican and former secretary of the American Navy, praised Boasberg as a 'nice man'. Warner's son John had been good friends with Boasberg since the 4th grade, when they went to the Elite St. Albans school of Washington together.

The senator read a statement from his son who said Boasberg had long remembered the younger Warner of Abraham Lincoln, not only because of his shape, but because of his “leadership, morality, wisdom and just good appearance.”

“He has kept these values ​​intact to this day,” wrote the son of the senator. “He is also a good basketball player.”

During the confirmation of Boasberg to become a federal judge almost nine years later, Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat, asked the candidate for his temperament on the bank. The judge said he was proud of working on difficult issues and to say that he “had never flown off the handle” and never had anyone kept contempt in criminal.

“I think that judges who are best able to control their courses are those who do not always threaten contempt,” Boasberg said.

But the case about the Alien Enemies Act is controversial. The proclamation of Trump that called on the law claimed that gang members were “irregular warfare” on behalf of the Venezuelan government, which are concerned with murders, abductions and other crimes.

On March 17, the judge gave a hearing to determine how many people were deported on the basis of Trump's proclamation and whether the government's flights wore people from the country were violated.

A lawyer from the Ministry of Justice, Abhishek Kambli, said that he could not reveal information about the flights and with reference to national security problems. He said that the judge lost jurisdiction about the planes “the moment they were outside the air room.” The government also did not have to comply with the oral order of the judge, only his written order, said Kambli.

“The idea that because my written order was Pithier, that this could be ignored, that is a piece of a piece,” Boasberg told Kambli.

The case is not the first time that Trump has crossed paths with Boasberg, who has dealt with a series of cases with regard to his first term of office and later legal problems. In 2017 he rejected a lawsuit to force the Internal Revenue Service to release Trump's tax returns. In 2020 he ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline to close after finding violations of the environmental law by the Trump government, although a Court of Appeal overrubled that decision.

When he became the main judge in 2023, Boasberg took over the treatment of non-public proceedings between the legal team of Trump and the then special mystery Jack Smith in connection with large jury activity and materials. He was responsible for the orders of former vice -president Mike Pence to testify in one of the criminal probes in Trump. In the same year, Boasberg refused requests from Media, including Bloomberg News to release more records from Grand Jury Proceedings with regard to Trump.

“His academic performances were really remarkable,” said Glenn Kirschner, who worked closely with Boasberg in the early 2000s when they were both federal prosecutors. “But when you get to know him and spend time with him and see him communicate with people – whether it is witnesses, victims, police officers, FBI agents, court reporters – he had the ability to make immediate contact with everyone from every course of life.”

Before he worked in Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco and Kellogg, Todd, Todd, Fig & Frederick PLLC in Washington in the 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court in the early 1990s.

André, the lawyer who overlaps with Boasberg at the office of the American lawyers, said that the government might have been more lucky if the Ministry of Justice had simply offered the judge a complete explanation of why the deportations took place.

“You have to determine the facts to support your case,” said André. “He is the kind of judge that will listen.”

With the help of David Voreacos.

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