April 15, 2026
Beating Boasberg
Timothy Birdnow
James Boasberg, the Trump-hating dufus Obamaite judge, has taken it in teh shorts, being slammed by a higher court for his efforts to get Trump.
From the Wall Street urnal:
A federal appeals court delivered an embarrassing spanking to U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday, ordering him to shut down his "intrusive” criminal contempt of court investigation against the Trump administration.
The circuit court of appeals said not only is Judge Boasberg’s continued investigation "improper,” but his reasoning for why Trump officials could be prosecuted for contempt of court is a "dead end” because the judge is misreading his own orders.
Circuit Judge Neomi Rao said Judge Boasberg has crossed too many lines, risking damage to the separation of powers between the president and the courts.
You may remember Boasberg was the FISA judge who approved the warrants to investigate Trump. He was also the judge who ordered Trump to halt deportations to El Salvador (where they were being sent since their homeland of Venezuela refused to take them back and the law says this is perfectly legal). Boasberg ordered a plane be turned around and flown back to the U.S. and when Trump was unable to do that he began an investigation into criminal contempt.
Bosoberg was demanding DOJ communications to which he had no right in order to prove collusion and hopefully find it went up to Trump. He has no legal right to any such things but here we are.
In the higher court's spanking of Boasberg Judges Neomi Rao gave a scathing rebuke:
"The district court proposes to probe high-level Executive Branch deliberations about matters of national security and diplomacy. These proceedings are a clear abuse of discretion,
The district court has launched an intrusive criminal contempt investigation into whether the government acted willfully when it transferred suspected Tren de Aragua members to Salvadoran custody. But the end of this investigation is a legal dead end,”
Boasberg, often unwilling to obey any authority save his own, may well try to ignore this ruling and continue the witchhunt. If he does he should logically be impeached, but Congress won't do that. So the Administration should completely ignore him at this point. If he issues any demands just say "thanks but no" and suggest he enforce his ruling himself.
But of course the Democrats and their fellow travelers in the GOP will lose it over that action and it will go into another article of impeachment against the President when the Donkeys retake Congress.
The Democrats are fond of saying Trump is destroying "our democracy". But who has been doing the destroying all along? Putting a tyrant like Boasberg on the bench and letting him take these sorts of actions is the King stuff, not what Mr. Trump has been doing.
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