{"id":1531561,"date":"2025-04-21T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1531561"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:25:00","slug":"this-one-weird-trick-let-d-c-judges-stage-a-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/this-one-weird-trick-let-d-c-judges-stage-a-coup\/1531561\/","title":{"rendered":"This One Weird Trick Let D.C. Judges Stage A Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"

This One Weird Trick Let D.C. Judges Stage A Coup<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Daniel Greenfield,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in J.G.G. v. Donald J. Trump was not an unqualified triumph for the Trump administration\u2019s deportations of foreign gang members, but it was a definite rebuke not just to Judge Boasberg, but to the entire D.C. Circuit Court shadow government.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The ACLU filed J.G.G. v. Trump in defense of five Venezuelan inmates in New York and Texas. All of the men claimed that they were not gang members and there was no indication that any of them were being deported, denying them any actual standing for coming before the court.<\/p>\n

Especially before Judge James Boasberg who is thousands of miles away in Washington D.C.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the lack of standing and the case being filed in the wrong venue, Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court, not only blocked the deportation of all gang members back to Venezuela, but ordered that planes currently over international airspace that were carrying gang members turn around and bring them back to the United States.<\/p>\n

Boasberg fumed that the planes were not turned around on his mere word and threatened the Justice Department with repercussions for not recognizing his power over not only the entire country, but also the entire planet.<\/p>\n

But why was a judge from the D.C. Circuit Court on a case involving inmates in Texas?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The answer is that leftist organizations and the judges of the D.C. Circuit Court were using one weird trick to seize power over the entire country (if not always the planet) and transform themselves into a shadow government able to block any Trump administration move.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling vacating Boasberg\u2019s order stated that, \u201cthe detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia\u201d and directed that the appropriate \u201cvenue lies in the district of confinement\u201d. So how did a D.C. judge ever get involved at all?<\/p>\n

In Justice Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s concurrence he noted that the \u201conly question is where that judicial review should occur. That venue question turns on whether these transfer claims belong in habeas corpus proceedings or instead may be brought under the Administrative Procedure Act.\u201d The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling even noted that \u201cinitially the detainees sought relief in habeas among other causes of action, but they dismissed their habeas claims\u201d and stated that \u201ctheir claims fall within the \u2018core\u2019 of the writ of habeas corpus and thus must be brought in habeas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kavanaugh then laid out a brief history of detainees, including those terrorists at Gitmo, bringing claims under habeas corpus rather than, strangely, under the Administrative Procedure Act.<\/p>\n

The Administrative Procedure Act had been created in response to the rise of a vast unaccountable government bureaucracy under FDR. The APA was supposed to stop the administrative state from turning into exactly the kind of self-governing machine it grew into which FDR had described\u00a0as threatening to<\/a>\u00a0\u201cdevelop a fourth branch of government for which there is no sanction in the Constitution.\u201d It was not meant to block presidents from executing their policies or subject every one of those policies to the review of the D.C. Circuit Court.<\/p>\n

The D.C. Circuit Court however has enabled every leftist \u2018resistance\u2019 group to go \u2018judge shopping\u2019 and file APA complaints to block anything and everything President Trump does.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And so the ACLU appealed to the D.C. Circuit Court, wielding the Administrative Procedure Act, to challenge the question of whether President Trump\u2019s use of the Alien Enemies Act (which predated the APA by 148 years) applied and what could be defined as wartime. The ACLU was asking Boasberg to block President Trump\u2019s use of presidential powers based on an act meant to check bureaucratic overreach. And Judge Boasberg went ahead and tried to seize control of U.S. forces abroad from President Trump in the name of an act meant to regulate agencies.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s response to this unconstitutional abomination was milder than it deserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What gave the ACLU and Boasberg the idea that they could get away with it? The ACLU had previously sued the Trump administration for removing materials falsely describing the existence of a \u2018transgender\u2019 society as a violation of the \u201cAdministrative Procedure Act\u201d by \u201cremoving articles without a reasoned basis\u201d as if that were a matter subject to the APA.<\/p>\n

In another case, \u2018Judge\u2019 Ana Reyes, a Uruguayan activist lawyer appointed by Biden as the first gay \u2018Latinx\u2019 judge in the D.C. Circuit Court, blocked the removal of mentally ill individuals who hallucinate the idea that they are members of some other sex than their biological one, by claiming that it\u2019ss \u201csoaked in animus and dripping with pretext, Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit\u201d and argued, despite the mountain of evidence, that the Department of Defense had \u201cnot provided a legitimate reason for banning all transgender troops\u201d and therefore violated the Administrative Procedure Act.<\/p>\n

Reyes had confused the Administrative Procedure Act with her own personal opinion and rather than ruling on the legality of a policy based on actual laws, abused the APA to seize power over the Pentagon to promote her own favored social and sexual worldviews in the APA\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

But the Supreme Court has begun shooting down some APA abuses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In its response to a Biden judge in Massachusetts blocking the Trump administration from ending education grants that violate its ban on DEI, the court noted that Judge Myong Joun and the court \u201clacked jurisdiction to order the payment of money under the APA\u201d and that monetary cases involving the government are supposed to go to the Court of Federal Claims.<\/p>\n

The APA has become a favored weapon of choice whether the issue at hand is financial, foreign policy, deporting illegal aliens or even publishing materials about the existence of transgenderism on government websites. During the first term of the administration, leftist groups had taken to boasting of having entire \u201cteams of APA litigators and experts\u201d.<\/p>\n

And with a 93% loss rate for the Trump administration in APA cases, the judicial coup was a sound strategy. <\/strong>All a leftist judge had to do was declare that the Trump administration\u2019s actions were \u201cpoorly reasoned\u201d or lacked \u201csufficient rationale\u201d and would override the president\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n

The APA enabled a massive shift of power from the executive branch to district courts, and to the D.C. Circuit Court which had seized virtually unlimited power from both the president and local courts and judges in the process creating an unelected shadow government.<\/p>\n

But the D.C. judicial shadow government overreached itself. And Boasberg\u2019s attempt to seize presidential powers has created a constitutional moment of crisis that may unwind the coup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 04\/21\/2025 – 13:25<\/span><\/p>\n

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