Pam Bondi confronts Judge James Boesberg over deportation flights, telling him to "go pound sand" after the DOJ deported 261 Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador. Citing the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, Bondi rejects Boesberg's noon deadline, while a White House filing criticizes the court for micromanaging flight schedules instead of legal issues. This clash highlights a broader conflict where public opinion and executive authority clash with judicial intervention in immigration enforcement. [Automatically generated summary]
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DOJ Lacks Jurisdiction00:03:24
Here we are.
The deadline has come and gone.
And effectively, you get a DOJ that's telling this judge to go pound sand or go to hell, right?
Because we're not going to do anything that you want us to do because we do not feel that you have the legal jurisdiction to even be here doing this to begin with, right?
This is what we saw out of Pam Bondi as she was effectively saying, yeah, this is not going to happen.
Like, you guys just don't have the authority.
They said yesterday, you're beating a dead horse.
He said, okay, I'll give you till noon on Thursday.
Noon has come and gone.
We're now 60 minutes past the deadline.
Nothing's happened.
And I suspect the Trump DOJ, the White House, is actually gearing up for another sort of layer in all of this as the legal challenges mount.
Because what they are saying is that you guys just don't have the jurisdiction.
This is not your thing to be involved with.
And so he's now James Boesberg.
Trying to say there's going to be consequences.
And they're like, Consequences?
What are you talking about, buddy?
You don't have the right.
We've got the Aliens Enemy Act of 1798 on our side.
And that's what we're going with.
So they deported 261 illegal criminals that were part of a Venezuelan gang that is known to be a threat to the United States.
They've deported them to a prison in El Salvador.
Where life is not going to be very good, let's be very clear, as it should not be, right?
These are known criminals, they're bad people.
So they put them on a plane in the dead of the night.
The judge got all worked up, wants to know what time the plane left, when did they get the order that he had said, nope, you got to stop and turn around, because they just kept flying until they actually landed.
So now he's out there warning of consequences.
And I'm like, what are you going to do, buddy?
Possible consequences after DOJ pushback on questions about deportation flights.
I asked a friend who's a very liberal attorney.
This just yesterday, and was told, you know, there's not a whole lot that can be done because this is something that eventually gets fought in the court of public opinion.
As I've said all along, you know what, the public, they're not with the judge on this one.
They're with the DOJ.
They want the criminals off the street.
So we saw from the White House, they said just yesterday, the court has now spent more time trying to ferret out information about the government's flight schedules and relations with foreign countries than it did in investigating the facts before certifying.
Certifying the class action in this case.
The observation reflects how upside down this case has become as digressive micromanagement has outweighed consideration of the case's legal issues.
This is in the filing that they put forward.
The distraction of the specific facts surrounding the movements of an airplane has derailed this case long enough and should end until the circuit court has had enough chance to weigh in.
In other words, they're like, you just forget about it, right?
And Pam Bondi, after the judge, Said, we're going to extend the deadline to noon on Thursday, which she's blown through.
Went on to Fox and was like, Yeah, you know, you can just kind of go to hell, buddy.