James Boasberg: “If the DOJ refuses, federal law empowers me to appoint a private attorney to prosecute the defendants for contempt…”

Wouldn’t it have been a better course to return the planes around the United States as opposed to going forward and saying, ‘We don’t care, we’ll do what we want’?

The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders—especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it.

The government was already hustling migrants onto planes, betraying a desire to outrun the equitable reach of the judiciary.

This Court found that the subpoenas were meant to harass Powell and to pressure him to truckle to the President’s policy preferences.