Adrian Florido
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 4 Sep
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Well, the Justice Department called the ruling a judicial power grab and has appealed. A White House spokesman said the president is committed to ensuring that, quote, criminal illegal migrants are no longer a threat to Americans. On the other side of this case, the ACLU and Democracy Forward, the two groups who brought it, are celebrating the ruling. This is Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward.
She said her team will continue moving the case forward in courts to ensure that everyone in the U.S., including immigrants, gets due process.
Well, members of the Trump administration have said that they are not going to let courts get in their way of carrying out the president's priorities. Yesterday's ruling by Judge Boasberg, though, is the first time a judge has clearly said that government officials will be punished for not obeying the courts.
If they still refuse, that is where legal experts say that we will have a full-blown constitutional crisis.
Thank you.
The homegrowns. You've got to build about five more places. Yeah, that's better. All right.
On March 15th, President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 so the government could quickly deport without due process people it said were members of a Venezuelan gang. It loaded two planes and they took off for El Salvador. The ACLU sued and Judge Boasberg ordered the government to turn the planes around. It didn't.
Boasberg has been trying to determine whether the government purposely ignored his order. He's now ruled that it did. The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders, he wrote. He's given the government until April 23rd to rectify the contempt or to identify the specific people who defied his order. Adrian Fledido, NPR News.
Thank you, Scott. What did the judge say? Well, she said that the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had the authority to order someone deported based on his determination that that person is a threat to justice. essentially the foreign policy interests of the United States, and that she had no authority to challenge that decision.
This is based on a rarely used law enacted during the 1950s Red Scare that allows the Secretary of State to order someone personally deported if that person's presence in the U.S. puts the nation's foreign policy goals at risk. The Trump administration has said that fighting anti-Semitism around the world is one of its goals.
So when agents from the Department of Homeland Security came to Rubio with a file on Mahmoud Khalil's activism, Rubio said he determined that his protests were anti-Semitic. And he said if he allowed Khalil to stay in the country, it would send a message that the U.S. tolerates anti-Semitism, which would then undermine its attempt to fight it everywhere else in the world.
And that is why he said Khalil had to be deported.
Well, that accusation was absurd. In court, they said that Khalil is not anti-Semitic, and they questioned what facts Rubio relied on to decide that his protests were anti-Semitic. But the judge said that the statute is very clear. As long as Rubio makes the determination himself, she cannot question it.
Well, those are some of the big questions in this case. The only thing the Secretary of State has to do to kick someone out of the country is to determine that their presence harmed U.S. foreign policy in some, you know, undefined way. This is one of Khalil's lawyers, Baher Asmi, after the ruling yesterday.
He said it's a very aggressive strategy that if left unchecked could become very dangerous. And that's why he and the rest of the legal team for Mahmoud Khalil are fighting so hard to appeal this decision. If they have to, they're going to go all the way up to the federal court system, through the federal court system, excuse me, to prevent Khalil's deportation.
For now, he's still in detention, though, as his lawyers figure out their next steps.
Well, legal experts are asking if the government is allowed to get away with something like this, what is to stop it from rounding up other people who, like Abrego Garcia, had legal authorization to be in the U.S. and expelling them without due process. That's why his lawyers are trying so hard to force the government to bring Abrego back.
Thank you, Scott.
On the next ThruLine from NPR...
Well, I'll start with what happened. It was Tuesday. A security camera captured it. Ozturk is about to cross the street on her way to dinner to break the Ramadan fast with friends. Six agents surround her, and one grabs her arm.
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