Julie Kelly

possibly a criminal referral.

And that determination, the probable cause determination, was vacated by a panel of the DC Circuit Court, the appellate court.

However, they kicked it back to Bosberg, basically saying you can restart the proceedings, which he did today.

And this is going to get very dicey, especially for the Trump Department of Justice.

And he has set a schedule for Monday, this Monday, asking both sides, the Trump DOJ and the ACLU who filed the lawsuit, for a list of witnesses.

And Bosberg himself brought up potential witnesses during the hearing today.

Sorry, I thought I did.

So this dates back to March of this year when Jeb Bosberg accused the Trump DOJ of contact.

So that, and this is very convoluted.

It went back to the appellate court.

They vacated.

They reversed him on his probable cause.

finding, but then said, okay, you can restart the proceedings whenever you want.

And so he restarted and held this hearing today saying that he believed that justice demanded, justice, not DOJ, justice overall, demanded that he pursue, resume this contempt of court process.

investigation and he wants to prove this is by that but but but this is because or this is because of flying the folks out of the country during the when the emergency when President Trump said they got to go this is what it's about practice is related to the first lawsuit suing the president over his Alien Enemies Act Proclamation

which was put into effect on March 15th.

The ACLU was already ready that day to file a lawsuit and seek an injunction, preliminary injunction, meaning halting the administration from fulfilling that proclamation.

This landed on Jeff Foster's desk that day.

Correct, but it specifically relates to Bosberg that evening on March 15th telling the Department of Justice to return two planes that had already left U.S.

airspace, headed for Central America, then returning them to Venezuela.