Julie Kelly

So what he asked for today was both sides, the ACLU.

who is representing those illegal Venezuelans tied to Tren de Aragua, who were covered under the president's Alien Enemies Act proclamation, and then from the Department of Justice, who they would want, number one, as witnesses in any contempt hearing, and then dates for a hearing for those witnesses to testify.

So as of right now, 5.15 Eastern Time, the Trump administration has not filed its response to Jeb Bosberg.

which I'm sure is making him really steamed, but I think is kind of funny.

But the ACLU did, and they list numerous DOJ, even DHS officials, who they want to testify, sworn testimony about behind-the-scenes deliberations before, on, and after Jeb Bosberg made that ridiculous oral order, he calls it, to return planes, two planes carrying these illegal Venezuelans,

that were already out of U.S.

airspace on the evening of March 15th of this year ordered those planes returned.

So this is the basis of his contempt finding.

And some of this, a lot of it actually, and Jeb Bosberg brought this up himself last week in the hearing, relates to this alleged whistleblower, Erez Ravini, who is a DOJ immigration official, who made these claims about comments that

Amal Bovee had made as the, I think at that point, acting deputy attorney general, and what they wanted to say to the courts if judges tried to thwart and stop.

the implementation of the Alien Enemies Act proclamation.

So this whistleblower account, you and I have talked about it.

I have coverage of it on my sub stack, Declassified with Julie Kelly.

I reposted my piece about this whistleblower from earlier this year.

Bosberg himself last week brought up the whistleblower and saying he wanted to hear from the whistleblower and everyone the whistleblower had spoken to about this and other immigration lawsuits that the DOJ was handling at the time.

No, they're not, and that's exactly what Jeb Bosberg is trying to do.

Recall, Steve, that his original probable cause finding was last April, where he accused the Trump administration of contempt of court for defying that oral order.

That was vacated by the appellate court.

However, it was kicked back to Bosberg just last week, and he did not waste a minute trying

restarting this, uh, these proceedings.