Julie Kelly

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I will keep refreshing the docket for this Bostberg contempt proceeding.

And if the DOJ, the government does respond later, I will be posting it as soon as I get it.

When you and your colleagues made that video, were there specific potentially illegal orders that you were thinking about that were the sort of precipitating cause for you guys to get together and do that?

So today, Jeb Bosberg, who is the chief judge of the D.C.

District Court, held a hearing after the appellate court of the D.C.

Circuit kicked back to him.

This contempt inquiry that he opened in March of this year, this relates to representations made by the Trump DOJ in the Alien Enemies Act litigation.

The first lawsuit that hit the docket went to Jeb Osberg in D.C.

Now, in April of this year, Jeb Osberg claimed that he had found probable cause that the DOJ defied his what he called an oral order.

As you recall, Steve, that was during this hearing on the evening of March 15th, where Jeb Bosberg ordered the return of two planes out of U.S.

airspace carrying illegal Venezuelans tied to Trende Aragua.

And this was the basis of the president's Alien Enemies Proclamation, Alien Enemies Act Proclamation.

Those planes had already departed.

The U.S., out of Texas, they were headed for Central America.

Jeb Bosberg said during the hearing, return the planes.

He then, in a written order issued about an hour later, never said anything about returning the planes.

Nevertheless, he has since accused the Trump DOJ of contempt of court in April of this year, said that he had concluded, found probable cause that they did, and wanted to move forward with more inquiry and possible

possibly a criminal referral.

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