Luke Broadwater
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94 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 22 May
Luke Broadwater’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, we spent a lot of time researching this, looking at flight logs and determining exactly when these planes took off from Texas, where they went, when they landed there. And we can say pretty definitively that two of the planes were in fact in the air before both the verbal order and the written order began.
But there's a third plane, and that plane does not leave Texas, does not leave the ground of America until after the judge's written order is posted online.
Well, at first glance, it seems like that. But the Trump administration argues this third plane is not subject to the judge's order. And they say that they specifically put migrants on that plane who they were deporting for reasons that were not solely related to to these wartime powers that were invoked by President Trump.
They're saying that those migrants on the third plane did in fact have due process. And so, yes, they left after the judge's order, but ICE went through, determined that they could still be deported even with the judge's order halting the flights. So they're arguing that this third flight technically is not covered by the judge's order and therefore did not violate it.
So the judge is frustrated that there isn't more information provided, and he demands the government present a sworn statement attesting that they, in fact, didn't put anyone on this third plane who was being deported under Donald Trump's new order. And the government does, on Tuesday—
issue a sworn statement attesting that they didn't violate the order with this third plane but they do not go along with the other part of the judge's order which is the judge wanted a lot more details about who these people were on the plane under what authorities they are being removed and The judge even offered to say, well, we can do it in closed hearing.
We can go to a secure place if you have security concerns. And in the government's filing on Tuesday, they essentially told him to pound sand, that they didn't have to give him any more information. And they argue that essentially he's going to have to take their word for it that they did everything legally.
Yeah, I mean, that's one way to read it, certainly. Meanwhile, there's a bit of dual messaging going on. You know, while in court, the administration is saying they complied with the judge's order, outside of court, different members of the administration are sending an entirely different message.
Tom Homan, who's known as Donald Trump's border czar, goes on Fox News.
And he says, I don't care what the judge has to say. And then Donald Trump himself begins to rail against this judge.
And demanded he be impeached.
Absolutely. Now, politically, there is an advantage here to the Trump administration. Explain that. You have a president who has sworn to get tough on the border and get tough on crime, expelling from the United States, by his description, hundreds of criminal gang members. And so that's an easy narrative to understand. You know, who in the world...
wouldn't want a bunch of criminal gang members kicked out of the country? And what kind of crazy liberal judge would order those gang members back into America? And if you watch conservative media, that's the argument they're putting out. You know, this judge wants these gang members roaming around the streets, attacking your family and loved ones.
Obviously, this is terrain the Trump administration chose carefully to fight on, and they believe in the court of public opinion most people will be on their side of this issue.
That's the challenge for the opponents of what Donald Trump is doing. But you know who is paying very close attention to this case? The chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts. And he, on Tuesday— takes a very rare step, and that is he issues a rare public statement pushing back against the attacks on this judge.
And it says, for more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to a disagreement concerning a judicial decision. So he is very much sticking up for this judge, James Boasberg. And he is saying, essentially, Call off your dogs, Mr. President. It's not your place to attack our judges.
You should abide by the court rulings and not start open warfare against a member of the judiciary.
Oh, no, absolutely not. It's up to Congress to impeach and convict and remove anyone in the federal government, including judges.
But what Chief Justice John Roberts is doing here is he is using his stature and his standing as an institutionalist to try to get people away from these political impeachments and revenge against enemies and bring the country back to respect for the rule of law, respect for the courts, and respect for the judiciary, back to its founding principles.
Well, Donald Trump and his administration have attempted time and time again to expand the powers of the executive branch. And so whether it's this case or some other one, there will be another day when Donald Trump's administration is before the Supreme Court attempting to win a court case about its own power.
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