Judge Labeled by Trump a ‘Radical Left Lunatic’ Is Dealt a Defeat by the Supreme Court — but He Refuses To Yield the Case

The Nine, by a 5-to-4 margin, decide that challenges to the Alien Enemies Act are to be heard in Texas.

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Judge James Boasberg at Washington, September 15, 2023. National Archives via Wikimedia Commons

The Supreme Court’s ruling that the Trump administration can deport migrants under the Alien Enemies Act — with due process guardrails — amounts to a rebuke for Judge James Boasberg, who has become one of President Trump’s bêtes noires on the bench. 

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