GOP Senator Exposes ‘Statistical Impossibility’ About Judge Boasberg: ‘It’s Rigged’

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As leftist activists and officials repeatedly attempt to derail President Trump’s agenda in the court system, a suspicious number of those cases have ended up in front of the same judge.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has been handed four separate legal challenges against Trump, leading one Republican lawmaker to conclude that there’s no way it could have been a coincidence.

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) led a Judiciary Committee hearing this week during which he pointed out the astronomical odds that one judge would oversee so many politically charged cases involving the president.

As his office explained in a post on his official website:

In March, Chief Justice Boasberg, right here in DC, has found himself into four major Trump cases, a statistical impossibility. Boasberg took over the Alien Enemies Act and ordered planes to be turned around in the dead of night, despite not being the emergency judge on duty that night. It seems clear, as Chief Judge, he wants to be able to grab cases for himself.”

Senator Schmitt on the Legitimacy of the Judicial Branch:

“I don’t think anybody has a problem on this side of the aisle with a ref calling balls and strikes or calling a foul. The problem is, what if the ref’s daughter hired the coach?

What if the ref has money on the game. What if people start to question the legitimacy of the ref in the game? We all know what happens? People don’t watch it anymore. Vegas takes the game off the board.

Conservatives have widely denounced the left’s use of the judicial system to attack Trump, an Boasberg’s perceived partisanship and impartiality has opened him up to an especially large dose of criticism:

The judge’s latest ruling could further impact Trump’s ability to enforce his immigration and deportation policies, as Fox News reported this week:

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to provide all non-citizens deported from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador to be afforded the opportunity to seek habeas relief in court, and challenge their alleged gang status— the latest in a heated fight centered on President Donald Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport certain migrants.

“In short, the Government must facilitate the Class’s ability to seek habeas relief to contest their removal under the Act,” Judge Boasberg said in the order, filed late Wednesday afternoon. “Exactly what such facilitation must entail will be determined in future proceedings. Although the Court is mindful that such a remedy may implicate sensitive diplomatic or national-security concerns within the exclusive province of the Executive Branch, it also has a constitutional duty to provide a remedy that will ‘make good the wrong done.’”

Notably, the order also includes Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Salvadorian migrant and alleged MS-13 member who was deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March in what administration officials have acknowledged was an administrative error. That case alone had touched off a heated court fight, which prompted intervention from the Supreme Court in April.

Here’s a flashback to Schmitt’s comments about Boasberg just a few weeks ago:



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