Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem directed that hundreds of Venezuelan men who were removed from the U.S. in March be transferred to El Salvador, despite a federal judge ordering deportation planes turned around, according to a new court filing from Trump administration lawyers.
In the filing late Tuesday, the Department of Justice said that DOJ and DHS officials conveyed their legal advice to Noem after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg gave first an oral directive and then a written order that sought to block the deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador,” DOJ said on Tuesday.
I see Republican politicians getting arrested and convicted all the time.
Just because a subset get arrested and convicted doesn’t mean that justice is being done across the board. Until the highest levels of govt see actual consequences for breaking the laws that they weaponize against their enemies, the justice system has failed.
With great power comes great responsibility, and abusing that power and neglecting their responsibility could have more severe punishment than the same crime committed by someone not in a position of power.